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Historical Roots and Political Strategy Reading Group–Spring Series
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsTuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Please bookmark and check this page again soon, or sign up for free now for our coming spring study series. We just completed an intensive overview of Mexican and Latin American peoples and struggles in the West and Southwest. We will soon announce plans for our next study series in US ... Read more
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The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsJoin ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight ... Read more
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Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsRead and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 2 of Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations', which takes up the nature and functioning of capital.
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Hegel for Radicals: The Philosophy of Right
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this Spring with a ten-session seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. This work is a treatise on the meaning of freedom and the kind of institutions that are required for its realization. We will debunk previous myths that Hegel was a reactionary spokesman of the Prussian monarchy and ... Read more
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Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2026 Series
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe continuing 2026 Gramsci Study Sessions meets Sundays at 11 am ET and will read and explore from: Selections from the Prison Notebooks Selections from Cultural Writings Selections from Political Writings Gramsci’s writings on international politics, as they relate to contemporary issues and conflicts. Participants may join in at any time. We share a vast ... Read more
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Protective Presence in the West Bank
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe only people standing beside the Palestinians of the West Bank as they defend themselves from ethnic cleansing are protective presence activists. Celeste Marcus and Mitch Abidor have both spent time in the West Bank doing protective presence, accompanying Palestinians in their fields and with their flocks and confronting settlers who are far less likely ... Read more
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Reading Science and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsAlternate Mondays, Next on February 16, 5-6:30 pm ET Join us to sample exciting new short fiction and non-fiction to assess the state of socially-conscious, political speculative fiction today. Speculative fiction, reborn from traditional science fiction, and also known by its alter ego visionary fiction and other its other identities, including horror, more than ever ... Read more
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Marx’s Capital, Vol. II – On the Circulation of Capital
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsA ten-session study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume II, The Process of Circulation of Capital. Marx addresses the question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met, in the necessary proportions, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? We discover the answer, but we also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society.
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Planetary Crises: Extraction and the Costs of ‘Green Capitalism’
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group welcomes new participants as we read and discuss a range of important new works on the science and politics of the climate emergency, the nature of economic and ecological crises, the status of freedom with respect to environmental constraints, and related topics. Beginning March 25, we will take up Extraction: ... Read more
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Literature Group: New 2026 Monthly Series
Meets monthly on Saturdays, 2-4 pm ET, beginning February 28 The MEP Literature Group hosts a new monthly series, meeting at 2 pm US ET on the last Saturday of each month. In our new format, we discuss a single book each month. Selections are not limited to fiction - we are branching out to ... Read more
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