Sunday, March 13, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, Cal.
This Sunday, 3/13, our meeting “Solidarity with revolutionary Rojava!” will also be a celebration of International Women’s Day.
In Rojava, Kurds brought a new life to an archaic communal form. Equality for women became a crucial aspect of a social revolution. See “Witnessing Revolution [=>]
This Sunday, 12/13, we continue our series “The revolutionary archives of Raya Dunayevskaya”
The second session is titled “How does Marx’s concept of freedom speak to today’s global economic crises? A Decade of Historic Transformations: From the Grundrisse to Capital“
Is economics a dismal science? How is Marx’s idea of freedom integral to his diving into economics?
This diving began in his [=>]
Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015, 6:30 pm
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, Ca.
In “Killing Mockingbird” (Nov/Dec N&L) C. Safos shows how today’s Black Lives Matter movement totally shakes up the ground for debates about iconic American novels that deal with race like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Come participate in discussing [=>]
Today, September 1, 2015, the prisoners suing the State of California and its prison system announced a settlement, in which the State agreed to abolish its practice of sending people to solitary confinement for an indeterminate term based on the person’s “validation” as supposed gang member.
Photo by Urszula Wislanka.
Photo by Urszula [=>]
Sunday, Aug. 30, 6:30 p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, Ca.
Four years ago Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (PB SHU) prisoners staged their first hunger strike, awakening a nationwide movement in and outside prisons against the pervasive use of long term solitary confinement. Today there are many challenges to what is internationally recognized as state sanctioned [=>]
This Sunday, 8/09/15, at 6:30 pm, will discuss short (2-page) pieces on new local moments of Marxist-Humanism in thought and action: from a recent discussion of Walter Benjamin at the U.S. Social Forum to new exciting developments in the prison movement. Urszula and Ron just returned from hearing many perspectives on the impact of the prisoners’ [=>]
Sunday, 7/26, 6:30 pm, Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
On the 20th Anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre:
How the fascist genocide still haunts today’s crisis ridden world, including the Left which still hasn’t faced the tragedy of Bosnia.
Italian premiere Renzi recently commented that the plight of drowning immigrants fleeing war and terror in Africa was “Europe’s Srebrenica today”. Renzi’s moment [=>]
Sunday, October 5, 6:30 p.m.Niebyl-Proctor Library6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz), Oaklandcome up the back stairs
In the March 2001 News & Letters, John Alan’s Black/Red column, “Hegel and Black history,” was an appreciation and critique of Susan Buck-Morss’ original article “Hegel and Haiti” where she took the whole world of Hegel scholarship to task for not [=>]
There is compelling evidence that the Haitian Revolution of 1803 was a source for Hegel’s narrative on the master/slave relation in the PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT.
