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 ... 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?
Solidarity Without Borders
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYBorderlands Studies: These four essential themes of our times will be discussed: the diversity of new migrant political actors; solidarity and new alliances across borders; avoiding misplaced alliances; and spaces of resistance.
James Connolly Songs of Freedom
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYFrom the publication of Songs of Freedom in 1907 to the declaration of the Irish Republic on the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin 1916, Connolly's vision was a beacon in the struggle for liberation. Using Connolly's own songs along with others made famous in Ireland's fight for independence, Callahan and Moore perform a spirited tribute to the rebels of Easter Week.
When Droplets Become Rain
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYWHEN DROPLETS BECOME RAIN is a celebration of collective values and organization, and offers a message of hope through popular mobilization and love for living beings and mother earth, as summarized in the title.
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYHegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is generally considered the first exposition of and an introduction to Hegel's later work, what is often referred to as Hegel's “system.” Thus, knowledge of the Phenomenology is indispensable for anyone interested in today's world.
The Politics of James Joyce and the Easter Rising
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYLeopold Bloom’s peripatetic journey around Dublin and reasons why Joyce enlightens radicals and socialists.
Big Farms Make Big Flu
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY“If you’ve missed the wit and brilliance of Stephen Jay Gould, here’s consolation: holistic, radical science from the frontlines of the battle against emergent diseases…. Bravo to Monthly Review Press for publishing this landmark collection of essays.” —Mike Davis
Resistance and Solidarity Across the US-Mexican Border: 1946-2016
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYSignificant consideration will be given to the tensions and contradictions generated by the uneven interdependence of capitalist development in the borderlands; the long history of solidarity, struggle and resistance against racial and capitalist oppression waged by Native Americans, Mexican Americans and the multinational working class in the region.