BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Marxist Education Project X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://marxedproject.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Marxist Education Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20190310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20191103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20200308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20201101T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20210314T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20211107T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20220313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20221106T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20230312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20231105T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T183000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20250903T160349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251126T164400Z UID:10008365-1765213200-1765218600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Octavia Butler: ‘Positive Obsession’ and ‘Wild Seed’ DESCRIPTION:Alternate Mondays\, Next on December 8\, 5-6:30 pm ET \nWatch for new selections coming soon\, featuring Frankenstein and the Chicano Frankenstein. \nJoin us for a new appreciation of Octavia Butler\, beginning with Susana M. Morris’s pathbreaking new biography\, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia Butler followed by Butler’s prophetic Wild Seed and other short selections. Offered by the Speculative and Visionary Fiction reading group. \nMorris’s just published biography blends commentary on Butler’s work and life against the social and political conditions she lived and wrote in. Butler developed her literary powers during the Reagan years while living a far from easy life.  As Dana A. Williams notes in her New York Times review\, “One of the biography’s most compelling themes is Butler’s sustained critique of American imperialism. From the scorched landscapes in Parable of the Sower to the uneasy alliances between humans and the Oankali (an “alien” race in the Xenogenesis series) to the entanglement of history and power in Kindred\, Butler’s fiction exposes the toll of empire (and its illusion of progress) on the body\, on the planet and on humanity.” \nWhether you have read a lot or a little of Butler’s fiction\, we encourage you to join with the MEP’s long-running reading group for a new introduction to Butler’s pivotal role in reshaping science\, visionary and speculative fiction\, helping inspire the emergence of Afro-Futurism\, and influencing a new generation of younger writers. We will accompany our reading of the biography with short selections from Butler’s fiction and other related materials. \nConvened by Steve Backman \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/read-positive-obsession-the-life-and-times-of-octavia-e-butler/ CATEGORIES:American Literature,Class and Gender,Cultural Resistance,Dystopian literature,Fall 25,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction,Visionary Fiction,Women ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/butler-new.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231218T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231218T183000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20230905T170830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T235925Z UID:10007653-1702918800-1702924200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Oppression and Resistance in New Chinese and Chinese-American Science Fiction DESCRIPTION:Join us to read selections from the best of Chinese and Chinese-American science fiction. Over the last ten years\, authors have reached English-speaking audiences with exciting and award-winning new literature using the metaphors and methods of speculative and visionary writing. \nThe new wave of younger Chinese science fiction writers often brings exciting explorations of political and social themes. Alongside daring new scientific imaginations\, our selections this fall feature issues of anti-Asian violence and racism\, colonialism\, then and now\, and the cruelties of global capitalism\, often resulting in resistance to oppression.  Our selections truly merit the new tag of “visionary fiction.” \nOur reading group includes people steeped in the speculative fiction tradition as well as new readers exploring themes with us for the first time. The tilt of global economics\, scientific research\, and politics Eastward makes this fall’s theme timely. \n\nVagabonds by Hao Jinfang\, translated by Ken Liu\, as well as Hao’s Hugo award-winning story\, “Folding Beijing”\nInvisible Planets and Broken Stars\, short story collections translated and edited by Ken Liu (selected stories)\nBabel\, by RF Kuang\nOur Missing Hearts\, by Celeste Ng (December 18\, January 8)\n\nConvened by Steve Backman\, long-time explorer of the visionary side of science fiction; member of the MEP leadership team \nPlease watch for information about the Visionary Fiction Reading Group’s new themes and readings for the winter season  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/oppression-and-resistance-in-new-chinese-and-chinese-american-science-fiction-6/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Race and Class,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Chinese-Science-Fiction-e1692981879551.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231016T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231016T183000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20230905T170719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230905T170719Z UID:10007651-1697475600-1697481000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Oppression and Resistance in New Chinese and Chinese-American Science Fiction DESCRIPTION:Join us to read selections from the best of Chinese and Chinese-American science fiction. Over the last ten years\, authors have reached English-speaking audiences with exciting and award-winning new literature using the metaphors and methods of speculative and visionary writing. \nThe new wave of younger Chinese science fiction writers often brings exciting explorations of political and social themes. Alongside daring new scientific imaginations\, our selections this fall feature issues of anti-Asian violence and racism\, colonialism\, then and now\, and the cruelties of global capitalism\, often resulting in resistance to oppression.  Our selections truly merit the new tag of “visionary fiction.” \nOur reading group includes people steeped in the speculative fiction tradition as well as new readers exploring themes with us for the first time. The tilt of global economics\, scientific research\, and politics Eastward makes this fall’s theme timely. \nOur list\, still in formation\, tentatively includes: \nVagabonds by Hao Jinfang\, as well as her Hugo award-winning story\, “Folding Beijing” \nSelections from short story collections written\, translated or edited by Ken Liu: Hidden Planets\, Broken Planets\, and The Hidden Girl \nBabel\, by RF Kuang \nOur Missing Children\, by Celeste Ng \nSeverance\, by Ling Ma \nWe plan to experiment with a hybrid format. We will meet monthly for a longer\, in-depth discussion as we finish a book. This more typical book club may better suit you if you want to read on your own and then take part in an overall discussion of the readings. We will also continue our weekly ninety-minute meetings for those who can make that commitment. You can register for all or just the monthly longer sessions. \nConvened by Steve Backman\, long-time explorer of the visionary side of science fiction; member of the MEP leadership team \nPlease click to see ticket options for this series and register. You can see all registration options on the first date listing for this reading group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/oppression-and-resistance-in-new-chinese-and-chinese-american-science-fiction-5/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes,Race and Class,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Chinese-Science-Fiction-e1692981879551.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231009T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231009T183000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20230905T170645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230905T170645Z UID:10007650-1696870800-1696876200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Oppression and Resistance in New Chinese and Chinese-American Science Fiction DESCRIPTION:Join us to read selections from the best of Chinese and Chinese-American science fiction. Over the last ten years\, authors have reached English-speaking audiences with exciting and award-winning new literature using the metaphors and methods of speculative and visionary writing. \nThe new wave of younger Chinese science fiction writers often brings exciting explorations of political and social themes. Alongside daring new scientific imaginations\, our selections this fall feature issues of anti-Asian violence and racism\, colonialism\, then and now\, and the cruelties of global capitalism\, often resulting in resistance to oppression.  Our selections truly merit the new tag of “visionary fiction.” \nOur reading group includes people steeped in the speculative fiction tradition as well as new readers exploring themes with us for the first time. The tilt of global economics\, scientific research\, and politics Eastward makes this fall’s theme timely. \nOur list\, still in formation\, tentatively includes: \nVagabonds by Hao Jinfang\, as well as her Hugo award-winning story\, “Folding Beijing” \nSelections from short story collections written\, translated or edited by Ken Liu: Hidden Planets\, Broken Planets\, and The Hidden Girl \nBabel\, by RF Kuang \nOur Missing Children\, by Celeste Ng \nSeverance\, by Ling Ma \nWe plan to experiment with a hybrid format. We will meet monthly for a longer\, in-depth discussion as we finish a book. This more typical book club may better suit you if you want to read on your own and then take part in an overall discussion of the readings. We will also continue our weekly ninety-minute meetings for those who can make that commitment. You can register for all or just the monthly longer sessions. \nConvened by Steve Backman\, long-time explorer of the visionary side of science fiction; member of the MEP leadership team \nPlease click to see ticket options for this series and register. You can see all registration options on the first date listing for this reading group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/oppression-and-resistance-in-new-chinese-and-chinese-american-science-fiction-4/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes,Race and Class,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Chinese-Science-Fiction-e1692981879551.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231002T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231002T183000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20230905T170420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230905T170620Z UID:10007649-1696266000-1696271400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Oppression and Resistance in New Chinese and Chinese-American Science Fiction DESCRIPTION:Join us to read selections from the best of Chinese and Chinese-American science fiction. Over the last ten years\, authors have reached English-speaking audiences with exciting and award-winning new literature using the metaphors and methods of speculative and visionary writing. \nThe new wave of younger Chinese science fiction writers often brings exciting explorations of political and social themes. Alongside daring new scientific imaginations\, our selections this fall feature issues of anti-Asian violence and racism\, colonialism\, then and now\, and the cruelties of global capitalism\, often resulting in resistance to oppression.  Our selections truly merit the new tag of “visionary fiction.” \nOur reading group includes people steeped in the speculative fiction tradition as well as new readers exploring themes with us for the first time. The tilt of global economics\, scientific research\, and politics Eastward makes this fall’s theme timely. \nOur list\, still in formation\, tentatively includes: \nVagabonds by Hao Jinfang\, as well as her Hugo award-winning story\, “Folding Beijing” \nSelections from short story collections written\, translated or edited by Ken Liu: Hidden Planets\, Broken Planets\, and The Hidden Girl \nBabel\, by RF Kuang \nOur Missing Children\, by Celeste Ng \nSeverance\, by Ling Ma \nWe plan to experiment with a hybrid format. We will meet monthly for a longer\, in-depth discussion as we finish a book. This more typical book club may better suit you if you want to read on your own and then take part in an overall discussion of the readings. We will also continue our weekly ninety-minute meetings for those who can make that commitment. You can register for all or just the monthly longer sessions. \nConvened by Steve Backman\, long-time explorer of the visionary side of science fiction; member of the MEP leadership team \nPlease click to see ticket options for this series and register. You can see all registration options on the first date listing for this reading group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/oppression-and-resistance-in-new-chinese-and-chinese-american-science-fiction-3/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes,Race and Class,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Chinese-Science-Fiction-e1692981879551.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230925T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230925T183000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20230905T170032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230905T171919Z UID:10007648-1695661200-1695666600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Oppression and Resistance in New Chinese and Chinese-American Science Fiction DESCRIPTION:Join us to read selections from the best of Chinese and Chinese-American science fiction. Over the last ten years\, authors have reached English-speaking audiences with exciting and award-winning new literature using the metaphors and methods of speculative and visionary writing. \nThe new wave of younger Chinese science fiction writers often brings exciting explorations of political and social themes. Alongside daring new scientific imaginations\, our selections this fall feature issues of anti-Asian violence and racism\, colonialism\, then and now\, and the cruelties of global capitalism\, often resulting in resistance to oppression.  Our selections truly merit the new tag of “visionary fiction.” \nOur reading group includes people steeped in the speculative fiction tradition as well as new readers exploring themes with us for the first time. The tilt of global economics\, scientific research\, and politics Eastward makes this fall’s theme timely. \nOur list\, still in formation\, tentatively includes: \nVagabonds by Hao Jinfang\, as well as her Hugo award-winning story\, “Folding Beijing” \nSelections from short story collections written\, translated or edited by Ken Liu: Hidden Planets\, Broken Planets\, and The Hidden Girl \nBabel\, by RF Kuang \nOur Missing Children\, by Celeste Ng \nSeverance\, by Ling Ma \nWe plan to experiment with a hybrid format. We will meet monthly for a longer\, in-depth discussion as we finish a book. This more typical book club may better suit you if you want to read on your own and then take part in an overall discussion of the readings. We will also continue our weekly ninety-minute meetings for those who can make that commitment. You can register for all or just the monthly longer sessions. \nConvened by Steve Backman\, long-time explorer of the visionary side of science fiction; member of the MEP leadership team \nPlease click to see ticket options for this series and register. You can see all registration options on the first date listing for this reading group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/oppression-and-resistance-in-new-chinese-and-chinese-american-science-fiction-2/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes,Race and Class,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Chinese-Science-Fiction-e1692981879551.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230918T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230918T183000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20230825T164957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T165101Z UID:10007647-1695056400-1695061800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Oppression and Resistance in New Chinese and Chinese-American Science Fiction DESCRIPTION:Join us to read selections from the best of Chinese and Chinese-American science fiction. Over the last ten years\, authors have reached English-speaking audiences with exciting and award-winning new literature using the metaphors and methods of speculative and visionary writing. \nThe new wave of younger Chinese science fiction writers often brings exciting explorations of political and social themes. Alongside daring new scientific imaginations\, our selections this fall feature issues of anti-Asian violence and racism\, colonialism\, then and now\, and the cruelties of global capitalism\, often resulting in resistance to oppression.  Our selections truly merit the new tag of “visionary fiction.” \nOur reading group includes people steeped in the speculative fiction tradition as well as new readers exploring themes with us for the first time. The tilt of global economics\, scientific research\, and politics Eastward makes this fall’s theme timely. \nOur list\, still in formation\, tentatively includes: \nVagabonds by Hao Jinfang\, as well as her Hugo award-winning story\, “Folding Beijing” \nSelections from short story collections written\, translated or edited by Ken Liu: Hidden Planets\, Broken Planets\, and The Hidden Girl \nBabel\, by RF Kuang \nOur Missing Children\, by Celeste Ng \nSeverance\, by Ling Ma \nWe plan to experiment with a hybrid format. We will meet monthly for a longer\, in-depth discussion as we finish a book. This more typical book club may better suit you if you want to read on your own and then take part in an overall discussion of the readings. We will also continue our weekly ninety-minute meetings for those who can make that commitment. You can register for all or just the monthly longer sessions. \nConvened by Steve Backman\, long-time explorer of the visionary side of science fiction; member of the MEP leadership team \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/oppression-and-resistance-in-new-chinese-and-chinese-american-science-fiction/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes,Race and Class,Science Fiction,Speculative fiction,Visionary Fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Chinese-Science-Fiction-e1692981879551.