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SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe 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. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-06-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe 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. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-05-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2022: Polarization and Socialism: The Direction Forward
DESCRIPTION:with\nSam Gindin\, Adolph Reed\, Jr.\, Toure Reed\, Vishwas Satgur\, James Schneider and Hilary Wainwright\,\nVISHWAS SATGUR\nEpidemiological Neoliberalism in South Africa\nIn this presentation\, Vishwas Satgar sets out the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa as an example of polarized access to medical services shamelessly piled on top of acute polarizations of income and employment and ecological vandalism. But the ANC government’s neoliberal pandemic response\, “has also unleashed a cycle of post-apartheid progressive resistance.” \nJAMES SCHNEIDER and HILARY WAINWRIGHT\nFinding a Way Forward: Lessons from the Corbyn Project\nA discussion of the lessons to be learned from the experience of Momentum as a national campaign organization for the left wing of the UK Labour Party and its achievements (despite ultimate failure to elect a government led by Jeremy Corbyn).  They are optimists in their accounting of the new spaces that are now open for a radical democratic politics in Britain. \nADOLPH REED\, JR. and TOURE REED \n“Race” and Racial Justice under Neoliberalism\nThis presentation links the rise of the hard right in US politics to the marginalization of the progressive pole as “the black political class” became embedded in “the Democratic Party’s commitment to a programme of retrenchment.” Addressing poverty and continuing social inequality in the black community requires building a broader working-class movement. \nSAM GINDIN\nAmerican Workers and the Left after Trump: Polarized Options\nSam argues that the inherent limits of Democratic Party “Keynesian” reflation still constitutes a difficult terrain for the left in the USA\, which needs to take care not to slip into the trap of spending all its energies defending the liberal forces exemplified by Biden as opposed to organizing labor and independent social struggles. \n Summary by series editor GREG ALBO \nVishwas Satgar\, associate professor of International Relations\, University of Witwatersrand\, is principal investigator for Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene. James Schneider\, communications director of Progressive International\, is a co-founder of Momentum and was a spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn; Hilary Wainwright is an editor of Red Pepper magazine and a fellow of the Transnational Institute and Honorary Associate of the Institute of Development Studies\, Sussex University. Adolph Reed Jr. is Professor Emeritus of political science\, University of Pennsylvania; Touré F. Reed is a professor of history at Illinois State University. Sam Gindin is former research director of the Canadian Auto Workers and co-author of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire. \nSocialist Register #58 is available for $28 including shipping via US Media Mail (this offer is only good for the US and Puerto Rico). In Canada Socialist Register is available from Fernwood Books and in Europe from The Merlin Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2022-polarization-and-socialism-the-direction-forward/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Socialist Register
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SUMMARY:El Golpe: US Labor\, the CIA\, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico
DESCRIPTION:by Rob McKenzie with Patrick Dunne\nTrue crime meets political thriller in an explosive exposé of US meddling in Mexico\nEarly in my research\, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me\, “Don’t give up. They are hiding something”…’ \n \nIt’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. \nVirtually unknown outside of Mexico\, the full story of ‘El Golpe’\, or ‘The Coup’\, is a dark tale of political intrigue that still resonates today. \nRob McKenzie worked at the Twin City Ford Assembly Plant in St. Paul\, Minnesota as an assembler\, electrician and full-time union representative. In 1998 he became President of his United Auto Workers branch\, and later was elected to the Minnesota State AFL-CIO Executive Board. \nPatrick Dunne is a graduate in History from the University of Cambridge\, with a dissertation on ‘The AFL-CIO and the Coup against Allende’. \n  \nDiscount code for the book at plutobooks.com = MEP \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/el-golpe-us-labor-the-cia-and-the-coup-at-ford-in-mexico/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Latin America,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Part One of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
DESCRIPTION:Study conducted with Piruz Alemi\nFour more sessions remain\n \nANTONIO GRAMSCI is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. In this seminar we will cover select key passages of Joseph Buttigieg translation of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. This is the first full version (Not a selection) of an English translation of eight Notebooks of Gramsci never provided before that gives the reader to then selectively focus in areas of their own interest and research\, without a cut. \nWe will delve into key themes and concepts related tocivil society and state: politics and the arts\, racism\, class and gender\, religion\, linguistics and other methods of analysis\, critical theory\, mass media and cinema\, hegemony and subalternity studies as well as the role of intellectuals and activists in discovering new methods and languages to be transformative. A Gramscian “Past & Present” approach is key to our work. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will attempt to connect our cultures and life experiences with contemporary struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. \nThese seminars are accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work\, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. \nPiruz Alemi holds a PhD in political economy from New School for Social Research as well as a MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival and teaches at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is ever turned away for inability to pay. Simply email to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL of the Zoom session(s) for this or other class or event. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/part-one-of-antonio-gramscis-prison-notebooks-3-volume-version/2022-03-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Fordism,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Part One of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
DESCRIPTION:Study conducted with Piruz Alemi\nFour more sessions remain\n \nANTONIO GRAMSCI is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. In this seminar we will cover select key passages of Joseph Buttigieg translation of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. This is the first full version (Not a selection) of an English translation of eight Notebooks of Gramsci never provided before that gives the reader to then selectively focus in areas of their own interest and research\, without a cut. \nWe will delve into key themes and concepts related tocivil society and state: politics and the arts\, racism\, class and gender\, religion\, linguistics and other methods of analysis\, critical theory\, mass media and cinema\, hegemony and subalternity studies as well as the role of intellectuals and activists in discovering new methods and languages to be transformative. A Gramscian “Past & Present” approach is key to our work. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will attempt to connect our cultures and life experiences with contemporary struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. \nThese seminars are accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work\, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. \nPiruz Alemi holds a PhD in political economy from New School for Social Research as well as a MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival and teaches at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is ever turned away for inability to pay. Simply email to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL of the Zoom session(s) for this or other class or event. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/part-one-of-antonio-gramscis-prison-notebooks-3-volume-version/2022-03-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Fordism,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Part One of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
DESCRIPTION:Study conducted with Piruz Alemi\nFour more sessions remain\n \nANTONIO GRAMSCI is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. In this seminar we will cover select key passages of Joseph Buttigieg translation of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. This is the first full version (Not a selection) of an English translation of eight Notebooks of Gramsci never provided before that gives the reader to then selectively focus in areas of their own interest and research\, without a cut. \nWe will delve into key themes and concepts related tocivil society and state: politics and the arts\, racism\, class and gender\, religion\, linguistics and other methods of analysis\, critical theory\, mass media and cinema\, hegemony and subalternity studies as well as the role of intellectuals and activists in discovering new methods and languages to be transformative. A Gramscian “Past & Present” approach is key to our work. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will attempt to connect our cultures and life experiences with contemporary struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. \nThese seminars are accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work\, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. \nPiruz Alemi holds a PhD in political economy from New School for Social Research as well as a MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival and teaches at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is ever turned away for inability to pay. Simply email to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL of the Zoom session(s) for this or other class or event. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/part-one-of-antonio-gramscis-prison-notebooks-3-volume-version/2022-03-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Fordism,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:A People's History of Detroit and Detroit\, I Do Mind Dying
DESCRIPTION:reading and discussion for 4 weeks with the Capital Studies Group of the Marxist Education Project \nThese two books will be the focus:  A People’s History of Detroit by Mark Jay and Philip Conklin with Detroit\, I Do Mind Dying by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin. \nIn 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. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations\, Jay and 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. \nDetroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement. \n“Equal parts an urban history of a single city and a sweeping theory of capitalism. . . . Through a detailed exposition of one city’s past\, A People’s History of Detroit imagines what a people’s future could look like in Detroit—and in other cities.” — David Helps\,  Public Books \nTHE CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP is comprised of a group of instructors\, students\, activists\, and others who often engage with close readings of books and other texts that address issues central to the development of understanding how the class struggle between capital and labor has played out and is especially interested in the development of deep historical understandings of the development of capitalism globally\, nationally\, regionally\, and also in areas local to participants. Currently\, the Capital Studies Group convenes on Saturdays 11 am to 1 pm each week in discussion of Marx’s Grundrisse. \n  \nA discounted A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF DETROIT is available from DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS\ndukeupress.edu\n320 PAGES / 17 ILLUSTRATIONS\norder the book with this discount code: E20HSTRY \nDETROIT: I DO MIND DYING is available from Haymarket Books (and they ship quickly) https://www.haymarketbooks.org/ \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to the Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by the Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-detroit-and-detroit-i-do-mind-dying/2022-02-17/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Fordism,historical materialism,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:A People's History of Detroit and Detroit\, I Do Mind Dying
DESCRIPTION:reading and discussion for 4 weeks with the Capital Studies Group of the Marxist Education Project \nThese two books will be the focus:  A People’s History of Detroit by Mark Jay and Philip Conklin with Detroit\, I Do Mind Dying by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin. \nIn 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. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations\, Jay and 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. \nDetroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement. \n“Equal parts an urban history of a single city and a sweeping theory of capitalism. . . . Through a detailed exposition of one city’s past\, A People’s History of Detroit imagines what a people’s future could look like in Detroit—and in other cities.” — David Helps\,  Public Books \nTHE CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP is comprised of a group of instructors\, students\, activists\, and others who often engage with close readings of books and other texts that address issues central to the development of understanding how the class struggle between capital and labor has played out and is especially interested in the development of deep historical understandings of the development of capitalism globally\, nationally\, regionally\, and also in areas local to participants. Currently\, the Capital Studies Group convenes on Saturdays 11 am to 1 pm each week in discussion of Marx’s Grundrisse. \n  \nA discounted A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF DETROIT is available from DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS\ndukeupress.edu\n320 PAGES / 17 ILLUSTRATIONS\norder the book with this discount code: E20HSTRY \nDETROIT: I DO MIND DYING is available from Haymarket Books (and they ship quickly) https://www.haymarketbooks.org/ \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to the Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by the Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-detroit-and-detroit-i-do-mind-dying/2022-02-10/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Fordism,historical materialism,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:A People’s History of Detroit
DESCRIPTION:with authors Mark Jay and Philip Conklin\n \nRecent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile\, activists point to the city’s cuts to public services\, water shutoffs\, mass foreclosures\, and violent police raids. 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. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations\, Jay and 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. \n“Jay and Conklin work backward before working forward. The authors first offer a people’s history of Detroit’s present\, subverting chronology to read the resurgence narrative of Detroit against the grain and reveal the erasure of Black Detroit via the myth of Detroit’s ‘Golden Age’ in the ’30s\, ’40s\, and ’50s. This allows them\, and therefore us\, to understand the systemic problems facing contemporary Detroit first\, and then uncover their prehistory second\, instead of the other way around.” — Hannah Zeavin\, Los Angeles Review of Books \n\nhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/hannah-zeavin/ \n\n\n“Equal parts an urban history of a single city and a sweeping theory of capitalism. . . . Through a detailed exposition of one city’s past\,A People’s History of Detroitimagines what a people’s future could look like in Detroit—and in other cities.” — David Helps\, Public Books \n\nMark Jay received his PhD in sociology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara.\nPhilip Conklin is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.\nThey are coeditors of the literary and political magazine The Periphery. \n  \n  \nBOOKS AVAILABLE\nDUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS\ndukeupress.edu\n320 PAGES / 17 ILLUSTRATIONS\norder the book with this discount code: E20HSTRY \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-detroit/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Financialization,Fordism,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Organizing,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Urbanism,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Everyone a Legislator with author Michael Denning
