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[Video] Short Introduction to “Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism” by Peter Hudis
A short video explaining the author’s book, Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism – Editors

[Video] Understanding Rosa Luxemburg’s Life and Work
Interview with Peter Hudis, editor of the Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, on the life and legacy of Rosa Luxemburg. In cooperation with Verso Books and the Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung – Editors.

[Video] Um Marx do ponto de vista da periferia
Summary: This short video on the new translation of Kevin B. Anderson’s “Marx at the Margins” was first published on the website of Boitempo Editorial (Sao Paulo) on December 18, 2019, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FppS1YizO7E#action=share — Editors

[Audio] Peter Hudis’s Introduction to Reading “Marxism and Freedom” by Raya Dunayevskaya
In this January 2019 talk to an ongoing study group in Sheffield, UK (contact us for more info), Peter Hudis introduces Dunayevskaya’s Marxism and Freedom and takes up its importance for today – Editors
[Audio] Marx & Colonialism
Summary: Chris Nineham interviews Kevin B. Anderson on race, colonialism and revolution, especially in Marx’s late writings. First appeared in Counterfire (22 minutes) — Editors

[Video] Walkout at the Left Forum against Ajamu Baraka’s Assad Apologism
Summary: The pro-Syria revolution left walked out of Green Party leader Ajamu Baraka’s speech at the Left Forum in New York, due to his longstanding support of the murderous Assad regime. First appeared in Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice (CPRSJ), here https://cprsj.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/walkout-at-the-left-forum-against-ajamu-barakas-assad-apologism/ — Editors

[Video] What Does the Working Class Know? A Report on the Left Forum
Summary: Douglas Lain of Zero Books on what he takes to have been the highlights of Left Forum 2018. Marxist-Humanism features prominently, with Peter Hudis’s theorization of Marx’s concept of labor contrasted to that of the late Moishe Postone –Editors

[Video] From Marx and Bakunin in the First International through the Russian Revolution
Summary: Panel discussion at the Orange County (LA area) Anarchist Book Fair, with two anarchists and one Marxist-Humanist — Editors

[Audio] Marx on Life After Capitalism
Summary: Capitalism appears to many to be a failed system. We’re also told that the alternative posed by Karl Marx is similarly bankrupt. As against the experience of the Soviet Union and China, Peter Hudis argues that freedom — including from a repressive state apparatus — was central to Marx’s concept of life after capitalism. Sasha Lilley interview with Peter Hudis on “Against the Grain,” KPFK-FM, Pacifica Radio (1 hr) — Editors

[Video] Luxemburg Saw Reform as a Means and Revolution as the Goal
Summary: From plenary panel at Left Forum, New York, on “Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution?” that also featured Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff, and moderated by Laura Flanders (20 mins.)Â — Editors

[Video] Why Frantz Fanon Matters to Today’s Struggles Against Racism and Imperialism
Summary: This lecture by Hudis on his 2015 book, Frantz Fanon, Philosopher of the Barricades, was presented to a March 13, 2016 meeting of the Los Angeles chapter of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization at the Westside Peace Center (60 minutes), here: part 1 of 2 and part 2 of 2 — Editors

[Audio] Red Rosa: Eagle of the Revolution
Summary: Kate Evans, co-author (with Paul Buhle) of Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography; Peter Hudis, General Editor of Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg; and Mirjam Zadoff of Indiana University — in conversation on March 8 2016 (International Women’s Day) on Doug Storm’s “Interchange” on radiofreeamerica (WFHB radio), Bloomington, Indiana (60 mins.), HERE — Editors.

[Audio] Interchange — Frantz Fanon: Toward a New Humanism
Summary: Conversation about Peter Hudis’s new book, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades, hosted by Doug Storm on “Interchange,” a program on WHFB, Bloomington (Indiana) Community Radio (1 hr.) — Editors

[Audio] SOAS Panel on Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades
Summary: — In November 2015, the student organization Decolonizing Our Minds at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, brought out several hundred youth to a discussion by Selim Nadi, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Peter Hudis of the latter’s new book, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Peter’s presentation starts 39 minutes in) — Editors

[Video] Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
Summary: Presentation to Open University of the Left, Chicago, April 18, 2015. Covers Marx on the alternative to capitalism, worker cooperatives, and overcoming value production, with discussion from the floor (118 minutes) – Editors