Level 3 will continue to develop and strengthen students' storytelling and conversational skills! Participants will continue to become more comfortable in utilizing their visual space and expressing their own thoughts and ideas through American Sign Language. This course will also feature more in depth explorations of Deaf culture and how this current administration is affecting Deaf lives across the world. 

In this class, we will build your vocabulary in American Sign Language (get ready to be able to sign entire conversations!) and explore Deaf American culture and history.

As an introduction to acrylic painting, this class will go through the basic process--starting with an underpainting, mixing color, putting in the large shapes, and resolving the painting. Some drawing experience is required.

As an introduction to acrylic painting, this class will go through the basic process--starting with an underpainting, mixing color, putting in the large shapes, and resolving the painting. Some drawing experience is required.

As an introduction to acrylic painting, this class will go through the basic process--starting with an underpainting, mixing color, putting in the large shapes, and resolving the painting. Some drawing experience is required.

“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he

As an introduction to acrylic painting, this class will go through the basic process--starting with an underpainting, mixing color, putting in the large shapes, and resolving the painting. Some drawing experience is required.

As an introduction to acrylic painting, this class will go through the basic process--starting with an underpainting, mixing color, putting in the large shapes, and resolving the painting. Some drawing experience is required.

Join us in the Elizabeth Catlett Art Space and Printmaking Studio for a Screen Printing Open Studio.  This open studio is open to anyone who has already taken a Screen Printing Basics course or has significant experience with the practice and wants an opportunity to continue a project with other artists in a relaxed setting.

Algarabía Language Co-op, in partnership with The People’s Forum, is offering virtual Spanish courses for all levels—beginner to advanced.

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses at The People’s Forum to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture.

ASL LEVEL 2 This ASL Level 2 course is designed to continue your skill development

Português Intermediário 1 is an intermediate class with a focus on deepening listening, speaking and developing communication skills in Portuguese in a conversational style.

For students who completed Basic Portuguese 2 with instructor’s approval, or new students who know the basic present, past, future tenses, and basic structures of Portuguese, and are ready to dive into more complex verb tenses and conversation.

In this class we will build your vocabularies in American Sign Language (get ready to

Designed for students who have taken at least two semesters of Arabic.

Arabic Language Classes Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses at The People’s Forum

This hands-on, 4-session course serves as an in depth, interactive introduction to Natural Dye, to learn more about the process.

This hands-on, 4-session course serves as an in depth, interactive introduction to Natural Dye, to learn more about the process.

In this class, we will explore the basics of figure drawing from life, starting with the foundation of gesture drawing, and build upon this.

For students who have completed Basic Portuguese 2 or who know the basic present, past, near future tenses and basic structures of Portuguese.

In this class, we will explore the basics of figure drawing from life, starting with the foundation of gesture drawing, and build upon this.

Basic 2 Portuguese - designed for students who completed Basic 1 Portuguese.

This hands-on, 4-session course serves as an in depth, interactive introduction to Natural Dye, to learn more about the process.

In this class, we will explore the basics of figure drawing from life, starting with the foundation of gesture drawing, and build upon this.

This hands-on, 4-session course serves as an in depth, interactive introduction to Natural Dye, to learn more about the process.

In this class, we will explore the basics of figure drawing from life, starting with the foundation of gesture drawing, and build upon this.

A course to study China's revolutionary process, what led to victory in 1949, the various phases and changes since then, and China’s relationships with both the U.S. and the Third World.

In this class, we will explore the basics of figure drawing from life, starting with the foundation of gesture drawing, and build upon this.

A course to study China's revolutionary process, what led to victory in 1949, the various phases and changes since then, and China’s relationships with both the U.S. and the Third World.

A course to study China's revolutionary process, what led to victory in 1949, the various phases and changes since then, and China’s relationships with both the U.S. and the Third World.

Algarabía Language Co-op is excited to announce that we are offering virtual Spanish classes this fall! Spanish for Social Justice courses are offered by Algarabía Language Co-op in partnership with The People’s Forum.

 Together, we will study this revolutionary process, what led to victory in 1949, the various phases and changes since then, and China’s relationships with both the U.S. and the Third World.

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses at The People’s Forum to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture.

In this class, we will build your vocabulary in American Sign Language (get ready to be able to sign entire conversations!) and explore Deaf American culture and history.

In this class we will build your vocabularies in American Sign Language (get ready to be able to sign full conversations!) and explore Deaf American culture and history.

This is a fast-paced course designed for people who learned the Basic structure of Portuguese and present, past and future of verbs tenses and are ready for subjunctive and more complex writing, who are fluent or native Spanish speakers and started to learn Portuguese formally, or people who grew up/spent time around Portuguese but need to perfect their grammar. It is a continuation of the course: Português Básico 2. 

For students who know the basic structure of Portuguese New Students: An application and an assessment

Join us for an introductory course on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.

Algarabia summer series includes three different courses, each tackling specific language issues that are crucial for anyone's learning journey.

Module 6: We Build the Future Class: Prospects for Revolution in the United States Date

In this session, we will investigate the implications of the ruling class project on our future and our struggle, and begin to develop a sober and grounded analysis to prepare us to confront these challenges as they arise.

Saturday Dialogues: The Workers’ Front Date & Time: Saturday, August 10, 1-3PM EST Description:  Over

Module 5: The Agents of Counter-Revolution Class: Resisting Disorganization–Imperialism and Hybrid War Date & Time:

Join us for a talk with Venezuela’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Simon Bolivar Institute, Carlos Ron. In this talk, we will discuss context on the elections, the recent coup attempt, the connection between the US state and the Venezuelan far-right, and why the struggle to defend the Bolivarian Revolution is an anti-imperialist imperative.

Module 5: The Agents of Counter-Revolution Class: Methods of Repression: Resisting Disorganization Date & Time:

We know that when we are organized we can win. But what does it mean to be organized, and what does it mean to be an individual in an organization? What does it mean to be a revolutionary?

What are the instruments and organizations that we can build to mobilize the masses to prepare for transformative struggle

The attempts to defeat the Palestinian resistance have failed for over 76 years. What can we learn from the past to look forward at what is to come next?

We will investigate the world historic victory of the Vietnamese people in defeating colonial and imperial forces – and the lessons it teaches us for our ongoing struggle today!

Revolutionary Summer School @ TPF is a hybrid course for organizers, visionaries and all people advancing resistance to oppression. This year, we invite all who want to join us in studying examples of revolutionary processes around the world, and clarify a collective vision of the future!

Revolutionary Summer School @ TPF is a hybrid course for organizers, visionaries and all people advancing resistance to oppression. This year, we invite all who want to join us in studying examples of revolutionary processes around the world, and clarify a collective vision of the future!

Saturday Dialogues are an interactive conversation with key people from the movement organizing for the liberation of the working class.

This class looks at the victory of the Haitian Revolution in 1804 that forever transformed the trajectory of history, revitalizing the struggle for liberation not only in the Caribbean but across the world.

We will look at how October 1917 marked what was one of the most significant revolutions of humanity: the Bolshevik Revolution

This session looks at the history of economic and social stages and transformation, situating capitalism as just one period in a long history and interrogating the processes that led to its dominance today.

Why do revolutionaries study history and theory? How do we analyze society and our role within it? How do we understand the world to struggle effectively, with confidence and clarity?

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses at The People’s Forum to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture.

Join us for a five-session Intro to Drawing series with NY-based artist Nick Skoug to learn the basic principles of drawing. The series will cover sketching, contour lines, light and shade, and basic drawing techniques through still life and landscape drawing—no prior experience is needed!

Aiyah's work is primarily invested in the inherited politics of the Arab women and her position in the world. As a practicing Arabic calligraphist, she makes a conscious effort to introduce more women to what has largely been a male-dominated practice.

Join us for a one-day course with Queens-based therapist and artist Ashley Lagrange. You will learn how to create collage art as a medium for political agitation and propaganda and as a tool for self-reflection and expression. Participants will gather inspiration from collage artists who have created intentional Agitprop and then be provided with prompts and materials to create their own.

Português Intermediário 2 is an intermediate class with a focus on deepening listening, speaking and developing communication skills in Portuguese in a conversational style, without translating into one’s native language

Join us for an introductory course on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.

