WHEN: Sunday, November 12, 2017, 6:30 pm
WHERE: Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz), Oakland, Ca.
Bay Area News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
October and “What Happens After?”
October by science fiction writer China Mieville tells the story of the 1917 Russian Revolution from February to October, calling those earthshaking events “still ground zero for [=>]
WHEN: Monday, November 13, 2017, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
The 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
“From the proof that revolution can succeed and the working class can attain power, the magnificent events of 1917 Russian Revolution [=>]
The deadline for the November-December 2017 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, October 29.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. News & Letters will run articles and Readers’ Views [=>]
WHEN: Monday, October 16, 2017, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Mexico and Puerto Rico: When “natural phenomena” reveal the oppressive nature of capitalism
On Puerto Rico: “Trump starkly expressed the logic of capitalism when speaking of Puerto Rico to the National Association of Manufacturers. [=>]
Saturday, October 14 at 2 PM – 4 PM
Federal Plaza, Adams and S. Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60604
Day of Syrian Rage
A Global Day of Human Conscience
Hosted by Umyma Abogoda
Activists of the Syrian revolution invite you to protest in the capitals, and wherever decisions are made around the world; to share in our expressions [=>]
WHEN: Monday September 25, 2017, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion:
On its 150th anniversary, let’s talk about Marx’s Capital
¯ As Trump’s racist, sexist neo-fascism threatens to take hold in the U.S., what relevance does Marx’s Capital hold for today’s activists?
¯ [=>]
WHEN: Monday, September 11, 2017, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Rising U.S. racism challenges all freedom movements
“On the night of Aug. 11, over a thousand Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, and ‘alt-right’ marchers invaded the University of Virginia, attacking students [=>]
The deadline for the September-October 2017 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, August 20.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. Nationwide, events have been held in solidarity [=>]
When: Wednesday, August 16, 2017, 6:30 PM
Where: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to an Editing Session
Bring your article or story to the Editing Session and learn about revolutionary journalism at the same time. Get a preview of what will be in the September-October issue and add your [=>]
When: Wednesday, June 14, 2017, 6:30 PM
Where: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash #230, Chicago IL 60604
Come and be a part of revolutionary journalism! Help shape the next issue of News & Letters. Discuss what should be covered, respond to drafts of articles, share your own story with the world! Report on your workplace, [=>]
The deadline for the July-August 2017 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, June 18.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. Demonstrations and discussions have mushroomed since the [=>]
Sunday, June 11, 6 PM
Echo Park United Methodist Church, 1226 N. Alvarado (north of Sunset, side door), Los Angeles, CA
International Forum — News & Letters and Praxis en América Latina:
Repression, Resistance, Rebellion in the U.S. and Mexico
● Immigrants and allies challenge Trump’s inhumanity
● Zapatistas, National Indigenous Congress, Ayotzinapa parents
speakers: Buddy Bell, Eugene Walker
WHEN: Wednesday, May 17, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
The Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2017-2018
Philosophy and revolt confront Trump’s drive to fascism
I. Trumpism as an excrescence of world capitalism’s crises
II. The capital relation
III. U.S. forces of revolt as reason; philosophy [=>]
The deadline for the May-June 2017 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, April 16.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. Demonstrations and discussions have mushroomed since the [=>]
WHEN: Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Trump and the Failing Capitalism That Employs Him
Capitalism’s degeneracy is manifest in President Donald Trump’s regime’s attempt to gut social services, legislate misogyny, demonize immigrants and Muslims and [=>]
WHEN: Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Committees Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
Resist now or regret it later! From the Jan. 21, 2017, Chicago Women’s March. Photo by Terry Moon for News & Letters.
Even before all the litter had been cleared from U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration, [=>]
The deadline for the March-April 2017 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, February 26.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world—such as Trump’s moves to pull the world far [=>]
WHEN: Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Trump’s fascism is NOT the new normal—opposition to it is!
Trump’s inauguration was immediately confronted by Women’s Marches across the country and around the world which were unprecedented [=>]
When: Wednesday, February 1, 6:30 PM
Where: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on
Marxist-Humanist Organization
Part of a series of discussions on Liberation and organization: philosophy and revolution
Organization is crucial as we fight to change our oppressive reality of exploitation of labor, racism, sexism, hatred [=>]
The deadline for the January-February 2017 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, January 15.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world—such as Trump’s moves to pull the world far [=>]
When: Wednesday, January 4, 6:30 PM
Where: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on
Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy in Our Time
Part of a series of discussions on Liberation and organization: philosophy and revolution
Organization is crucial as we fight to change our oppressive reality [=>]
When: Wednesday, December 14, 6:30 PM
Where: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on
Hegel and Lenin
Part of a series of discussions on Liberation and organization: philosophy and revolution
Organization is crucial as we fight to change our oppressive reality of exploitation of labor, racism, [=>]
WHEN: Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
After the election: How do we oppose Trump’s fascism and move forward?
