Reading Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks – Spring 2024
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsIn this ongoing weekly reading group, we continue to read and learn from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. We explore key themes and concepts related to politics and civil society, including race, class and gender, religion, linguistic and other methods of analysis, critical theory, mass media, the arts and cinema, hegemony, and subaltern studies.
Animals, Capitalism, Marxism: A Conversation
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsDinesh Joseph Wadiwel and Alex Blanchette explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. Wadiwel is the author of Animals and Capital and Blanchette is the author of Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm.
Trotsky in New York Walking Tour
Socialists and Immigrants in the Lower East Side Join Alex Steinberg for a historical walking tour of Lower Manhattan as we explore some of the places where Leon Trotsky visited ... Read more
Reading Gramsci for Today’s Movements – Spring 2024
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYJoin us this spring to study Antonio Gramsci's works. We will explore Gramsci's themes and concepts, including state-civil society relations, historic block, hegemony, spontaneity, strategy and tactic, and language. We ... Read more
David McNally: Marx and Colonialism
The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesDavid McNally joins our 10th anniversary celebration of the MEP with a keynote talk on "Marx and Colonialism: The End of Capital and the Beginning of a Journey."
Reading Science Fiction Politically: Diverging Futures
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYPalestine +100 editor Basma Ghalayini In Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba, edited by Basma Ghalayini, as well as other recent books, Palestinian authors have begun to ... Read more