2010 Programs
2010 Programs
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...
Kettlebell Strength & Conditionin
Gregory Landess
Many of us on the left have let our health priorities fade as we're forced to deal with the unfair mental and spiritual burdens placed upon us as we strive for social justice.
...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...
The Transformative Power of Popular Culture
Cece Carpio, Vanissa W.Chan, Steven Duncombe & Invincible
For two days NYC cultural producers and movement makers will come together to engage in critical dialogue as part of CULTURE CLASH – a weekend intensive to explore the...
Bill 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...
Selections from The Grundrisse
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...
Russell Dale
Many Marxists take Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit to be a crucial text for understanding Hegel’s dialectical method and much more that was quite important to Marx and Engels. Reading and understanding...
The Paris Commune of 1871
Rust Gilbert & Michael Lardner
Eric Hobsbawm’s Age of Capital 1848-1875 analyzes the quarter century during which capitalism came to dominate Europe, transforming all social relations to conform to the new...
Rick Wolff
There are two basic purposes of this intensive class. The first is to teach the specifics of Marxian class analysis (its history, different interpretations, and basic structure). The...
Real Estate Crisis & Community Control of Land
Tom Angotti
The latest burst in the financial bubble left our neighborhoods with abandoned construction sites, bankrupt slumlords, struggling tenants, foreclosed homeowners, and more homeless people. The Housing Question...
Literatures of the Revolutionary Atlantic
Rich Blint
From Pancho Villa to Castro & Beyond
Adan Stevens-Diaz
We will look at four successful Armed Revolutions of the 20th century in Latin America (sorry, no unsuccessful or peaceful revolutions, perhaps in another study). We will go chronologically, spending two weeks...
A Workshop for the Aspiring Writer
Steve Bloom
Have you ever felt an inner poet is lurking, somewhere? The assumption of this workshop is that every human being has one. Come and explore. Discussion topics include: “What is poetry?” “What is political...
Randy Martin
This one-day seminar uses Marx's Capital as a basis for understanding our present circumstances. We'll focus on some key passages that illuminate the underlying social relations between labor and...
Gregory Landess
Training teaches harmony necessary for personal and community development. A fitness lifestyle will make you feel better while increasing your ability to perform at a higher level, helping yourself and helping...
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...
Nguyen Thi Hien and Pham The Minh
Today, millions of Vietnamese suffer the effects of chemical defoliants used by the United States during the Vietnam War. More than thirty years after the war, Agent Orange remains in areas of the land and...
Community Gardens in New York City
Malve von Hassell
The history of community-based initiatives on behalf of community gardens in New York City over the past four decades presents a complex set of dynamics and conflicting agendas. The linkages between locally...
Part Two
Hegel's philosophy has had a great influence to much that has happened in the world since his time. Hegel is crucial to understanding much of modern philosophy as well as to understanding Marxism and the...
Mahina Movement, Rev. Lucius Walker
Join Rev. Lucius Walker, the Mahina Movement and others as we send of IFCO-Pastors for Peace to challenge the Cuban embargo.
Food and Drinks on sale. Cuban food, mojitos, etc.
Food and Drink...
Rick Wolff
This will be an intensive seminar in Marxian economics designed for those who already have a basic knowledge...
32nd Annual Intensive Intro to Marxism
Humberto Brown, Vivek Chibber, Silvia Federici, Lisa Maya Knauer, Joel Kovel, Richard Levins, Jeff Perry, Juliet Ucelli, Lincoln Van Sluytman, Rick Wolff & Others TBA
In building as we fight, activists dream of a new world, one that puts human needs over profits and provides for all. But how do we get there? What are the lessons learned and the...
Juan Carrero Saralegui,Senator Pere Sampol i Mas
A coalition of Spanish activists have been working to bring an end to impunity for the crimes of President Kagame of Rwanda, and successfully pushed for a lawsuit against members of Rwandan...
Even as Americans revisit the lingering destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, half a world away Pakistan is experiencing one of the most calamitous disasters in recent memory. The month long flooding in...
Europe: 1968-1978
Convened by Michael Lardner
Our ongoing study moves forward from the defeat of the Paris Commune of 1871 and the complete consolidation western capitalism, to Europe a century later and the most recent challenges to capitalism in its...
Russell Dale
Many Marxists take Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit to be a crucial text for understanding Hegel’s dialectical method and much more that was quite important to Marx and Engels. Reading and understanding...
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 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...
A Dialectical Method
Kevin Keating
A series of lectures/screenings with filmmaker Kevin Keating. An opportunity to analyse and discuss American documentary long-form films, their production, potential audiences, social change impulses and...
Revolutionary Strategy & the Historic Bloc
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 most important concepts was the “historic bloc...
The Real Roots of Soul Food & Social Change
Bryant Terry
Jeffrey B. Perry
This course will focus on Hubert H. Harrison (1883-1927) and Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005), two autodidactic, anti-white supremacist working class intellectuals and two of the twentieth centuries most...
Chris Williams
Ecology and Socialism examines the science of climate change, the issue of population, structural constraints on capitalism preventing a systemic and co-ordinated response to...
Ethel Owens
This course will examine what is perhaps the greatest anti-war literary work ever written. The story of the Trojan War, as told by Home, makes horrifyingly clear the absurdities and tragic waste of war - the...
Socialist, Social Democratic & Capitalist
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse
- The housing problem from a Marxist perspective: Engels and after
- Subprime foreclosures, rent control, land speculation:...