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SUMMARY:60 Years Since the April Revolution in Santo Domingo
DESCRIPTION:Sixty years ago\, on April 24\, 1965\, tens of thousands of ordinary people in Santo Domingo (also known as the Dominican Republic) joined a popular revolt which sought to restore President Juan Bosch to power after he was overthrown in a US-backed\, right-wing military coup in September\, 1963. Posing a threat to both local elites and Washington’s geopolitical expansion in the Caribbean\, the April Revolution\, and the subsequent anti-imperialist resistance that sprang up against US military occupation\, contributed to the development of anti-imperialist politics in Santo Domingo and beyond. \nJoin us on May 3 for a panel to commemorate the 6oth anniversary of the April Revolution and discuss its political implications\, the role of working-class Afro-Dominicans\, women\, LGBTQ people\, Haitian internationalist fighters\, socialists\, writers and artists\, as well as the worldwide international solidarity movement that ensued in the face of imperialist onslaught. \nGénesis Lara is a scholar of Caribbean and Afro-Latinx Studies. Raised in both the Bronx and Miami\, her research focuses on gender\, Blackness\, social movements\, human rights\, and diaspora world making. She explores the ways Afro-Caribbean women mobilized grief and mourning as ways to contest state violence in the twentieth century. Her work poses larger questions of ways Black people have conceived and fought for human rights. Génesis Lara completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Florida and her PhD at the University of California\, Davis. \nGina Goico is a multidisciplinary artist\, scholar\, and self-proclaimed necia. Goico navigates their identity and the spaces where they exist in the Dominican Republic and the United States through their work\, which ranges from embroidery to installations\, ink drawings\, and performances. Goico’s research focuses on how the aesthetics\, performances\, and organizing of self-identifying black Dominican artists and organizers operate as strategies that queer state-circulated identity in the Dominican Republic and its New York City diaspora. Goico was a Van Lier Fellow and artist in residence with Smack Mellon. They also participated in the AIM fellowship at The Bronx Museum of the Arts and were artist-in-residence at The Laundromat Project Kelly Street. Goico holds an AAS in Fine Arts and Illustration from Altos de Chavón and a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. They also have an MA in Arts Politics from NYU and are PhD candidate in Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. \nAmaury Rodriguez has been involved in Haitian-Dominican solidarity activism for more than two decades. His writing has appeared in NACLA\, El Salto\, Esendom and Jacobin. He is co-editor\, with Raj Chetty\, of a special issue of The Black Scholar journal dedicated to Dominican Black Studies. \nMatías Bosch Carcuro studied Environmental Sciences and Arts at the Central University of Chile. He has a MA in Social Sciences with a minor in Politics and a MA in Public Management and Policy from the University of Chile. He is also a University professor and researcher on political economy\, labor\, development models\, social rights\, social protection and security systems\, as well as state policies targeting discriminated and overexploited working people.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/60-years-april-revolution/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Colonialism,History,Immigration,Insurgency,Latin America,Migration,Race and Class,Repression,Revolutions,Seminars and Talks,Spring 25,US History,War
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SUMMARY:Karl Marx and Republicanism: Reading 'Citizen Marx'
DESCRIPTION:“… It is still not adequately appreciated that Marx’s principal political value was freedom\,\nrather than\, say\, equality or community.” Bruno Leipold\, Citizen Marx \nA five-session reading group\nWhat better time than the present moment to revisit Karl Marx’s commitment to the democratic republic as a necessary (if not sufficient) step on the path to human freedom? Over five weekly meetings we will read and discuss Bruno Leipold’s recently published Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought. As some of the most powerful capitalists in history are openly disavowing political democracy and calling for the unbridled rule of private wealth\, we revisit Karl Marx’s revolutionary republicanism and his ideas about political power and social classes. \nConvened by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of the Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/citizen-marx-karl-marx-and-republicanism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Capital vs. Labor,communism,England,France,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Strategy,Reading Group,Republicanism,Revolutions,Social Democracy,Winter 25
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Literature of Afro-Surrealism
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, 7-9 pm ET\,  beginning April 24 \nThis spring\, the MEP Literature Reading Group takes up novels loosely grouped as “Afro-Surrealism.” Borrowing from use by Amiri Baraka in the 1970s\, D. Scot Miller encouraged use of the term through his 2009 essay\, “Afrosurreal Manifesto.” Writers and artists in the African diaspora have now reclaimed the imaginative\, wondrous\, and contradictory aspects of Black life and artistic expression from the belittling slights of Western surrealists. We will read three novels contributing to this revival: \n\n Tram 83\, Fiston Mwanza Mujila\, on April 24 and May 1\nOreo\, by Fran Ross\, on May 8 and 22\nReady to Burst\, by Frankétienne\, May 29 and June 5\n\nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell and the MEP Literature Reading Group. Jacqueline Cantwell became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s  novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman eight years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, Jacqueline has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation. \nThe image used here accompanied the Fall 2013 publication of Miller’s essay in Black Camera\, based on artist and creative Sherese Francis’ 2012 illustration for Miller’s essay on Francis’ blog\, futuristically ancient. 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/exploring-the-literature-of-afro-surrealism/
CATEGORIES:Africa,Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Spring 25
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SUMMARY:Reading 'Human Acts' by Han Kang
