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 a**lysis 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

This coming Sunday marks 151 years and a day since the people of Paris elected a municipal council—the Paris Commune—including many workers from the First International. This coming Sunday, March 27, also marks when the Marxist Education Project will host author Mark Lause and his new book from Verso, SOLDIERS OF REVOLUTION. Tickets available at our website marxedproject.org or at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/265454711187

Bill Fletcher, Samir Gandesha and Ingar Solty visit the Marxist Education Project tomorrow for the 2nd session of panels with authors from Socialist Register #58 (2022): New Polarizations, Old Contradictions, The Cristis of Centrism. There are 3 more events this March, with next weekend traveling with Spinoza and Marx on Saturday and moving to Paris Sunday for Mark Lause's talk on his new book of the Paris Commune, Soldiers of the Revolution on Sunday, March 27.

Jacobin has been featuring a number of important articles on the Philippines during 2022. The Marxist Education Project is featuring Gina Apostol speaking on her challenging, liberating, beautiful book of resistance to the US and authoritarian dictatorship, INSURRECTO this coming Saturday, speaking in conversation with Patricia McManus, founder of The Dystopia Project. Background to the current situation in the Phillipines here from Jacobin (the poster to Gina's: presentation is below): https://jacobinmag.com/2022/03/philippines-social-democrats-communists-election-marcos-duterte-robredo

3rd Presentation in this year's series from Socialist Register 58: New Polarizations, Old Contradictions, The Crisis of Centrism will be on Sunday, April 10.

It is March.The Marxist Education Project invites all to one or all of our seven events this month.

On March 12 Gina Apostol will visit The Marxist Education Project to discuss her novel INSURRECTO with Patricia McManus, Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton and founder of the Dystopia Project.

Tomorrow Anitra Nelson visits The Marxist Education Project’s zoomroom to present on her last work, Beyond Money: A Post-Capitalist Strategy.
register at marxedproject.org
or at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/242422691797

Meet two Steves on Saturday for The Art of Activism, a guide for all anti-capitalists to get their messages out more dynamically, from OR Books, and then on Sunday Socialist Register editor Greg Albo brings together Walden Bello, Simon Mohun and Samir Sonti to address the ongoing crisis of capital in the first talk of the Socialist Register series for 2022. On the last weekend of February Anitra Nelson visits from Melbourne to speak on a post-capital world that would be without money.

Anitra Nelson, speaking at The Marxist Education Project two weekends away, is in the current issue of Radical Ecological Democracy. See you on the 26th!

https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/is-post-capitalism-post-money%ef%bf%bc/

Don't miss this opportunity to participate in a new class on Animals and Capitalism starting March 2.

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen visits the MEP the day of the Super Bowl. His talk: “Late Capitalist Fascism”, based on Mikkel's new book of the same title from Polity Press: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=late-capitalist-fascism--9781509547432

Tickets at marxedproject.org or Eventbrite : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/255727867937

February events begin at The Marxist Education Project with Terry Leahy visiting from Australia online to discuss The Politics of Permaculture. A few weeks later, Anitra Nelson presents the fifth and final event of February 2022 discussing her new book, Beyond Money. Anitra will also be visiting from Australia.

2022 Socialist Register (the 58th edition!)
4 sessions this year beginning February 20. See you there.

When reading through those who lived with Marx, including daughter Eleanor, we know that Marx read through and thought much of writing out an a**lysis of the Comedie Humaine. This winter/spring the Marxist Education Project is opening the Never-Ending War series with Balzac's “Colonel Chabert”. From Balzac: “He was approaching one of those diseases for which the science of medicine has no name, the sea of which is, in a way, movable (like the nervous system which is the part of our machinery most frequently attacked), an affection which we must call ‘the spleen of sorrow’.”

Sunday, January 23, 2 pm US and Canada EST
a discussion of the influence on the left of the 60s and 70s, and what remains important to the left of today in the thought and works of Henri Lefebvre and Louis Althusser with Andy Merrifield

Capital and Detroit: We open our 2022 event programming with A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF DETROIT. More events are posting — and the new class on István Mészáros’ NECESSITY OF SOCIAL CHANGE on Wednesday evenings. More program listings at marxedproject.org

Join in for an event tomorrow at 2 pm US ad Canada EST/ 7 pm GMT
co-sponsored with Shelter and Solidarity in Boston with Socialism & Democracy, Encuentro5, Hardball Press
as Himani Bannerji, Michael Brie, Gregory Claeys, and Silvia Federici are joined by editor Marcello Musto for a presentation with discussion of Rethinking Alternatives with Marx on Economy, Ecology and Migration.

Free registration on Eventbrite. See link below.

The Marxist Education Project joins with Shelter and Solidarity, Encuentro5 and Socialism and Democracy to present Himani Bannerji, Michael Brie, Gregory Claeys, Silvia Federici, Marcello Musto in a presentation on the publication on the book Rethinking Alternatives with Marx: Economy, Ecology and Migration. ADMISSION IS FREE or by donation if you wish.

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/207199097077

First four events of December begin this coming Saturday, December 4 when Phil Gaspar visits to explain the process and results of the annotated Communist Manifesto, an essential book from Haymarket press. The very next day, Sunday, December 5, Zoe Beloff arrives to explain The Parade of the Old New—a 19 foot wide accordion folded book that is essential to our creative opposition to capital.

Tomorrow is November 26. A great day to avoid the shopping frenzy and revisit The Communist Manifesto and The Art of Diane Esmond.

This weekend: Two days at Two pm (Eastern Standard Time, US and Canada)

3 essential events begin tonight when Alessandro Delfanti visits with a presentation on his new book, The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon.