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SUMMARY:Capital in Crisis: 2008 to 2020 and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:This is 4-session mini course\, April 13-May 4. \nA review of the 2008 capitalist crisis with a reading and discussion of David McNally’s Global Slump and other works. \nIn 2008\, as the tectonic plates of the global economy shifted\, financial shocks rocked the world’s banks\, leveling many of them. Panic gripped money markets\, stocks plunged\, factories shut down. Tens of millions of people were thrown out of work; millions lost their homes. An extraordinary uncertainty shook the world’s ruling class. The mood of the moment was captured in the confession by senior writers with the Financial Times that\, “The world of the past three decades is gone.” Within a year or so\, however\, candid statements like this disappeared from the mainstream press. The ruling class regrouped and regained its arrogance…. We are now living slightly more than a decade past the bourgeoisie having regrouped. The near end of the capitalist order as was felt in 2008 recedes in memory\, capital having gone on a range political offensives\, imposing deeper austerity cuts and ideologically taking aim at hard fought for democratic and civil rights. It remains important to understand what did take place in the years leading up to 2008\, that crisis\, and also understanding what took place in that regroupment of capital so that we of the working classes have more capacity during the current and upcoming contours of our class struggles. \nReserve your tickets HERE. Listed fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/capital-in-crisis-2008-to-2020-and-beyond/2019-04-13/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Working Class Goes To Heaven (1971)
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series with the Marxist Education Project\na continuation of The Anti-Bourgeois Film Series\nLa Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso\nItaly\, 1971\, 125 Min\nDIRECTED BY Elio Petri\nCAST Gian Maria Volontè\, Mariangela Melato\, Gino Pernice\, Luigi Diberti\, Donato Castellaneta\, Giuseppe Fortis\, Flavio Bucci\, Ezio Marano\, Adriano Amidei Migliano\nMUSIC Ennio Morricone \nIf this Italian drama were any less well told\, it would come off as a pure union propaganda piece. Instead\, it is a worthy film for the director who made the acclaimed film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. In any manufacturing situation\, it simply doesn’t pay to be the fastest and hardest working person on the assembly line. In the first place\, you probably can’t keep up the pace you’ve set. In the second place\, you make all your co-workers a) look bad and b) have to work harder; they will not thank you for this. Lulu Massa (Gian Maria Volonte) is a highly productive worker at a factory paying piece work but is disliked by his colleagues as his efficiency is used by management to justify their demands for higher output. While employees are told to care for and rely on their machines\, they see radical students outside the factory campaigning for higher pay rates and less work. Lulu lives with Lidia and her son. He puts his lack of interest in sex with her down to the pressures of the job. \nLulu loses a finger in a work accident\, which the workers blame on the faster times. Shocked\, he adopts the students’ analysis and takes strike action to end piece work\, against the unions’ policy\, which is for simply an increase in piece work rates.During that time\, he visits a colleague who shows him not only the error of his own ways\, but the horror of his whole working situation. When he goes back to work\, Massa tries to organize a union. –adapted from the allmovie guide. \nPURCHASE TICKETS (sliding scale\, no one turned away for lack of funds).
