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 .
Marx, Nature and Capital: A Study Group
This group will read and discuss works that bring Marxist theory to bear on the environmental crisis and climate change.
Our Mother Ocean
I applaud the authors’ passionate portrayal of workers on the sea as an organic part of those of us who wish to protect Nature against the rapacious excesses of capitalism.
—George Katsiaficas
Mexican Workers and the Mexican Labor Movement: A History
This course will deal with the history of Mexican workers from ancient times until today. The course will look at the political economy and the organization of work from indigenous communal organizations of the pre-Columbian period through the era of the Porfiriate, the Mexican Revolution, and into the modern era including today.
Latin America: Colonized and Post-Colonial Attempts at Liberation
A unique opportunity to read and discuss the documentary history of the massacre at Tlatelolco side by side with Bolaño’s novel of the same.