Join us for a 1-day course with Atlanta-based artist & printmaker, Jasmine Nicole Williams, to learn the process of creating a limited edition of prints. In this course, participants will learn the history of screen printing, its techniques, and the screen printing process. 

Virtual Language Course: Summer Level 1 classes for American Sign Language (ASL)

This open studio is available for those who have already taken screen printing 101 or has significant experience

This open studio is available for those who have already taken screen printing 101 or has significant experience

Join us for a class with Simón Bolívar Institute about the struggle to build socialism in Venezuela and resistance to US. interference.

As the US militarily escalates in the region, understanding the Korean struggle for sovereignty and reunification is a vital front in the global anti-imperialist struggle. 

Students will get to experiment with the medium in various ways using various objects under UV lamps and learn about the history and significance of Cyanotype as well as the chemical process involved in creating these spectacular prints.

From agitating to raising the consciousness of the people, art has played a key role in advancing revolutionary struggle.

Looking into key Arab Marxist thinkers and revolutionaries, their proposals, contributions and debates, and the conditions they confronted, we will begin to develop an approach to understanding this period and its legacy for struggle today.

This open studio is available for anyone who has already taken Screen Printing 101 or has significant experience with the practice and wants an opportunity to continue a project with guidance.

In this class, we will build your vocabulary in American Sign Language (get ready to be able to sign entire conversations!) and explore Deaf American culture and history.

Join us April 11 for a class on the struggle against patriarchy, central to the struggle and national oppression, and to transform society.

In this class, we'll look at the Black Belt Thesis, critical to understanding the development of a socialist revolution in the United States.

Join us this Tuesday, April 9th, for a class on China's Long March and revolutionary history with Ken Hammond.

Português Intermediário 1 is an intermediate class with a focus on deepening listening, speaking and developing communication skills in Portuguese in a conversational style, without translating into one’s native language, to allow you to deepen the understanding of advanced verbs tenses, to have more vocabulary, composed verbal structures, and more elaborate conversations with Portuguese native speakers.

For students who know the basic structure of Portuguese   New Students: An application and

This is a fast-paced course designed for people who learned the Basic structure of Portuguese and present, past and future of verbs tenses and are ready for subjunctive and more complex writing, who are fluent or native Spanish speakers and started to learn Portuguese formally, or people who grew up/spent time around Portuguese but need to perfect their grammar.

In this class, we will look at the success of the October Revolution in Russia and how the overthrow of the Tsarist Empire forever changed the world.

In this class, we will look at political education as the tool that assists in the full realization of people as politically active members of society.

In this class, we will look at the Comintern, perhaps the first thoroughly organized attempt at worldwide anti-capitalist revolution and pioneer of a global, anti-colonial, anti-racist and anti-imperialist politics.

Join Monthly Review and the Marxist Education Project on a class studying the life of Karl Marx!

In this class, we will look at how, faced with the ravages of Portuguese colonialism, a society that produced dire economic, social and political conditions, Cabral spearheaded the Guinean and Cape Verdean Revolution.

In this class, we will be looking at 1917 Russian Revolution and how its strategy reverberated across the world.

Introducing Marxism & National Liberation: ‘The end of history,’ the Battle of Ideas, and the recovery of ‘Slightly Stretched’ Marxism

History is propelled by the struggle of our people across the world. The past year opened

Join us for a collective reading workshop as we build the skills for how to

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses at The People’s Forum to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture.

We will discuss the ideological function of technology in shifting the parameters of how the ecological crisis is conceptualized and the inherent inadequacy of proposed future technologies to address what is urgently needed to be dealt with *now*.

Join us for a 3 part series as we study the life, and legacy of Lenin, the formation of Leninism, the revolutionary paths it generated across the world. 

In this class we will build your vocabularies in American Sign Language (get ready to be able to sign full conversations!)

Join us on Saturday, Nov 11 at 3 PM ET for a seminar with climate scientist Mara Freilich, as we discuss biogeochemical cycling in aquatic ecosystems, climate modeling, and the role that community science and multi-sector collaboration can play in building climate solutions.

Science Against Capitalism: Exiting the Climate Crisis aims to connect science education with people and movements rejecting capitalism's destructive path.

The struggle for freedom, steeped in the legacy of a revolutionary tradition, resonates across nations as the people demand an end to domination—there is no choice but revolution! Take up its history and learn about what a liberated and truly sovereign Caribbean could look like!

Equip yourself with knowledge about Gaza’s history, resistance and people who remain steadfast in the face of genocide.

Please join us on Tuesday, October 31st at 6:30 PM ET with Mohammed El-Kurd for a session on U.S. and Israeli misinformation and propaganda.

Learn the basics of platen letterpress printing and print your own creations in this 3-hour course.

A two-day theater workshop to learn strategies and techniques from Jana Natya Manch, India, and Radical Evolution (NYC).

2.5-hour introductory workshop to the Theatre of the Oppressed

Drummer for a Day is a 1 or 2 hour introduction to the samba reggae tradition through a close-up, interactive lecture demonstration that includes history, dance, elementary music and rhythm basics, and learning a song from the Batala repertoire.

This class is part of our Revolutionary Summer School: Pan Africanism and the Struggle For

Learn to print your own small posters in this fun and creative 4-session course. You’ll get hands-on experience with the full screen printing process, including preparing your artwork, coating and exposing your screen, working with ink, reclaiming your screen for reuse, and printing your designs onto paper.

Decades after the wave of national liberation struggles on the African continent, the pursuit of a Pan African future persists! Join us as we discuss the ongoing struggles and hear from revolutionary movements who are propelling the Pan African struggle today.

Join us for a series of in-depth discussions on the ongoing struggles on the African continent, looking at the concrete conditions, leading movements and continental campaigns organised under the banner of Pan-Africanism in the fight to a people-centred, movement-led future.

Learn the basics of platen letterpress printing and print your own creations in this 3-hour course. You’ll get hands-on experience with the full letterpress printing process using our vintage cast iron platen letterpresses

In this class, we will explore the basis of the neoliberal debt trap that has ensnared many countries and perpetuated an endless debt crisis, as well as the lasting implications.

Learn to print your own small posters in this fun and creative 4-session course. You’ll get hands-on experience with the full screen printing process, including preparing your artwork, coating and exposing your screen, working with ink, reclaiming your screen for reuse, and printing your designs onto paper.

The 2011 U.S.-led NATO bombing of Libya is but one example of decades of violent

Throughout history, the West has used multiple tactics, such as military interventions, orchestrating coups, imposing sanctions, and disseminating misinformation and propaganda, to further its own interests on the African continent.

Join us on August 4 for an introductory class on Eritrea’s struggle, its regional and international context, and current conditions in the country.

Join us for a two-part weekend workshop with Atlanta-based printmaker, artist, and organizer, Jasmine Nicole Williams.

Join us for a two-part weekend workshop with Atlanta-based printmaker, artist, and organizer, Jasmine Nicole Williams.

Learn to print your own small posters in this fun and creative 4-session course. You’ll get hands-on experience with the full screen printing process, including preparing your artwork, coating and exposing your screen, working with ink, reclaiming your screen for reuse, and printing your designs onto paper.

This class will cover both the particularistic history of Black radicalism in the US, as well as the deeper contributions Black radicals have made to movements for transformative change.

Throughout this class, we will study the development and legacy of the Black radical tradition in Latin America and the Caribbean, looking at historical context which ignited and propelled the emergence of liberation movements and visionary leaders in the region.

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop with the Justice Center en el Barrio and The

Join us as we explore the relationship and influences that Pan Africanism had on the movement for Black Liberation in the U.S., and the interconnected timelines and inspirations that simultaneously fueled both of these revolutionary liberation movements.

In the mangrove school, the learning happens with the whole body”. Join us for the

We will be doing a close reading of Amilcar Cabral’s Weapon of Theory speech, delivered

Focusing on the experiences of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, this class looks at the role of education in and for liberation.

Learn to print your own small posters in this fun and creative 4-session course. You’ll get hands-on experience with the full screen printing process, including preparing your artwork, coating and exposing your screen, working with ink, reclaiming your screen for reuse, and printing your designs onto paper.

The spirit of internationalism is an integral part of Pan Africanism, an essential component that fosters solidarity beyond national borders and continues in revolutionary movements on the continent and in the diaspora today

Join us on July 19 as we study the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution and the lessons it offers for revolutionaries on the African continent and diaspora.

Pan Africanism, although first emerging as a specific movement in 1900 is rooted in a rich and extensive history. It developed out of the struggles of individuals and organizations, as well as common ideas, throughout Africa and the diaspora, including abolitionist movements across the Americas and the Haitian Revolution.

Come explore Bomba with internationally-acclaimed performer/educator and Bronx native Jose Ortiz, a.k.a. Dr. Drum

To win the battle of ideas, we must be able to compete with the ruling class, its endless resources, and its powerful media apparatus. Equipping ourselves with professional-level design skills makes our message more compelling and competitive.

In this class, we’ll explore the motives and methods behind the partitioning of Africa, which aimed to benefit Western powers, as well as analyze significant events, such as the 1884 Berlin conference and the transatlantic slave trade, and the lasting implications for the African continent and diaspora.

Join us for a two-part class, where we will study the early history of the African continent, exploring some of the major historical processes of human development and events that have influenced and continue to shape the African continent and the world.

Revolutionary Summer School @ TPF is a hybrid course for organizers, visionaries and all people advancing resistance to oppression. This year, we invite all who want to join us in a collective study of the histories, constructions, and current projects of Pan Africanism on the African continent and across the world. 

To win the battle of ideas, we must be able to compete with the ruling class, its endless resources, and its powerful media apparatus. Equipping ourselves with professional-level design skills makes our message more compelling and competitive.

This course will investigate Korea’s historical development from the end of the 19th century to the present in the context of the global imperialist system. Participants will learn about the conditions of Korea’s division, the construction of socialism and capitalism in the divided peninsula, and the pillars of the ongoing US war against the Korean people.

Learn the basics of letterpress printing and print your own creations in this 3-hour course.

Join the New York City chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement on May 26–28 to learn about Palestinian and Arab resistance to Zionist settler-colonialism and British/American imperialism.

This workshop will guide participants through creating collage art as a medium for political agitation and propaganda, as well as a tool for self-reflection and expression.

Join us for an introductory course on political economy in which we will learn the basic concepts of political economy and use them to understand the current economic crisis and some of its symptoms, such as the current debt, inflation, and growing gap between rich and poor. 

To win the battle of ideas, we must be able to compete with the ruling class, its endless resources, and its powerful media apparatus. Equipping ourselves with professional-level design skills makes our message more compelling and competitive.

Join us virtually for a close reading of Marx’s Grundrisse with Professor David Harvey. 

Join us on May 6 at 4 PM ET for a discussion on evolutionary developmental biology, or "EvoDevo" with cell biologist, Stuart Newman.

Join us virtually for a close reading of Marx’s Grundrisse with Professor David Harvey. 

Join us virtually for a close reading of Marx’s Grundrisse with Professor David Harvey. 

Join us virtually for a close reading of Marx’s Grundrisse with Professor David Harvey. 

Join us for a three part seminar series, where we will study the complex history of the revolution and counter-revolution in Indonesia, the 1965 purge, the ousting of the Suharto dictatorship, and the political ramifications and legacy for Indonesia today. 

Learn to print your own small posters and apparel in this fun and creative 5-session course.

Learn the basics of letterpress printing and print your own creations in this 3-hour course.

Join the International Research Centre DDR (IF DDR) to delve into the history, achievements, and lessons of the GDR.

Join us for a seminar with computational linguist, Michael Gasser, on the relationship between technology, language, and the democratization (and anti-democratization) of knowledge.

For the past months, participants in the Revolutionary Feminism course have been studying and debating

Gain a deeper understanding of the current political, social, and economic conditions in Turkey, and the leading role of people’s solidarity in the rebuilding of their communities.

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture. T

How can studying soils help us know more about the environment and also about ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the impacts of the climate crisis?

Books, art, music, arts and crafts, hot chocolate, mulled wine, soup, and most of all, revolutionary spirit!

What better way to celebrate Valentine’s day than to read a love letter to the working class!

Travel with us through a time machine to when the Communist Manifesto was written!

Join us on Jan. 22 at 3:30 PM ET as we explore the main pillars of Yugoslav real existing socialism - antifascism between 1941-1945, economic self-management, and the key role of Yugoslavia in founding and navigating the Non-Aligned Movement.

Explore the theory and practice of Marxism and revolutionary politics through the prism of the Haitian Revolution, Grenadian Revolution, and the ongoing Cuban Revolution and Caribbean radical politics in general.

Science Against Capitalism aims to bring biophysical science education into conversation with people and movements who refuse to accept the assured devastations wrought by the capitalist path.

For the past 4 years, the Haitian people have continuously mobilized in protest against inhumane living standards, rapid inflation and skyrocketing fuel prices, and most recently, rejecting calls for foreign intervention and demanding the resignation of U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

Spanish for Social Justice courses are offered by Algarabía Language Co-op in partnership with The People’s Forum.

Calling organizers and people in struggle! We’ll discuss the history of the Supreme Court, historically contextualize how the Constitution has been used to progress different political agendas, and study what happened with Roe v. Wade.

We will cover different moments of Palestinian resistance against Zionism and western imperialism and the position of Palestine in global anti-imperialist politics and history.

In our class, we are going to be traveling to a time and a place: Havana, Cuba in 1962.

This workshop will introduce participants to the history, concepts, as well as methods and methodologies of popular and political education.

Learn Rekordbox, basics of beatmatching and mixing on a Pioneer DJ controller

In this collective reading and discussion session, we will look at the historical context in which the Combahee River Collective was formed, as well as its role in the development of Radical Black Feminist Tradition.

This workshop will explore how society is organized to serve the economic system on which it stands-capitalism.

NOTE: This teach in has been changed to Friday, July 29 from 6:30-8:00pm. What is

Why do we study history? How do we understand and analyze history?

Schools have always played central roles in our communities, and as we face looming budget

This class will investigate just that: art and culture, its production, and the groundwork it lays for liberation struggles.

From the 1500's until the Civil War in the U.S. the Americas were rocked by dozens of major slave revolts. Come learn about these uprisings!

Revolutionary Summer School @ TPF is a hybrid* summer program for organizers, visionaries and people in resistance to oppression.

This is a 2-part series on the history of revolutionary healthcare and a certification course for organizers and lay people.

This is a lecture and discussion that explores the relationship between legal orders and different forms of oppression, in the US and UK. Are legal systems in the US and UK context fundamentally implicated in forms of capital exploitation and racialization? Can we imagine a socialist legal system here?

A 4-session hybrid course to undertake a study of the global political economy through the application of the Marxist method of Historical Materialism.

A 3 hour discussion-based teach-in on history of labor to inform today's worker struggles and labor organizing and bring the lessons of the past to our analysis of today’s conditions.

Join us for this NEW course for a Marxist theoretical grounding of nature and the natural sciences, to understand current ecological and environmental crises and organizing, and to participate in an optional hands-on fieldwork in soil science.

A course on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.

This course is designed for native Spanish speakers*, people who grew up around Portuguese, who learned Spanish as their first language, or those who are fluent in Spanish. It is a continuation of the Winter course: Português Básico 2 (for Spanish Speakers).

An intermediate course on Portuguese, with historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.

Through weekly social justice themes, and using a communicative and popular education approach, participants will improve their Spanish skills. Special focus will be given to learning vocabulary and community organizing terminology. Offering: True Beginner, High Beginner, Low Intermediate, High Intermediate, Spanish for Bilinguals. Sign up now!

The aim of this 12- session course is to survey Marx’s political economic writings in 12 sessions to assess how far he succeeded in this mission and how far his findings illuminate contemporary conditions.

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Spring 2022 Arabic courses and clubs to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture. Sign up now!

A course to bridge theoretical and technical gaps in our communications strategies for movement building and to counter the neoliberal, bourgeois narrative in the media about what is happening in our countries and in our world. Lectures & technique workshops! Applications due Jan 4th!

4-week VIRTUAL poetry workshop with longtime poet, cultural worker, and organizer, Hector Rivera, with the theme "we must dare to invent the future."

This course is a collective, close reading of the second volume of Marx’s Capital: A critique of political economy. Applications are due on Dec 23.

In this 2-hour course, students will learn how to embroider using traditional Palestinian embroidery cross-stitch methods with Wafa Ghnaim, Palestinian textile author, educator, and artist in residence at The Museum of the Palestinian People.