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 15 – 7 pm ET \nMEP’s Literature Reading Group will commemorate the 1980 South Korean pro-democracy uprising with a reading of Han Kang’s Human Acts.    \nOn May 18\, 1980\, the citizens of Gwangju\, South Korea rose up in a ten-day revolt against the imposition of martial law. Factory workers\, university and high school students\, and ordinary citizens ran the city. On May 27\, the South Korean army brutally put down “The Gwangju Commune” in a series of massacres and tortures. \nHan Kang took as her theme the army’s devastating brutalities against survivors who had longed for justice. The book narrates in restrained and precise language the harrowing aftereffects of bodily violation and grief on survivors.  \nIn 2024\, the Nobel Prize committee honored Han Kang for literature\, and\, to honor her and the Korean Democratic Movement\, join us to read this powerful and controversial novel together.  \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell and the MEP Literature Reading Group. Jacqueline Cantwell became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s  novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman eight years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, Jacqueline has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-human-acts-by-han-kang/
CATEGORIES:Spring 25
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SUMMARY:'Roses for Gramsci' with Andy Merrifield
DESCRIPTION:A video of this May 17\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nAuthor Andy Merrifield presents Roses for Gramsci\, a remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist\, Antonio Gramsci. \nIn the summer of 2023\, Merrifield and his family move from the UK to Rome to begin a new life. Soon after his arrival\, the author visits Gramsci’s grave and decides to take a volunteer position helping to maintain the cemetery. At the Non-Catholic Cemetery\, home also to the great Romantics\, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats\, he keeps a watchful eye on Gramsci’s tombstone\, talking to some of his visitors\, admiring the roses and notes that Gramsci’s guests leave\, and communing with the sentinel cat that keeps watch near the gravesite. Thus begins Merrifield’s deep dive into Gramsci’s life almost a century after his death. \nThe result is a stunning portrait that offers fresh insights into nearly every aspect of Gramsci’s often tortured existence: a childhood scarred by severe health problems; his grasp of the culture of workers and peasants; his growing understanding of political economy; his friendship with the economist Piero Sraffa; his frustration trying to communicate with and be father to the son he never saw; his generosity and kindness. Above all\, Merrifield illuminates how Gramsci kept his humanity\, suffering horribly in prison while writing a revolutionary classic\, The Prison Notebooks. Personal\, compassionate\, moving—and illustrated with the author’s photographs —Merrifield revives both the legacy and meaning of Gramsci’s work and the dying art of belles lettres. Roses for Gramsci is an evocative and indelible book. \nAndy Merrifield is an independent scholar and author of a dozen books including\, most recently\, Beyond Plague Urbanism and Marx\, Dead and Alive: Reading “Capital” in Precarious Times. He has written numerous articles\, essays and reviews appearing in Monthly Review\, The Nation\, Harper’s Magazine\, New Left Review\, The Guardian\, Literary Hub\, Jacobin\, and Dissent. He is a prolific writer about urbanism\, political theory and literature.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/roses-for-gramsci/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Class,communism,Cultural Resistance,featured,Fordism,Gramsci,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Italian history,Late Capital and Fascism,Poetry,Political Economy,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Spring 25,Video Available
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SUMMARY:Darkest Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Film Noir\, Greed\, and Corporate Graft in LaLa Land\nA five-session reading group with novelist and scholar Dennis Broe\, presented by the Institute for the Radical Imagination and co-sponsored by the MEP\, LA Progressive and People’s World\nOrson Welles once called Los Angeles “a bright\, guilty place\,” and that is as true today as it was in the 1940s when Welles coined this description. Dennis Broe leads a group reading of his five Los Angeles novels* set in the film-noir period of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The contradictions we will unearth in that postwar period\, the period of crime films that visually documented this seedy reality\, have never been resolved\, only continually papered over\, and so they resound today. We will look at five industries and moments in this period with a view toward explaining how the postwar period set the tone for what was to follow\, leading to the present era of a vast income disparity and frequent “natural\,” though totally avoidable\, disasters. \n*The novels – Left of Eden\, A Hello to Arms\, The Precinct with the Golden Arm\, The House That Buff Built\, and The Dark Ages – are detailed in this syllabus. They are available from various online booksellers. \nDennis Broe is a professor\, journalist and novelist whose books include: Film Noir\, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood; Class\, Crime and International Film Noir: Globalizing America’s Dark Art; and Cold War Expressionism: Perverting the Politics of Perception. He has taught at The Sorbonne and is the Parisian correspondent for Arts Express on The Pacifica Network. Dennis also writes for LA Progressive\, People’s World\, Crime Time\, Culture Matters\, the British daily Morning Star and Monthly Review Online. His series of five novels is continuing with his latest\, Pornocopia\, about the corporate takeover of Las Vegas and the porn industry. Dennis has also just launched a new podcast\, Culture and Barbarism\, with Toby Miller. \nRegister for this class series at the Institute for the Radical Imagination
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/darkest-los-angeles/
LOCATION:Institute for the Radical Imagination\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,American Literature,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Cultural Resistance,Film and television,History,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Repression,Spring 25,Urbanism
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