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220421T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220421T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20220129T034642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T234224Z UID:10007055-1650567600-1650574800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Never-Ending War!: Novels on Conflict\, Resistance and Resilience DESCRIPTION:with The MEP Literature Studies Group (five more weeks)\n“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people\, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things\, over and over.” – Neil Gaiman \nThe Marxist Education Project Lit reading group revisits some literary classics along with contemporary novels that are prescient and compelling –challenging us to think about our understanding of history and how we will confront the present moment. \n  \nColonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac (originally published in 1832)\nOne of the shorter\, but also prescient novels of Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” (La Comédie Humaine)\, Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system\, founded on honor and military valor and that of the Restoration\, through the story of a returning soldier who is literally dead to the world. The discussion of this has concluded. \nAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018)\nAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who\, never before having left his village\, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War One. Peppered with bullets and magic\, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of the “Great War’\, as WWI was known until the next world war. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty\, day-to-day\, journalistic horror of life in the trenches\, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a descent into complete madness The discussion of this has concluded. \nThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (2020)\nDublin\, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work\, risk\, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease\, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center—the ward where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. \nConquered City by Victor Serge (1932)\n1919-1920: St. Petersburg\, city of the czars\, has fallen to the Revolution. Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red\, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police\, guns\, jails\, spies\, treachery—in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously\, they can put an end to the need for terror\, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament. \nSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)\nSlaughterhouse Five follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim\, from his early years\, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain’s assistant during World War II\, to the post-war years\, with Billy occasionally traveling through time. The time travel returns to the fire-bombing of Dresden\, which was a firebombing by the British and Americans incinerating about 25\,000. Vonnegut’s novel has been called an example of “unmatched moral clarity” and “one of the most enduring antiwar novels of all time”. Vonnegut had been a prisoner of war in Dresden during this bombing. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/never-ending-war-novels-on-conflict-resistance-and-resilience/2022-04-21/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:American Literature,Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction,War Fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/BombFactory.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220414T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220414T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20220129T034642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T234224Z UID:10007054-1649962800-1649970000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Never-Ending War!: Novels on Conflict\, Resistance and Resilience DESCRIPTION:with The MEP Literature Studies Group (five more weeks)\n“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people\, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things\, over and over.” – Neil Gaiman \nThe Marxist Education Project Lit reading group revisits some literary classics along with contemporary novels that are prescient and compelling –challenging us to think about our understanding of history and how we will confront the present moment. \n  \nColonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac (originally published in 1832)\nOne of the shorter\, but also prescient novels of Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” (La Comédie Humaine)\, Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system\, founded on honor and military valor and that of the Restoration\, through the story of a returning soldier who is literally dead to the world. The discussion of this has concluded. \nAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018)\nAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who\, never before having left his village\, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War One. Peppered with bullets and magic\, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of the “Great War’\, as WWI was known until the next world war. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty\, day-to-day\, journalistic horror of life in the trenches\, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a descent into complete madness The discussion of this has concluded. \nThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (2020)\nDublin\, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work\, risk\, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease\, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center—the ward where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. \nConquered City by Victor Serge (1932)\n1919-1920: St. Petersburg\, city of the czars\, has fallen to the Revolution. Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red\, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police\, guns\, jails\, spies\, treachery—in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously\, they can put an end to the need for terror\, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament. \nSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)\nSlaughterhouse Five follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim\, from his early years\, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain’s assistant during World War II\, to the post-war years\, with Billy occasionally traveling through time. The time travel returns to the fire-bombing of Dresden\, which was a firebombing by the British and Americans incinerating about 25\,000. Vonnegut’s novel has been called an example of “unmatched moral clarity” and “one of the most enduring antiwar novels of all time”. Vonnegut had been a prisoner of war in Dresden during this bombing. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/never-ending-war-novels-on-conflict-resistance-and-resilience/2022-04-14/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:American Literature,Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction,War Fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/BombFactory.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220407T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20220129T034642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T234224Z UID:10007053-1649358000-1649365200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Never-Ending War!: Novels on Conflict\, Resistance and Resilience DESCRIPTION:with The MEP Literature Studies Group (five more weeks)\n“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people\, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things\, over and over.” – Neil Gaiman \nThe Marxist Education Project Lit reading group revisits some literary classics along with contemporary novels that are prescient and compelling –challenging us to think about our understanding of history and how we will confront the present moment. \n  \nColonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac (originally published in 1832)\nOne of the shorter\, but also prescient novels of Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” (La Comédie Humaine)\, Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system\, founded on honor and military valor and that of the Restoration\, through the story of a returning soldier who is literally dead to the world. The discussion of this has concluded. \nAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018)\nAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who\, never before having left his village\, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War One. Peppered with bullets and magic\, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of the “Great War’\, as WWI was known until the next world war. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty\, day-to-day\, journalistic horror of life in the trenches\, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a descent into complete madness The discussion of this has concluded. \nThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (2020)\nDublin\, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work\, risk\, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease\, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center—the ward where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. \nConquered City by Victor Serge (1932)\n1919-1920: St. Petersburg\, city of the czars\, has fallen to the Revolution. Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red\, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police\, guns\, jails\, spies\, treachery—in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously\, they can put an end to the need for terror\, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament. \nSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)\nSlaughterhouse Five follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim\, from his early years\, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain’s assistant during World War II\, to the post-war years\, with Billy occasionally traveling through time. The time travel returns to the fire-bombing of Dresden\, which was a firebombing by the British and Americans incinerating about 25\,000. Vonnegut’s novel has been called an example of “unmatched moral clarity” and “one of the most enduring antiwar novels of all time”. Vonnegut had been a prisoner of war in Dresden during this bombing. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/never-ending-war-novels-on-conflict-resistance-and-resilience/2022-04-07/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:American Literature,Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction,War Fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/BombFactory.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220331T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220331T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20220129T034642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T234224Z UID:10007052-1648753200-1648760400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Never-Ending War!: Novels on Conflict\, Resistance and Resilience DESCRIPTION:with The MEP Literature Studies Group (five more weeks)\n“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people\, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things\, over and over.” – Neil Gaiman \nThe Marxist Education Project Lit reading group revisits some literary classics along with contemporary novels that are prescient and compelling –challenging us to think about our understanding of history and how we will confront the present moment. \n  \nColonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac (originally published in 1832)\nOne of the shorter\, but also prescient novels of Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” (La Comédie Humaine)\, Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system\, founded on honor and military valor and that of the Restoration\, through the story of a returning soldier who is literally dead to the world. The discussion of this has concluded. \nAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018)\nAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who\, never before having left his village\, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War One. Peppered with bullets and magic\, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of the “Great War’\, as WWI was known until the next world war. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty\, day-to-day\, journalistic horror of life in the trenches\, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a descent into complete madness The discussion of this has concluded. \nThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (2020)\nDublin\, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work\, risk\, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease\, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center—the ward where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. \nConquered City by Victor Serge (1932)\n1919-1920: St. Petersburg\, city of the czars\, has fallen to the Revolution. Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red\, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police\, guns\, jails\, spies\, treachery—in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously\, they can put an end to the need for terror\, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament. \nSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)\nSlaughterhouse Five follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim\, from his early years\, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain’s assistant during World War II\, to the post-war years\, with Billy occasionally traveling through time. The time travel returns to the fire-bombing of Dresden\, which was a firebombing by the British and Americans incinerating about 25\,000. Vonnegut’s novel has been called an example of “unmatched moral clarity” and “one of the most enduring antiwar novels of all time”. Vonnegut had been a prisoner of war in Dresden during this bombing. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/never-ending-war-novels-on-conflict-resistance-and-resilience/2022-03-31/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:American Literature,Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction,War Fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/BombFactory.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220324T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220324T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20220129T034642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T234224Z UID:10007051-1648148400-1648155600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Never-Ending War!: Novels on Conflict\, Resistance and Resilience DESCRIPTION:with The MEP Literature Studies Group (five more weeks)\n“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people\, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things\, over and over.” – Neil Gaiman \nThe Marxist Education Project Lit reading group revisits some literary classics along with contemporary novels that are prescient and compelling –challenging us to think about our understanding of history and how we will confront the present moment. \n  \nColonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac (originally published in 1832)\nOne of the shorter\, but also prescient novels of Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” (La Comédie Humaine)\, Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system\, founded on honor and military valor and that of the Restoration\, through the story of a returning soldier who is literally dead to the world. The discussion of this has concluded. \nAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018)\nAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who\, never before having left his village\, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War One. Peppered with bullets and magic\, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of the “Great War’\, as WWI was known until the next world war. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty\, day-to-day\, journalistic horror of life in the trenches\, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a descent into complete madness The discussion of this has concluded. \nThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (2020)\nDublin\, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work\, risk\, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease\, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center—the ward where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. \nConquered City by Victor Serge (1932)\n1919-1920: St. Petersburg\, city of the czars\, has fallen to the Revolution. Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red\, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police\, guns\, jails\, spies\, treachery—in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously\, they can put an end to the need for terror\, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament. \nSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)\nSlaughterhouse Five follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim\, from his early years\, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain’s assistant during World War II\, to the post-war years\, with Billy occasionally traveling through time. The time travel returns to the fire-bombing of Dresden\, which was a firebombing by the British and Americans incinerating about 25\,000. Vonnegut’s novel has been called an example of “unmatched moral clarity” and “one of the most enduring antiwar novels of all time”. Vonnegut had been a prisoner of war in Dresden during this bombing. \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/never-ending-war-novels-on-conflict-resistance-and-resilience/2022-03-24/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:American Literature,Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction,War Fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/BombFactory.