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.
Expulsions—Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy
The current capitalist global economy represents expulsions from livelihoods, from living space, even from the very biosphere that makes life possible.
December Dialectics Workshop
In this class we will demystify dialectics and demonstrate that it does not have to be an esoteric topic reserved for a tiny group of initiates.
How to Care for the Revolution?
This forum addresses this question: How can we construct forms of solidarity that are not mired in capitalist and (hetero)sexist objectification?
Book, Poster and Print Sale
Support left artists and publishers this winter holiday season. Food and drinks available throughout. Some live readings throughout the event.
Russia: 1917-1921, The October Revolution to the End of the Civil War
“...those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. ”
― Victor Serge
Death to Bourgeois Society
Death to Bourgeois Society tells the story of four young anarchists who were guillotined in France in the 1890s.
Last night: Seven Essential Steps in Marx’s Dialectical Method
“My aim throughout goes beyond explaining Marx’s method to helping people think, study and act more dialectically. ”
—Bertell Ollman
Student, Worker and People’s Movements in South Africa
“There is no doubt therefore, that what we are witnessing is a revolutionary political moment in history. Midnight’s children are learning to walk and talk. ” —Camalita Naicker
The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play
“A mind is like a parachute—it doesn’t work unless it’s open.”
—Frank Zappa
Living Radical, Living Female
We will examine how radical women have narrated their lives and imagined different futures through a consideration of both fictional and autobiographical works .