Marxism and Planetary Crises: New Works, New Debates
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group resumes consideration of capitalism's catastrophic impact on the Earth's climate and other critical systems, and ecosocialist strategies to challenge it. In eight weekly sessions beginning April 24, we will address important new work in ecological Marxism and environmental justice.
Palestine: Celebrating 75 Years of Literature
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsRead Palestinian fiction, poetry, and related literature in weekly meetings with the MEP's Literature Group. The ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East breaks our hearts daily. As part of our mission to explore creative political resistance to oppression, we will read several novels and poems by Palestinian authors.
Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsParticipants in this class are closely reading and discussing Volume I of Karl Marx’s 'Capital, A Critique of Political Economy.' The second 10-week series starts April 6 with Chapter 6, 'The Sale and Purchase of Labor Power.'
Fascism, Antifascism, Gaza, and Political Strategy
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYWhere does the rising wave of authoritarianism and "late fascism" fit in the global relations of force at work today? And what paths of resistance work in response? The ... Read more
Reading Gramsci for Today’s Movements
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYJoin us to study Antonio Gramsci's works. We will explore Gramsci's themes and concepts, including state-civil society relations, historical block, hegemony, spontaneity, strategy and tactic, and language. We will follow ... Read more
Reading Science Fiction Politically: Diverging Futures
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYIn Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba, edited by Basma Ghalayini, as well as other recent books, Palestinian authors have begun to discover the power of science ... Read more
Summer Noir 2024
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe MEP Literature Group’s Summer Noir tradition of enjoying the bracing vitality of pulp continues with six short novels on the themes of difficult trips and political mayhem. Be warned: ... Read more