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SUMMARY:Reading Du Bois's Black Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:A close reading over 10 weeks of W.E.B. Du Bois’s classic work\, Black Reconstruction in America. The book provides a basis for a much overdue revolution in US labor history. As Du Bois so eloquently and bluntly put in in 1935: “The South\, after the war\, presented the greatest opportunity for a real national labor movement which the nation ever saw or is likely to see again for many decades. Yet\, the labor movement\, with but few exceptions\, never realized the situation. It never had the intelligence or knowledge\, as a whole\, to see in black slavery and Reconstruction\, the kernel and meaning of the labor movement in the United States.” \nIn a 1968 speech Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, hailed Black Reconstruction as “a monumental achievement … White historians had for a century crudely distorted the Negro’s role in the Reconstruction years. It was a conscious and deliberate manipulation of history\, and the stakes were high. Dr. Du Bois confronted this powerful structure of historical distortion and dismantled it. He virtually\, before anyone else and more than anyone else\, demolished the lies about Negroes in their most important and creative period of history. The truths he revealed are not yet the property of all Americans but they have been recorded and arm us for our contemporary battles.” \nSean Ahern is a long-time New York City labor activist and anti-racist fighter. He has worked as a labor organizer in the US Postal Service\, the transit industry\, and education.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-reconstruction-2023/2023-05-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Repression,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Worn Out: Retail Workers vs. Digital Surveillance
DESCRIPTION:A video of this April 29\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nWith Author Madison Van Oort\nBeneath the success of fast fashion\, a grimmer story is told by Madison Van Oort in Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back. Going undercover in two of the world’s largest fast fashion stores in New York City\, she observed firsthand how data and surveillance shape the lives of the people who do the actual producing and selling. Van Oort’s interviews with dozens of front line workers and labor activists show how workers are fighting back\, and her research exposes the exploitative reality of retail labor as digital tools lubricate the shift toward just-in-time retail by collecting real-time data on not only customer behavior but also worker performance. Automated scheduling platforms\, biometric time clocks\, and cashier metrics increase these workers’ already heightened insecurity. One of the first ethnographies of this “thriving” industry\, Worn Out pulls open the curtain between production and consumption and reveals the real cost of fast fashion. \nMadison Van Oort is a researcher based in Minneapolis. She received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2018\, and her academic writing has appeared in the journals Critical Sociology\, Ethnography\, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society as well as the anthology Captivating Technology: Race\, Carceral Technoscience\, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Worn Out is her first book. \nWorn Out is available from the publisher\, MIT Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/worn-out/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Artificial Intelligence AI,automation,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Organizing,Precarity,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Women
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SUMMARY:Arise! The Mexican Revolution's Global Impact
DESCRIPTION:With Author Christina Heatherton\nThe Mexican Revolution was a global event that catalyzed international radicals in unexpected sites and struggles. Christina Heatherton’s book Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution reveals how activists around the world found inspiration and solidarity in revolutionary Mexico. Heatherton traces the paths of Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett\, Indian anti-colonial activist M.N. Roy\, Mexican revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Magón\, Okinawan migrant organizer Paul Shinsei Kōchi\, Soviet feminist Alexandra Kollontai\, and other key figures. From art collectives and farm worker strikes to prison “universities\,” Arise! reconstructs how radical organizers found new ways to fight global capitalism and forge an anti-racist internationalism from below. \nChristina Heatherton is the Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College. With Jordan T. Camp she edited Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter and Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in LA and Beyond. She currently codirects the Trinity Social Justice Initiative and is co-host and co-producer of the SJI’s podcast Conjuncture. \nArise! is available from the publisher\, University of California Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/arise-mexican-revolution/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-capitalist art,Anti-capitalist Literature,Anti-colonialism,Art and politics,Bolshevism,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Cultural Resistance,Globalization,History,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Labor History,Latin America,Mexican Revolution,Modernity,Revolutions,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Women,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Reading Du Bois's Black Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:A close reading over 10 weeks of W.E.B. Du Bois’s classic work\, Black Reconstruction in America. The book provides a basis for a much overdue revolution in US labor history. As Du Bois so eloquently and bluntly put in in 1935: “The South\, after the war\, presented the greatest opportunity for a real national labor movement which the nation ever saw or is likely to see again for many decades. Yet\, the labor movement\, with but few exceptions\, never realized the situation. It never had the intelligence or knowledge\, as a whole\, to see in black slavery and Reconstruction\, the kernel and meaning of the labor movement in the United States.” \nIn a 1968 speech Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, hailed Black Reconstruction as “a monumental achievement … White historians had for a century crudely distorted the Negro’s role in the Reconstruction years. It was a conscious and deliberate manipulation of history\, and the stakes were high. Dr. Du Bois confronted this powerful structure of historical distortion and dismantled it. He virtually\, before anyone else and more than anyone else\, demolished the lies about Negroes in their most important and creative period of history. The truths he revealed are not yet the property of all Americans but they have been recorded and arm us for our contemporary battles.” \nSean Ahern is a long-time New York City labor activist and anti-racist fighter. He has worked as a labor organizer in the US Postal Service\, the transit industry\, and education.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-reconstruction-2023/2023-04-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Repression,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230418T183000
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-04-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-04-11/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-04-04/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-03-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Norfolk-Shipyard.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230321T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230321T200000
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-03-21/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Norfolk-Shipyard.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230314T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230314T200000
DTSTAMP:20230424T140629Z
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-03-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Norfolk-Shipyard.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230307T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230307T200000
DTSTAMP:20230424T140629Z
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-03-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Norfolk-Shipyard.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230228T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230228T200000
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-02-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230222T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230222T210000
DTSTAMP:20230302T163525Z
CREATED:20230206T190314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230302T163525Z
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SUMMARY:Peru: Crisis and Uprising
DESCRIPTION:Banners read\, “They all must go! Jail the murderers! Elections now! Not one more death! Out with Dina Boluarte! Down with the racist civil-military dictatorship! Shut down Congress! For a people’s constituent assembly!”\nA video of this February 22\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA deepgoing political crisis is shaking Peru\, with massive protests by working people in the countryside and cities\, murderous repression by the armed forces and police\, and desperate efforts to restore order by a widely hated right-wing Congress and an unelected president\, Dina Boluarte. Women and Quechua and Aymara people from the Andean countryside and interior cities are taking a leading role in demanding that Boluarte and the Congress resign and that a democratic constituent assembly be convened to enable a government that represents Peru’s diversity rather than the exploitative\, racist elites of Lima. Join us as Peruvian left activist and sociologist Nicolás Lynch reports on and analyzes these dramatic events direct from Lima. Historian Gerardo Rénique moderates and joins the conversation. \nNicolás Lynch has published many books and essays on Peruvian politics and history. He has taught at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima and has served as Peru’s Minister of Education and as Ambassador to Argentina. Lynch holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the New School for Social Research. \nGerardo Rénique taught Latin American history for many years at the City College of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/peru-crisis-and-uprising/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Crisis,Cultural Resistance,Extractivism,Gender,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Latin America,Left Populism,Neo-fascism,Political Economy,Race and Class,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230221T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230221T200000
DTSTAMP:20230424T140629Z
CREATED:20220806T001301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T140629Z
UID:10006445-1677004200-1677009600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-02-21/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Norfolk-Shipyard.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230214T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230214T200000
DTSTAMP:20230424T140629Z
CREATED:20220806T001301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T140629Z
UID:10006444-1676399400-1676404800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-02-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Norfolk-Shipyard.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230207T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230207T200000
DTSTAMP:20230424T140629Z
CREATED:20220806T001301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T140629Z
UID:10006443-1675794600-1675800000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-02-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Norfolk-Shipyard.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230128T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230128T180000
DTSTAMP:20230202T185934Z
CREATED:20221207T173103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230202T185934Z
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SUMMARY:Capital's Terrorists in the Long Nineteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:A video of this January 28\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\n\nWith author Chad E. Pearson\nIn his new book Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen\, Lawmen\, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century\, Chad E. Pearson details how US employers at the turn of the twentieth century deployed a variety of tactics to secure their power in and out of workplaces. Through the Ku Klux Klan\, Law and Order Leagues\, Stockgrowers’ organizations\, and Citizens’ Alliances\, they applied extralegal repressive techniques – including whippings\, kidnappings\, drive-out campaigns\, incarcerations\, arsons\, hangings\, and shootings – as well as less overtly illegal tactics such as shutting down meetings\, barring speakers from lecturing through blacklists\, and book burning. Driven by unambiguous economic and managerial interests\, the birth of law-and-order politics as we know it can be found in 19th-century campaigns of organized terror against an assortment of ordinary people across racial lines.\nBook available from online sellers and from the publisher\, University of North Carolina Press \nChad E. Pearson is a labor historian at the University of North Texas and author of Capital’s Terrorists and Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement. He has published essays in Jacobin\, Counterpunch\, Monthly Review\, and other journals.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitals-terrorists/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Populism,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Syndicalism,Women,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221215T210000
DTSTAMP:20221110T160017Z
CREATED:20220830T013323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T160017Z
UID:10007167-1671130800-1671138000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-12-15/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221208T210000
DTSTAMP:20221110T160017Z
CREATED:20220830T013323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T160017Z
UID:10007166-1670526000-1670533200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-12-08/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221201T210000
DTSTAMP:20221110T160017Z
CREATED:20220830T013323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T160017Z
UID:10007165-1669921200-1669928400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-12-01/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221124T210000
DTSTAMP:20221110T160017Z
CREATED:20220830T013323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T160017Z
UID:10007164-1669316400-1669323600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-11-24/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221119T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221119T160000
DTSTAMP:20221129T170653Z
CREATED:20221104T174027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221129T170653Z
UID:10007203-1668866400-1668873600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video from this November 19\, 2022\, event on YouTube. \nWith William I. Robinson\nGlobal Civil War provides a big-picture account of how the coronavirus pandemic and new digital technologies have transformed capitalism and the entire global economy and society. Analyzing the concentration of power and control in the hands of corporate conglomerates\, tech giants\, megabanks\, and the military-industrial complex\, the book documents the extent of unprecedented global inequalities as the mass of humanity faces violent dispossession and uncertain survival. The book issues a dire warning against the emergence of a dystopic digitalized dictatorship but also finds great hope and inspiration in the burgeoning social movements of the poor and the dispossessed as humanity descends into global civil war. \nWilliam I. Robinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, Global Studies\, and Latin American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Among his many books are Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (2014); Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism (2018); and The Global Police State (2020). \nGlobal Civil War is available from the publisher\, PM Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/global-civil-war-capitalism-post-pandemic/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,China,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Covid and Capital,Crisis,Financialization,Globalization,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Migration,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Solidarity
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221117T210000
DTSTAMP:20221110T160017Z
CREATED:20220830T013323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T160017Z
UID:10007163-1668711600-1668718800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-11-17/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221110T210000
DTSTAMP:20221110T160017Z
CREATED:20220830T013323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T160017Z
UID:10007162-1668106800-1668114000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-11-10/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221106T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221106T160000
DTSTAMP:20221107T165634Z
CREATED:20221019T184615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221107T165634Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Justice and Socialist Strategy with Jason W. Moore