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-the-working-class-goes-to-heaven-1971/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Film Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T190000
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SUMMARY:The Global Punk Rock Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution with author Ray Patton \nIn March 1977\, Johnny Rotten Lydon of the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey\, militarized landscape of East Berlin. He then went up to the wall and gave it the finger. He didn’t know it at the time\, but the Sex Pistols’ reputation had preceded his gesture\, as young people in the Second World busily appropriated news reports on degenerate Western culture as punk instruction manuals. Soon after\, burgeoning Polish punk impresario Henryk Gajewski brought the London punk band the Raincoats to perform at his art gallery and student club-the epicenter for Warsaw’s nascent punk scene. When the Raincoats returned to England\, they found London erupting at the Rock Against Racism concert\, which brought together 100\,000 First World UK punks and Third World Caribbean immigrants who contributed their cultures of reggae and Rastafarianism. Punk had formed networks reaching across all three of the Cold War’s worlds. \nThe first global narrative of punk\, Punk Crisis examines how transnational punk movements challenged the global order of the Cold War\, blurring the boundaries between East and West\, North and South\, communism and capitalism through performances of creative dissent. Ray Patton argues that punk eroded the boundaries and political categories that defined the Cold War Era\, replacing them with a new framework based on identity as conservative or progressive. Through this paradigm shift\, punk unwittingly ushered in a new era of global neoliberalism. \nRaymond Patton studies the relationship between popular culture\, aesthetics\, identity\, and politics in the modern world\, with an emphasis on reexamining the relationship between the “first\,” “second\,” and “third” worlds of the Cold War era. As a History professor\, he has taught on a wide range of subject matter\, including World History\, Fascism and Nazi Germany\, East European and Soviet history\, Music and Resistance\, The Meaning of Life\, and Global Foundations: Consumerism. He has also played sax in a 3rd wave ska punk band. He currently serves as Director of Educational Partnerships and General Education at John Jay College\, CUNY. \nTHIS TALK IS THE SECOND EVENT IN THE MUSIC and CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS SERIES \nSuggested donations: $6 / $10 / $15 sliding scale\nNo one turned away for inability to pay \nRegister at The Marxist Education Project
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-global-punk-rock-revolution/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education
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SUMMARY:Black Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:Black Reconstruction: An American Revolutionary Period\nwith the Revolutions Study Group \n13-week session\, Mondays\, February 4 – April 29 7:00pm-9:00pm \n **Monday\, February 10 will be held at the Brooklyn Commons (388 Atlantic Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11217)** \nSome have called the U.S. Civil War the “second American revolution” or the completion of the first American revolution. Others claim that the war of independence and Civil War were not revolutions\, but had tremendous revolutionary potential. By whichever historical claim\, the great social revolution of that momentous period following the Civil War was surely the “reconstruction” of social relations in the former slave states. In his groundbreaking study (1935)\, W.E.B. DuBois reveals that this social revolution was both initiated by slaves in the midst of the war and carried through by the emancipated Black population during and after the period when federal troops occupied the former Confederate states. DuBois is concerned to refute the multiple slanders imputed to “Reconstruction” during the counter-revolutionary “Jim Crow” period that followed and to record the real advancements of democracy and social reform made under Reconstruction and partly lost when it was defeated. We will read DuBois’ Black Reconstruction (Oxford University Press\, 2007) in whole\, and for more recent research\, the middle part of Steven Hahn’s A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South (Harvard University Press\, 2003). Both books are readily available new and used\, as e-books\, and in libraries. Email to info@marxedproject.org for a reading syllabus. \nSuggested donations: $95 / $110 / $125 sliding scale\nNo one turned aware for inability to pay \nRegister on Marxist Education Project website \nDownload flyer.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/black-reconstruction/2019-02-04/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190127T153000
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SUMMARY:Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:A revolutionary collection of black radical thought from a historic event in 1968. \nEdited by David Austin \nIn 1968\, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam\, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their Black brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968\, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era. \nAgainst a backdrop of widespread racism in the West\, and colonialism and imperialism in the ‘Third World’\, this group of activists\, writers and political figures gathered to discuss the history and struggles of people of African descent and the meaning of Black Power. \nWith never-before-seen texts from Stokely Carmichael\, Walter Rodney and C.L.R. James\, these documents will prove invaluable to anyone interested in Black radical thought\, as well as capturing a crucial moment of the political activity around 1968. \nDavid Austin is the author of the Casa de las Americas Prize-winning Fear of a Black Nation: Race\, Sex\, and Security in Sixties Montreal\, Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness\, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution. He is also the editor of You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James. \nDownload flyer \nSuggested donations: $6 / $10 / $15 sliding scale\nNo one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/moving-against-the-system-the-1968-congress-of-black-writers-and-the-making-of-global-consciousness/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education
