Politics of the Unconscious and Surrealist Brunch
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesOver brunch, discover some of the grotesque dances by Valeska Gert (Weimar Era), and dance-theater of Pina Bausch and Mats Ek (1970s-80s). Dada and surrealism will not be left behind. We will explore how the aesthetic de-hierarchicalization and commodity culture inform our practices as witnesses and witnessed art makers.
Highlights of Marx’s Capital, Volume 1
2067 Broadway between 71st and 72nd Streets, New York, NY, United StatesThe course provides a basic grounding for participants to pursue further study on their own or collectively. We’ll refer to new resources such as on-line and visual aids and current articles that illustrate capitalism’s developmental tendencies, which Marx calls its laws of motion. This highlights class is for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.
Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, Part 2
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYFrom the book: “...a potential tendency for capital in searching to maximise its monetary profit to be drawn to invest in areas that produce no value or surplus value at all. Taken to extremes, either of these tendencies could be fatal to the reproduction of capital. In combination, and the contemporary evidence is that both trends are discernible, they could be catastrophic” (Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey, Oxford University Press, p.105).
Degenerate!: Art and the State
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY...we travel to postwar America, where the elites also held that art should fulfill an ideological (if not overtly political) function, but were politically compelled to denigrate both Nazi and now Soviet control over culture. The CIA worked alongside corporations to install “corporate” non-partisan, inoffensive art that celebrated the individual (i.e. capitalist and not communist) and denigrated anything containing possible, even hinted at, socialist leanings. Abstraction, particularly Abstract Expressionism became their rallying cry.
Irish Resistance Special
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYjoin The Independent and The Marxist Education Project in celebrating 500 years of Irish Resistance and an ongoing fight for liberation.
Beer / Film / Music / Food
Remembering Bill Koehnlein
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY, United StatesA celebration of the life of Bill Koehnlein.
Revolution in China: 1911-1949
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYOf 20th-century revolutions, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. Beginning this January, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II.
Climate Crisis, Climate Justice, Climate Fiction
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria), New York (Sandy), and the Mideast (drought, wars, refugees), through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson, Christian Parenti, and others.
Tales of the 1%: The Organizer
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYJoin us for a discussion of Monicelli’s most political film. In addition to casting Marcello Mastrioanni, Monicelli cast the film with workers from the Turin area and shot on location in one of the area’s huge textile factories. “I wanted to show all of that. The truth about what happens in the working world.”
—Mario Monicelli, interviewed in 2006
Manuals On Organizing, Version 1
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis group will read over the next period a number of books on raising consciousness, organization and various methods and theories on how to develop a strong anti-capitalist movement.
B. Traven’s Jungle Novels
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYTraven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt.
The Universe: Past, Present, Future
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis class is for all who desire to explore together the mysteries and fascinations of our universe. No prior knowledge of astrophysics or mathematics is required. Together we will get to the bottom of a number of concepts that are widely discussed but poorly understood.
May Made Me
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesPublished on the 50th anniversary of those days in the spring of 68, “May Made Me” presents the legacy of the uprising: how those explosive experiences changed the individuals who participated and their lives as lived since then.
Revolutionary Columbia University Struggle of 1968
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe Battle for Historical Interpretation with Lessons for Today’s Movement
How the Black Movement in Harlem, Student Afro-American Society and Students for a Democratic Society took on the Columbia ruling class representatives, Mayor Lindsay, The New York Times and the New York Police Department and Won.
Friday Noir: Women and Murder
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYGenre Fiction: Women and Murder Last Fridays of each Month Jacqueline Cantwell March 30 and April 27 The March 30 author will be Shirley Jackson, notorious for writing The Lottery and the gothic The Haunting of Hill House. From 1943 until her death in 1965, she was popular and published by major magazines. Her stories ... Read more