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Gramsci’s work for the 21st Century: A presentation and discussion with Michael Denning\n“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 \nIn the introduction to the May/June\, 2021 New Left Review is this summary of Michael Denning’s essay\, “Everyone a Legislator”: “What is the principal legacy today of Gramsci’s writing on politics. Often taken to be a theory of the party as a “modern prince” derived from Machiavelli\, can this still be so in an epoch when political parties are everywhere in decline? This year in the May June issue of New Left Review\, Michael Denning reasons that what now matters in Gramsci’s work is his theory of organizing and a premonitory form of democratic legislation.” \nThe essay is available online at https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii129. \nThe image used here\, Verso la città futura (toward a future city)\, was painted on the side of an apartment complex on via Canova in Florence by artist Jorit. Underlying the painting\, inscribed into the 213 meter wall is the following from Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks: “Even when everything is or seems lost\, one must calmly get back to work\, starting from the beginning…The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old dies and the new cannot be born”. \nMichael Denning is the author of Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (2015); Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (2004); The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997); Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (1987); and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (1987). Michael teaches American Studies at Yale University\, where he coordinates the Working Group on Globalization and Culture. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/everyone-a-legislator-with-author-michael-denning/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Fordism,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Marx,Marxisms,Neo-fascism,Organizing,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy
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SUMMARY:The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon with Alessandro Delfanti
DESCRIPTION:“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 \n‘Work hard\, have fun\, make history’ proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon’s warehouses. This cheerful message hides a reality of digital surveillance\, aggressive anti-union tactics and disciplinary layoffs. Reminiscent of the tumult of early industrial capitalism\, the hundreds of thousands of workers who help Amazon fulfil consumers’ desire are part of an experiment in changing the way we all work. \nIn this book\, Alessandro Delfanti takes readers inside Amazon’s warehouses to show how technological advancements and managerial techniques subdue the workers rather than empower them\, as seen in the sensors that track workers’ every movement around the floor and algorithmic systems that re-route orders to circumvent worker sabotage. He looks at new technologies including robotic arms trained by humans and augmented reality goggles\, showing that their aim is to standardize\, measure and discipline human work rather than replace it. \nDespite its innovation\, Amazon will always need living labor’s flexibility and low cost. And as the warehouse is increasingly automated\, worker discontent increases. Striking under the banner “we are not robots”\, employees have shown that they are acutely aware of such contradictions. The only question remains: how long will it be until Amazon’s empire collapses? \nALESSANDRO DELFANTI teaches Digital Media at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science (Pluto\, 2013). \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any. event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-warehouse-workers-and-robots-at-amazon-with-alessandro-delfanti/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Artificial Intelligence AI,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Fordism,Globalization,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx,Organizing,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Bisbee Deportation / The Battle of Blair Mountain
DESCRIPTION:Both of these new books are essential to having an understanding of the history of American class struggles.\nI’ll Forget It When I Die: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 (AK Press\, 2021)\nMitchell Abidor\nDid you ever hear the story about 1\,186 men kidnapped in Arizona and dumped in a desert 200 miles away? \nOn 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. The deportees were largely members or supporters of the radical IWW labor union and mostly foreign-born. The roundup and deportation were both part of a xenophobic and anti-radical campaign being carried out by capital and their allies of local state and national police in complete coordination. This pattern was common throughout the country in the early days of US participation in World War I. The mine owners then took control of the town and patrols prevented any union miners from even entering it. This little-known story is a shocking and fascinating one on its own\, but the sentiments exploited and exposed in Bisbee in 1917 speak to America today. \nOn Dark and Bloody Ground:An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars (West Virginia University Press\, 2021)\nAnne T. Lawrence\nThe Battle of Blair Mountain marked the culmination of the West Virginia mine wars\, a series of battles in the early 20th century pitting coal miners trying to join the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against the mine operators who opposed them. Given the mines’ dangerous working conditions\, low pay\, and the abuse miners and their families were subjected to at company towns\, workers decided to organize. In order to thwart what they saw as a threat to their industry\, mine operators hired armed guards and often partnered with local law enforcement to keep the miners in check 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. \n“The local doctor\, an army veteran\, said he heard about as much shooting that day as he had when American forces assaulted Manila in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. And some of the miners told reporters how much the fighting on Blair Mountain resembled the furious woodland combat they waged against the Germans in the dense Argonne Forest of France.” —a Blair Mountain miner \nFifty years after Lawrence captured the testimonies of many protagonists of the largest labor uprising in United States history\, and one century after nearly 10\,000 armed coal miners confronted some 3\,000 lawmen and strikebreakers in Blair Mountain\, Lawrence’s work is finally available to a general audience in a newly-published book by WVU Press. \nMitchell Abidor is a translator who has published over a dozen books on French radical history and a writer on history\, ideas\, and culture who has appeared in the New York Times\, Dissent\, Foreign Affairs\, the New York Review of Books\, and Jacobin\, among many others. \nAnne T. Lawrence retired in 2017 after a 30-year career on the faculty of the College of Business at San José State University.  She holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of California\, Berkeley.  Anne is currently the chair of a small nonprofit that provides fellowships to early-career writers. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-bisbee-deportation-the-battle-of-blair-mountain/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Extractivism,Hegemony,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Seminars and Talks,Syndicalism,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:WOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Editor Peter Cole\nThe Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago\, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to its revolutionary\, internationalist outlook. By using powerful organizing methods including direct-action and direct-democracy\, it put power in the hands of workers. This philosophy is labeled as ‘revolutionary industrial unionism’ and the members called\, affectionately\, Wobblies. \nThis book is the first to look at the history of the IWW from an international perspective. Bringing together a group of leading scholars\, it includes lively accounts from a number diverse countries including Australia\, Canada\, Mexico\, South Africa\, Sweden and Ireland\, which reveal a fascinating story of global anarchism\, syndicalism and socialism. \nPETER COLE is Professor of History at Western Illinois University and Research Associate at the Society\, Work and Development Institute\, University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of Wobblies on the Waterfront (University of Illinois Press\, 2007). \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied attendance because of inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org to receive the url for access to this or any other class or event. \n  \nWednesday\, July 14  • 5:00 to 7:00 pm US DST\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm GMT\, 10:30 pm to 12:30 am UK
