Week of Events
Student, Worker and People’s Movements in South Africa
Student, Worker and People’s Movements in South Africa
“There is no doubt therefore, that what we are witnessing is a revolutionary political moment in history. Midnight’s children are learning to walk and talk. ” —Camalita Naicker
The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play
The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play
“A mind is like a parachute—it doesn’t work unless it’s open.”
—Frank Zappa
Living Radical, Living Female
Living Radical, Living Female
We will examine how radical women have narrated their lives and imagined different futures through a consideration of both fictional and autobiographical works .
Marx, Nature and Capital: A Study Group
Marx, Nature and Capital: A Study Group
This group will read and discuss works that bring Marxist theory to bear on the environmental crisis and climate change.
Our Mother Ocean
Our Mother Ocean
I applaud the authors’ passionate portrayal of workers on the sea as an organic part of those of us who wish to protect Nature against the rapacious excesses of capitalism.
—George Katsiaficas
Mexican Workers and the Mexican Labor Movement: A History
Mexican Workers and the Mexican Labor Movement: A History
This course will deal with the history of Mexican workers from ancient times until today. The course will look at the political economy and the organization of work from indigenous communal organizations of the pre-Columbian period through the era of the Porfiriate, the Mexican Revolution, and into the modern era including today.
Latin America: Colonized and Post-Colonial Attempts at Liberation
Latin America: Colonized and Post-Colonial Attempts at Liberation
A unique opportunity to read and discuss the documentary history of the massacre at Tlatelolco side by side with Bolaño’s novel of the same.