DESCRIPTION:King’s Triple Evils\, Modern Environmentalism\, and the ‘World Revolution’ of 1968\nA video of this November 6\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\n\nOn April 4\, 1967\, Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, came out publicly against the Vietnam War in a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam.” Beyond\, in that title\, meant everything. King not only broke with the liberal establishment\, which viewed the war as a separate issue from racism and as an aberration in American foreign policy. King simultaneously presented a radical critique that linked racism and exploitation at home and abroad and began to elaborate a vision of an American socialism animated by a searing indictment of capitalism’s “triple evils” (racism\, militarism\, and class exploitation). Such a socialism would be grounded in a triple alliance encompassing the antiwar\, civil rights\, and labor movements. In this talk\, Jason W. Moore addresses the missed opportunity for a program of planetary justice as the “Environmentalism of the Rich” came to the fore after 1968 and overshadowed King’s appeal for a radical turn. As King underscored in his final months\, justice cannot be effectively pursued piece by piece. The “whole society” with and within the web of life must be reinvented\, inasmuch as we are “all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality\, tied into a single garment of destiny.” At the end of the Capitalocene and the beginning of the planetary inferno\, climate justice – and socialist strategy – must proceed as if “all life were interrelated.”\nJason W. Moore\nJason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University\, where he is Professor of Sociology. His books include Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015)\, Anthropocene or Capitalocene? (2016)\, and (with Raj Patel)\, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017). Moore’s books and essays on environmental history\, capitalism\, and social theory – translated into over 20 languages – have been recognized with numerous academic awards. He co-coordinates the World-Ecology Research Network.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/moore-climate-justice/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,Modernity,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,Solidarity,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-11-03/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221027T190000
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SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-10-27/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221020T190000
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SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-10-20/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221013T210000
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SUMMARY:The Novels of Nanni Balestrini with the MEP Literature Group
DESCRIPTION:The MEP Literature Group resumes this fall/winter and continues its tradition of reading international political fiction. We will read several works by the Italian author Nanni Balestrini\, including We Want Everything and The Unseen. These selections are in honor of Michael Lardner\, an enthusiast of Balestrini’s writing and the convener of the MEP’s literature group for many years. Balestrini\, born in 1935\, had by the early 1960s an active literary career in Gruppo 63\, edited journals\, and participated in computer experiments. From literary spats\, he moved to political involvement during Italy’s Years of Lead (ca. 1968-1988). Upon being charged with membership in a guerrilla group he fled to Paris and later to Germany. We Want Everything chronicles a rebellion centered at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin; The Unseen continues the story of Italy’s explosive 1970s when the young and unemployed of cities joined workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” called forth draconian repression from the employers and the state. We will begin with selections of Balestrini’s poetry.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-novels-of-nanni-balestrini-with-the-mep-literature-group/2022-10-13/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Cultural Resistance,Fordism,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Poetry,Radical Literature,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220306T130000
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SUMMARY:The European Radical Left: Movements and Parties Since the 1960s
DESCRIPTION:with author Giorgos Charalambous\nIs today’s left really new? How has the European radical left evolved?\nGiorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change – the late 1960s to late 1970s; the turn of the millennium; and post-2008. He challenges the conventional understanding of a ‘new left’\, drawing out continuities with earlier movements and parties. Charalambous examines the ‘Long ’68’\, symbolized by the May uprisings in France\, which saw the rise of new left forces and the widespread criticism by younger radical activists of traditional communist and socialist parties. He puts this side by side with the turn of the millennium when the Global Justice Movement rose to prominence and changed the face of the international left\, and also the period after the financial crash of 2008 and the rise of anti-austerity politics which initiated the most recent wave of new left parties such as Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece. \nWith a unique ‘two-level’ perspective\, Charalambous approaches the left through both social movements and party politics\, looking at identities\, rhetoric and organization\, and bringing a fresh new approach to radical history\, as well as assessing challenges for both activists and scholars. \nThis book is available to download through the Open Access program. \nGiorgos Charalambous is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Politics and Governance\, University of Nicosia. He is also the co-convenor of the Left Radicalism Specialist Group at the Political Studies Association. Charalambous is the author of European Integration and the Communist Dilemma (Ashgate\, 2013)\, and has co-edited Party-Society Relations in Cyprus (Routledge\, 2016) and Left Radicalism and Populism in Europe (Routledge\, 2019).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-european-radical-left-movements-and-parties-since-the-1960s-2/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Italian history,Left Populism,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,Solidarity
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