A course for Spanish speakers on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries

An intermediate course on Portuguese, with historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOV 20! School of Debt is a Fall & Winter program for those interested in developing their comprehension of Debt and its role in maintaining the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, while the majority of the world suffers ongoing dispossession and economic precarity.

In Imperialism, Lenin provided a collective analysis for collective liberation. How can we better understand imperialism today, in order to build effective anti-imperial strategy for today’s world?

Join us for a beginner workshop on henna design! Taught by community organizer Shahrin Azim @radicalhennaartist, we'll learn the history of the practice and simple techniques.

Join us at The People's Forum (320 West 37th Street) for a book talk and discussion with Geo Maher on his new book A World Without Police. This event is co-sponsored by Verso Books.

 The founding members of the Organización Afrodescendiente para la Asistencia Jurídica y Formación (OAFRO),

Join us for a conversation with journalist and author Roberto Lovato and novelist Alejandro Varela, exploring how memory and art can help guide us through the age of extremes which we are all only just beginning to endure.

Building on yet critiquing the Marxist notion of the general intellect, Derek R. Ford theorizes stupidity as a necessary alternative pedagogical logic, an anti-value that is infinitely mute and unproductive. Join us for an in-person talk and discussion.

Conjunctural analysis is a powerful method for studying, analyzing, and ultimately transforming our present moment. This 5-week course will introduce participants with the skills to conduct their own conjunctural analysis of our current moment.

Please join us for an in-person reading and discussion with authors NIMMI GOWRINATHAN and ANJULI RAZA KOLB. Both authors will read short excerpts from their recent books and engage each other on overlapping questions on feminism and its discontents and the meaning of political violence.

Join us for a overdose prevention and protection training. Narcan will be provided!

An intermediate course on Portuguese, with historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.

An introductory course on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries

A course for Spanish speakers on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries

Join us as Angela Davis and Francia Márquez Mina meet again to discuss radical politics in Colombia and the U.S. today, considering black radical politics, left coalitions, black women’s movements, the carceral state, paths to abolition, and issues related to environmental justice

Let’s embark on an exploration of the history of drawing and technique. We'll learn about its aesthetic variation based on cultural and sociopolitical circumstances, as well as its use as a catalyst of self-expression and collective knowledge.

The course will look into the forms of organization developed over time as well their strategies and tactics.

An intermediate course on Portuguese, with historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.

An introductory course on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Summer and Fall Arabic courses to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture. Sign up now!

A virtual summer program for organizers, visionaries and people in resistance to oppression. Read through the info and apply by Saturday, June 12!

An introductory class to relief printing taking place over the course of three Saturdays (May 8, May 15, and May 22).

The Creole language was the first step for enslaved workers in the French plantation colonies to emancipate themselves from the oppression of slavery. Join us for an introductory course to develop listening and speaking skills to allow you communicate with native Creole speakers.

Conversational Arabic Film Club for Heritage Speakers • SPRING 2021 TO APPLY, PLEASE FILL OUT

Conversational Arabic Film Club for Heritage Speakers • SPRING 2021 TO APPLY, PLEASE FILL OUT

Through weekly social justice themes, and using a communicative and popular education approach, participants will improve their Spanish skills. Special focus will be given to learning vocabulary and community organizing terminology. Offering: True Beginner, High Beginner, Low Intermediate, High Intermediate. Sign up now!

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture. Offering: True Beginner, High Beginner, Conversational Beginner, and Conversational Intermediate. Sign up now!

An exciting and new film club hosted by Algarabía Language Co-op for heritage speakers of Arabic to develop their vocabulary and conversational skills!

On the 173rd anniversary of the publication of Marx and Engel's The Communist Manifesto, join an interview and discussion between artist and organizer Niki Franco and historian and journalist Vijay Prashad on the internationalist history of the document, the liberation struggles it has inspired, and how it connects to people's movements today.

Ever wanted to learn Filipino? Through this beginner’s course, not only will we be studying the language itself, but also the history of the Filipino people and the socio-cultural context that helped shape the national language.

In this virtual training, we will learn about the history of street medicine and gain basic skills to effectively and safely prepare for protests, anticipate and recognize care needs, and apply critical first aid during and after demonstrations.

Reviews topics covered in year 1 & 2 Arabic. Covers grammar review, vocabulary building, and text editing; focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing and critically engaging with various colloquial Arabic cultural productions. Includes a biweekly film screening and discussion!

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 10-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals (speakers of Spanish with a high level of fluency and proficiency). 

¡Bienvenides! Welcome to Spanish for Social Justice! Spanish for Social Justice courses are offered at the BEGINNER and INTERMEDIATE levels of fluency to those interested in topics of social justice, radical politics, and culture.

**Fall Class!!** Ever wanted to learn Filipino? Through this beginner’s course, not only will we be studying the language itself, but also the history of the Filipino people and the socio-cultural context that helped shape the national language.

This course reviews topics covered in Beginner Arabic course. Expands vocabulary and idiomatic expressions; focus is on colloquial Arabic and differences among varieties.

This course is designed for students who had no prior experience with learning Arabic. It introduces students to Arabic alphabet and covers the basics of reading, writing and grammar; focus is on pronunciation, oral fluency, colloquial Arabic and differences among varieties, in relation to formal Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).

**Fall Class!!** Ever wanted to learn Filipino? Through this beginner’s course, not only will we be studying the language itself, but also the history of the Filipino people and the socio-cultural context that helped shape the national language.

A lecture and discussion with the Qiao Collective to equip us with an analysis of U.S.-China relations within a longer history of U.S. imperialist aggression; the nature of socialism with Chinese characteristics; and China's vision of multilateralism as an alternative to U.S. unilateralism.

To revolutionary movements throughout the world, the struggle in Guinea is of prime importance as an outstanding illustration of the need to study one’s own concrete conditions and to make the revolution according to these conditions. A lecture and discussion.

Millions around the world are demanding action and actively seeking solutions to the unfolding climate crisis. But what if we look to solutions beyond how we currently structure our economies? Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism makes the case that socialism provides the framework for solving the crisis

As the world still battles an ongoing global pandemic, the Israeli government intensified violence against the Palestinian people and renewed efforts to annex 30% of the West Bank. How should we understand this in the context of over 70 years of land theft, violence, occupation, and apartheid? Join Ali Abunimah for a discussion.

Under capitalism, gender oppression and violence is a permanent condition. What can we learn from Kollontai, and what does it mean to build working-class feminism today?

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new *virtual* Arabic courses! Special focus will be given to learning vocabulary and community organizing terminology relevant to contemporary social movements in the U.S. and the Arab world.

A lecture and discussion on the life and contributions of Mariátegui, who was the first to emphasize that those fighting revolution must adapt classical Marxist theory to the particular conditions of Latin America and stressed that indigenous peoples must take a leading role in any revolutionary struggle.

Today, as struggles against neoliberalism, capitalism, and imperialism grow internationally, the lessons from Venezuela’s ongoing experiments in radical democracy are as urgent as ever.

Ever wanted to learn Filipino? Through this beginner’s course, not only will we be studying the language itself, but also the history of the Filipino people and the socio-cultural context that helped shape the national language.

¿Cuál es la situación actual de las mujeres en este momento de crisis global? ¿Cómo impacta el imperialismo a las mujeres? ¿Cuál es el papel de los movimientos feministas populares e internacionalistas?

Join author of The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins and author of Washington Bullets Vijay Prashad for a conversation moderated by Jordan T. Camp about how Washington’s anti-communist wars have shaped our world.

In this installment, we will focus on the front of struggle for the environment and environmental justice. How can we strengthen our defense of the planet? How do people’s movements around the world push back against imperialism?

On May 1st, 1990, homeless people led a simultaneous takeover of empty government (HUD) houses in cities across the United States. Skylight Pictures followed the takeovers with 12 crews in the eight cities, documenting the secret planning, the illegal occupations, and the hopeful aftermath of this bold endeavor.

What does it mean to build working class internationalism in our current situation? Hear from leaders from organizations that form the International People's Assembly, including Vijay Prashad, director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and Claudia de la Cruz of The People's Forum, and the Popular Education Project.

How has the for-profit medical system created the conditions in which health care workers are forced to work in unsafe conditions? What is the global dimension of US capitalist approach to healthcare?

