What does healing have to do with social justice? What role does trauma play in our movements?

Join us the second event of a 3-part series in the conversation of health justice in New York City. Third...

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping...

Revolutions reading and film study group kicks off their 2011 season with a screening of Franco Brusati's classic farce Bread and Chocolate.

The New York Film Circle's 1974 winner for Best Foreign...

**CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER, WILL BE RESCHEDULED**

What is the Darfur conflict and what are its causes when we go beyond the simplistic and rather stereotyped narrative of mainstream media.

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Harlem has been...

Barbara Foley will be discussing her recently published book, "Wrestling with the Left: the Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." Foley will discuss her research into the thousands of pages of...

At the same time that U.S. workers stagger unprotected under loss of wages, benefits, and jobs, weakened by the lowest rate of unionization in decades, in China, workers--many of them teenage student interns--...

Political philosophy and feminist theory have rarely examined in detail how capitalism affects the lives of women.

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An Evening with Nawal el Saadawi and Fawzia Afzal-Khan reading from her controversial memoir of Pakistan: Lahore With Love: Growing Up With Girlfriends Pakistani Style....

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping...

If you have spent any amount of time with Picture the Homeless- whether in the office, at actions, or on a trip out of town, you have likely encountered the wit and warmth of our elder statesman Jean Rice. A...

Originally part of a Lenape trail running the entire length of Manhattan Island, the Bowery has become one of the most notorious thoroughfares in America. Developed in stages by the Dutch, British and then...

Steve Ellner has been a professor at the Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela since 1977 and is also teaching in the government’s university-based Sucre Mission. He is the author, most recently...

From Cairo to Wisconsin working people are rising up against injustice. Massive strikes and demonstrations rocked Europe last year. Popular...

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping...

David Harvey and the co-authors of the new book, The Rights of Nature, will discuss how to transform our relationship with the environment to address climate change and related problems like natural...

As we mark the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War in the U.S., Anderson will examine Marx's extensive writings on the Civil War, which focused on the connections of race, class, and slavery.  ...

"In this deeply moving history of the so-called Great War, those opposing its mindless folly receive equal billing with the politicians, generals, and propagandists obdurately insisting on its perpetuation...

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping...

The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does such an enormous degree of debt and insolvency mean? In this...

Dr. Thomas Fasy, Susan Schnall RN, and Geoffrey Millard, will discuss what countries and their populations have to deal with when “the war is over,” focusing on depleted uranium, Agent Orange, Post Traumatic...

In this session we will explore the theme of this year’s Marxist intensive, “They Say Austerity, We Say Solidarity,” by placing it within a global perspective.  Proceeding from the idea that capitalism has...

The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement over the last two years has initiated a southern strategy called the "Jackson Plan" based on its historic ties to the ideas of the republic of New Afrika where the Black...

In TROPIC OF CHAOS: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (Nation Books; July 1, 2011), award-winning writer Christian Parenti argues that the new era of climate war has begun,...

Noted world-systems theorist Samir Amin will provide a deep perspective on the last ten years—from 9.11 to the Arab Spring—by tracing the historical trajectory of world capitalism and posing the question:...

"We desperately need change. We need to reclaim and rebuild real democracy. The skills of organizing that Eric Mann shares in Playbook for Progressives are the life blood of democracy, human rights,...

Join Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut), at the Brecht Forum for a public...

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad....

To celebrate the publication of Dean Spade's first book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (South End Press) and the recent appointment of...

Occupy Wall Street continues to capture the imagination of millions across the globe. Join us for a series "People's University at Occupy Walls Street" as we connect the dots, build bridges and move forward...

Gáspár Miklós Tamás, a prominent dissident in the 1980s and a parliamentarian in the first years of the Hungarian government following the end of Communism, is a political philosopher.  He emigrated from his...

Occupy Wall Street continues to capture the imagination of millions across the globe. Join us for a series "People's University at Occupy Walls Street" as we connect the dots, build bridges and move forward...

The Brecht Forum continues its public education series at #OccupyWallStreet with a discussion of the Greek crisis and revolt.

This event will take place at Freedom Square (Zucotti Park) at Liberty...

While our economy is shrinking, China's keeps growing. Is "Commi-Capitalism" winning? Based on first-hand reporting from China during frequent visits in the last several years, author Loretta Napoleoni...

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad....

Marx’s Civil War writings show an incomparable grasp of the dialectics of race and class and still speak to us today.  In these writings, which included journalism, letters, and passages in Capital,...

Paul Mishler is a labor educator and historian of radicalism in the US. His book Raising Reds looks at the ways that 20th century radicals tried to pass their values on to their children. He is...

Join us for a reception at 7:30pm. The program will begin at 8:00pm.

Published quarterly since 1936, Science & Society is the longest continuously-published journal of Marxist...

Join us for a special afternoon screening of American Revolution II, a documentary about the aftermath of the Chicago Democratic Convention protests. ARII features footages of the Black Panther Party...

The influenza scares of the past decade aren't going away anytime soon. Bird flu H5N1 and swine flu H1N1 are only two of a veritable menagerie of influenza strains now capable of infecting humans: H7N1, H7N3...

There is a growing consensus that the planet is heading toward environmental catastrophe: climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, global freshwater use, loss of biodiversity, and chemical...

The Brecht Forum is participating in the OWS Education and Empowerment working group and collaborating on a series of special "OPEN FORUM" teach-ins at Zucotti Park (aka Liberty Square.) The purpose of the...

The Brecht Forum is participating in the OWS Education and Empowerment working group and collaborating on a series of special tech-ins at Zucotti Park (aka Liberty Square.) The purpose of the teach ins are...

The Brecht Forum is participating in the OWS Education and Empowerment working group and collaborating on a series of special "OPEN FORUM" teach-ins at Zucotti Park (aka Liberty Square.) The purpose of the...

The Brecht Forum is participating in the OWS Education and Empowerment working group and collaborating on a series of special "OPEN FORUM" teach-ins at Zucotti Park (aka Liberty Plaza.) The purpose of the...

This year, two books were published under the name. The Beach Beneath the Street or Streets. Both owe a great dept to the history of Situationism. The authors of these two works will discuss the legacy of...

In early 2009, following the crash and government bail outs, an astro turf right populist mobilization appeared that would question the legitimacy of Obama's birth certificate and disrupt town hall meetings...

The Bronx River flows from its source in Valhalla to its mouth, the East River in the Bronx. This waterway was used for centuries by Native American tribes for drinking, food and transportation, and they...

The Libertarian Book Club,* New York City's oldest continuously active anarchist institution (founded 1946), kicks off the fall season of its Anarchist Forum series as legendary Northern California songster...

Jed Brandt is an editor with the Occupied Wall Street Journal, and together with Eric Ribellarsi, has recently returned from deep investigations into the "movement of the squares" in Greece and the...

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad....