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60 Years Since the April Revolution in Santo Domingo

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Join us on May 3 for a panel to commemorate the 6oth anniversary of the April Revolution in Santo Domingo and discuss its political implications, the role of working-class Afro-Dominicans, women, LGBTQ people, Haitian internationalist fighters, socialists, writers and artists as well as the worldwide international solidarity movement that ensued in the face of imperialist onslaught.

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Karl Marx and Republicanism: Reading ‘Citizen Marx’

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What better time than the present moment to revisit Karl Marx’s commitment to the democratic republic as a necessary (if not sufficient) step on the path to human freedom? Over five weekly meetings we will read and discuss Bruno Leipold’s recently published Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought.

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Exploring the Literature of Afro-Surrealism

Thursdays, 7-9 pm ET,  beginning April 24 This spring, the MEP Literature Reading Group takes up novels loosely grouped as "Afro-Surrealism." Borrowing from use by Amiri Baraka in the 1970s, D. Scot Miller encouraged use of the term through his 2009 essay, “Afrosurreal Manifesto." Writers and artists in the African diaspora have now reclaimed the ... Read more

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Reading ‘Human Acts’ by Han Kang

Thursday, May 15 - 7 pm ET MEP's Literature Reading Group will commemorate the 1980 South Korean pro-democracy uprising with a reading of Han Kang's Human Acts.    On May 18, 1980, the citizens of Gwangju, South Korea rose up in a ten-day revolt against the imposition of martial law. Factory workers, university and high ... Read more

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‘Roses for Gramsci’ with Andy Merrifield

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Author Andy Merrifield presents 'Roses for Gramsci,' a remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci.

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Darkest Los Angeles

Institute for the Radical Imagination NY, United States

Dennis Broe leads a group reading of his five Los Angeles novels set in the film-noir period of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The contradictions we will unearth in that postwar period, the period of crime films that visually documented this seedy reality, have never been resolved, only continually papered over, and so they resound today.

Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 2, Witness

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“The spectacle is the bad dream of modern society in chains, expressing nothing more than its wish for sleep,” Guy Debord declared in The Society of the Spectacle (1967): it is “a permanent opium war.” A half-century later, the specter of the spectacle continues to haunt Marxist cultural studies. In two linked panels, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture proposes to track “the worldwide division of spectacular tasks” from lens manufacture to retail logistics, stadiums to camptowns, polar expeditions to spring festivals, as well as revolutionary specters in novels and borders, assassinations and squares. 

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Trotsky in New York Walking Tour

Join Alex Steinberg and Daniel Lazare for a historical walking tour of Lower Manhattan as we explore some of the places where Leon Trotsky visited and worked during his nine week stay in New York in early 1917.

$10.00

Book Talk: Brian Kwoba on Hubert Harrison

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Brian Kwoba will speak on his newly published book Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism and Harrison's prominent role in the early Socialist Party, IWW, and Black radicalism during the 1910s and 20s.  Brian's visit forms part of our current study group on the Historical Roots of American Fascism. The following excerpt from the ... Read more

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Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume III

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A weekly study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume III, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. This work integrates and completes Marx's analysis, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system of capitalism.