The Southern Key explains the reasons for the failure of the US South to unionize, and that this regional failure has led to the nationwide decline in labor unionism, growing inequality, and the perpetuation of white supremacy.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants work on a translation project dealing with a topic of their choice

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants will be given the opportunity to interpret at a community event.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This course is intended for those who both feel ready and can demonstrate a basic proficiency in Filipino/Pilipino, or have a basic understanding of Tagalog upon which the national language is based

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing various colloquial Arabic cultural productions.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Led by linguist and educator Amir Vahab , this evening workshop focuses first on literal translations of the mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafez from the original language, followed by discussion of interpretation and meaning.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This talk will draw from recently conducted research to describe the structural factors that shape union and non-profit planning politics in New York City, the historical echoes and antecedents that frame the current political moment, and the theoretical frameworks that clarify how labor, capital, and the state co-produce urban space.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20*Together, we will explore what it means to learn about a language of a nation forged in the flames of an anti-colonial revolution and continues to develop as a people in an ongoing national-democratic struggle.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills.

What can we learn from the experiences and leadership of organizations of the poor and dispossessed who have been fighting not just against the conditions of this current crisis, but against the permanent crisis of capitalism?

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants work on a translation project dealing with a topic of their choice

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants will be given the opportunity to interpret at a community event.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This course is intended for those who both feel ready and can demonstrate a basic proficiency in Filipino/Pilipino, or have a basic understanding of Tagalog upon which the national language is based

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing various colloquial Arabic cultural productions.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Led by linguist and educator Amir Vahab , this evening workshop focuses first on literal translations of the mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafez from the original language, followed by discussion of interpretation and meaning.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Together, we will explore what it means to learn about a language of a nation forged in the flames of an anti-colonial revolution and continues to develop as a people in an ongoing national-democratic struggle.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants work on a translation project dealing with a topic of their choice

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants will be given the opportunity to interpret at a community event.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This course is intended for those who both feel ready and can demonstrate a basic proficiency in Filipino/Pilipino, or have a basic understanding of Tagalog upon which the national language is based

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing various colloquial Arabic cultural productions.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Led by linguist and educator Amir Vahab , this evening workshop focuses first on literal translations of the mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafez from the original language, followed by discussion of interpretation and meaning.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Together, we will explore what it means to learn about a language of a nation forged in the flames of an anti-colonial revolution and continues to develop as a people in an ongoing national-democratic struggle.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants work on a translation project dealing with a topic of their choice

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants will be given the opportunity to interpret at a community event.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This course is intended for those who both feel ready and can demonstrate a basic proficiency in Filipino/Pilipino, or have a basic understanding of Tagalog upon which the national language is based

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing various colloquial Arabic cultural productions.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Led by linguist and educator Amir Vahab , this evening workshop focuses first on literal translations of the mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafez from the original language, followed by discussion of interpretation and meaning.

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research is an international, movement-driven institution focused on stimulating intellectual debate that serves people’s aspirations. We are holding space every month to discuss and debate the latest dossier.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Together, we will explore what it means to learn about a language of a nation forged in the flames of an anti-colonial revolution and continues to develop as a people in an ongoing national-democratic struggle.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants work on a translation project dealing with a topic of their choice

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants will be given the opportunity to interpret at a community event.

*TPF is closed from March 10- April 20* Opening out the real and the human against the abstract and the brutal, the film seeks to confront advocates of amnesia in Kashmir as well as in other conflict zones.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20*In the 1850s, as in the 2020s, racial capitalism seemed to enjoy ever greater triumphs, as pro-slavery forces expanded the protections of human bondage granted from the beginning by the US Constitution. How did the left face these problems in the 1850s?

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Introduction to Kréyol is a beginner class with a focus on developing listening skills and speaking skills to allow you communicate with native Creole speakers.

This book talk will be held online.  Please RSVP and you will receive the link via email! As the left has to think about what it means to run for office in a capitalist state, it's a good time to look back at how the left has historically conducted such debates.

*This class will be held online*When we say we want to end patriarchy, what does that mean? What are the historical and material origins of patriarchy, and how has it shaped the conditions of women historically and today? 

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This course is intended for those who both feel ready and can demonstrate a basic proficiency in Filipino/Pilipino, or have a basic understanding of Tagalog upon which the national language is based

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing various colloquial Arabic cultural productions.

*This class will be held online*When we say we want to end patriarchy, what does that mean? What are the historical and material origins of patriarchy, and how has it shaped the conditions of women historically and today? 

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Led by linguist and educator Amir Vahab , this evening workshop focuses first on literal translations of the mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafez from the original language, followed by discussion of interpretation and meaning.

By teaching and learning from Black working class women in the U.S. and by translating their experiences within a global class struggle, Catlett learned to “make a dress,” and in the process, Heatherton argues, became a revolutionary.

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This course is intended for those who both feel ready and can demonstrate a basic proficiency in Filipino/Pilipino, or have a basic understanding of Tagalog upon which the national language is based

This presentation will be the official launch of The Communiversity Forum (TCF) podcast with Dr. David Stovall of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

A memorial to 55th anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination. Primarily, this presentation will examine, unpack and demarcate fact from fiction regarding his revolutionary career.

A 4-week workshop teaching process of silkscreening, from a basic sketch to digital touch up and screen set up concluding with printing on fabric and paper.

We’re pleased to announce the Spring schedule for “Interpreting the Crisis,” a lecture series organized by TPF Director of Research, Jordan T. Camp. Please mark your calendars, and spread the word!

A close reading of Marx's Grundrisse. This is a rare opportunity to study Marx with David Harvey, wherever you may be located in the world!

*TPF is closed from March 10-23* Together, we will explore what it means to learn about a language of a nation forged in the flames of an anti-colonial revolution and continues to develop as a people in an ongoing national-democratic struggle.

A close reading of Marx's Grundrisse. This is a rare opportunity to study Marx with David Harvey, wherever you may be located in the world!

A convening intended to deepen our analysis of Christian nationalism, one of the strongest ideological forces behind the political and economic system dominating life in the US and globally.

A 3 part seminar on the history, formation, contributions, and legacy of Fidel Castro. We will seek to better understand his leadership as well as our evaluation of proletarian internationalism today.

Para el conquistador las negras eran mercancía, y en este primer siglo de asimilación colonial a través de cientos de documentos fueron no solamente cosificadas, sino también fueron doblemente subordinadas. Su condición de mujeres implicaba un sometimiento  ante el hombre, el marido o el tutor. Sin embargo, dentro de este proceso de sujeción las negras utilizaron los intersticios del poder para resistir y subvertir.

Join us for a 3 part seminar on the history, formation, contributions, and legacy of Fidel Castro. Through readings and discussion we will seek to better understand his leadership as well as our evaluation of proletarian internationalism today

As of 2019, India’s top 9 billionaires hold as much wealth as the country’s bottom 50% - more than 680 million people combined. This course will explore the processes that have made poverty and inequality particularly intractable in the Indian subcontinent.

As of 2019, India’s top 9 billionaires hold as much wealth as the country’s bottom 50% - more than 680 million people combined. This course will explore the processes that have made poverty and inequality particularly intractable in the Indian subcontinent.

As of 2019, India’s top 9 billionaires hold as much wealth as the country’s bottom 50% - more than 680 million people combined. This course will explore the processes that have made poverty and inequality particularly intractable in the Indian subcontinent.

As of 2019, India’s top 9 billionaires hold as much wealth as the country’s bottom 50% - more than 680 million people combined. This course will explore the processes that have made poverty and inequality particularly intractable in the Indian subcontinent.

This workshop will honor dreams silenced and deferred. Through the work of Carolyn Malachi and Langston Hughes we will reawaken our imagination and hone into realizing our dreams.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, is one of the most controversial forms of social welfare in the United States. Feeding the Crisis brings the voices of food-insecure families into national debates.

What lessons can we draw from history to guide us in the months and years to come? Join a conversation with economist Dr. Michael Hudson on the 2008 economic crisis, what's happened over the past  ten years, and what we can anticipate in 2020.

Join Keri Leigh Merritt and Rhae Lynn Barnes for a discussion on what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor.

We invite you to a 5-day, project-based course to produce a collective, mixed-media retrospective of the decade from the perspective of working-class struggle.

The Creole language was the first step for enslaved people in the French plantation colonies to emancipate themselves from the oppression of slavery. Join us for an introductory course on the basics of the Creole language!

