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Dread Poetry and Freedom

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

What is the relationship between poetry and social change?

Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden's claim that 'poetry makes nothing happen'.

$6 – $15

Weekend Special Pass: Austin, Gordon, Marx

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

2 events and a visit to our ongoing Capital Saturday study session in between.

$10

Moving Against the System

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Against a backdrop of widespread racism in the West, and colonialism and imperialism in the 'Third World', this group of activists, writers and political figures gathered to discuss the history and struggles of people of African descent and the meaning of Black Power.

$6 – $15

Capitalism: Causes, Conditions, Consequences … and Beyond

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Join us for a close reading of Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory which shows how different historical regimes of capitalism have relied on institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproduction, and human and non-human nature. Interaction between these domains is periodically readjusted in response to crises and upheavals.

$65 – $95
Event Series Globalization and Writing

Globalization and Writing

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Unwilling, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the their countries of origin.

$95 – $125

Event Series Capital, Volume 1

Capital, Volume 1

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Karl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity, intertwined with growing inequality and misery, alienation, stunting of human potential, and ecological destruction all over the globe.

$95 – $125

The Last Dance Meets The Last Repast

New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

The talk will examinethe historico-political relationships between: the psychiatric transformation of madness into mental illness, the psychoanalytic discovery of the unconscious, the surrealist anti-psychiatric art, and dance-theater’s embodied expression stripped of narrative development. A surreal meal will be the last part of this event.

$6 – $15
Event Series Black Reconstruction

Black Reconstruction

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

THIS SERIES HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MAY 20!
...the great social revolution of that momentous period following the Civil War was surely the “reconstruction” of social relations in the former slave states. In his groundbreaking study (1935), W.E.B. DuBois reveals that this social revolution was both initiated by slaves in the midst of the war and carried through by the emancipated Black population during and after the period when federal troops occupied the former Confederate states.

$95 – $125

Capitalism: Causes, Conditions, Consequences … and Beyond

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Join us for a close reading of Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory which shows how different historical regimes of capitalism have relied on institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproduction, and human and non-human nature. Interaction between these domains is periodically readjusted in response to crises and upheavals.

$65 – $95
Event Series Globalization and Writing

Globalization and Writing

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Unwilling, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the their countries of origin.

$95 – $125
Event Series Capital, Volume 1

Capital, Volume 1

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Karl Marx’s Capital remains the fundamental text for understanding how capitalism works. By unraveling the commoditized forms of our interactions with nature and each other, it provides tools to understand capitalism’s astounding innovativeness and productivity, intertwined with growing inequality and misery, alienation, stunting of human potential, and ecological destruction all over the globe.

$95 – $125
Event Series Black Reconstruction

Black Reconstruction

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

THIS SERIES HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MAY 20!
...the great social revolution of that momentous period following the Civil War was surely the “reconstruction” of social relations in the former slave states. In his groundbreaking study (1935), W.E.B. DuBois reveals that this social revolution was both initiated by slaves in the midst of the war and carried through by the emancipated Black population during and after the period when federal troops occupied the former Confederate states.

$95 – $125

Capitalism: Causes, Conditions, Consequences … and Beyond

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Join us for a close reading of Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory which shows how different historical regimes of capitalism have relied on institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproduction, and human and non-human nature. Interaction between these domains is periodically readjusted in response to crises and upheavals.

$65 – $95