Events

The revolutionary waves of 1968 crisscrossed the globe and involved a variety of forces of revolution in the US, from students to the Black and Latinx communities and the nascent women’s liberation movement. The Chicanx East LA school walkouts will get particular attention in our discussion. 1968 reached its revolutionary high point in France, where workers joined students in occupying everything, almost toppling the capitalist state. Important developments also occurred in Czechoslovakia, where an experiment in socialist humanism was crushed by Russian tanks, in Mexico where students faced massacre by the state, and with Japan’s radical student movement.

Understanding MARXISM & FREEDOM 60 Years Later – A Discussion of Raya Dunayevskaya’s Revolutionary Text

September 23, 2018
6:30-8:30 PM

Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 101-102

Raya Dunayevskaya’s classic 1958 book speaks to contemporary struggles and debates over automation and precarity, race and class, the exploitation and alienation of labor, the causes of economic crises, and the dialectic in Hegel and Marx.

The Amazing Miss Macfarlane

September 15, 2018
18:30–21:30

The Space
257 London Road, G40 1PE Glasgow, United Kingdom

200 years ago Helen Macfarlane was born in Barrhead, destined to become a Chartist revolutionary, radical philosopher and campaigner for equality. We’re coming together to celebrate her life.

Marx at 200: Capital, Class, and More

September 6, 2018
6:30 PM

The Commons
388 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY

As we mark Marx’s 200th anniversary, it is clear that the emancipation of labor from capitalist alienation and exploitation is a task that still confronts us. Marx’s concept of the worker is not limited to European white males, but includes Irish and Black superexploited and therefore doubly revolutionary workers, as well as women of all races and nations.