Week of Events
Sunday, June 14, 2026
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June 14, 2026 -Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2026 Series
Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2026 Series
The ongoing 2026 Gramsci Study Sessions meet on Sundays at 11 am ET. We are reading and exploring 'Selections from the Prison Notebooks', 'Selections from Cultural Writings', 'Selections from Political Writings', and Gramsci’s writings on international politics, as they relate to contemporary issues and conflicts.
Monday, June 15, 2026
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Featured June 15, 2026 -Featured Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
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Featured June 15, 2026 -Featured A People’s Guide to Capitalism
Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
Alternate Mondays, next on June 15, 5-6:30 pm ET MEP's alternative literature group begins a new series of novels, short fiction and non-fiction. Speculative fiction, reborn from traditional science fiction, and also known by its alter ego "visionary fiction" and other identities, including horror, more than ever offers space for exploration of class, race, gender, ... Read more
A People’s Guide to Capitalism
Summer introductory sessions on the political economy of capitalism: In ten weekly sessions starting June 8, we will read and discuss Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics. This work offers a lively, accessible, and timely guide for those who want to understand, dismantle, and replace the world of the 1%.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
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Featured June 16, 2026 -Featured Topics in Strategic Studies – Spring 2026 Series
Topics in Strategic Studies – Spring 2026 Series
We are currently reading 'The Choice of Civil War' by Pierre Dardot et al. Alberto Toscano calls this work "a trenchant and provocative study of the symbolic, legal and material violence that has been deployed over the past half-century to secure the rule of capital across the planet. The Choice of Civil War breaks with antiseptic images of neoliberalism as the production of docile subjects or the marketization of everyday life, revealing it as the theory and practice of class warfare."
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
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Thursday, June 18, 2026
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Friday, June 19, 2026
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Saturday, June 20, 2026
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