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Topics in Strategic Studies–Spring 2026 Series
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsTuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Join us for a new format for the "Historical Roots..." study, reworked for 2026 as "topics in strategic studies." We will select and read one significant book of political theory or history a month, focused on understanding the stresses and directions for change in the present moment. Each week, we will ... Read more
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Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsAlternate Mondays, Next on March 19, 5-6:30 pm ET MEP's alternative literature group begins a new series of novels, short fiction and non-fiction. 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 offers space for exploration of class, ... 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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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 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 include memoir, biography, ... Read more
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