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/wobblies-of-the-world-a-global-history-of-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Syndicalism
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210625T180000
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SUMMARY:Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
DESCRIPTION:  \n“A wildcat strike is a strike action undertaken by unionised workers without union leadership’s authorisation\, support\, or approval”. 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. \nSeries editors: Immanuel Ness (City University of New York) // Peter Cole (Western Illinois University) // Raquel Varela (New University of Lisbon) // Tim Pringle (University of London). \nDescriptions of each book\, along with the biographical information for the presenters are on the site at the individual event descriptions by sequential date. \nTHE COST OF FREE SHIPPING: Amazon in the Global Economy THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nJake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\nORGANIZING INSURGENCY: Workers Movements in the Global South THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nManny Ness\nAMAKOMITI: Grassroots Democracy in South Africa’s Shack Settlements THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nauthor Trevor Ngwane with Luke Sinwell\nWORKERS’ INQUIRY AND GLOBAL CLASS STRUGGLE: Strategies\, Tactics\, Objectives THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nEdited by Robert Ovetz joined by Gifford Hartman\nAUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation and Work\nPhoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\nFriday\, June 25th • 4:00 to 6:00 pm US DST\, 8:00 to 10:00 pm GMT\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm UK\nWOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World\nEdited by Peter Cole\, David Struthers\, Kenyon Zimmer\nWednesday\, July 14 • 5:00 to 7:00 pm US DST\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm GMT\, 10:30 pm to 12:30 am UK\nThe series tickets are on a sliding scale basis. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for access to these or any other events and/or classes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pluto-wildcat-series-from-workers-at-amazon-to-wobblies-of-the-world-may-11-through-july-14/2021-06-25/2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,automation,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Syndicalism,Workers’ Inquiry
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SUMMARY:Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
DESCRIPTION:  \n“A wildcat strike is a strike action undertaken by unionised workers without union leadership’s authorisation\, support\, or approval”. 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. \nSeries editors: Immanuel Ness (City University of New York) // Peter Cole (Western Illinois University) // Raquel Varela (New University of Lisbon) // Tim Pringle (University of London). \nDescriptions of each book\, along with the biographical information for the presenters are on the site at the individual event descriptions by sequential date. \nTHE COST OF FREE SHIPPING: Amazon in the Global Economy THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nJake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\nORGANIZING INSURGENCY: Workers Movements in the Global South THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nManny Ness\nAMAKOMITI: Grassroots Democracy in South Africa’s Shack Settlements THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nauthor Trevor Ngwane with Luke Sinwell\nWORKERS’ INQUIRY AND GLOBAL CLASS STRUGGLE: Strategies\, Tactics\, Objectives THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nEdited by Robert Ovetz joined by Gifford Hartman\nAUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation and Work\nPhoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\nFriday\, June 25th • 4:00 to 6:00 pm US DST\, 8:00 to 10:00 pm GMT\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm UK\nWOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World\nEdited by Peter Cole\, David Struthers\, Kenyon Zimmer\nWednesday\, July 14 • 5:00 to 7:00 pm US DST\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm GMT\, 10:30 pm to 12:30 am UK\nThe series tickets are on a sliding scale basis. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for access to these or any other events and/or classes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pluto-wildcat-series-from-workers-at-amazon-to-wobblies-of-the-world-may-11-through-july-14/2021-06-25/1/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,automation,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Syndicalism,Workers’ Inquiry
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SUMMARY:Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies\, Tactics\, Objectives
DESCRIPTION:with editor Robert Ovetz and researcher Gifford Hartman\nRumors of the death of the global labor movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the old trade union movement\, workers’ struggle is being reborn from below by workers themselves. \nBy engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers’ inquiry\, workers and militant co-researchers are studying their working conditions\, the technical composition of capital\, and how to recompose their own power in order to devise new tactics\, strategies\, organizational forms and objectives. These workers’ inquiries\, from call center workers to platform\, trucking\, cleaning\, logistics\, mining\, auto factories\, teachers\, and adjunct professors\, are re-energizing unions\, bypassing unions altogether or innovating new forms of workers’ organizations. \nIn one of the first major studies to critically assess this new cycle of global working class struggle\, Robert Ovetz collects together case studies from over a dozen contributors\, looking at workers’ movements in China\, Mexico\, the US\, South Africa\, Turkey\, Argentina\, Italy\, India and the UK. The book reveals how these new forms of struggle are no longer limited to single sectors of the economy or contained by state borders\, but are circulating internationally and disrupting the global capitalist system as they do. \nROBERT OVETZ is a Lecturer in Political Science at San Jose State University in California. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Brill\, 2018 and Haymarket\, 2019) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Labor and Society. GIFFORD HARTMAN is a member of the Global Supply Chain Study/Research Group (https://libcom.org/blog/empire-logistics) and is an adult educator\, labor trainer and working class historian. He has helped organize wildcat strikes at his own workplace and training sessions to build working class solidarity worldwide. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url to gain access to this event or any other event or class of The Marxist Education Project. \nThe price of the book includes shipping. This book offer is only good for the US unless you are willing to pay the difference between US Media Mail costs and the cost to mail to the country you want the book shipped to.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/workers-inquiry-and-global-class-struggle-strategies-tactics-objectives/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,Healthcare,Housing,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Workers’ Inquiry
