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  • Organizing Insurgency: Workers’ Movements in the Global South

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Looking at contemporary case studies in India, the Philippines and South Africa, this book affirms the significance of political and economic representation to the struggles of workers against deepening levels of poverty and inequality that oppress the majority of people on the planet. Immanuel Ness shows that workers are eager to mobilize to improve their conditions, and can achieve lasting gains if they have sustenance and support from political organizations.

    $7 – $11

  • Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    By engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers' inquiry, workers and militant co-researchers are studying their working conditions, the technical composition of capital, and how to recompose their own power in order to devise new tactics, strategies, organizational forms and objectives. These workers’ inquiries, from call center workers to platform, trucking, cleaning, logistics, mining, auto factories, teachers, and adjunct professors, are re-energizing unions, bypassing unions altogether or innovating new forms of workers' organizations.

    $7 – $25

  • Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World

    Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation, mass production, gender, affective and reproductive labour, syndicalism and independent unions, and labour and Leftist social and political movements, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. All books from the series are available at the MEP on-line book store.

    $12 – $18

  • Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World

    Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation, mass production, gender, affective and reproductive labour, syndicalism and independent unions, and labour and Leftist social and political movements, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. All books from the series are available at the MEP on-line book store.

    $12 – $18

  • Darko Suvin: Communism, Poetry, Comradeship—a celebratory reading and discussion

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Darko Suvin will appear on the eve of his 91st birthday via an international video conference presented by The Marxist Education Project, in celebration of a life of communism, poetry, comradeship and all that goes into a life well-known for commitment to all of this and more. Readings and discussion: A selection of poems from Darko’s more than 40 years of writing   poetry along with sharing memoirs of many more years of vigorous engagement while active in the multiple forms of struggle for communism from continents the world over that Darko has called home, will all be part of this mid-summer celebration a life of comradeship.

    $7 – $11

  • Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi

    Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    This 10-week session has four sessions remaining which feature a close reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. We will look to connect cultures and their human rights struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci, particularly Marx, but also Machiavelli and Croce. This seminar is accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. Join at any time.

    $15.00 – $45.00

  • Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi

    Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    This 10-week session has four sessions remaining which feature a close reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. We will look to connect cultures and their human rights struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci, particularly Marx, but also Machiavelli and Croce. This seminar is accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. Join at any time.

    $15.00 – $45.00

  • Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi

    Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    This 10-week session has four sessions remaining which feature a close reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. We will look to connect cultures and their human rights struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci, particularly Marx, but also Machiavelli and Croce. This seminar is accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. Join at any time.

    $15.00 – $45.00

  • The Invention of the White Race

    The Invention of the White Race
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Theodore W. Allen spent 30 years researching the primary sources and writing The Invention of the White Race (2 volumes), which provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over rebellious laboring class of European and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the late 17th early 18th century.

    $15.00 – $45.00

  • The Invention of the White Race

    The Invention of the White Race
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Theodore W. Allen spent 30 years researching the primary sources and writing The Invention of the White Race (2 volumes), which provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over rebellious laboring class of European and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the late 17th early 18th century.

    $15.00 – $45.00

  • The Invention of the White Race

    The Invention of the White Race
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Theodore W. Allen spent 30 years researching the primary sources and writing The Invention of the White Race (2 volumes), which provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over rebellious laboring class of European and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the late 17th early 18th century.

    $15.00 – $45.00

  • Parade of the Old New with artist/author Zoe Beloff

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    A 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.Parade of the Old New is distributed by Booklyn, Inc. (booklyn.org). Booklyn also represents Beloff's work within the library and academic market.

    $7 – $11

  • The Invention of the White Race

    The Invention of the White Race
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Theodore W. Allen spent 30 years researching the primary sources and writing The Invention of the White Race (2 volumes), which provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over rebellious laboring class of European and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the late 17th early 18th century.

    $15.00 – $45.00

  • The Invention of the White Race

    The Invention of the White Race
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Theodore W. Allen spent 30 years researching the primary sources and writing The Invention of the White Race (2 volumes), which provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over rebellious laboring class of European and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the late 17th early 18th century.

    $15.00 – $45.00

  • We Are “Nature” Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Chronicles the story of the ZAD (zone to defend), a resistant land occupation emerging out of a decades-long struggle which stopped a new airport project. Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history.

    $7.00 – $11.00