Week of Events
Sunday, January 18, 2026
No events on this day.
Monday, January 19, 2026
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January 19, 2026 -Slavery and Capitalism: A Reading Group
Slavery and Capitalism: A Reading Group
Join us for a nine-session reading group on David McNally's recently published Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally's book presents a systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery to support the provocative claim that enslaved labor in the plantation system is a form of capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history, ... Read more
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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Featured January 20, 2026 -Featured Immigration and Chicano/Latin American Liberation: Repression & Resistance
Immigration and Chicano/Latin American Liberation: Repression & Resistance
Tuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Join us for an overview study of the relationship between Mexican immigration and the United States: its colonial foundation, vibrant new communities, cyclical labor exploitation, and state-sanctioned repression, liberation struggles. The Chicano liberation movement emerged as a direct response to this, and its legacy is critical to understanding immigration struggles today ... Read more
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
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Featured January 21, 2026 -Featured Planetary Crises: Capital vs. the ‘Free Gifts’ of Nature
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Featured January 21, 2026 -Featured Roundtable on Venezuela, Oil, and Global Politics
Planetary Crises: Capital vs. the ‘Free Gifts’ of Nature
The 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. The recently published books we are reading include: ... Read more
Roundtable on Venezuela, Oil, and Global Politics
Join us for a timely conversation among leading left critics of the Trump administration's attack on Venezuelan sovereignty and its attempt to seize that nation's oil wealth. Matt Huber challenges interpretations of these events as simply another case of "blood for oil." Steve Maher assesses the implications for global political economy, and Christy Thornton offers analysis of the diverse effects on - and responses by - Mexico and other Latin American states.
Thursday, January 22, 2026
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Featured January 22, 2026 -Featured The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
Join 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
Friday, January 23, 2026
No events on this day.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
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January 24, 2026 -Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2
Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2
Read 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.