Extractivism in Africa: The Role of the “BRICS” Countries
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYCo-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
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYRead 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
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYImmanuel 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
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis 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
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYCommunards 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
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYJoin 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
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe current capitalist global economy represents expulsions from livelihoods, from living space, even from the very biosphere that makes life possible.
December Dialectics Workshop
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYIn 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?
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis 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
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYSupport 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
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYDeath 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
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY“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
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY“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