Highlights of Marx’s Capital, Volume 1
2067 Broadway between 71st and 72nd Streets, New York
A People’s History of the World
Orchard Street, Newark, NJ classroom Orchard Street, Newark
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Highlights of Marx’s Capital, Volume 1
The course provides a basic grounding for participants to pursue further study on their own or collectively. We’ll refer to new resources such as on-line and visual aids and current articles that illustrate capitalism’s developmental tendencies, which Marx calls its laws of motion. This highlights class is for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.
A People’s History of the World
A People’s History of the World
Convened by Branden Rippey Downtown Newark on Orchard Street Using A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The ... Read more
May Made Me
May Made Me
Published on the 50th anniversary of those days in the spring of 68, “May Made Me” presents the legacy of the uprising: how those explosive experiences changed the individuals who participated and their lives as lived since then.
Revolutionary Columbia University Struggle of 1968
Revolutionary Columbia University Struggle of 1968
The Battle for Historical Interpretation with Lessons for Today’s Movement
How the Black Movement in Harlem, Student Afro-American Society and Students for a Democratic Society took on the Columbia ruling class representatives, Mayor Lindsay, The New York Times and the New York Police Department and Won.
The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement, slaughtered militant workers and peasants, and declared war on Communists. After the war, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed, ending with Chiang's fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949.
The Political Economy of Money and Finance
The Political Economy of Money and Finance
This reading group will undertake a close reading (over 10 weeks) of Costas Lapavitsas and Makoto Itoh’s book Political Economy of Money and Finance. The book attempts to offer a systematic theoretical examination of money and finance by re-examining the classical foundations of political economy and the creator of money and assessing all of the important theoretical schools since then, including Marxist, Keynesian, post-Keynesian and monetarist thinkers.
Friday Noir: Women and Murder
Friday Noir: Women and Murder
Genre Fiction: Women and Murder Last Fridays of each Month Jacqueline Cantwell March 30 and April 27 The March 30 author will be Shirley Jackson, notorious for writing The Lottery and the gothic The Haunting of Hill House. From 1943 until her death in 1965, she was popular and published by major magazines. Her stories ... Read more
Capital: Volume 1
Capital: Volume 1
This group will meet each Saturday to discuss Volume One of Capital. There will be a close reading of the text. All questions on each section will be addressed and the reading discussion leaders will be prepared to assist between sessions on areas that may be difficult to understand.
Book Peddler’s Walking Tour of Wall Street
Book Peddler’s Walking Tour of Wall Street
A benefit for Marxist Education walking through the canyons and alleyways of Wall Street