In the last weeks, we have seen many uprisings around the world against and neoliberal projects. The People's Forum is convening a teach-in to share analysis of the current context in the American continent and the Middle East. Join us!

Through the works of Khalil Gibran and Rosamond King, we will journey through the processes of becoming a giver and examining the moments in which giving transitions from pleasure to exhaustion.

Activism may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of libraries and archives, but the work of librarians and archivists is inherently political.

Una serie de consejos para enfrentar riesgos en grupos activistas-- This workshop will touch on both online and offline security concerns, and show you how to make a plan to protect yourself whether you are an activist, journalist or concerned citizen

Join The Peoples Forum and the editors and contributors of the anthology The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South for a two-day investigation into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow.

This presentation investigates the trinity of the anti-fascist Black Freedom Struggle (1940s), the Ford Foundation and the Military Industrial Complex which became the catalyst for philanthropy of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Wall Street stands above all other command centers of global capitalism, and that’s why it’s so important that people struggling from below come here to see it for themselves – to reflect on the Wall Street Bull, the New York Stock Exchange, to know our history, and to know who we’re up against.

Join Lana Ramadan, the International Advocacy Officer for Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, for a deeper discussion on the conditions of Palestinian political prisoners and to discuss the ways we can mobilize and coordinate our efforts in support of prisoners and against the occupation.

If we’re serious about transforming our society, then we need to be serious about educating ourselves and our communities, and to equip ourselves with the knowledge we need to really build power.

How can we collectively honor our emotions and protect our spirits as we move into Fall & Winter?

The final session of this seven-part series will take up non-Christian theologies with the aim of expanding our understanding of how religious identity, practice, and understanding has formed and is forming through the struggle for liberation in the US.

The important issues of our time including poverty, inequality, divisions, intolerance, violence, resource-greed, alienation and identity assertion are all becoming increasingly acute. In this talk and seminar, we will be looking at this complex Gandhi and will try and understand his unique contributions to today’s debates.

Join us and create a story. The rehearsals of HOME will introduce different aspects of the research of the Open Program and will give the opportunity to work one on one on selected texts, songs and acting fragments.

This lecture will devote special attention to the mass of growth. It will ask: What  is the mass of growth? Who controls the mass of wealth?  What are we going to do with the mass that is produced? 

Level 3 reviews topics covered in Spanish 1 & 2 courses. Covers grammar review and text editing; focus is on short story writing and reading fiction by Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean women; hands-on practice on community interpreting and translation as a work skill

Level 2 reviews topics covered in Spanish 1 course. Expands vocabulary and idiomatic expressions; focus is on colloquial Spanish and differences among varieties; explores the use of inclusive, gender-neutral and anti-racist language.

Level 1 covers the basics of reading, writing and grammar; focus is on pronunciation and oral fluency; explores topics of identity, healing of language-based trauma, and overcoming affective barriers to Spanish learning.

We will learn about history of henna as an ancient form of body art, have an open discussion about the commercialization and contemporary use of henna in the entertainment, beauty and fashion industries, as well as a demonstration of henna art.

As millions of people across the globe face displacement, war, imprisonment, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas?

Identifying, unifying and training leaders to undertake a massive homeless organizing campaign is the purpose of the Committee to Re-establish the National Union of the Homeless.

The Worker Writers School’s fall assembly examines the legacies and futures of alternative modes of writing, study, and resistance.

Conversational Intermediate reviews topics covered in Arabic 1 & 2 courses. Covers grammar review and text editing; focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing and critically engaging with various colloquial Arabic cultural productions.

Join us to hear from a variety of privacy and security experts who will share trends they are witnessing and the next generation threats they see on the horizon that will impact activists, journalists and citizens across the globe in coming years.

The ideas and politics of the movement to end slavery can teach us valuable lessons for today’s struggles. This course aims prepare participants for deeper study of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction in America.

Join us for this teach-in geared towards building solidarity between the Kashmiri and Palestinian anti-occupation movements.

Wall Street stands above all other command centers of global capitalism, and that’s why it’s so important that people struggling from below come here to see it for themselves.

This course will seek to understand the recent political, social, and economic events in Puerto Rico before, during, and after the mass mobilizations that forced out the elected governor in July of 2019.

Together, we will explore what it means to learn about a language of a nation forged in the flames of an anti-colonial revolution and continues to develop as a people in an ongoing national-democratic struggle.

High Beginner reviews topics covered in Arabic 1 course. Expands vocabulary and idiomatic expressions; focus is on colloquial Arabic and differences among varieties through critically engaging with various Arabic-speaking pop culture.

This will be the sixth edition of the "Jazz and Self Determination" series where the primaries converse about the synthesis of jazz and socio political activity.

This month, we will be studying dances from Latin America.

In this program you will learn how to sing Middle Eastern Love Songs in Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian and Azeri languages.

This Info Session will provide information about Farm School's Citywide Certificate program. We'll share about program structure, schedule, cost, application process, and more!

With this workshop, we hope to raise our analysis of what it means to be an activist and deepen our understanding of the relationship between our organizing work, mental health and our individualisms.

This study will look at passages from the Bible and consider their history, economics, politics and morality. We will also relate the key messages from those passages to the moment we are in today.

A boot camp for feminist ideas, concepts and visions. Join us in this continuous forging of an unbreakable sisterhood through all our generations.

In Imperialism, Lenin provided a collective analysis for collective liberation. How can we better understand imperialism today, in order to build effective anti-imperial strategy for today’s world?

Be sure to attend the next installment of “Jazz and Self Determination”, a regular series where the primaries define the narrative concerning the social and artistic components of Jazz. A special emphasis is on the “free jazz’ revolution of the 1960’s.

Speakers include the authors of the books: Dan Kovalik, Danny Haiphong, and Roberto Sirvent. Book signing will follow.

A step by step guide through the process of silkscreening, from a basic sketch to digital touch up and screen set up concluding with printing on fabric and paper.

Through weekly social justice themes, and using a communicative and integrated skills approach, participants will improve their listening, speaking, reading, and writing of the target language.

This course will engage some of the most popular recent expressions of alternative religion in the US and what they might mean for our movement-building work today

This session introduces the worker co-op model to folks who are curious but not really familiar with it yet. Join us as we explore the radical possibilities that worker co-ops bring to our visions of the future!

This class draws on the fundamental concepts of human rights, including the history of struggles for human rights, to construct the idea of a right to not be poor in a time of plenty.

A lecture by Dr. David Stovall. This lecture seeks to help us understand the current connection between school closings, destruction of public housing and law enforcement strategies as a form of intentional state-sanctioned violence.

This is the 3rd in a series of workshops on the relationship between media and movement building. This 3rd session will feature the screening of short works by workshop participants

This workshop investigates the effects of the Black Power movement and SNCC’s radicalization on the national and international anti-colonial & imperialist student/youth led mobilizations of the mid 1960s to the early 1970s.

This workshop will assess how SNCC as the vanguard of the national Black/Student movement evolved from non-direct non-violence to develop a Black Nationalist & internationalist organizational mission in the midst of the shifting objectives of the overall Black Freedom Struggle of the early to mid 1960s.

Join the Revolutions Study Group for this 4-week course. Our four-week reading sources will be: Theodore W. Allen, "Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race," first published 1975, and W.E.B Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, 1903.

Join musician and scholar Ras Moshe for a panel and performance followed by a two session course examining the historical parallels between Jazz and socio-political engagement.

In this documentary, the Axé Women talk about their struggles to maintain their community’s African roots, bringing to light the matriarchal foundations of Candomblé and, consequently, a significant part of how Brazilian culture was built.

This course will look at three different passages from the Bible and consider their history, economics, politics and morality. We will also relate the key messages from those passages to the moment we are in today.

Wall Street stands above all other command centers of global capitalism, and that’s why it’s so important that people struggling from below come here to see it for themselves

A collective film assembled by Filipa César. On the verge of complete ruination, the footage testifies to the birth of Guinean cinema as part of the decolonising vision of Amílcar Cabral, the liberation leader assassinated in 1973.

This three-part seminar led by Dr. Jordan T. Camp and Rev. Claudia de la Cruz considers the role of conjunctural analysis in political and social movements. It will explore the development of this method by Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci.

In this three-part course we will explore some of the key theological concepts at the core of this tradition and examine some of the historical and contemporary social struggles that generate and sustain a liberatory vision of God.

