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SUMMARY:Arise: Power\, Strategy and Union Resurgence
DESCRIPTION:with author Jane Holgate\nIn Arise\, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organizing experience\, Holgate examines the structural inertia of today’s unions from a range of perspectives: from strategic choice\, leadership and union democracy to politics\, tactics and the agency afforded to the majority of union members. \nIn the midst of a neoliberal era of economic crisis and political upheaval\, the labor movement stands at a crossroads. Union membership is on the rise\, but the ‘turn to organizing’ has largely failed to translate into meaningful gains for workers. There is much discussion about the lack of collectivism among workers due to casualization\, gig work and precarity\, yet these conditions were standard in the UK when workers built the foundations of the 19th-century trade union movement. \nDrawing on history and case studies of unions developing the effective use of power\, Jane Holgate’s book lays out strategies for moving beyond the pessimism that prevails in much of today’s union movement. By placing power analysis back at the heart of workers’ struggle\, the chapters of Arise demonstrate that transformational change is not only possible\, but within reach. \nJANE HOLGATE is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Leeds. She is the co-editor of Union Voices: Developing Organizing in the UK (Ithaca 2012) and has held a number of positions in the trade union movement as an NGA “mother of chapel”\, Unison branch chair and regional council delegate\, UCU caseworker and secretary of Hackney Trades Union Council. She has worked closely on research projects with trade unions\, including the GMB\, TGWU\, CWU\, Bectu\, Usdaw and the Trades Union Congress. \nDiscount code for purchasing from Pluto: MEP \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/arise-power-strategy-and-union-resurgence/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Organizing,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Rubbish Belongs to the Poor
DESCRIPTION:Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons\nPresentation and discussion with author Patrick O’Hare\nRubbish. Waste. Trash. Whatever term you choose to describe the things we throw away\, the connotations are the same; of something dirty\, useless and incontrovertibly ‘bad’. But does such a dismissive rendering mask a more nuanced reality? \nIn Rubbish Belongs to the Poor\, Patrick O’Hare journeys to the heart of Uruguay’s waste disposal system in order to reconceptualize rubbish as a 21st century commons\, at risk of enclosure. On a giant landfill site outside the capital Montevideo we meet the book’s central protagonists\, the ‘classifiers’: waste-pickers who recover and recycle materials in and around its fenced but porous perimeter. Here the struggle of classifiers against the enclosure of the landfill\, justified on the grounds of hygiene\, is brought into dialogue with other historical and contemporary enclosures – from urban privatizations to rural evictions — to shed light on the nature of contemporary forms of capitalist dispossession. \nSupplementing this rich ethnography with the author’s own insights from dumpster diving in the UK\, the book analyzes capitalism’s relations with its material surpluses and what these tell us about its expansionary logics\, limits and liminal spaces. Rubbish Belongs to the Poor ultimately proposes a fundamental rethinking of the links between waste\, capitalism and dignified work. \nPatrick O’Hare is a social anthropologist and activist. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and is currently a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Researcher at the University of St Andrews. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/rubbish-belongs-to-the-poor/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Enclosures,Extractivism,Globalization,Precarity,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Parade of the Old New with artist/author Zoe Beloff
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion of Booklyn’s important new accordion fold-out 40-panel book with painter and author Zoe Bellof\n \nA discussion by Zoe Beloff about her new 40-panel accordion book that reproduces\, Parade of the Old New\, an epic panorama on cardboard panels\, a 40 meter long  allegory of the American body politic. The title is taken from a 1938 poem by Bertolt Brecht that inspired the theme of this work; now more than ever\, we are not finished with the past and the past is not finished with us. The project was launched with Trump’s inauguration and continued until he was defeated at the ballot box. It begins with the president’s triumphal entry into Washington DC. Beyond stretches a country where the Mexican border walls meets Japanese internment camps from the 1940s at a vanishing point. It chronicles the desecration of public lands for profit\, the battle of Charlottesville\, the arrest of undocumented workers across the country and the detention of asylum seekers at the border. It illustrates the toll of COVID 19\, the work of the nurses\, the breadlines\, young people painting Black Lives Matter mapping a road ahead\, the storming of the Capitol and finally the flickering light of what might be a new beginning. Zoe will also talk about her essay also included in the book “The