It’s Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis history lives through the words and actions of the men and women who made these revolutions, and the everyday experiences of the millions of people who put new revolutionary ideas into practice under the pressures of enormous internal and external forces.
On Rebel Friendships and Affinity Groups
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYBenjamin Shepard explores the way friendship infuses social movements with the social capital necessary to move bodies of ideas forward...offering a new take on the ties between friends who are connected through affinity and efforts aimed at social change.
Oil, War and Value Creation: A Marxist Perspective
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYUnderstanding the petroleum industry is necessary for any anti-capitalist project. This is the purpose of the course.
What Is Capitalism?
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY...if we don’t define what capitalism is then what does it means to be ”anti-capitalist”? Don’t we first have to know what something is to know what it is we’re against? Otherwise, how can we ever know if the movement we’re building is based on strategies, tactics, issues and demands that, even if successful, will actually move us beyond capitalism instead of once again simply reinforcing its rule?
Paget Henry’s 70th Year: A Symposium and Celebration
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYOrganized by The Caribbean Philosophical Association Co-sponsors: The Caribbean Philosophical Association and The Marxist Education Project Special tributes by: Donna Edmonds Mitchell First Nation activist, community scholar, poet and creative artist Elaine Olaoye Professor and poet Participants Include: Linda Alcoff, Philosophy, Hunter College & CUNY Karida Brown, Sociology, Brown University Drucilla Cornell, Political Science and ... Read more
Marxism, Science and the Anthropocene
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis group will read and discuss classic and contemporary works in the Marxist tradition that address the nexus of capitalism, science, nature, and climate change.
Greece at the Crossroads
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe landslide victory of the NO promised a historic confrontation with the EU and the capitalist system in general. But Prime Minister Tsipras overnight repudiated the results of the referendum and negotiated the most onerous agreement yet with the EU. The year ended with a series of general strikes against the Syriza government. Those actions continue in the new year.
Celebration of Nuit Debout
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYTomorrow, more of us will join this global movement.
Resistance and Solidarity Across the US-Mexican Border
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis event will provide essential background information for those who will participate in the Crossing Borders reading group which begins on Thursday, April 28
Spring and Summer Book, Poster and Print Fair
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYJoin AK Press, Autonomedia, Common Notions, Haymarket Books, Interference Archive/Just Seeds, OR Books, PM Press, Verso Books, Zero Books and more to be announced. An opportunity to see many of the new offerings from a wide range of left publishing. For brief moments during the day, there will be readings from selected texts. Food and drink ... Read more
Abe and Julia: Honor and Survival During Hoover’s Reign
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYKotelchuck reveals his parents as “persons of great moral courage” who “refused to change their views in the face of governmental persecution.” He also reveals Hoover’s FBI as using dirty tricks, forgeries, illegal wiretaps, and intimidation while “hounding . . . domestic opponents of U.S. policies during the Cold War period, often illegally...
It’s Not Over: Lessons from the Socialist Experiment
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe book’s historical focus is on the Russian Revolution, the failed German Revolution, the early years of the Soviet Union, the Prague Spring, the Sandinista Revolution and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Crossing Borders: Novels and other writing on the Southwest Borderlands
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYEach Thursday we will look at the continually contested terrain and the peoples on both sides of the borders of the U.S. and Mexico,
Some Reflections On The Russian Revolution
We expect to focus on issues of cognitive dissonance in the early years after the Russian Revolution: the impotence of democratic reformism when an old regime disintegrates; the grinding of revolutionary ideals by the realities of civil war and economic collapse; and the heroism of revolutionary optimism in the face of savage resistance. Discussion with three important films during the five week session.
Left Noir 3: “You Talkin’ To Me?”
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYCops, Corruption and Capitalism in Crime Fiction: Do police exist solely to enforce order for the ruling capitalist powers and ensure their continual domination?