Longtime educator Brian Jones explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are. In Black History Is … Read more
Alternate Mondays, next on April 13, 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, … Read more
Tuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Join us for a new format for the “Historical Roots…” study, reworked for 2026 as “topics in strategic studies.” We will select and read one significant … Read more
Thea Riofrancos, author of ‘Extractions,’ unpacks the challenges of “green capitalism” through the lens of lithium, a so-called “critical mineral” essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation.
Karl Marx only sketched the concept of social reproduction in very broad terms, but it was taken up and expanded upon by Marxist and radical feminists, starting in the 1970s and 1980s. They argued that women’s oppression under capitalism is linked to their role in social (as well as biological) reproduction. This reading group will look at one of the germinal texts of social reproduction theory: Lise Vogel’s groundbreaking 1983 work, Marxism and the Oppression of Women.
A video of this January 21, 2026, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. A conversation among leading left critics of the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuelan sovereignty and … Read more
A five-session study group on nonhuman animals’ relationship with capital as living, breathing, “commodified” beings. What differentiates nonhuman animals from non-living commodified objects is the way their metabolic and reproductive capacities are harnessed in production. In this study group, we will focus on how metabolic labor has been theorized in feminist studies and contemporary Marxist environmental and animal studies, with a specific focus on the particular function of nonhuman animals for capitalism.
Join us for a conversation with Mitchell Abidor, author of the forthcoming book, “Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary.”
Today, thanks to his classic memoirs and novels, Victor Serge is highly esteemed by virtually all segments of the left. But who was this man, who led such a thrilling life on the frontlines of history?
A video of this October 26, 2025, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. Historian Andrew Hartman introduces his new book, Karl Marx in America. To read Karl Marx … Read more
A video of this September 24, 2025, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. Using the most banal of office settings – corporate documentation – in the most extraordinary … Read more