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  • Creating an Ecological Society

    Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    Sickened by the contamination of water, air, and the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is, quite literally, killing us - and indeed, degrading the Earth’s very ability to support all forms of life.

    $40 – $70

  • A New Left Forms, June and July sessions on the 1960s

    Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    The bee on wheels has laments on a stick
    Wags weepy banners with gypsy ribbons ...
    The tiny wheeled bee has the sky on a stick
    Idly waves as she buzzes through the afternoon
    Kicking the tears around like bean tins.
    —fragment of poem by Jeff Nuttall

    $45 – $65

  • Marxism / Leninism • Reform / Revolution • Role of a Vanguard Party

    How do we develop a political organization capable of avoiding the same traps of the past? Are communist parties inevitably social democratic and bureaucratic? Can existing parties in the US be saved? In this panel, Marxist organizations come together to learn from the experience in India and elsewhere. This public event is both a workshop and a frank and sober discussion about the road ahead.

    $6 – $15

  • Trotsky in New York Walking Tour

    We will meet at the entrance to the Great Hall of Cooper Union and proceed to 77 St. Marks Place, where the offices of the Russian language newspaper Novy Mir, were housed in 1917. Here Trotsky and other future Bolshevik leaders worked daily. From there the tour will take a walk to the building of the Jewish Daily Forward.

    $20 – $30

  • Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity

    Verso Books 20 Jay Street #1010, Brooklyn

    ...a Marxian version of Freudian free association—the chain of hidden links that leads us from the surface of everyday life and experience to the very sources of production itself. —Fredric Jameson

    $6 – $15

  • Reading Capital Politically

    Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    Marx’s maxim that class struggle is the “motor force” of history is to be taken literally and not viewed as simply some literary metaphor. But what does this mean in the real world? How does this work? And, how should we read Capital politically?

    $50 – $80

  • An Intro to Marxism—in Newark, New Jersey

    Orchard Street, Newark, NJ classroom Orchard Street, Newark, NJ, United States

    With short readings, focused presentations, and discussions, we will look at the rise of industrial capitalism and nationalism, the general characteristics of capitalist political economy and class, and the state, imperialism and war, workers organizations and collective power, and, finally, political action and questions of reform or revolution.

    $15 – $25

  • No Blood for Oil!

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    In his book George Caffentzis shows how Marxism accounts for the peculiar role that the oil industry plays in contemporary capitalism as generator of ecological devastation, war and exploitation.

    $6 – $15

  • Hard Boiled Thursdays: Summer Fiction Series

    Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    Verbal sparring, physical clashes, between corrupt cops and the world-weary detectives, the calm façade smiling at the world concealing a maniacal murder machine, when distilled in a fast-paced pulp fiction or poetically narrated in a noir satisfy some of our needs to explain the violent social disorder thrown at us large and small by the contours of life lived by dictates of capital.

    $95 – $125

  • Women’s Liberation Movement: 1968-1975

    Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    As the Black Freedom movement turned to Black Power, feminists took theory from Black Power and applied it to their newborn movement. We'll read original sources from both the Black-led and majority-white branches of women's liberation.

    $10 – $30

  • Reading Capital Politically Continues

    Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    Marx himself intended Capital to serve as a “weapon” in the hands of the working class. This makes Capital first and foremost a political work. But what does it mean to read Capital politically?

    $40 – $70

  • Thursday Noirs: Summer fiction

    Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    Verbal sparring, physical clashes, between corrupt cops and the world-weary detectives, the calm façade smiling at the world concealing a maniacal murder machine, when distilled in a fast-paced pulp fiction or poetically narrated in a noir satisfy some of our needs to explain the violent social disorder thrown at us large and small by the contours of life lived by dictates of capital.

    $80 – $110

  • Women’s Liberation Movement: The Power of History

    This class will analyze what made the 1960s Women’s Liberation Movement spread fast and win victories, and also what made it vulnerable to watering down and liberal takeover. National Women’s Liberation is a feminist group for women who want to fight back against male supremacy and win more freedom for women.

    $6 – $15