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  • New Studies on the Left: A Panel Discussion

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Virtual Event

    Contributors Erica Carter, Jay Jurie, Paul Krehbiel, Harry Targ, Janet Tucker, Meta Van Sickle join editor Carl Davidson for a discussion of the latest New Studies on the Left. Contributors to this edition address four related themes: "Analysis and Global Reach," "Labor Rising Helps Everyone Else," and "Civil Society and Campaigns on Social Terrain," and ... Read more

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  • Firebombing of Venezuelan consulate, Lisbon

    Roundtable on Venezuela, Oil, and Global Politics

    Recording available on YouTube

    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 its attempt to seize that nation's oil wealth. Matt Huber challenges interpretations of these events as simply another case of "blood for oil." Steve Maher ... Read more

  • Protective Presence in the West Bank

    Recording available on YouTube
    Book Event or Panel

    Live event concluded, but you may watch the recording on YouTube. The only people standing beside the Palestinians of the West Bank as they defend themselves from ethnic cleansing are protective presence activists. Celeste Marcus and Mitch Abidor have both spent time in the West Bank doing protective presence, accompanying Palestinians in their fields and ... Read more

  • Approaching the Limit: Panel 2, Extremities

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    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Book Event or Panel

    In two linked panels, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture explores the limits and limitations of our world—sensory, spatial, temporal, social, cultural, political. I their geographical and methodological variety, our papers collectively map out the terrain of this keyword, and seek to determine the bounds, so to speak, of studying, theorizing and making culture at the limit. This second panel questions the socio-spatial manifestations of the limit and its political and property avatars: the border the boundary, and the zone.

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  • Socialist Register 2026

    Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins

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    Recording available on YouTube

    A panel celebrating the 2026 edition of Socialist Register. The newly published 2026 volume of Socialist Register - entitled "Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins" - interrogates anew the notion that global capitalism is in its end time (a recurring theme among Marxists since 1848). At the heart of this concept are indications that capital accumulation is running up against some inherent limits. just as the hucksters of private capital are crowing that so-called Artificial Intelligence will usher in a capitalist utopia of unlimited prosperity (for whom?).

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