class struggle
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
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.
Emergence of a New Left: Civil Rights from Reform to Revolution
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynIf we don't do something real soon, I think you'll have to agree that we're going to be forced either to use the ballot or the bullet. It's one or the other in 1964. It isn't that time is running out—time has run out! —Malcolm X, 1964
An Intro to Marxism—in Newark, New Jersey
Orchard Street, Newark, NJ classroom Orchard Street, Newark, NJ, United StatesWith short readings, focused presentations, and discussions, we will look at the rise of industrial capitalism and nationalism, the general characteristics of capitalist political economy and class, and the state, imperialism and war, workers organizations and collective power, and, finally, political action and questions of reform or revolution.
No Blood for Oil!
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesIn his book George Caffentzis shows how Marxism accounts for the peculiar role that the oil industry plays in contemporary capitalism as generator of ecological devastation, war and exploitation.
Pictures of a Gone City
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis sweeping account of the Bay Area in the age of the tech boom covers many bases. It begins with the phenomenal concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley, the fabulous economic growth of the bay region and the unbelievable wealth piling up for the 1% and high incomes of Upper Classes—in contrast to the fate of the working class and people of color earning poverty wages and struggling to keep their heads above water.
Final Friday Film: American Dream by Barbara Kopple
The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesAmerican Dream chronicles the six-month strike that followed during 1985 and 1986 at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota. In addition to union-company tension, there's union-union in-fighting. Hormel holds firm; scabs, replacement workers, brothers on opposite sides, a union coup d'état, and a new contract materialize. Full neoliberal agenda focussed on small town America.