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211216T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211216T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20210815T181117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211217T004137Z UID:10006992-1639681200-1639688400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session DESCRIPTION:convened with the Literature Group of The MEP \nLast session with Insurrecto by Gina Apostol\nHistorical change\, not historical fiction! We believe that reading well-wrought literature allows us to understand the undercurrents of history in unique and challenging ways. During this term\, the MEP Literature Studies Group will read novels by women writers which explore the intersections of life in their communities\, both at home and in the metropoles of Europe\, India and the Philippines. These stories will take us to places and introduce us to people facing many of the dilemmas posed during late-stage capitalism\, when the looming tipping points begin to collide. Reading and discussing these important writers could very well bring us to a broader sense of time and place. \nTHE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING • Beryl Bainbridge • 1973 / As dark and doomful as it is hilarious\, Beryl Bainbridge’s Booker Prize-nominated novel follows Freda and Brenda\, two unlucky-in-love bedsit-mates working in a wine-bottling factory in London\, who find that their lives change forever after a team outing. Bainbridge based the novel on a miserable warehouse job she held in the late fifties\, which came with the added ‘perk’ of an unlimited wine allowance. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nTHE INHERITANCE OF LOSS • Kiran Desai • 2006 / The main themes are migration\, living between two worlds\, as well as living between the past and present. The story centers around the lives of Biju and Sai. Biju is an Indian living in the United States illegally\, son of a cook who works for Sai’s grandfather. Sai is an orphan living in mountainous Kalimpong with her maternal grandfather Jemubhai Patel; the cook; and a dog named Mutt. Biju\, the other character is an illegal alien residing in the United States\, trying to make a new life for himself\, and contrasts this with the experiences of Sai\, an anglicized Indian girl living with her grandfather in India. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nHAPPINESS • Aminatta Forna • 2018 / Waterloo Bridge\, London. Two strangers collide. Attila\, a Ghanaian psychiatrist\, and Jean\, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city\, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave\, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma and to check up on the daughter of friends\, his ‘niece\,’ Ama\, who hasn’t called home in a while. It soon emerges that she has been swept up in an immigration crackdown—and now her young son Tano is missing. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nINSURRECTO • Gina Apostol • 2018 / This novel’s structure reflects how history comes at us in scattered shards\, the way voices are amplified or silenced\, story lines invented or forgotten. “We enter others’ lives through two mediums\, words and time\, both faulty\,” one character observes. But a third medium — image — is a powerful recurring motif. Apostol is obsessed with the lens\, the gaze\, the way victim and victor\, good and evil are identified based on who holds the camera and who consumes its product. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga\, and in so doing\, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of the Philippines and in the United States. \nInspired by a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States – and her recommendation we also read Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead – The MEP LITERATURE GROUP  has been meeting since the first days of The Marxist Education Project in 2014. Each session\, the Literature Group takes a thematic\, historical\, and political approach to the selections\, which have included in-depth reading of Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings\, Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years\, followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow\, as well as groups focused on World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, novels on migration\, border politics\, and labor organizing\, Brecht plays\, African novels from the continent\, and our most recent session on Women Who Wrote Against Fascism. The group is now completing a fifth summer immersed in noir fiction\, which will resume with a sixth summer noir series next year. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-on-the-verge-of-historical-change/2021-12-16/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/WomenEmergeAndVerge_PortraitsSM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211209T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211209T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20210815T181117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211217T004137Z UID:10006991-1639076400-1639083600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session DESCRIPTION:convened with the Literature Group of The MEP \nLast session with Insurrecto by Gina Apostol\nHistorical change\, not historical fiction! We believe that reading well-wrought literature allows us to understand the undercurrents of history in unique and challenging ways. During this term\, the MEP Literature Studies Group will read novels by women writers which explore the intersections of life in their communities\, both at home and in the metropoles of Europe\, India and the Philippines. These stories will take us to places and introduce us to people facing many of the dilemmas posed during late-stage capitalism\, when the looming tipping points begin to collide. Reading and discussing these important writers could very well bring us to a broader sense of time and place. \nTHE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING • Beryl Bainbridge • 1973 / As dark and doomful as it is hilarious\, Beryl Bainbridge’s Booker Prize-nominated novel follows Freda and Brenda\, two unlucky-in-love bedsit-mates working in a wine-bottling factory in London\, who find that their lives change forever after a team outing. Bainbridge based the novel on a miserable warehouse job she held in the late fifties\, which came with the added ‘perk’ of an unlimited wine allowance. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nTHE INHERITANCE OF LOSS • Kiran Desai • 2006 / The main themes are migration\, living between two worlds\, as well as living between the past and present. The story centers around the lives of Biju and Sai. Biju is an Indian living in the United States illegally\, son of a cook who works for Sai’s grandfather. Sai is an orphan living in mountainous Kalimpong with her maternal grandfather Jemubhai Patel; the cook; and a dog named Mutt. Biju\, the other character is an illegal alien residing in the United States\, trying to make a new life for himself\, and contrasts this with the experiences of Sai\, an anglicized Indian girl living with her grandfather in India. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nHAPPINESS • Aminatta Forna • 2018 / Waterloo Bridge\, London. Two strangers collide. Attila\, a Ghanaian psychiatrist\, and Jean\, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city\, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave\, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma and to check up on the daughter of friends\, his ‘niece\,’ Ama\, who hasn’t called home in a while. It soon emerges that she has been swept up in an immigration crackdown—and now her young son Tano is missing. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nINSURRECTO • Gina Apostol • 2018 / This novel’s structure reflects how history comes at us in scattered shards\, the way voices are amplified or silenced\, story lines invented or forgotten. “We enter others’ lives through two mediums\, words and time\, both faulty\,” one character observes. But a third medium — image — is a powerful recurring motif. Apostol is obsessed with the lens\, the gaze\, the way victim and victor\, good and evil are identified based on who holds the camera and who consumes its product. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga\, and in so doing\, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of the Philippines and in the United States. \nInspired by a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States – and her recommendation we also read Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead – The MEP LITERATURE GROUP  has been meeting since the first days of The Marxist Education Project in 2014. Each session\, the Literature Group takes a thematic\, historical\, and political approach to the selections\, which have included in-depth reading of Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings\, Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years\, followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow\, as well as groups focused on World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, novels on migration\, border politics\, and labor organizing\, Brecht plays\, African novels from the continent\, and our most recent session on Women Who Wrote Against Fascism. The group is now completing a fifth summer immersed in noir fiction\, which will resume with a sixth summer noir series next year. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-on-the-verge-of-historical-change/2021-12-09/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/WomenEmergeAndVerge_PortraitsSM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211202T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20210815T181117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211217T004137Z UID:10006990-1638471600-1638478800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session DESCRIPTION:convened with the Literature Group of The MEP \nLast session with Insurrecto by Gina Apostol\nHistorical change\, not historical fiction! We believe that reading well-wrought literature allows us to understand the undercurrents of history in unique and challenging ways. During this term\, the MEP Literature Studies Group will read novels by women writers which explore the intersections of life in their communities\, both at home and in the metropoles of Europe\, India and the Philippines. These stories will take us to places and introduce us to people facing many of the dilemmas posed during late-stage capitalism\, when the looming tipping points begin to collide. Reading and discussing these important writers could very well bring us to a broader sense of time and place. \nTHE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING • Beryl Bainbridge • 1973 / As dark and doomful as it is hilarious\, Beryl Bainbridge’s Booker Prize-nominated novel follows Freda and Brenda\, two unlucky-in-love bedsit-mates working in a wine-bottling factory in London\, who find that their lives change forever after a team outing. Bainbridge based the novel on a miserable warehouse job she held in the late fifties\, which came with the added ‘perk’ of an unlimited wine allowance. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nTHE INHERITANCE OF LOSS • Kiran Desai • 2006 / The main themes are migration\, living between two worlds\, as well as living between the past and present. The story centers around the lives of Biju and Sai. Biju is an Indian living in the United States illegally\, son of a cook who works for Sai’s grandfather. Sai is an orphan living in mountainous Kalimpong with her maternal grandfather Jemubhai Patel; the cook; and a dog named Mutt. Biju\, the other character is an illegal alien residing in the United States\, trying to make a new life for himself\, and contrasts this with the experiences of Sai\, an anglicized Indian girl living with her grandfather in India. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nHAPPINESS • Aminatta Forna • 2018 / Waterloo Bridge\, London. Two strangers collide. Attila\, a Ghanaian psychiatrist\, and Jean\, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city\, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave\, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma and to check up on the daughter of friends\, his ‘niece\,’ Ama\, who hasn’t called home in a while. It soon emerges that she has been swept up in an immigration crackdown—and now her young son Tano is missing. We have completed our discussion of this book. \nINSURRECTO • Gina Apostol • 2018 / This novel’s structure reflects how history comes at us in scattered shards\, the way voices are amplified or silenced\, story lines invented or forgotten. “We enter others’ lives through two mediums\, words and time\, both faulty\,” one character observes. But a third medium — image — is a powerful recurring motif. Apostol is obsessed with the lens\, the gaze\, the way victim and victor\, good and evil are identified based on who holds the camera and who consumes its product. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga\, and in so doing\, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of the Philippines and in the United States. \nInspired by a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States – and her recommendation we also read Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead – The MEP LITERATURE GROUP  has been meeting since the first days of The Marxist Education Project in 2014. Each session\, the Literature Group takes a thematic\, historical\, and political approach to the selections\, which have included in-depth reading of Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings\, Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years\, followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow\, as well as groups focused on World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, novels on migration\, border politics\, and labor organizing\, Brecht plays\, African novels from the continent\, and our most recent session on Women Who Wrote Against Fascism. The group is now completing a fifth summer immersed in noir fiction\, which will resume with a sixth summer noir series next year. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-write-on-the-verge-of-historical-change/2021-12-02/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/WomenEmergeAndVerge_PortraitsSM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211013T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211013T200000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20210907T171017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210907T171017Z UID:10006241-1634148000-1634155200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Diary of a Digital Plague Year with Dennis Broe DESCRIPTION:Diary of a Digital Plague Year: Corona Culture\, Serial TV and The Rise of The Streaming Services with author Dennis Broe \nDENNIS BROE\, author of Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure\, will be talking about his new book Diary of a Digital Plague Year: Corona Culture\, Serial TV and The Rise of The Streaming Services. The book offers a blow-by-blow account of the ongoing confinement\, charting the changes in our lives exacerbated by the coronavirus. Corona culture is a digital culture extraordinaire for some\, while for others it has increased panic and terror about being at work. \nThe privileged site for this exploration is serial TV and its new mode of delivery\, the increased power of the streaming services as they attempt to dominate and even throttle global media production in a neoliberal\, privatized attack on publicly financed film and television. The book charts this rise in short bursts that in toto illuminate these rapidly evolving changes in all our lives\, as Adorno’s Minima Moralia meets TV Guide. \n The talk will touch on the year’s highs and lows including “John Brown’s Maid\,” on the travesty that was The Good Lord Bird; “Coming Undone: The Limits of MeToo” and Nicole Kidman’s power walks in The Undoing; and “Battling ’50s Apartheid One Monster at aTime” in the majestic Lovecraft Country. The year is also recounted in essays on film\, art\, books and Euro- and American Cultural Politics\, all the while asking how to turn this new phase of Digital Disaster Capitalism into a more liberatory (Virtual) Road Ahead. \nHere’s what the critics are saying: \n“With his latest masterwork\, Dennis Broe confirms what some of us already knew: when it comes to parsing and interrogating popular culture\, he has no peer.” —Gerald Horne\, author\, Paul Robeson:  The Artist as Revolutionary \n“Broe’s mastery of history\, economics\, and media let him provide details and insights that few other writers can match. These short\, readable essays offer convincing explanations of the moment in which we live.” —Julia Lesage\, Co-founder and editor of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media \n“Dennis Broe is one of the most acute critics working today. He has an astounding capacity to reach beyond a specific medium to give us wide-ranging yet deep social\, cultural\, and economic contexts. A triumph” —Toby Miller\, author of A Covid Charter\, a Better World \n “Broe’s blisteringly inciteful commentary isn’t just important\, it’s brave.” —From the Foreward by Redacted Tonight’s Lee Camp \nDENNIS BROE is the author of Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure and Maverick or How The West Was Lost. His television criticism can be found at Bro on The Global Television Beat. His radio commentary can be heard on his show Breaking Glass onArt District Radio in Paris and on Arts Express on the Pacifica Network in the U.S. He is the author of two novels: Left of Eden\, about the Hollywood blacklist and A Hello to Arms\, about the postwar buildup of the weapons industry. He is currently teaching in the Masters’ Program at the Ecole Superieure de Journalisme in Paris\, has taught at The Sorbonne\, and was a full professor and director of the Media Arts Graduate Program at Long Island University in New York \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/diary-of-a-digital-plague-year-with-dennis-broe/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Emancipation,Film and television,Film Screenings,Globalization,Media Criticism,Pandemics and Capital,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DigiPlagueYear1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210909T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210909T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20210520T055647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210904T213943Z UID:10006948-1631214000-1631221200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina) DESCRIPTION:with The Marxist Education Project Literature Studies Group\n“As Georges Bataille tells us\, there is a profound link between literature and evil. If writing and reading are transgressive acts\, or crimes\, which unmask deep philosophical truths about us and our world\, then what does crime fiction — a genre focused on those transgressions — reveal? Scholars from Dennis Porter to Ernest Mandel argue that the crime genre is also distinctly social\, even political\, and revealing about mainstream ideology\, power\, and control.”           —Russell Williams\, “The Serie Noire and Social Intervention”\, LA Review of Books\, July 27\, 2015 \nFor the last four summers\, the MEP Literature Studies Group has delved into a wealth of noir fiction. This year our six selections will take us deep into the underbelly of capitalism – good for reading at the beach\, on the subway\, a train\, boat or plane\, or in your favorite reading chair safely at home. \nWe have completed our discussions of Drive\, Clark Gifford’s Body\, Dread Journey\, Black Wings Has My Angel and How the Dead Live. \n \nSEPTEMBER 9 • THE LESS DEAD by DENISE MINA\nA story of daughters and mothers\, secrets and choices\, and how the search for the truth—and a long-hidden killer—will lead one woman to find herself. 336 pages \nDenise Mina is a Scottish crime writer and playwright. She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia “Paddy” Meehan\, a Glasgow journalist. Described as an author of Tartan Noir\, she has also dabbled in comic book writing\, having written 13 issues of Hellblazer. \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pandemic-summer-noir/2021-09-09/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:American Literature,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Literary Studies,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Radical Literature,Speculative fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SummerNoirStopsign2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210902T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210902T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20210520T055647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210904T213943Z UID:10006947-1630609200-1630616400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina) DESCRIPTION:with The Marxist Education Project Literature Studies Group\n“As Georges Bataille tells us\, there is a profound link between literature and evil. If writing and reading are transgressive acts\, or crimes\, which unmask deep philosophical truths about us and our world\, then what does crime fiction — a genre focused on those transgressions — reveal? Scholars from Dennis Porter to Ernest Mandel argue that the crime genre is also distinctly social\, even political\, and revealing about mainstream ideology\, power\, and control.”           —Russell Williams\, “The Serie Noire and Social Intervention”\, LA Review of Books\, July 27\, 2015 \nFor the last four summers\, the MEP Literature Studies Group has delved into a wealth of noir fiction. This year our six selections will take us deep into the underbelly of capitalism – good for reading at the beach\, on the subway\, a train\, boat or plane\, or in your favorite reading chair safely at home. \nWe have completed our discussions of Drive\, Clark Gifford’s Body\, Dread Journey\, Black Wings Has My Angel and How the Dead Live. \n \nSEPTEMBER 9 • THE LESS DEAD by DENISE MINA\nA story of daughters and mothers\, secrets and choices\, and how the search for the truth—and a long-hidden killer—will lead one woman to find herself. 336 pages \nDenise Mina is a Scottish crime writer and playwright. She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia “Paddy” Meehan\, a Glasgow journalist. Described as an author of Tartan Noir\, she has also dabbled in comic book writing\, having written 13 issues of Hellblazer. \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pandemic-summer-noir/2021-09-02/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:American Literature,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Literary Studies,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Radical Literature,Speculative fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SummerNoirStopsign2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210826T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210826T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20210520T055647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210904T213943Z UID:10006946-1630004400-1630011600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina) DESCRIPTION:with The Marxist Education Project Literature Studies Group\n“As Georges Bataille tells us\, there is a profound link between literature and evil. If writing and reading are transgressive acts\, or crimes\, which unmask deep philosophical truths about us and our world\, then what does crime fiction — a genre focused on those transgressions — reveal? Scholars from Dennis Porter to Ernest Mandel argue that the crime genre is also distinctly social\, even political\, and revealing about mainstream ideology\, power\, and control.”           —Russell Williams\, “The Serie Noire and Social Intervention”\, LA Review of Books\, July 27\, 2015 \nFor the last four summers\, the MEP Literature Studies Group has delved into a wealth of noir fiction. This year our six selections will take us deep into the underbelly of capitalism – good for reading at the beach\, on the subway\, a train\, boat or plane\, or in your favorite reading chair safely at home. \nWe have completed our discussions of Drive\, Clark Gifford’s Body\, Dread Journey\, Black Wings Has My Angel and How the Dead Live. \n \nSEPTEMBER 9 • THE LESS DEAD by DENISE MINA\nA story of daughters and mothers\, secrets and choices\, and how the search for the truth—and a long-hidden killer—will lead one woman to find herself. 336 pages \nDenise Mina is a Scottish crime writer and playwright. She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia “Paddy” Meehan\, a Glasgow journalist. Described as an author of Tartan Noir\, she has also dabbled in comic book writing\, having written 13 issues of Hellblazer. \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pandemic-summer-noir/2021-08-26/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:American Literature,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Literary Studies,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Radical Literature,Speculative fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SummerNoirStopsign2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210819T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210819T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20210520T055647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210904T213943Z UID:10006945-1629399600-1629406800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina) DESCRIPTION:with The Marxist Education Project Literature Studies Group\n“As Georges Bataille tells us\, there is a profound link between literature and evil. If writing and reading are transgressive acts\, or crimes\, which unmask deep philosophical truths about us and our world\, then what does crime fiction — a genre focused on those transgressions — reveal? Scholars from Dennis Porter to Ernest Mandel argue that the crime genre is also distinctly social\, even political\, and revealing about mainstream ideology\, power\, and control.”           —Russell Williams\, “The Serie Noire and Social Intervention”\, LA Review of Books\, July 27\, 2015 \nFor the last four summers\, the MEP Literature Studies Group has delved into a wealth of noir fiction. This year our six selections will take us deep into the underbelly of capitalism – good for reading at the beach\, on the subway\, a train\, boat or plane\, or in your favorite reading chair safely at home. \nWe have completed our discussions of Drive\, Clark Gifford’s Body\, Dread Journey\, Black Wings Has My Angel and How the Dead Live. \n \nSEPTEMBER 9 • THE LESS DEAD by DENISE MINA\nA story of daughters and mothers\, secrets and choices\, and how the search for the truth—and a long-hidden killer—will lead one woman to find herself. 336 pages \nDenise Mina is a Scottish crime writer and playwright. She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia “Paddy” Meehan\, a Glasgow journalist. Described as an author of Tartan Noir\, she has also dabbled in comic book writing\, having written 13 issues of Hellblazer. \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pandemic-summer-noir/2021-08-19/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:American Literature,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Literary Studies,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Radical Literature,Speculative fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SummerNoirStopsign2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210718T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210718T190000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20210626T155826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210626T155826Z UID:10006975-1626627600-1626634800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Darko Suvin: Communism\, Poetry\, Comradeship—a celebratory reading and discussion DESCRIPTION:Come to celebrate the beginning of Darko Suvin’s 91st year of comradeship. \nA poem from 1993—one of many you can find with much more of Darko’s writing along with many decades of many poems per decade at darkosuvin.com \nSummer\, On a Hill\nFor Marc\nI took the best roads I could\nThe choices got funnelled ever tighter\nFinally I’m here\, this heavy Summer\nNo other paths led to wider horizons\nSo much is clear now to the future historians\nI pick up the sutras & Sam of the Stoa\nAlas! we’re back at where they speak to us:\nwith regret I reread the clarions of Karl & bearings of Bert\nThey sound like beautiful childhood tales of Tahiti\nA mantis the hue of withered grass for haying\nSwings its sickles\, maybe for me.