Reading Gramsci
Harmony Goldberg will guide this 4-week class covering concepts essential to an understanding of the work of Antonio Gramsci.
Highlights of Capital, Volume 1
A new approach: Highlighting the main sections and concepts of Capital, Volume I. Nine sessions until mid-December.
Resistencia: The Fight for Aguan Valley
When a 21st century coup d'etat overthrows the only president they ever believed in, Honduran farmers take over the plantations. They have no plans to ever give them back.
Extractivism in Africa: The Role of the “BRICS” Countries
Co-Sponsors: Haymarket Books and System Change Not Climate Change
This talk will focus on the "new scramble for Africa" and controversies surrounding the role of rising powers such as China, Russia, and South Africa.
Baldwin/Fanon: After Colonialism Dies, Fighting New Forms of Imperialism
Read from Baldwin and Fanon as the capitalist powers occupy without the colonial apparatus and how to proceed to combat the new forms of imperialism.
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