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  • Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World

    Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation, mass production, gender, affective and reproductive labour, syndicalism and independent unions, and labour and Leftist social and political movements, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. All books from the series are available at the MEP on-line book store.

    $12 – $18

  • WOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Drawing on many important figures of the movements such as Tom Barker, Har Dayal, Joe Hill, James Larkin and William D. "Big Bill" Haywood, and exploring particular industries including shipping, mining, and agriculture, this book describes how the IWW and its ideals travelled around the world.

    $7 – $25

  • The Bisbee Deportation / The Battle of Blair Mountain

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    • On July 12, 1917, in the mining town of Bisbee Arizona, twelve hundred striking miners and their supporters were rounded up by forces organized by the town sheriff and the mining companies, marched through the town, parked in the town's baseball field, and then put in boxcars and shipped into the New Mexican desert.
    • When the smoke cleared on the Battle of Blair Mountain, an estimated 1 million rounds were fired, dozens were killed, and 985 miners were arrested. The uprising was suppressed, but public awareness about the appalling conditions in which the miners were forced to live, work, and raise their families grew considerably.

    $7 – $11

  • The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon with Alessandro Delfanti

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    “Delfanti has done here what more critics of Amazon should — listen carefully to the people whose work makes the corporation function. Those of us fighting for a better future than Amazon's dystopia have much to learn from this book”.  — Dania Rajendra, Inaugural Director, Athena Coalition

    $7.00 – $11

  • Everyone a Legislator with author Michael Denning

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    “Perhaps Gramsci’s political science is … a “necessary expression of his time, the short twentieth century, an era now ended, the ae of three words divided between Fordist capitalism, bureaucratic communism and the post-colonial settlements of decolonization. If this is true, is there a future for Gramsci’s legacy?” —Michael Denning

    $7 – $11

  • A People’s History of Detroit

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Mark Jay and Philip Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit's past, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions, to deindustrialization and the city's recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit's history is not a tale of two cities—one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism's mandates.

    $7 – $11

  • A People’s History of Detroit and Detroit, I Do Mind Dying

    A People’s History of Detroit and Detroit, I Do Mind Dying

    In A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF DETROIT, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present, embedding Motown’s history in a global economic context DETROITL I DO MIND DYING tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

    $15.00 – $25.00

  • A People’s History of Detroit and Detroit, I Do Mind Dying

    A People’s History of Detroit and Detroit, I Do Mind Dying

    In A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF DETROIT, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present, embedding Motown’s history in a global economic context DETROITL I DO MIND DYING tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

    $15.00 – $25.00

  • El Golpe: US Labor, the CIA, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico

    It’s 1990, and US labor is being outsourced to Mexico. Rumors of a violent confrontation at the Mexican Ford Assembly plant on January 8 reach the United Auto Workers (UAW) union in the US: nine employees had been shot by a group of drunken thugs and gangsters, in an act of political repression which changed the course of Mexican and US workers’ rights forever. Rob McKenzie was working at the Ford Twin Cities Assembly plant in Minnesota when he heard of the attack. He didn’t believe the official story, and began a years-long investigation to uncover the truth. His findings took him further than he expected – all the way to the doors of the CIA.

    $3 – $11

  • Socialist Register 2022: Polarization and Socialism: The Direction Forward

    VISHWAS SATGUR on Epidemiological Neoliberalism in South Africa
    JAMES SCHNEIDER and HILARY WAINWRIGHT on Finding a Way Forward: Lessons from the Corbyn Project
    ADOLPH REED, JR. and TOURE REED on “Race” and Racial Justice under Neoliberalism
    SAM GINDIN on American Workers and the Left after Trump: Polarized Options

    $3 – $11

  • Six Month Pass through November 30, 2022

    Six Month Pass through November 30, 2022
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    We are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person, you are now able to have two people attend all events, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers.

    $75.00 – $250.00

  • Six Month Pass through November 30, 2022

    Six Month Pass through November 30, 2022
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    We are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person, you are now able to have two people attend all events, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers.

    $75.00 – $250.00