Join 1804 Books and The People’s Forum for a celebration of leftist texts for Red Books Day, an annual holiday commemorating the publication of the Communist Manifesto in 1848. We’ll be open on a Sunday(!) so you can enjoy all the day will have to offer. Help us stand in solidarity with revolutionary thinkers and writers against fascism and right-wing repression!
Come watch a documentary on the revolutionary actor, athlete, and activist, Paul Robeson, who our theater room is named in celebration of!
Join us for a screening of Lucía, a movie directed by renowned Cuban filmmaker, Humberto Solás!
Join us for another film directed by Heiny Srour, about Leila, a young Lebanese woman in London who time-travels through twentieth-century Lebanon and Palestine.
Join us for one of the renowned films from the post-revolution period in China!
A film screening of an interview with Brazilian indigenous activist Ailton Krenak, on his long-time activism to protect Mother Earth and fight against capitalism. The in-person screening will be followed by a virtually held discussion with a young indigenous leader and activists.
Director Selma Baccar combines fiction and re-enactment with interviews and archival material to vividly illustrate the intersecting histories of Tunisian independence and women’s emancipation.
This film shows the aftermath of the tragic assassination of Marielle Franco, the only Black councilwoman from the city of Rio de Janeiro, and how it inspired Black women across Brazil to run for office. Followed by discussion with director.
Come see this award-winning documentary that addresses the government's disregard and poor relief management during Hurricane Maria.
H2 Worker is a powerful documentary about sugar cane harvesting in Florida, America's flawed and abusive guest worker program and the Jamaican laborers it exploits.
The film follows Juan Contreras, a landowner in a 17th-century Cuba whose unorthodox ideas and free-spirited lifestyle run afoul of the Church and the Spanish colonial bureaucracy.
Based on Ghassan Kanafani’s novel ‘Returning to Haifa’, this film, set in 1967, centers on a Palestinian couple who return to the war-torn city to search for their young son Farhan, whom they were forced to abandon when fleeing Zionist acts of terrorism in 1948.
