Uprising
Day 1, Session 3: May 1968 in France: Learning from the Participants
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY“May ’68 seemed to portend the beginning of a revolutionary period in Europe, but it didn’t. Even so, in France and in so much of the world, it remains a marker, a moment when it was forbidden to forbid, when it seemed the imagination was about to seize power.”
The German Revolution 1918-1924
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYIn it’s beginnings, the revolution in Germany appears very similar to the events in Russia the year before. Why was the outcome so different? We will try to answer many questions in the course of this reading group, but that is the essential question.
Nicaragua in Crisis
St Peters Church 619 Lexington Avenue, New YorkWhat is the source of Nicaragua’s crisis today? And what are the roots of the problem in the experience of the last forty years? What stand should progressive Americans take on the Nicaraguan crisis?
The People’s Uprising in Chile
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYTaking to the streets by the millions and withstanding brutal police assaults, the working people of Chile have beaten back austerity measures and forced the right-wing Piñera regime to accede to a new constitution to replace the restrictive one imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship.
Hispaniola in Revolt
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United Stateshe panel will look at the current Haitian political crisis and popular revolt; the Haitian revolution, its emancipatory legacy of liberation and contradictions; the lessons of the 1946 and 1986 revolts in Haiti; race and class in Santo Domingo; the 1965 Dominican revolution as well as prospects for cross-border and international solidarity and revolution on the island and beyond.