Troublemakers: History Painting in the Real World” in which she explores how painters have explored themes of social justice. She brings the writing of both Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to bear on how we can think through the representation of history and lived experience. \nZOE BELLOF is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. She aims to make radical art that educates\, entertains\, and provokes discussion. Most importantly\, as her work attests\, she believes protest should be vibrant\, humorous and colorful\, a carnival of resistance to light the way in dark times. Zoe’s work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings; venues include the Whitney Museum\, Site Santa Fe\, the MHKA museum in Antwerp\, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. However she particularly enjoys working in alternative venues that are free and open to the community for events and conversations. These have included in New York City; The Coney Island Museum\, Participant\, Momenta and The James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has been awarded fellowships from. The Graham Foundation\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor at Queens College CUNY. \nBOOKLYN\, INC.  is a non profit organization founded in 1999 and located in Sunset Park\, Brooklyn. Their mission is to promote artists’ books as art and research material and to assist artists and organizations in documenting\, exhibiting\, and distributing their artwork and archives. They specifically assist artists and organizations committed to environmental and social justice.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/parade-of-the-old-new-with-artist-author-zoe-beloff/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Emancipation,Insurgency,Labor Organizing,Neo-fascism,Organizing,Poetry,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Urban Displacements and Contemporary Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism\nwith author Susanne Soederberg\n \nIn the 1870s\, Friedrich Engels published a series of articles on “The Housing Question\,” wherein he argued that decent\, secure housing for the working class is incompatible with the commodity nature of urban property and human labor power in the capitalist system\, as the movements of capital inevitably will undermine all piecemeal reforms. Soederberg pushes beyond dominant debates by treating low-rent housing as a unique commodity that provides a necessary place for the societal reproduction of labor power while being integrated into the global dynamics of capitalism. She argues that historical and geographical configurations of monetized governance\, including landlords\, employers and inter-scalar state practices\, have served to reproduce urban displacements and obfuscate their gendered\, class and racialized underpinnings. The outcome is the everyday facilitation and normalization of urban poverty and social marginalization on one side\, and capital accumulation on the other.Berlin\, Dublin\, and Vienna are case studies. \n“What is the role of racialised barriers to housing in changing landscapes of accumulation? How does renting become a central process in disuniting working people? This insightful work guides the reader through this most urgent of debates.” —Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Centre for Migration\, Refugees and Belonging\, University of East London \nSusanne Soederberg\, Professor of Political Economy in Global Development Studies at Queen’s University\, Ontario\, Canada\, is also the author of Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry (2014) and Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism (2010).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/urban-displacements-and-contemporary-capitalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Enclosures,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Start Early\, Stay Late: Planning for Care in Old Age
DESCRIPTION:Socialist Register 2021 authors Pat and Hugh Armstrong\nCovid-19 has exposed too many weaknesses in the neoliberal capitalist system to count\, especially when it comes to the most vulnerable. For 10 years our international\, interdisciplinary research team has been documenting the profound weaknesses in nursing home care within Canada\, Germany\, Norway\, Sweden\, the UK\, and the US. Many of the current deficits in resident care originate in various forms of privatization central to neoliberalism. Especially in Canada\, the UK\, and the US\, nursing homes that are heavily funded by the public purse have been handed over to corporations\, providing them with guaranteed pay and often guaranteed full houses. \nThe lines between for-profit and not have become increasingly blurred by various neoliberal strategies. One of these involves non-profit and state-owned homes contracting out services to for-profit firms as – in denial of the literature on the determinants of health – services such as food\, housekeeping\, and laundry have been defined out of care and dismissed as ancillary. This contracting out has not only undermined teamwork\, but has also resulted in poor food\, inadequate cleaning\, and limited laundry – all of which threaten health. At the same time\, fewer and fewer spaces are available in these homes with government funding. The result is twofold. All those who manage to get into these homes have high care