Please join us for a discussion and reception as we celebrate the launch of two groundbreaking works by mother and daughter scholars and authors Barbara Foley and Margaret Stevens.

Join us as we commemorate seventy-one years since the Nakba - the loss of the Palestinian homeland and the expulsion of some 750,000 Palestinians during Israel’s establishment - with a teach-in at The People's Forum

Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. After solving the form that the production of wealth takes within a society where generalized commodity production prevails under the domination of capital, Marx takes on the next big question.

This will be an immersive reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's "The Almanac of the Dead." This course will explore what might we learn from "The Almanac of the Dead" about capitalist production and its relationship to the Indigenous situation in the Americas.

The Center for Language Justice and the People’s Forum are offering beginner-level courses to folks who have little to no prior knowledge of Arabic.

This course explores the position that historically oppressed groups in the US — Puerto Ricans and Native, African, Chinese, Japanese and Mexican Americans have occupied in the US economy. We outline the Materialist/Marxist analysis of race ideology and how if differs from other interpretations. We also analyze the theoretical and political contributions that radicals of color in the US have made to the fight for human liberation.

Join us for the Launch of Sónia Vaz Borges’s new book, "Militant Education, liberation struggle and consciousness. The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978."  Sónia will be joined for a discussion with Craig Wilson.

If our current economic and political systems are failing to realize human rights, where do we look for alternatives?

Drawing on religious and cultural references, news media, and other sources, we will examine the deeply entrenched ideologies that keep society at large from recognizing the breadth and depth of poverty and, therefore, prevent us from seeking long-term and real solutions that can end poverty.

Join us for a book talk with author Max Elbaum on the re-release of his book, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.  Max will joined for a discussion by leader and scholar Willie Baptist. 

Wall Street stands above all other command centers of global capitalism, and that’s why it’s so important that people struggling from below come here to see it for themselves

Join us, along with writer/philosopher A. Shahid Stoverand professor LaRose T. Parris for an engaging and critical dialogue about Being and Insurrection, a work of existential liberation theory rooted in lived Black experience.

This one-day course will explore how structural changes in US capitalism since the 1970s have transformed North Americans’ intimate life: our sexuality, relationships, marriages, families, and job expectations.

Join us for the launch of Paul Ortiz's new book, An African American and Latinx History of the United States; a recasting of American history which explores the power of the people to organize and triumph over corrupt institutions.

Join Dr. Michael Hudson, New Testament Scholar Dr. Aliou Niang and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Biblical Scholar and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, for a discussion on the history of debt and what it means for our context today. Moderated by Shailly Gupta Barnes and the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice.

A review of the 2008 capitalist crisis with a reading and discussion of David McNally’s Global Slump and other works.

Este curso es para principiantes y el objetivo es acercarnos a formas alternativas de entender nuestras relaciones con el mundo natural, el tiempo y el espacio. Está abierto a participantes de todas las edades. Este curso será instruido en Español.

Join us for the launch of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: a People’s History of Fake News, From the Revolutionary War to the War On Terror. Speakers include Danny Haiphong, Ajamu Baraka, and Glen Ford, moderated by Brittany Friedman.

Join activists who will explain Lula’s case, the rise of the far-right in Brazil and how to join the fight to free Lula and regain democracy in Brazil.

Please join us for the launch of Eric Blanc's Red State Revolt (forthcoming from Verso) with a discussion featuring Eric, Jane McAlevey, and Emily Comer

The workshop will define and teach concepts such as structure and context, strategy and tactics, correlation of forces and hegemony, and then engage students in a limited approach to making their own analysis using those concepts.

Jazz: Music of the Black Holocaust is an introductory course that seeks to explore intersections of “jazz” music, historical perspectives of the African diaspora and their role and impact on contemporary society. Students will be introduced to basic jazz rhythms, melodies, harmonies, jazz culture, fashion and development through multi-media that includes videos, films and recordings. Open to the public.

This four hour seminar, taught by Richard D. Wolff, will summarize and apply the critical and analytical power of basic Marxist economics to today's dominant economic theories and their accompanying ideologies.

The course will cover the context for the rise of the National Union of the Homeless, the history of the movement, lessons from its successes and failures, and the organizing approach it helped to define

This six week course will explore this age of anxiety and its fetishization of the self. The course will be structured around Konstantinos Tsoukalas’ recent book Age of Anxiety and will also include readings from W.H. Auden, Leonard Cohen, Michael Sandel, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Erich Fromm.

Join us for an interactive educational session discussing personal migration stories and clearing up political confusions. Let’s connect the dots and analyze individual worries and troubles in the context of the larger systemic and social issues.

This course will examine the role of the legal system as an historically-evolved mechanism and codification of the capitalist system, as well as a “relief valve” that functions to contain the social justice movement, especially the struggles of the dispossessed. This course will also consider the part that can be played by legal practitioners in revolutionary societal transformation.

Opening out the real and the human against the abstract and the brutal, the film seeks to confront advocates of amnesia in Kashmir as well as in other conflict zones.

The ideas and politics of the movement to end slavery can teach us valuable lessons for today’s struggles. This course aims prepare participants for deeper study of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction in America.

This 3-part series will cover the following themes of the last historic campaign of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and its contemporary revival as the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

This special, 3-part film screening will present a series of documentaries that show the historical background of the Vieques case, so that we can understand, accompany and learn from the Vieques struggle.

This seminar will address the very ambivalent and volatile relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophical discourse

A tour to reflect on the Wall Street Bull, the New York Stock Exchange, our history, and to who we're up against in global capitalism. It helps us to see how all of our isolated fights ultimately lead us here.

This course will discuss what it means to be Left, both in the past and in the present and will posit some thoughts for a new left formation adequate to the demands of the contemporary world.

The centerpiece of this 2nd session is a sneak preview screening of the 30-minute documentary film Empire State Rumblings. We will have the filmmakers and some activists involved in this organizing present for discussion after the film. The focus will be on how the filmmakers and activists collaborated around the project.

Join Mariame Kaba during Women's History Month for a discussion about the Sojourners and their "Call to Negro Women."

During this teach-in, the instructors will present a brief historical overview of the Kashmir issue, and discuss the contemporary context of state violence and repression and youth resistance.

A conversation with Fezokuhle Mthonti a journalist, author, cultural critic, organizer and organic intellectual from South Africa. She writes about culture for New Frame, and is committed to writing from a feminist perspective.

Join musician and scholar Ras Moshe for a three session course examining the historical parallels between Jazz and socio-political engagement.

This celebration of Beulah Sander's way of organizing will lift up the genius of this national hero and draw lessons for organizing the poor against the crises we face today.

When co-op members are encouraged to show up with honesty and directness, engaged co-op leaders can bring together divergent opinions and diverse experiences to deal with disagreement constructively.

Cuando se alienta a lxs miembrxs de la cooperativa a presentarse con honestidad y franqueza, lxs líderes cooperativos comprometidos pueden reunir opiniones divergentes y experiencias diversas para enfrentar el desacuerdo de manera constructiva.

This three-session course (March 7, 14, 21) uses popular education methodologies to take a critical look at common explanations for poverty and inequality, and the ways those concepts are usually defined and talked about.

Thursdays, March 7th - June 13th, 2019 5:30-8:30PM (3hrs/week; 45 hrs.) The Center for Language Justice and the People’s Forum are offering beginner-level courses to folks who have little to no prior knowledge of Arabic.

Join us in the launch of Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement. Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.

This two-part seminar will explore key concepts developed by revolutionary leader Antonio Gramsci that address how social groups gain, expand, and maintain their power to lead.

Manu Karuka's new book Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019) boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path

Farm School NYC, Cornell Cooperative Extension Urban Agriculture Program and Cornell Small Farms Program are partnering on this six-week course that explores the ethnography and social justice aspects of growing mushrooms and trains new and experienced farmers in the background, techniques, and economics of farm scale indoor commercial production.

Sundays, February 24th, 2019 - June 2nd, 2019 10:00pm-1:00pm (3hrs./week; 45 hrs.) The Center for Language Justice and the People’s Forum are offering beginner-level courses to folks who have little to no prior knowledge of Spanish.

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, a regular Intercept Brasil contributor, will discuss the rise of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his far-right political party.

LOVE. LIGHT & POETRY seeks to propel individuals to hone into their purposes and sacred paths. This workshop will cultivate a conversation between one’s life purpose and their legacy.