\n1993 \nDarko Suvin will appear on the eve of his 91st birthday via an international video conference presented by The Marxist Education Project\, in celebration of a life of communism\, poetry\, comradeship and all that goes into a life well-known for commitment to all of this and more. \nReadings and discussion: A selection of poems from Darko’s more than 40 years of writing   poetry along with sharing memoirs of many more years of vigorous engagement while active in the multiple forms of struggle for communism from continents the world over that Darko has called home\, will all be part of this mid-summer celebration a life of comradeship. \nDarko’s website (listed above) has many levels\, from which a rich biography will emerge. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for obtaining a zoom url for participating on July 18. \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/darko-suvin-communism-poetry-comradeship-a-celebratory-reading-and-discussion/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,historical materialism,Insurgency,Literary Studies,Marx,Marxisms,Poetry,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Solidarity,Speculative fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/BannerDark_July18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210606T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210606T160000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20210503T010737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210531T175154Z UID:10006943-1622988000-1622995200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Re:sources / Re:lations with Working Group on Globalization and Culture DESCRIPTION:The Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture will share our collective research on two ubiquitous words of our contemporary vocabulary: resources and relations. There was a meeting on May 16 (described below in thematic Clusters One)  and the next meeting will take place on June 6. \nThe current WGGC collective of Aanchal Saraf\, Bench Ansfield\, Clara Wilson-Hawken\, Ever Osorio\, Jessica Marion Modi\, Lucero Estrella\, Maru Pabón\, Michael Denning\, Monique Flores Ulysses\, Peter Raccuglia\, Salonee Bhaman\, and Simon Torracinta — work in American studies\, African-American studies\, Latinx studies\, history\, literary criticism\, science and technology studies\, and women’s\, gender and sexuality studies. WGGC will share their collective research on two ubiquitous words of our contemporary vocabulary: resources and relations. \nTHEMATIC CLUSTERS ONE: On Sunday May 16\, we will present the first two clusters\, Affordances for Whom? Making and Unmaking Resources\, and Language as Resource and Relation. The first part explores how land\, nature\, people\, and time are conceived of and transformed into “resources”: depictions of land as a resource for migrants\, and of migrants for empires; of Indigenous land as a resource for extraction and settlement; and of time as an abstract resource for leisure in the twentieth century. The second part examines language\, poetry\, and political slogans as resources and relations from post-emancipation Black cultures to contemporary Mexican feminisms. How do the abstractions of the category of “resource” – enforced by states\, settlers\, or science – change the meanings of concrete things? Who gets to define how and for whom resources are made? \nTHEMATIC CLUSTERS TWO: On Sunday June 6\, we will present the final two clusters: Source Memory: Relating Archival Contradictions and The Relations of Human Resources. The first part offers disparate meditations on the complex process of engaging with archival sources. Cohering around the verb “relate” – which means both to form an affinity or kinship with and to narrate a story – we take up stories of a record producer in everything but her own words\, of an immigration bureaucracy’s interrogation of a man and his family\, and of the piecing together of family histories in the intergenerational wake of an earthquake. Our final cluster probes the half-lives of human resources\, from the origins of the discourse of human resources\, to the depletion of inner resources and the politics of “burnout\,” to the valuations of risk and life within viatical insurance in a pandemic. \nThe Working Group on Globalization and Culture http://wggc.yale.edu/ is an interdisciplinary cultural studies laboratory that has been practicing collective research at Yale University since 2003. Over the years\, we have presented work at numerous cultural studies conferences as well at The Marxist Education Project\, the Left Forum\, Occupy Boston\, and the World Social Forum. Projects have been published as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Spaces and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” appeared in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to get what you need to attend these events or any other classes or events. We do record all events and classes. \n  \nFor all those who are attending June 6 who would like to listen to the presentations from May 16\, please write to info@marxedproject.org and request that the recording be sent to you via email. \n. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/resources-relations-with-working-group-on-globalization-and-culture/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Extractivism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Speculative fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/re_-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T211359 CREATED:20201018T131737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201018T131737Z UID:10006153-1607454000-1607461200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Trotsky in Tijuana: A new novel by Dan La Botz DESCRIPTION:Dan La Botz in conversation with Alan Wald and Suzi Weissman\nWho was the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky? What did he believe and do? What was his legacy? Dan La Botz’s new novel. Trotsky in Tijuana\, examines these questions in fiction. The novel’s premise is that Trotsky was not assassinated in August 1940 but survived and was relocated to Tijuana where he lived on until 1953 dying on the same day as his rival and political opponent Joseph Stalin. We learn of Trotsky’s past and watch him live on into a future he never knew\, dealing with new political situations\, with a new lover\, with his wife\, and with his old friend Victor Serge\, being called to testify before Senator Joseph McCarthy. You can learn more about the book by clicking this link trotskyintijuana.com and browsing the site. \nDAN LA BOTZ formerly taught at the School of Labor and Urban Studies of the City University of New York. In the 1970s\, he was a founding member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU). From 1994 to 2014\, he was the editor and principal writer of Mexican Labor News and Analysis\, a publication supported by the United Electrical Workers Union (UE)\, a U.S. union\, and the Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT)\, a Mexican labor union. He is a member of both Solidarity and the Democratic Socialists of America and a co-editor of New Politics (newpol.org). In 2010\, he was the Socialist Party candidate in Ohio for the U.S. Senate. He is the author of a dozen books on labor\, social movements\, and politics in the United States\, Mexico\, and Nicaragua\, most recently the non-fiction books are What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis and Le nouveau populisme Américain Résistances et alternatives à Trump. \n ALAN WALD\, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan\, is a cultural historian of the United States Left from the 1930s to the1950s. He most recently authored a trilogy about Communism and writers from the University of North Carolina Press: Exiles from a Future Time\, Trinity of Passion\, and American Night. His book The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s has become a classic of literary and cultural studies. He is a member of the socialist organization Solidarity and an editor of the journals Against the Current and Science & Society. \n SUZI WEISSMAN is Professor of Politics at Saint Mary’s College of California and an editor of Critique and Against the Current. Her books include Victor Serge: A Political Biography\, and she is currently Co-Producer of the Lindy Laub and David Weiss film about Trotsky\, The Most Dangerous Man in the World. She broadcasts the weekly public affairs program Beneath the Surface with Suzi Weissman on KPFK\, and the Jacobin Radio podcast. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/trotsky-in-tijuana-a-new-novel-by-dan-la-botz/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Tijiuana_1940WithCoverSM.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR