The Factory, a film by Rahul Roy
“The production process had to become a very important element,” director Rahul Roy says. “That was a huge challenge.... How do you create a narrative around the production process without putting people to sleep?”
The Factory traces the monumental struggle of Indian auto workers of Maruti Suzuki, Manesar in their historic fight to form a union.
Reason and Revolution
In this eight-week class Chad Kautzer will review how Marcuse masterfully delineated the methodological foundations of critical theory and reconstructed the development of Hegel’s philosophy and its influence on Marx.
The Russian Revolution 1917—1921
This 11-week class considers the establishment of a government based on the workers councils (soviets) in November 1917, emphasizing the rising influence of the Bolshevik Party.
Outside Views/Inside Stories: The Algerian Experience
Writing on Algeria: From liberation movements as a French colony to new struggles of liberation in post-colonial Algeria.
An Evening with Diana Block
Clandestine Occupations explores the difficult decisions that activists confront about the boundaries of legality and speculates about the scope of clandestine action in the future.
Reading Gramsci
Harmony Goldberg will guide this 4-week class covering concepts essential to an understanding of the work of Antonio Gramsci.
Highlights of Capital, Volume 1
A new approach: Highlighting the main sections and concepts of Capital, Volume I. Nine sessions until mid-December.
Resistencia: The Fight for Aguan Valley
When a 21st century coup d'etat overthrows the only president they ever believed in, Honduran farmers take over the plantations. They have no plans to ever give them back.
Extractivism in Africa: The Role of the “BRICS” Countries
Co-Sponsors: Haymarket Books and System Change Not Climate Change
This talk will focus on the "new scramble for Africa" and controversies surrounding the role of rising powers such as China, Russia, and South Africa.
Baldwin/Fanon: After Colonialism Dies, Fighting New Forms of Imperialism
Read from Baldwin and Fanon as the capitalist powers occupy without the colonial apparatus and how to proceed to combat the new forms of imperialism.
Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
Immanuel Ness provides a thorough and expert perspective of three key countries where workers are fighting the spread of unchecked industrial capitalism: China, India, and South Africa.
Extraction | Expulsions | Resistance
This 6-week class explores extractivism and activist responses to it. There will be a related event during the life of this class which entrance fee is included with payment.
1871-2015: Voices of The Paris Commune
Communards speak to us from the Commune in Paris about lessons they learned that we could take to our struggles against capital today
Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence
Join two of the editors and a contributing author of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence, published by CounterPunch.
TOPLAB turns 25
No long-winded speeches, no somber introspection, no academic discourse and analysis. Just good company, good conversation and light-spirited merry-making.