In this 2-day workshop we will explore the technique of FORUM THEATER over two days. Participants will learn the basic skills needed to create, perform and lead the Forum Theater format for use in their respective communities. We will explore our bodies as a tool of representing feelings, ideas, and relationships and explore collective solutions to everyday problems.

New York State Poor People’s Campaign, the Kairos Center, and The People’s Forum are excited to present a workshop on MEDIA MATCHMAKERS FOR A NEW WORLD: A 3-part collaborative workshop of screening, discussions, and media work.

Malcolm X’s life and career as influenced by the women who taught, supported and admired his trajectory from his very humble beginnings as a wayward teen to his international prominence as freedom fighter for human rights and dignity of Black and all oppressed peoples throughout the world.

This workshop will assess how Malcolm X’s educational practices and "glocal" political praxis influenced the Nation of Islam, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, Revolutionary Action Movement and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement from the the latter 1960s through the anti-imperialist struggles of the 1970s.

Seminar of the NYC Marxist Studies Collective at the People's Forum conducted by Russell Dale. This course will be a careful reading of the first third of Marx's great economic analysis and critique of capitalism, Capital, volume one. This will be the first of three consecutive courses (Spring, Summer, Fall 2019) in which we will carefully read and discuss the entire work.

This course will investigate the relationship between social movements and religious traditions. Religions have been both oppressive forces and forces of liberation in the history of human struggle and these tensions have been critical to the development and sustaining of social movements around the world.

This panel of academics who both live and work in the South will help activists, organizers, and concerned citizens better understand the struggles and triumphs of the region. With Keri Leigh Merritt will open with a talk focused on economics. Hilary Green will then discuss education, Bob Hutton will concentrate on labor and unionization, and Booker Mattison will talk about the importance of the arts in the South.

If we’re serious about transforming our society, then we need to be serious about educating ourselves and our communities, and to equip ourselves with the knowledge we need to really build power.

This four session seminar explores the political economy of racism with Professor Manu Karuka. We will work to denaturalize racism as something that needs to be explained, rather than accepted as a facet of social life. We will analyze race as a process and relationship internal to the capital relation itself.

February 6th, 2019 - April 5th, 2019 Wednesdays & Fridays 5:30pm-8:00pm (5hrs./week; 45 hrs.) The Center for Language Justice and the People’s Forum are offering high beginner-level Spanish to folks who have already completed a semester-long beginner course.

This course will look at three different passages from the Bible and consider their history, economics, politics and morality. We will also relate the key messages from those passages to the moment we are in today.

A three-day class that will take participants into the political, personal and powerful journey of creating original performance poetry pieces. This class will help students discover and mold their own poetic voice and stage presence.

A close reading of the text of Volume I of Marx’s Capital with Professor David Harvey. This semester-long class meets on Tuesdays from 6:00pm - 8:00pm beginning on February 5th. Registration is now closed.

This session has been canceled . This session is for students, who participated in the Kairos Center's fall series of classes to share thoughts and reflections on how the classes went and areas for improvement. 

We all need healthcare, and less and less of us can afford it. This class will introduce the economics and politics of health and healthcare, take a critical look at the “solutions” to the healthcare crisis, and put forward the visions and strategies of grassroots groups organizing for their human right to healthy lives and to the care we need, when we need it.

This workshop is one of a four-part series titled “The Franchise” which aims to explore the political and economic foundation sustaining the arch of the criminal justice system, and the role of community surveillance in this process.

This training will teach people ways of fighting back against oppression in their daily lives. We will explore our bodies as a tool of representing feelings, ideas, and relationships.

Join us as we explain how to break down food labels, examine neighborhood demographics and their relationship to available options, and how to be prepared in a society that benefits from our sickness.

Taught by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, this three-part course will reclaim the radical teachings of the Bible around poverty, wealth and power that have been lost to many of our movements.

This one-day class is about popular education - an approach to teaching and learning that connects theory, experience, and practical work for social change.

During this series of workshops, we will closely examine the Buddha's teachings on communal harmony as preserved in the Pāli Suttas (the oldest extant collection of his words), and discuss how we can adapt and apply them to contemporary circumstances. 

The workshop will define and teach concepts such as structure and context, strategy and tactics, correlation of forces and hegemony, and then engage students in a limited approach to making their own analysis using those concepts.

The course will examine some of the principles behind liberation theology as it has emerged in historical struggles of the poor, including Latin American Liberation Theology, Black Liberation Theology, as well as in the context of non-Christian contexts.

A tour to reflect on the Wall Street Bull, the New York Stock Exchange, our history, and to who we're up against in global capitalism. It helps us to see how all of our isolated fights ultimately lead us here.

This seminar is an overview of the historical and contemporary significance of the U.S. South. Areas of focus will include the abolitionist movement, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Southern labor struggles of the Depression era, and the "Long Civil Rights Movement" of the 1940's-60's.

Three-part class on October 23, 6-7:30pm, October 25, 6-7:30pm, and October 28, 2-3:30pm Between the

This course explores the prevailing explanations for why poverty exists today and reveals the deeply entrenched ideologies that prevent us from seeking long-term and real solutions that can end poverty.

This one-day course is an introduction to the National Union of the Homeless (NUH) - an organization led by homeless individuals and families which was active from the mid-80’s to the early 90’s, and came to include some of the key leaders of the Tompkins Square Park encampment.

This one-day course uses popular education methodologies to take a critical look at common explanations for poverty and inequality, and the ways those concepts are usually defined and talked about.

Through weekly social justice themes, and using a communicative and integrated skills approach, participants will improve their listening, speaking, reading, and writing of Spanish.

How did the oppression of women, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them, originate and develop historically? Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.

This course with Johanna Fernández explores the position that historically oppressed groups in the US have occupied in the US economy.

A Marxian class analysis around four areas of inquiry: Capitalist enterprises- merchant, industrial, and financial; Households and the State; Globalization; and Socialism and Communism.

This class, taught by Peter Bratsis, will examine the concept of democracy and how it has been incorporated within the Marxist tradition.

In this workshop with Rabih Ahmed, participants will define self-preservation and affirm it through the creation of original poetic works. Through interactive writing exercises they will begin to hone into their life’s purposes.

Join us as we explain Amazon's rise and discuss wealth accumulation and brainstorm working class responses to our present economic conditions.

Through a general, yet rigorous survey, this class, taught by Michael Pelias, will examine Marx’s use of philosophical materialism in his early manuscripts as well as a critical and analytical approach to the schools of Marxist philosophy.

The workshop's aim is to help children work collectively to create stories that empower and celebrate people of different backgrounds.

Join TechActivist.Org for a conversation with Guest Speaker Sister Elaine Brown as we discuss the inclusion of technology in the liberation movement.

This course, taught by Stanley Aronowitz, will address the idea of progress in History through a careful and close reading of texts from Adorno and Horkheimer.

This 8-week survey will be an exploration of selected pieces of music, visual art, and films that are alternative forms of revolt that both deepens our consciousness and inspires resistance

A 4-part series, taught by Kairos Center staff, covering the main themes of the last historic campaign of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and its contemporary revival as the Poor People’s Campaign.

A tour to reflect on the Wall Street Bull, the New York Stock Exchange, our history, and to who we're up against in global capitalism. It helps us to see how all of our isolated fights ultimately lead us here.

A Marxian class analysis around four areas of inquiry: Capitalist enterprises- merchant, industrial, and financial; Households and the State; Globalization; and Socialism and Communism.

This training will teach people ways of fighting back against oppression in their daily lives. We will explore our bodies as a tool of representing feelings, ideas, and relationships.

This workshop will define and teach concepts such as structure and context, strategy and tactics, correlation of forces and hegemony, and then engage students in a limited approach to making their own analysis using those concepts.

By exploring radical urban theories, this course by Miguel Robles-Durán, aims to challenge the way in which social movements and activisms function today and questions their true capacity to engage with the dynamics and modalities of capitalism.

This one-day class is about popular education - an approach to teaching and learning that connects theory, experience, and practical work for social change.

During this series of Sutta Study classes with Bhante Suddhaso, a Buddhist monk in the Thai Forest tradition, we'll be creating a solid foundation of understanding upon which we can build a successful meditation practice.

This course, with Professor David Harvey, will explore all three volumes of Marx's Capital.