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SUMMARY:Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution
DESCRIPTION:What is the relationship between poetry and social change? \nStanding at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s\, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism\, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden’s claim that ‘poetry makes nothing happen’. For Johnson\, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics series\, writing has always been ‘a political act’ and poetry ‘a cultural weapon’. \nIn Dread Poetry and Freedom — the first book dedicated to the work of this ‘political poet par excellence’ – David Austin explores the themes of poetry\, political consciousness and social transformation through the prism of Johnson’s work. Drawing from the Bible\, reggae and Rastafari\, and surrealism\, socialism and feminism\, and in dialogue with Aime Cesaire and Frantz Fanon\, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney\, and W.E.B. Du Bois and the poetry of d’bi young anitafrika\, Johnson’s work becomes a crucial point of reflection on the meaning of freedom in this masterful and rich study. \nIn the process\, Austin demonstrates why art\, and particularly poetry\, is a vital part of our efforts to achieve genuine social change in times of dread. \nSpeaker: David Austin\nwith an introduction by Lewis Gordon \nDavid Austin is the author of the Casa de las Americas Prize-winning Fear of a Black Nation: Race\, Sex\, and Security in Sixties Montreal\, Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness\, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution. He is also the editor of You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James. \nLewis Gordon teaches in the United States and in South Africa\, where he is the Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor of Politics and International Studies\, and in Toulouse\, France\, where he holds the European Union Visiting Chair in philosophy. His recent book What Fanon Said has become a primary source on understanding the work of Fanon. He is known not only for his writings on Frantz Fanon\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Frederick Douglass\, Anna Julia Cooper\, Steve Bantu Biko\, and many others\, but also his work in philosophy\, politics\, and varieties of thought in the global south. \nSuggested donations: $6 / $10 / $15 sliding scale\nNo one turned away for inability to pay \nDownload flyer
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/dread-poetry-and-freedom-linton-kwesi-johnson-and-the-unfinished-revolution/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:Power of the Healthcare Wedge: Medicare For All and Working Class Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:The working class of the United Sates-all those still working and all those of the class discarded\, disenfranchised and deemed redundant by the capitalists-is suffering a multitude of nightmares and insecurity because the basic human right to complete healthcare is denied. Our bodies and minds have long been deemed territory to mine for profit seeking by capitalists including the health and hospital corporations\, pharmaceuticals\, insurance companies\, financiers\, and numerous other sectors.  \nAs necessary services required by women continue to be taken away\, and deaths by opioids and suicide\, including children\, grow larger every year\, the bourgeoisie’s life expectancy extends while that of millions of working Americans declines. And now we are at a point in the US where some capitalists have laid claim to owning the DNA sequences of individuals. \nBringing together lab workers\, doctors\, physicians assistants\, maintenance staff at hospitals\, those who construct our places of treatment and recovery\, mental\, dental and visual health workers with the class at large and left movement organizations—all of whom have real interests in taking on this fight—could break the lock-hold American capital has ideologically\, legislatively\, and juridically and begin to open the way for further empowerment against the barbarous interests of these ruling neo-liberal capitalists. To accomplish this requires a national movement that can step up and unify us into a grand struggle. We of the MEP are just a small organization; it is the issue that is grand. We are committed to do our part through our programs to encourage dialogue\, discussion and debate\, and learning from each other and history\, towards advancing the struggle for universal heath care and movement building in the US. \nFollowing presentations by Christie\, Jenny and Mark we can address some of the many questions facing our movement including:\n1. What are the principal opportunities and threats facing the Medicare for All movement at this time?\n2. How does our understanding of these opportunities and threats inform our work in our unions\, communities and in society at large to help us realize our organizing priorities towards broadening this movement? \nJENNY BROWN is a women’s liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. She is co-author of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. She is author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work\, forthcoming from PM Press in March. She writes\, teaches\, and organizes with the dues-funded feminist group National Women’s Liberation (womensliberation.org). \nMARK DUDZIC has a long history in the labor movement. He has had jobs such as sanitation worker near Buffalo\, NY\, cannery worker in Alaska and warehouse worker and taxi driver in NYC\, eventually graduating from CUNY in 1982. He became the National Organizer of the Labor Party after the death of Tony Mazzocchi in 2002. He is currently the National Coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare. \nCHRISTIE OFFENBACHER is a clinical social worker and therapist in Brooklyn. She serves on the political education committee in her branch of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America\, and as a Regional Coordinator with DSA’s national Medicare for All campaign. \nSuggested donations: $6 / $10 / $15 sliding scale\nNo one turned away for inability to pay \nMEP Events at The Peoples Forum\n320 West 37th Street/New York City\nmarxedproject.org / peoplesforum.org\njust a few blocks from either Penn Station or Port Authority
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/power-of-the-healthcare-wedge-medicare-for-all-and-working-class-consciousness/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Panel Discussions,Public Meetings
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