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control in US History\nSean Ahearn and the Revolutions Study Group\n4 more sessions\nWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?\nThere are two texts for these sessions: “Towards a Revolution in Labor History” (an unpublished manuscript by Theodore W. Allen now made available on line by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and The Southern Key: Class\, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Michael Goldfield.These two critical works challenge the way in which US labor history is currently understood and taught. \nGoldfield connects racial oppression\, “white” blindness and “white” racial opportunism in the heyday of labor’s apparent greatest victories\, to it’s post war defeats and subsequent rise of neo-liberalism. \nAllen views the exclusion of the 17th\,18th\,and 19th century ante-bellum African American chattel laborer from standard labor histories as an example of the “White Blindspot” which supports “white” labor opportunism. Connected to this is a misunderstanding of the ante-bellum southern plantation system as a non-capitalist mode of production. The racially oppressed and exploited chattel laborer\, who produced the surplus value central to the growth of capitalism in North America\, is thereby placed outside the purview of “labor history\,” relegated to a pre- history\, a Black history\, a side show at best to the emergence of the factory system based on the waged European-American laborers in the 19th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Sean Ahearn is a long-time New York City activist\, organizer\, and instructor who has been thoroughly engaged with a study of the development of class in relationship to race from the time of the colonial settlers coming to the Americas to developments taking place during these days of late capital. \nThese classes originate in New York City. If you are out of this timezone use this for reference: 6:30 – 8 PM (EST NYC) 11:30 PM – 1 AM (GMT) \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute but would like to attend this or other classes or events\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL for the codes to enter the on-line zoom sessions. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history-white-supremacism-and-bourgeois-social-control/2021-05-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210520T183000
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control in US History\nSean Ahearn and the Revolutions Study Group\n4 more sessions\nWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?\nThere are two texts for these sessions: “Towards a Revolution in Labor History” (an unpublished manuscript by Theodore W. Allen now made available on line by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and The Southern Key: Class\, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Michael Goldfield.These two critical works challenge the way in which US labor history is currently understood and taught. \nGoldfield connects racial oppression\, “white” blindness and “white” racial opportunism in the heyday of labor’s apparent greatest victories\, to it’s post war defeats and subsequent rise of neo-liberalism. \nAllen views the exclusion of the 17th\,18th\,and 19th century ante-bellum African American chattel laborer from standard labor histories as an example of the “White Blindspot” which supports “white” labor opportunism. Connected to this is a misunderstanding of the ante-bellum southern plantation system as a non-capitalist mode of production. The racially oppressed and exploited chattel laborer\, who produced the surplus value central to the growth of capitalism in North America\, is thereby placed outside the purview of “labor history\,” relegated to a pre- history\, a Black history\, a side show at best to the emergence of the factory system based on the waged European-American laborers in the 19th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Sean Ahearn is a long-time New York City activist\, organizer\, and instructor who has been thoroughly engaged with a study of the development of class in relationship to race from the time of the colonial settlers coming to the Americas to developments taking place during these days of late capital. \nThese classes originate in New York City. If you are out of this timezone use this for reference: 6:30 – 8 PM (EST NYC) 11:30 PM – 1 AM (GMT) \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute but would like to attend this or other classes or events\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL for the codes to enter the on-line zoom sessions. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history-white-supremacism-and-bourgeois-social-control/2021-05-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control in US History\nSean Ahearn and the Revolutions Study Group\n4 more sessions\nWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?\nThere are two texts for these sessions: “Towards a Revolution in Labor History” (an unpublished manuscript by Theodore W. Allen now made available on line by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and The Southern Key: Class\, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Michael Goldfield.These two critical works challenge the way in which US labor history is currently understood and taught. \nGoldfield connects racial oppression\, “white” blindness and “white” racial opportunism in the heyday of labor’s apparent greatest victories\, to it’s post war defeats and subsequent rise of neo-liberalism. \nAllen views the exclusion of the 17th\,18th\,and 19th century ante-bellum African American chattel laborer from standard labor histories as an example of the “White Blindspot” which supports “white” labor opportunism. Connected to this is a misunderstanding of the ante-bellum southern plantation system as a non-capitalist mode of production. The racially oppressed and exploited chattel laborer\, who produced the surplus value central to the growth of capitalism in North America\, is thereby placed outside the purview of “labor history\,” relegated to a pre- history\, a Black history\, a side show at best to the emergence of the factory system based on the waged European-American laborers in the 19th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Sean Ahearn is a long-time New York City activist\, organizer\, and instructor who has been thoroughly engaged with a study of the development of class in relationship to race from the time of the colonial settlers coming to the Americas to developments taking place during these days of late capital. \nThese classes originate in New York City. If you are out of this timezone use this for reference: 6:30 – 8 PM (EST NYC) 11:30 PM – 1 AM (GMT) \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute but would like to attend this or other classes or events\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL for the codes to enter the on-line zoom sessions. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history-white-supremacism-and-bourgeois-social-control/2021-05-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy
DESCRIPTION:from the Pluto Books Wildcat Series\nwith Editors Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\nAmazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO\, Jeff Bezos\, has become the richest person in history\, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic. Its dominance has reshaped the global economy itself: we live in the age of Amazon Capitalism. \n‘One-click’ instant consumerism and its immense variety of products has made Amazon a worldwide household name\, with over 60% of US households subscribing to Amazon Prime. In turn\, these subscribers are surveilled by the corporation. Amazon is also one of the world’s largest logistics companies\, resulting in weakened unions and lowered labor standards. The company has also become the largest provider of cloud-computing services and home surveillance systems\, not to mention the ubiquitous Alexa. \nWith cutting-edge analyses\, this book looks at the many dark facets of the corporation\, including automation\, surveillance\, tech work\, workers’ struggles\, algorithmic challenges\, the disruption of local democracy and much more. The Cost of Free Shipping shows how Amazon represents a fundamental shift in global capitalism that we should name\, interrogate and be primed to resist. \nJAKE ALIMAHOMED-WILSON is Professor of Sociology at California State University\, Long Beach. His research interests are in the areas of logistics\, racism and labour\, and workers’ struggles. He is the author of Solidarity Forever? Race\, Gender\, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California (Lexington Books\, 2016)\, co-author of Getting the Goods: Ports\, Labor\, and the Logistics Revolution (Cornell University Press\, 2008) and the editor of Choke Points (Pluto\, 2018). \nELLEN REESE is Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Riverside\, and author of They Say Cutback\, We Say Fightback! and co-editor of Wages of Empire. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for links in order to participate in this or other events or classes of The MEP.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-cost-of-free-shipping-amazon-in-the-global-economy/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210510T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210510T190000
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SUMMARY:Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (a close reading group)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we do a close reading of an innovative work by eight activist scholars who collaborate to bring us a powerful intervention in debates surrounding racial capitalism and political crisis in contemporary Britain. Discussions of racism too often focus on individual behaviors and prejudices\, but Empire’s Endgame maps the complex relations between empire\, racist culture\, political economy\, and the practices of a security-oriented state seeking legitimacy in times of unbearable economic uncertainty. While the book’s story unfolds in Britain\, its lessons and warnings may well apply to the United States and many other crisis-ridden imperialist polities. \nThe activist scholars who have contributed to Empire’s Endgame are Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Professor of Sociology\, University of East London and author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (2018)\, Dangerous Brown Men (2008) and Traffick (2005). Adam Elliott-Cooper is Research Associate in Social Sciences at Greenwich University (UK) and author of Black Resistance to British Policing (2021). Sita Balani is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at King’s College\, London and author of Deadly and Slick: How Sex Makes Race in Postcolonial Britain (2021). Kerem Nisancioglu is Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS\, University of London\, co-author of How the West Came to Rule (2015) and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2018). Kojo Koram is Lecturer at School of Law\, Birkbeck College\, University of London and editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line (2019). Dalia Gebrial is editor of a Historical Materialism special issue on identity politics and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2017)\, Nadine El-Enany is Reader in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and has written (B)ordering Brtain: Law\, Race and Empire (2020)\, and  Luke de Noronha\, Lecturer at University College London and has written Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica (2020). \nThe tickets with class and book include shipping costs via Media Mail. The class and book offers are only good for orders in the US and Puerto Rico.\nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting for more than four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who completed a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, and will begin a new close reading group on the Grundrisse this April.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/empires-endgame-racism-and-the-british-state-a-close-reading-group/2021-05-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210508T163000
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Reconsidering Primitive Accumulation
DESCRIPTION:A 2 part presentation \n \nThis session will be devoted to engaging with Rosa’s pivotal reworking of the concept of primitive accumulation\, with attention to historical and contemporary South Africa\, medieval European race-making and its legacies\, and contemporary commodification of women’s reproductive labor. \nEssays under consideration are: “Disaggregating Primitive Accumulation”\, Robert Nichols; “Luxemburg’s Contemporary Resonances in South Africa: Capital’s Renewed Super-Exploitation of People and Nature”\, Patrick Bond; “Primitive Accumulation and the Government of the State in Post-Apartheid South Africa”\, Ahmed Veriava; “Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness”\, Siddhant Issar\, Rachel H. Brown\, and John McMahon; and “Creolizing The Accumulation of Capital through Social Reproduction Theory: A Distinctively Luxemburgian Feminism”\, Ankica Čakardić \nSession A 12 noon to 2 pm\nRobert Nichols\, University of Minnesota\nPatrick Bond\, University of the Western Cape\nAhmed Veriava\, University of Witwatersrand\nSession B 2:30 to 4:30 pm\nSiddhant Issar\, University of Massachusetts Amherst\nRachel H. Brown\, Washington University in St. Louis\nJohn McMahon\, SUNY Plattsburgh\nAnkica Čakardić\, University of Zagreb\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-reconsidering-primitive-accumulation/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Extractivism,Globalization,historical materialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210506T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210506T200000
DTSTAMP:20210430T070129Z
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control in US History\nSean Ahearn and the Revolutions Study Group\n4 more sessions\nWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?\nThere are two texts for these sessions: “Towards a Revolution in Labor History” (an unpublished manuscript by Theodore W. Allen now made available on line by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and The Southern Key: Class\, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Michael Goldfield.These two critical works challenge the way in which US labor history is currently understood and taught. \nGoldfield connects racial oppression\, “white” blindness and “white” racial opportunism in the heyday of labor’s apparent greatest victories\, to it’s post war defeats and subsequent rise of neo-liberalism. \nAllen views the exclusion of the 17th\,18th\,and 19th century ante-bellum African American chattel laborer from standard labor histories as an example of the “White Blindspot” which supports “white” labor opportunism. Connected to this is a misunderstanding of the ante-bellum southern plantation system as a non-capitalist mode of production. The racially oppressed and exploited chattel laborer\, who produced the surplus value central to the growth of capitalism in North America\, is thereby placed outside the purview of “labor history\,” relegated to a pre- history\, a Black history\, a side show at best to the emergence of the factory system based on the waged European-American laborers in the 19th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Sean Ahearn is a long-time New York City activist\, organizer\, and instructor who has been thoroughly engaged with a study of the development of class in relationship to race from the time of the colonial settlers coming to the Americas to developments taking place during these days of late capital. \nThese classes originate in New York City. If you are out of this timezone use this for reference: 6:30 – 8 PM (EST NYC) 11:30 PM – 1 AM (GMT) \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute but would like to attend this or other classes or events\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL for the codes to enter the on-line zoom sessions. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history-white-supremacism-and-bourgeois-social-control/2021-05-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210503T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210503T190000
DTSTAMP:20210415T170252Z
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SUMMARY:Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (a close reading group)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we do a close reading of an innovative work by eight activist scholars who collaborate to bring us a powerful intervention in debates surrounding racial capitalism and political crisis in contemporary Britain. Discussions of racism too often focus on individual behaviors and prejudices\, but Empire’s Endgame maps the complex relations between empire\, racist culture\, political economy\, and the practices of a security-oriented state seeking legitimacy in times of unbearable economic uncertainty. While the book’s story unfolds in Britain\, its lessons and warnings may well apply to the United States and many other crisis-ridden imperialist polities. \nThe activist scholars who have contributed to Empire’s Endgame are Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Professor of Sociology\, University of East London and author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (2018)\, Dangerous Brown Men (2008) and Traffick (2005). Adam Elliott-Cooper is Research Associate in Social Sciences at Greenwich University (UK) and author of Black Resistance to British Policing (2021). Sita Balani is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at King’s College\, London and author of Deadly and Slick: How Sex Makes Race in Postcolonial Britain (2021). Kerem Nisancioglu is Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS\, University of London\, co-author of How the West Came to Rule (2015) and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2018). Kojo Koram is Lecturer at School of Law\, Birkbeck College\, University of London and editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line (2019). Dalia Gebrial is editor of a Historical Materialism special issue on identity politics and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2017)\, Nadine El-Enany is Reader in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and has written (B)ordering Brtain: Law\, Race and Empire (2020)\, and  Luke de Noronha\, Lecturer at University College London and has written Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica (2020). \nThe tickets with class and book include shipping costs via Media Mail. The class and book offers are only good for orders in the US and Puerto Rico.\nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting for more than four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who completed a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, and will begin a new close reading group on the Grundrisse this April.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/empires-endgame-racism-and-the-british-state-a-close-reading-group/2021-05-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210502T163000
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism (the entire series)
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\nContinues on April 27 with another final session on May 2\nThere are tickets for each session for those who are unable to be present for this series. The series tickets provide entrance to the remaining 6 presentations with discussions. \n“In addressing how far digital technology has become integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades the 21st century\, we were deliberately seeking to counter so much facile futurist ‘cyber-utopian’ thinking that has proliferated through these decades. The proof of capitalism’s continued dynamism\, even in the face of severe global economic crisis\, lay in the most successful and most celebrated high-tech corporations of the new information sector which really were restructuring and refashioning not only our ways of communicating but of working and consuming\, indeed ways of living. Yet precisely because this was taking place within the logics of capitalist accumulation and exploitation\, and through the reproduction of capitalist social relations\, this produced new contradictions and irrationalities. Perhaps none of these was greater than those revealed by the contrast between the investment\, planning\, and preparation that went into the interminable competitive race for ‘more speed’ by way of reducing latency in digital communications by so many milliseconds\, on the one hand\, and on the other the lack of investment\, planning\, and preparation that underlay the scandalous slowness of the responses to the spreading Covid-19 pandemic around the world.”   —From the Preface by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo \n  \n \nLEO PANITCH • 1945-2020 \nAll of us at The Marxist Education Project appreciate all that Leo did and is continuing to do following his untimely death this past December. Both this series and the Class\, Party\, Revolution Socialist Register series that will begin in March are presented in his memory; they represent a few of the many fruits that still spring from the myriad seeds that Leo has planted.This series is as significant as it is because so much of it was developed and edited with Leo Panitch.Community Restaurants: Decommodifying Food as Socialist Strategy\nPostcapitalism: Alternatives or Detours? \nPresentations by authors BENJAMIN SELWYN and GREG ALBO Sunday\, May 2\n2:00 to 4:00 PM (US East Coast DST) /6:00 to 8:00 PM (GMT) /7:00  to 9:00 PM (UK DST) \nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject for the URL for the Zoom link to participate in any event or class of The MEP. Please note that all times are for the New York City Eastern Standard Time\, with GMT times posted next to the NYC times. \nWe do offer all sliding scale tiekets with an option to buy this year’s Socialist Register. The combined ticket and book prices include shipping (to the US and Puerto Rico only\, sorry). \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2021-beyond-digital-capitalism-the-entire-series/2021-05-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Immigration,Labor History,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210426T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210426T190000
DTSTAMP:20210415T170252Z
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SUMMARY:Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (a close reading group)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we do a close reading of an innovative work by eight activist scholars who collaborate to bring us a powerful intervention in debates surrounding racial capitalism and political crisis in contemporary Britain. Discussions of racism too often focus on individual behaviors and prejudices\, but Empire’s Endgame maps the complex relations between empire\, racist culture\, political economy\, and the practices of a security-oriented state seeking legitimacy in times of unbearable economic uncertainty. While the book’s story unfolds in Britain\, its lessons and warnings may well apply to the United States and many other crisis-ridden imperialist polities. \nThe activist scholars who have contributed to Empire’s Endgame are Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Professor of Sociology\, University of East London and author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (2018)\, Dangerous Brown Men (2008) and Traffick (2005). Adam Elliott-Cooper is Research Associate in Social Sciences at Greenwich University (UK) and author of Black Resistance to British Policing (2021). Sita Balani is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at King’s College\, London and author of Deadly and Slick: How Sex Makes Race in Postcolonial Britain (2021). Kerem Nisancioglu is Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS\, University of London\, co-author of How the West Came to Rule (2015) and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2018). Kojo Koram is Lecturer at School of Law\, Birkbeck College\, University of London and editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line (2019). Dalia Gebrial is editor of a Historical Materialism special issue on identity politics and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2017)\, Nadine El-Enany is Reader in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and has written (B)ordering Brtain: Law\, Race and Empire (2020)\, and  Luke de Noronha\, Lecturer at University College London and has written Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica (2020). \nThe tickets with class and book include shipping costs via Media Mail. The class and book offers are only good for orders in the US and Puerto Rico.\nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting for more than four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who completed a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, and will begin a new close reading group on the Grundrisse this April.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/empires-endgame-racism-and-the-british-state-a-close-reading-group/2021-04-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210419T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210419T190000
