The Brecht Forum

The Weekend of May 14 and 15 with Don Milligan, Greg Albo, Hillary Wainwright, Adolph Reed, Jr., Toure Reed, Vishwas Satgar, James Schneider and Sam Gindin.

The Weekend of May 21 / 22

May 7 and 8: Marcello Musto on Communism, John Bellamy Foster on Ecology, Jane Holgate on the newfound militancy in the labor movement. For Sunday you can also register at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/329769999947

Over the next two weekends at the Marxist Education Project.

May Day 2022
Building Alternatives in Rojava

Tomorrow afternoon, last day of April.

April turns to May with these next five events, the first of which takes place this coming Saturday, April 30.

TODAY
4 pm US and Canada EDT
Peter Gelderloos visits to explain Solutions Are Already Here. Read his new book from Pluto Press. Online the discount code is MEP

Starting this Tuesday afternoon, we cover the world from Brazil and Indonesia to Rojava on May 1.

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Next 3 events begin with 2 this weekend. Medicare for All on Saturday, Global Struggles of the Working Class on Sunday

Upcoming weekend of April 9 and 10 brings class to the forefront of discussion with Mark Dudzic opening up with a talk on the ongoing urgency of the fight for Medicare for All on Saturday.

With the class struggle victory for Amazon workers in Staten Island this weekend we offer a discussion of Arise with author Jane Holgate on Saturday, and on Sunday, Patrick O’Hare visits to discuss his book on the hygienic enclosures of the waste commons. Drawing on history and case studies of unions developing the effective use of power, Jane Holgate’s “Arise” lays out strategies for moving beyond the pessimism that prevails
in much of today’s union movement. By placing power analysis back at the heart of workers’ struggle, the chapters of “Arise” demonstrate that transformational change is not only possible, but within reach. In “Rubbish Belongs to the Poor”, Patrick O’Hare journeys to the heart of Uruguay’s waste disposal system in order to reconceptualize rubbish as a 21st century commons, at risk of enclosure.

April begins Friday and Saturday Jane Holgate visits to get this month's events rolling with a presentation on her new book Arise.
More info and tickets for Saturday's and other April events at marxedproject.org or respective Eventbrite listings such as this for Arise: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/268458906817

From marxists.org one can find the timeline for of the Paris Commune. 151 years ago, the three days of the weekend we are experiencing had at least these moments:

• March 26: A municipal council — the Paris Commune — is elected by the citizens of Paris. Commune consists of workers, among them members of the First International and followers of Proudhon and Blanqui.

• March 28: The Central Committee of the National Guard, which up to then had carried on the government, resigns after it first decrees the permanent abolition of the "Morality Police".

• March 30: The Commune abolishes conscription and the standing army; the National Guard, in which all citizens capable of bearing arms were to be enrolled, was to be the sole armed force. The Commune remitts all payments of rent for dwelling houses from October 1870 until April 1871. On the same day the foreigners elected to the Commune were confirmed in office, because "the flag of the Commune is the flag of the World Republic".

Tomorrow, Mark Lause comes online with the MEP tomorrow afternoon to explain much from his new book, Soldiers of Revolution.

register at marxedproject.org or

with Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/265454711187

Tomorrow at 2 pm Jason Read will make his first presentation at The Marxist Education Project. Tickets at marxedproject.org or at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/272287939557

For a number of the upcoming weeks the MEP will be having a Magnificent Seven of events each week on various platforms.

a $25 donation at marxedproject.org gets one admission to all 7 events