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Mikhail Baitalsky’s ‘Notebooks for the Grandchildren’
Online Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventBook Event or PanelTranslator Marilyn Vogt-Downey presents a poignant memoir by Mikhail Baitalsky, a Ukrainian survivor of the 1930s purges in Soviet Union. 'Notebooks for the Grandchildren' is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand what went wrong after the great Russian Revolution of 1917.
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Capitalism: The Insatiable Machine with Trevor Jackson
FeaturedRecording available on YouTubeBook Event or PanelJoin us for a conversation with Trevor Jackson on his book 'The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World.' Full of memorable characters and lively vignettes as well as sweeping quantitative analysis and historical synthesis, The Insatiable Machine makes clear that capitalism is neither a natural, permanent, nor inevitable feature of human life but rather an economic system that has a history. And just as it was made by people, it can also be unmade by them.
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Refusal of Work: The Writings of Harry Cleaver
Recording available on YouTubeBook Event or PanelEditors Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter present Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, a definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings – both historical and current – on the refusal of work, class composition and “inversion of the class perspective,” the crisis of capitalism, and the ongoing necessity of re-reading Marxist theory.
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‘The Future of Revolution’ with Jasper Bernes
Recording available on YouTubeBook Event or PanelHow might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed? A conversation with Jasper Bernes, author of The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising. Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Bernes reads the revolutionary history of workers' councils and communes in the light of thinkers from Karl Marx to Paul Mattick and C.L.R. James.
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‘Beneath the Wage’ with Annie McClanahan
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventBook Event or PanelA conversation with author Annie McClanahan on 'Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work.' Today, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate?
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