DTSTAMP:20210415T170252Z
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SUMMARY:Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (a close reading group)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we do a close reading of an innovative work by eight activist scholars who collaborate to bring us a powerful intervention in debates surrounding racial capitalism and political crisis in contemporary Britain. Discussions of racism too often focus on individual behaviors and prejudices\, but Empire’s Endgame maps the complex relations between empire\, racist culture\, political economy\, and the practices of a security-oriented state seeking legitimacy in times of unbearable economic uncertainty. While the book’s story unfolds in Britain\, its lessons and warnings may well apply to the United States and many other crisis-ridden imperialist polities. \nThe activist scholars who have contributed to Empire’s Endgame are Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Professor of Sociology\, University of East London and author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (2018)\, Dangerous Brown Men (2008) and Traffick (2005). Adam Elliott-Cooper is Research Associate in Social Sciences at Greenwich University (UK) and author of Black Resistance to British Policing (2021). Sita Balani is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at King’s College\, London and author of Deadly and Slick: How Sex Makes Race in Postcolonial Britain (2021). Kerem Nisancioglu is Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS\, University of London\, co-author of How the West Came to Rule (2015) and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2018). Kojo Koram is Lecturer at School of Law\, Birkbeck College\, University of London and editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line (2019). Dalia Gebrial is editor of a Historical Materialism special issue on identity politics and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2017)\, Nadine El-Enany is Reader in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and has written (B)ordering Brtain: Law\, Race and Empire (2020)\, and  Luke de Noronha\, Lecturer at University College London and has written Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica (2020). \nThe tickets with class and book include shipping costs via Media Mail. The class and book offers are only good for orders in the US and Puerto Rico.\nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting for more than four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who completed a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital\, and will begin a new close reading group on the Grundrisse this April.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/empires-endgame-racism-and-the-british-state-a-close-reading-group/2021-04-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210411T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210411T160000
DTSTAMP:20210228T025653Z
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SUMMARY:Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly with Editor Peter Cole
DESCRIPTION:In the early twentieth century\, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers\, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color\, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: “An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!” Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class. \nA brilliant union organizer and a humorous orator\, Benjamin Fletcher (1890–1949) was a tremendously important and well-loved African American member of the IWW during its heyday. Fletcher helped found and lead Local 8 of the IWW’s Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union\, unquestionably the most powerful interracial union of its era\, taking a principled stand against all forms of xenophobia and exclusion. \nFor years\, acclaimed historian Peter Cole has carefully researched the life of Ben Fletcher\, painstakingly uncovering a stunning range of documents related to this extraordinary man. Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly is the most comprehensive look at Fletcher ever to be published. It includes a detailed biographical sketch of his life and history\, reminiscences by fellow workers who knew him\, a chronicle of the IWW’s impressive decade-long run on the Philadelphia waterfront in which Fletcher played a pivotal role\, and nearly all of his known writings and speeches\, thus giving Fletcher’s timeless voice another opportunity to inspire a new generation of workers\, organizers\, and agitators. This revised and expanded second edition includes new materials such as facsimile reprints of two extremely rare pamphlets on racism from the early twentieth century\, more information on his prison years and personal life\, additional recollections from friends\, greater consideration of Fletcher from a global perspective\, and much more. \n“This stirring collection gives us the drama\, largely in his own exciting words\, of the life and work of black radical labor leader Ben Fletcher. It is a story of suffering\, fighting\, and organizing but also of thinking deeply and writing clearly about the social power of labor\, and particularly of maritime workers\, and the possibility of a world beyond racial division and class exploitation.”\n—David Roediger\, author of Class\, Race\, and Marxism \nPeter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University (USA) and a research associate in the Society\, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). Cole is the author of the award-winning Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area and Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia. He coedited Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW. While the first edition of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly was published by Charles H. Kerr Press\, in 2006\, the revised and much expanded second edition has now been published by PM Press. He also is the founder and co-director of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19). \n  \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL of the zoom link for this event or any other class or event. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/ben-fletcher-the-life-and-times-of-a-black-wobbly-with-editor-peter-cole/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Immigration,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Introducing Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg with Drucilla Cornell and Jane Gordon
DESCRIPTION:“I Have A Thousand More Things I Want To Say To You.”\nAn introduction to Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg with\nDrucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon\, moderated by Bernabe S. Mendoza\nSession One of a six part series.\nRosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist of the last century. Significantly\, for the purpose of creolizing the canon\, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location\, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed\, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours\, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles\, such as those in Poland and Russia\, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined\, to considerations of state sovereignty\, democracy\, feminism\, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that\, by creolizing Luxemburg\, we can open up new understanding of the complexities of revolution. \nDRUCILLA CORNELL Professor Emeritus\, Rutgers University; JANE ANNA GORDON\, University of Connecticut \nSessions Moderator: BERNABE S. MENDOZA\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Rutgers University
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introducing-creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-with-drucilla-cornell-and-jane-gordon/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Antiquity,British Imperialism,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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