Protest in Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 10, 2016. Approximately 1,000 people participated. Photo by Gregg Bekke flickr.com/photos/gdbrekke/30278724284/
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The deadline for the November-December 2016 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, November 13.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world—such as the U.S. elections, the struggle in [=>]
WHEN: Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Fascism rising–From Russia to India, From the U.S. to the Philippines
A Black person driving a car in the U.S., walking down the street or even in their own [=>]
When: Wednesday, October 19, 6:30 PM (Note new day of the week)
Where: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on
On Spontaneous Forms of Organization vs. Vanguard Parties
The first of a series of discussions on Liberation and organization: philosophy and revolution
Organization is crucial as [=>]
When: Tuesday [note new day], October 4, 2016, 6:30 PM
Where: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Rage against genocide in Aleppo
The Syrian Revolution that began with non-violent Arab Spring demonstrations for freedom in 2011 has survived five years of Bashar al-Assad’s [=>]
When: Monday, September, 19, 2016, 6:30 PM
Where: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News & Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Nuclear waste traveling soon to your neighborhood
Nuclear packages, much of their contents radioactive waste, are constantly being transported around the world by land, sea and air. In the decommissioning process at the Zion [=>]
When: Monday, August 29, 2016, 6:30 PM
Where: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion:
Fires in Canada’s tar sands region and the creative revolt against climate chaos
Several wildfires have been raging in California this month. Climate change is a factor in the increasing [=>]
The deadline for the September-October 2016 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, August 28.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world.
When: Monday, August 1, 2016, 6:30 PM
Where: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion:
Europe at the Crossroads: From the Brexit Vote to the Failed Coup in Turkey
In the United Kingdom, escalating violence against immigrants in England has followed the vote to leave the European Union. [=>]
DATE/TIME: Monday, July 11, 2016, 6:30 PM
PLACE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion in the wake of the police killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota:
How ‘Black Lives Matter’ Changes Everything
Alton Sterling
• What is this moment [=>]
The deadline for the July-August 2016 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, June 19. Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world.
WHEN: Monday, May 9, 2016, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Committees Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave. Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on the Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2016-2017:
The need for new beginnings in thought and in action
Our perspectives are shared with all because our age is in [=>]
WHEN: Sunday, May 8, 2016, 6:30 PM
WHERE: Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on the Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2016-2017:
The need for new beginnings in thought and in action
Our perspectives are shared with all because our age is in such total crisis—facing a choice [=>]
DATE: Monday, May 2, 2016
TIME: 6:30 PM (NOTE TIME CHANGE)
PLACE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on
Revolutionary Interventions in Thought and in Activity:
Mexico, Latin America, the U.S., and Marxist-Humanism
From: “Latin America: How Can Marxist-Humanism Assist in Brining Forth a [=>]
The deadline for the May-June 2016 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, April 17. Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world.
DATE: Monday April 11, 2016
TIME: 6:30 PM (NOTE TIME CHANGE)
PLACE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
The Revolutionary Journalism of News & Letters
Karl Marx wrote: “The concrete is concrete, because it is a combination of many objects with different destinations, i.e., [=>]
Sunday, April 10, 6:30 p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
Our regular Bay Area, California, meeting on Sunday, April 10, will be a discussion of Olga Domanski’s essay reprinted in the current News & Letters, “Revolutionary feminism & Hegel’s notion of life.”
Thursday, April 7, 7:00 p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph
Ave., Oakland
An event we are co-sponsoring, “China on Strike,” is an opportunity to hear Chinese workers share their ideas and concerns about their struggles in China. They also want to get the views of workers and others fighting for a better world here, especially what we’ve learned from [=>]
Members of New Voices for Reproductive Justice, an organization dedicated to the health and well-being of women and girls of color, say they are “in the house and we say to #SCOTUS #StoptheSham & #TrustBlackWomen! @BlackWomensRJ #BlackGirlMagic.”Photo: twitter.com/NewVoices4RJ
Date: Monday, March 28, 2016, 7:00 PM
Place: News and Letters Library
228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230
Chicago, [=>]
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 [=>]
Monday, February 29, 2016, 7:00 PM
News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries in History and Today
Women’s struggles for freedom have been relentless from 1647, when the first maids’ petition was handed to the British Parliament to [=>]
The deadline for the March-April 2016 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, February 28. Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world.
Monday, February 15, 2016, 7:00 PM
Place: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Whither the Syrian Revolution?
As the so-called peace conference is suspended in Geneva, Russian and Syrian bombing of villages is killing hundreds of civilians and creating hundreds of thousands more refugees.
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Sunday, February 14 6:30p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Library
6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
This Sunday, 2/14, we will take up “Paris climate accord protests and the struggle for a new world.”
The current News & Letters lead article contrasts the world’s state powers’ hifalutin self-congratulatory rhetoric over their Paris Agreement on climate change with the down-to-earth ecological movement. Paris officials attempted to stifle [=>]
DATE: Monday, January 11. 2016
PLACE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
NOTE NEW TIME: 7:00 PM
News and Letters Committees invites you to
Help Edit News & Letters
Do you have a story to tell? Share it with the world! Bring your reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Bring [=>]
DATE: every other Friday beginning January 8, 2016
TIME: 6:30 PM
PLACE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a study group on:
Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today
by Raya Dunayevskaya
In this classic exposition of Marxist thought, Raya Dunayevskaya, with clarity and insight, views today’s challenges by tracing the [=>]
Deadline: January 10, 2016
Happy and Revolutionary New Year! The deadline for the January-February 2016 issue of News & Letters is next Sunday, January 10. Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in [=>]
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 [=>]