needs\, and those who cannot are either forced into the for-profit sector or rely more on unpaid care\, most of which is provided by women. For too many\, neither of these is an option. Another strategy blurring the lines is the promotion of for-profit managerial strategies within the non-profit and public nursing homes that remain. This means the lowest possible staffing levels\, the shifting of as much work as possible to those with the least formal training\, limiting workers’ autonomy\, pay\, hours\, and benefits\, and relying on a labor force already made vulnerable by gender\, racialization\, and immigration status. \nBarely enough services pre-pandemic have proven to be not nearly enough during the pandemic – which has exposed the disastrous life-altering or lethal consequences of all these developments for those elderly requiring care. \nPat Armstrong is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University. Hugh Armstrong is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at Carleton University. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for admission to this event or any other events or classes of The MEP.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/start-early-stay-late-planning-for-care-in-old-age/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,Healthcare,Housing,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Reinventing the Welfare State: Book + talk special
DESCRIPTION:Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies\nUrsula Huws\nIn Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies Ursula Huws proposes a welfare state infused with social justice and equality\, including a redistributive UBI (universal basic income)\, decommodification of platforms and universal workers’ rights. With positivity and rigor\, she outlines a ‘digital welfare state’ for the 21st century\, which would involve a repurposing of online platform technologies under public control to modernise and expand public services\, and improve accessibility. \nUrsula Huws speaks with Todd Wolfson on creative ideas for reinventing the welfare state to address contemporary challenges in a session chaired by FireWorks Series editor\, and Editorial Director at Pluto Press\, David Castle. \nSliding scale pricing includes Ursula’s presentation\, the new book (inclusive of shipping — US and Puerto Rico only) \nWe do not deny admission to those who do not have the ability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url of the zoom link for attending this talk if you cannot pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reinventing-the-welfare-state-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Socialists on Social Media Platforms and Imagine Platform Socialism
DESCRIPTION:Tanner Mirrlees and Derek Hrynyshn\nSocialists on Social Media Platforms: Communicating within and Against Digital Capitalism by Tanner Mirrlees\nBertolt Brecht\, in the 1932 essay ‘The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication’\, made a ‘positive suggestion’ to transform radio into a dialogical medium for many-to-many communications. ‘Radio is one-sided when it should be two’ said Brecht. Brecht saw the state as the only entity capable of remaking radio in this way\, but because radio’s ‘proper application’ might make it a ‘revolutionary’ medium\, Brecht concluded the bourgeois state would have ‘no interest in sponsoring such exercises’. \nBrecht’s ‘positive suggestion’ for a many-to-many communications system seems to have come to fruition with the internet\, and more recently\, with the spread of social media platforms such as Facebook\, Twitter and YouTube. Socialists around the world are now using these platforms to produce\, distribute\, exhibit\, and consume socialist media and cultural works\, and they are openly building events\, movements\, and organizations within digital capitalism\, to go beyond it. That said\, the internet and social media platforms are surrounded by all kinds of deterministic\, optimistic\, and pessimistic rhetorics that cloud a clear view of what they give to and take from socialist communicators\, especially as compared to the twentieth century’s mass media industries\, whose state and corporate owners tended to filter out and vilify socialist ideas. \nWhile digital platforms are enabling socialists to communicate in ways that were not possible in the pre-digital world of mass media\, they are supplements to – not substitutes for – building democratic and sustainable socialist organizations and militant working-class movements. Taking it as axiomatic that communications underpins any possibility for socialist organization and politics\, this essay contextualizes the ‘brave new world’ of digital capitalism\, historicizes socialist communications from the ‘old media’ world of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the ‘new digital media’ world of the early twenty-first\, and then maps ‘another world’ of socialists on social media platforms\, with an eye to the novelties\, limitations\, and challenges. \nTanner Mirrlees is Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University \nImagine Platform Socialism by Derek Hrynyshyn\nInvestigations have demonstrated the ways that the operations of the algorithmic processes that select and sort information for users of YouTube\, Facebook\, and Twitter not only distribute such malicious content\, but also amplify its effects. In order to