2009 Programs
2009 Programs
Bill DiFazio
Karl Marx’s Grundrisse (Penguin/Vintage), the unfinished notebooks to the volumes of Capital is the basic theorizing for his radical project the critique of political economy and capitalism. The...
Facilitated by Sam Anderson
This 4-part intensive meets daily from Monday, February 2 to Thursday, January 5, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. We will cover the centrality of Black resistance to slavery, Jim Crow and post-Jim Crowism. The intensive will...
Part 2. The Haitian Revolution
Jeremy Glick & Michael Lardner
A compelling series has been issued by Verso Books titled Revolutions. It is a series concerning works that “took center-stage during a period of revolution, incendiary words that roused populations...
A Marxian Analysis
Richard Wolff
This course will systematically use Marxian economic theory to analyze the current economic crisis.
We will focus on (1) why capitalism finds itself in so profound a global crisis, (2) why...
Autumn Brown
Consensus Mechanics is a study of Consensus Decision-making as a
revolutionary and liberating tradition. This course will explore Consensus
as historically cultural practice, and examine the...
Russell Dale
Anarchism and communism are, historically, the two main wings of the socialist movement. Anarchism is represented by such thinkers and writers as Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker,...
Harriet Fraad & Richard Wolff
Psychology and Economy IV will continue the focus on how the unfolding economic deterioration (credit crisis, rising food and energy prices, falling home prices, looming recession, fiscal crises of states and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Marisol Ruiz
Students learn to read advanced texts, express themselves fluently, write long texts, and appreciate humor, irony, and wit in literary and non-literary texts. Depending on the students' needs, increased...
1. A Critical Survey of the Issues
Rust Gilbert
As the current economic crisis deepens and threatens to become a full-blown, worldwide depression as deep or deeper than that of the 1930s, there is much talk of a “New New Deal.” This class will examine the...
Marisol Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
Grassroots Fundraising in Times of Economic Crisis
Sha Grogan-Brown, Bhairavi Desai, Lucia Leandro Gimeno, Margie Grace, Arun Gupta, Hugh Hogan, Randy Jackson, Nadia Abou-Karr, Mallory Knodel, Jeanette Lee, Brooke Lehman, Charles Lenchner, Lynn Lewis, Akinlabi E. A. Mackall,Tej Nagaraja, Emily Nepon, Yasmeen Perez, Alexandra Lopez Reitzes, Wanda Salaman, Ben Shepard, Dara Silverman, Christy Thornton, Helena Tubis, Max Uhlenbeck & Manish Vaidya
Join us Friday evening for our opening plenary and all day Saturday for a series of exciting discussions and hands-on workshops and skill shares.
Did Barack Obama get elected because of his...
Revolutionary Strategy & the War of Position
Harmony Goldberg
Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks is one of the most powerful left strategy documents developed in the last hundred years, giving us unique insights about how the revolutionary process would unfold...
Autumn Brown, Krista Franklin, Anika Lani Haynes & Jonathan Scott
Octavia Estelle Butler was a pioneer in the field of science fiction. An African American women in a genre dominated by white men, her writing drew from the traditions of folklore and challenged conventional...
A Workshop for Puerto Ricans Only
Saulo Colon & Others with the Puerto Rican Political Education Project (PREP)
The Brecht Forum as a collective space for socialist political education has historically been linked to and supported by the socialist Boricua community. In fact, one of the founders of the Brecht was a...
Marisol Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
Marisol Ruiz
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Marisol Ruiz
Students learn to read advanced texts, express themselves fluently, write long texts, and appreciate humor, irony, and wit in literary and non-literary texts. Depending on the students' needs, increased...
Jairo Jimenez Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Jairo Jimenez Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Background to 1848
Led by Russell Dale & Michael Lardner
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Pamela Brown & Russell Dale
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An Intensive Introduction
Rick Wolff
Due to the time error in the announcements, Rick has agreed to teach the first session again this Wednesday the 15th at 5:30 for those who missed the first session....
An Intensive Introduction
Rick Wolff
Due to the time error in the announcements, Rick has agreed to teach the first session again this Wednesday the 15th at 5:30 for those who missed the first session....
Jairo Jimenez Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
René Francisco Poitevin
We will use Henri Lefebvre’s book by the same title to explore the intersection between urbanism, capitalism, and class struggle. Our goal is to analyze the relevance of urban space (and Urban Marxism) for...
René Francisco Poitevin
We will use Henri Lefebvre’s book by the same title to explore the intersection between urbanism, capitalism, and class struggle. Our goal is to analyze the relevance of urban space (and Urban Marxism) for...
Jairo Jimenez Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
René Francisco Poitevin
Este curso examina, desde una perspective Marxista, la relación entre el espacio urbano, el capitalismo, y la lucha de clases. La premisa inspirando esta conversación es la intuición de que en el siglo XXI las...
René Francisco Poitevin
Este curso examina, desde una perspective Marxista, la relación entre el espacio urbano, el capitalismo, y la lucha de clases. La premisa inspirando esta conversación es la intuición de que en el siglo XXI las...
Jairo Jimenez Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Marisol Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
Marisol Ruiz
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
Marisol Ruiz
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas...
Marisol Ruiz
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Luz Angela Fonseca
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Joel Kovel
We are living through a great crisis in the relations between humanity and nature, so severe that it might potentially signal the extinction of our species, along with innumerable others. This "Ecological...
Marisol Ruiz
Students learn to read advanced texts, express themselves fluently, write long texts, and appreciate humor, irony, and wit in literary and non-literary texts. Depending on the students' needs, increased...
Russell Dale
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William DiFazio
Karl Marx’s Grundrisse, the unfinished notebooks to the volumes of Capital is the basic theorizing for his radical project the critique of political economy and of capitalism. This is a...
The Living Heritage & Prospects for Our Time
Rust Gilbert & Michael Lardner
Revolutionary Movements: 1848-1875
Eric Hobsbawm’s Age of Capital 1848-1875 analyzes the quarter century during which capitalism came to dominate Europe, transforming all social relations...
Harmony Goldberg
Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks is one of the most powerful left strategy documents developed in the last hundred years. One of Gramsci’s central political concepts was the concept of "hegemony," the...
Maliha Safri
This class examines some crucial debates: do immigrants exert negative wage or employment effects on native workers? If so, which ones? In other words, how have most researchers in the migration field answered...
Towards a Left Theory of the American Presidency
Noble Bratton
We have just seen the longest and most expensive presidential race in American history, a unique contest in many ways. But what of the presidency itself, an institution well over 200 years old? How are...
Fred Jerome
“Though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me,” Einstein said towards the end of his life. Indeed, it is hard if not impossible to find anyone as world-famous as Einstein who is...
Decision-making as Change
Autumn Brown
Consensus Mechanics is a study of consensus decision-making as a revolutionary and liberating tradition. This course will explore consensus as historically cultural practice, and examine the diverse threads...
Selections from <i>The Grundrisse</i>
Bruno Gulli
The current crisis within the global capitalist system highlights the importance of the question of which kind of labor counts as productive. On this Marx was unequivocal: productive labor is the labor that...