hold the attention of users\, platforms tend to recommend increasingly controversial and sensationalist suggestions\, leading users quickly into rabbit holes of conspiracy theories and extremist views that undermine attempts at informed and reasoned debate. Other studies showed that Google’s search engine was capable of exhibiting serious racist bias\, and that the platforms’ attempts to limit access to hate speech and misinformation were of limited effectiveness. \nAt the same time\, the monopolistic digital platforms are undeniably of great use to activists working for a more democratic world\, including socialists. The events that triggered US President Trump’s demands for stricter platform regulation were part of a mobilization of dissent that came to be known by its Twitter hashtag\, ‘Black Lives Matter’\, and numerous other examples could be found of activists raising awareness in ways that would not be possible with mass media. Social media empowers individuals to participate in the distribution of their own ideas\, although this empowerment is limited by the mediation of the flow of information by the owners of the platforms in ways that can have direct effects on how mobilizations are informed. \nThis makes it all the more necessary to explore the contradictions between our expectations of social media and the reality of its use\, and determine if there are ways to avoid the harms done to democracy while preserving the benefits. The purpose of this presentation is to inquire whether and how social media could be organized more democratically\, so that they allow our expressive capacities to be developed freely and not under conditions determined by capital. \nDerek Hrynyshyn teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at York University in Toronto\, Ontario. \n \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-on-social-media-platforms-and-imagine-platform-socialism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Classes/Events,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Interpretation Machines: Contradictions of “Artificial Intelligence” in 21st Century Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:with Larry Lohmann\nBYOND DIGITAL CAPITALISM: NEW WAYS OF LIVING (presentation 3)\nSince the nineteenth century\, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its relation to work and energy. These experiments\, begun by Marx\, remain fragmentary and contested. Yet the crises that twenty-first century digital mechanization presents and exacerbates may shed new light on this longer history of automation even as they confront the left with fresh puzzles. \nThis talk proposes three responses to these challenges. 1) It may be more useful to movement organizing to stress continuities between industrial-era and digital-era value-creation than to focus only on differences. 2) The contradiction between living and dead labor that Marx identified not only persists in today’s digital economy\, but also remains fundamental both to understanding crisis and to identifying possibilities for radical political change. 3) It may make more strategic sense for the left to approach the striking innovations in automation advanced over the past decade by the likes of Facebook\, Amazon\, Alibaba\, Microsoft\, and Apple as a new level of the mechanization of interpretive work than to promote mystifying labels such as artificial intelligence (AI). \nLarry Lohmann works with The Corner House\, a UK-based solidarity and research organization. \nAll tickets are sliding scale. We do not deny admission to those with the inability to pay. If you would like to attend this or any other event or class simple write to info@marxedproject.org for a URL with the link for participation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/interpretation-machines-contraditions-of-artificial-intelligence-in-21st-century-capitalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Labor History,Marxist Method,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Time of Our Lives with Bryan Palmer
DESCRIPTION:Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism series\nThe Time of Our Lives: Reflections on Work and Capitalist Temporality\nwith author Bryan D. Palmer\n For socialists time and its meaning and organization have always been a central concern\, if only because capitalism has placed such a premium on controlling time and subordinating it to its imperatives. At the current conjuncture\, time has become the challenge for socialists to address\, not only because it defines what does and does not constitute the working day\, but because it is increasingly obvious that time and its organization defines life itself. Will time continue to be compressed into capital’s needs\, or will it be reimagined as liberation\, struggled through and over in ways that enhance the project of human emancipation? \nWhat follows presents an argument about time that: 1) outlines how class struggles over time have been essential to the rise of the workers’ movement; 2) explores the complexity of Marx’s understandings of these conflicts and their tendency to be incorporated into capital’s project\, resulting in the intensification of exploitation; 3) locates E.P. Thompson’s writing on time and work discipline within the particular concerns and context of the 1960s New Left\, offering a suggestion of how this treatment of time extended orthodox Marxist understandings of primitive accumulation; and 4) closes by discussing how time and its meanings in twenty-first century capitalism demand a rethinking of positions\, espoused by Andre Gorz and others in the 1980s\, that associated the need for new policies around time with dismissals of the role of the working class in social transformation. Time\, always a frontier of class struggle\, has been pushed today to the forefront of contentious labor-capital relations. \nBryan D. Palmer is Emeritus Professor of History at Trent University\, Ontario\, Canada. He is also the author of Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 and co-author of Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History. \n  \nThis presentation will begin at 11 PM and end at 1 AM GMT. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you would like to attend the event but are unable to contribute at this time\, please write info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL of the zoom link for this talk or other events or classes you would like to participate in. \n  \nFor those of you unable to buy a ticket\nGo to Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-time-of-our-lives-reflections-on-work-and-capitalist-temporality-tickets-138905308517 \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/having-the-time-of-their-lives/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2021: Ursula Huws on Reaping the Whirlwind
DESCRIPTION:First session of Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\nAn introduction to this year’s book with Greg Albo & Stephen Maher (in memory of Leo Panitch)\n“In addressing how far digital technology has become integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades the 21st century\, we were deliberately seeking to counter so much facile futurist ‘cyber-utopian’ thinking that has proliferated through these decades. The proof of capitalism’s continued dynamism\, even in the face of severe global economic crisis\, lay in the most successful and most celebrated high-tech corporations of the new information sector which really were restructuring and refashioning not only our ways of communicating but of working and consuming\, indeed ways of living. Yet precisely because this was taking place within the logics of capitalist accumulation and exploitation\, and through the reproduction of capitalist social relations\, this produced new contradictions and irrationalities. Perhaps none of these was greater than those revealed by the contrast between the investment\, planning\, and preparation that went into the interminable competitive race for ‘more speed’ by way of reducing latency in digital communications by so many milliseconds\, on the one hand\, and on the other the lack of investment\, planning\, and preparation that underlay the scandalous slowness of the responses to the spreading Covid-19 pandemic around the world.” —From the Preface by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo \nfollowed by\nReaping the Whirlwind: Digitalization\, Restructuring\, and Mobilization in the Covid Crisis\nUrsula Huws\nUrsula Huws’ essay addresses the changes sweeping through global labor markets during the coronavirus pandemic\, looking in particular at the concentration of capital and expansion of market share by global corporations\, bringing with it the digital management of supply chains and an exponential growth in algorithmic control and surveillance of workers. Pandemic lockdown conditions have exposed very clearly the polarizations in the workforce between ‘fixed’ workers\, physically isolated in their homes but closely monitored via their computers\, working virtually\, and the precariously employed mobile (‘footloose’) workers\, disproportionately made up of black and migrant workers\, equally closely monitored\, who deliver the physical goods and services the home-bound need to survive and care for their bodily needs when they become sick\, at great personal risk. \nGREG ALBO teaches in the Department of Politics at York University. He is co-editor of the Socialist Register. Greg is also on the editorial boards of Capitalism\, Nature\, Socialism\, The Bullet and Historical Materialism. URSULA HUWS\, Professor of Labor and Globalization at the University of Hertfordshire. She has been researching the social impacts of technological change\, the restructuring of employment and the changing international division of labor since the 1970s. Ursula will visit The MEP again on February 21\, to discuss her current book\, Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies (Pluto FireWorks\, 2020). STEVE MAHER is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa\, Canada\, and Assistant Editor of Socialist Register.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2021-an-introduction-and-reaping-the-whirlwind/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Marina Sitrin on Pandemic Solidarity with Colectiva Sembrar
DESCRIPTION:Pandemic Solidarity:\nMutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis\nedited by Marina Sitrin with Colectiva Sembrar\nMarina Sitrin (editor) joins key contributors Eleanor Finley and Lais Gomes Duarte (Colectiva Sembrar) to speak on activist solidarity\, horizontalism and autonomy expressed through the constitution of this riveting collection of real-life stories. Chaired by FireWorks series editor — Anitra Nelson (MSSI\, University of Melbourne\, Australia). Collective \nPandemic Solidarity collects first-hand experiences of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of COVID-19. In times of crisis institutions of power are laid bare and people turn to one another. Underneath the media’s narrative of selfish individualism and runs on supermarkets\, we find an opposing story of community and self-sacrifice. Looking at eighteen countries and regions\, including India\, Rojava\, Taiwan\, South Africa\, Iraq and North America\, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture\, revealing a universality of experience. Moving beyond the present\, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like\, and reflect the existing skills and relationships to create it\, challenging institutions of power in all their fragility. \nThis ticket is for admission to the event along with the book with shipping included (US and Puerto Rico only). \nTickets are sliding scale. We do not deny admission to events or classes for an inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject for the url of the zoom link to attend if you cannot afford to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pandemic-solidarity-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Pandemics and Capital,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:China's Engine of Environmental Collapse
DESCRIPTION:Book discussion with author Richard Smith\nJust published this July\, 2020 by Pluto Press\nThis event is taking place at 6:30 pm originating in New York City (Eastern Standard Tune)\nAs the world hurtles towards environmental oblivion\, China is leading the charge. The nation’s CO2 emissions are more than twice those of the US with a GDP just two-thirds as large. China leads the world in renewable energy yet it is building new coal-fired power plants faster than renewables. The country’s lakes\, rivers\, and farmlands are severely polluted yet China’s police state can’t suppress pollution\, even from its own industries. \nThis is the first book to explain these contradictions. Richard Smith explains how the country’s bureaucratic rulers are driven by nationalist-industrialist tendencies that are even more powerful than the drive for profit under ‘normal’ capitalism. In their race to overtake the US they must prioritise hyper-growth over the environment\, even if this ends in climate collapse and eco-suicide. \nRichard contends that nothing short of drastic shutdowns and the scaling back of polluting industries\, especially in China and the US\, will suffice to slash greenhouse gas emissions enough to prevent climate catastrophe. Below is an image of the Yangtze River. \n \nHere is a link to Richard’s article in Foreign Policy\, published July 27\, 2020\, entitled The Chinese Communist Party Is an Environmental Catastrophe: Political ambitions make China’s emissions growth inevitable even as the economy falters \nhttps://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/27/chinese-communist-party-environment-co2/\n\nThe book is available at the link below.\n\nhttps://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341576/chinas-engine-of-environmental-collapse/\n\nPeople can get it for 20% off with this coupon code: CHINA30.\nRichard Smith has published articles on the Chinese revolution\, China’s transition to capitalism\, and China’s environment for Against the Current\, New Left Review\, Monthly Review and the Ecologist. He is the author of Green Capitalism: The God that Failed (College Publications. 2016)\, and is a founding member of the US-based group System Change Not Climate Change. \nSliding scale admissions. No on turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.com for info on admission on low or no cost admissions. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/chinas-engine-of-environmental-collapse/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,China,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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SUMMARY:The Affordable Housing Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Its Capitalist Roots and the Socialist Alternative\nA talk and discussion with Karl Beitel\nIn the 2020 Socialist Register “a number of the essays interrogate central dimensions of how we live and how we might live in terms of educating our children\, housing and urbanism\, accommodation of refugees and the displaced\, and (to lean on that all too common phrase) the competitive time pressures for ‘work-life balance’. These are all key questions\, of course\, of ‘social reproduction\,’ a theme that has cut across many volumes of the Register. They are the counterpoint to ‘economic reproduction’ and ‘how we work’ at the heart of several essays here. Today\, this involves exploring and exposing all the hype and contradictions of the so-called ‘gig economy\,’ where automation’s potential for increased time apart from work is subordinated to surveillance\, hazardous waste\, speed-up\, and much else that makes for contingent work and precarious living. Finding new ways of living cannot but confront both these obstacles.” \nOne of the most striking features of the post-1980 urban environment has been the rapid rise in property values and rents at rates far in excess of the growth of average income levels. The effect for many working-class populations – cultural workers\, those employed in the moderate- to lower-paid segments of the social and human services and retail sectors – has been a rise in the percentage of incomes these households must devote to housing payments. \nIn this essay\, Karl discusses the economics of new construction in already densely developed urban environments. Paradigmatic cases of the type of development dynamics that this essay will discuss are found in cities such as New York\, San Francisco\, London\, and Paris. Despite the fact that most housing is procured on the secondary market\, new construction is central to the debate over how cities must act to accommodate increased demand due to population growth and the shifting spatial patterns of employment. In addition\, new development has the ability to rapidly transform existing patterns of land use and the physical and sociocultural composition of the built environment. For these reasons\, new production is critical to current struggles over whose interests shall be served by this development\, and who has the rights to enjoy access to the existing – and newly created – urban environments. It also forces us to confront the question of how socialist urbanism will foster diverse urban spaces that can accommodate different requirements and preferences\, and that ensure equitable allocation of resources to meet the needs of all urban residents. \nKarl Beitel was formerly employed as policy analyst for Food First\, and has years of experience conducting policy-related and legal research for public sector unions in the Bay Area (SEIU 1021\, American Federation of Teachers\, and International Federation of Technical and Professional Employees Local 21). He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics spanning land use policy and affordable housing (Urban Affairs Review)\, the impacts of financial market dynamics on urban development (Environment and Planning A)\, and the U.S. and global economy (Historical Materialism\, Socialist Register). His work has also appeared in publications such as Counterpunch and Monthly Review. His recently completed book Local Protest\, Global Movements: Capital\, Community\, and State in San Francisco (Temple University Press) is an in-depth analysis of the history of community opposition to gentrification in San Francisco. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for information
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-affordable-housing-crisis/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Precarious Labor\, Precarious Lives Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Late capitalism has been characterized by rupture\, instability\, and contingency. Since the 1990s\, scholars and activists have written about the impact of practices like “flexible accumulation” on workers and communities. These processes have intensified in the last two decades\, and especially so since the recent global financial crisis. Concurrently\, a number of cultural and social theorists have highlighted precariousness (or precarity) as a hallmark of this particular phase of neoliberal globalized capitalism.  \nWe experience this in a very empirical and existential way\, as so many of us can no longer count upon having (or keeping) a stable\, secure job with benefits\, or maintaining a roof over our heads. “Contingent labor” is not an abstraction but a harsh reality.  \nWe are witnessing the systematic and seemingly permanent marginalization of a substantial portion of the global working class—from day laborers and street vendors to adjunct professors and other professionals. Neoliberal urban regimes\, gentrication\, rezoning\, and the foreclosure crisis have all contributed to residential precarity. Precarity does not\, of course\, affect all of us equally—-how we live through precarity is shaped by age\, race\, gender\, citizenship status\, able-ness\, geographical location and other factors. This collaboratively-run reading group is exploring precariousness both theoretically and empirically. In this six-week session\, we will read selections from A Precariat Charter\, and Brynjolfsson and McAfee’s The Second Machine Age\, and then discuss directions for future readings.  \nFor the first meeting\, please read Chapter 1\, and if possible Chapter 2 of A Precariat Charter. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved in Marxist education in New York since 1977. She was a founder of the NY Marxist School\, and taught classes on a variety of topics from Marx’s Capital to radical women’s fiction. Currently she is a tenured radical at a public university. In addition to her participation in the Marxist Education Project\, she works on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous resistance movements in Guatemala.  \nDavid Worley\, a retired college administrator\, has been a socialist since the 1960s\, when he was active in the civil rights and anti-war movements. He was subsequently active in labor union work. He served for several years on the board of directors of the Brecht Forum. He is currently a co-convener of the Revolutions Study Group with the Marxist Education Project and is a supporter of Health Care Now!\, a group agitating for universal single-payer medical insurance in the U.S.  \nSuggested tuition: $65 / $85\nNo one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/precarious-labor-precarious-lives-reading-group/2014-11-02/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Multi-session Classes
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