“When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no ‘white’ people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.” --Theodore W. Allen...

In this lively interactive dialogue, writers Kazembe Balagun and Anika Lani Haynes will discuss the specific ways their faith, visionary organizing and movement building have been contradictory and yet...

Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding...

Sojourning for Freedom portrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participation in the U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA) between 1919...

Between 1965 and 1972, African American students at upwards of a thousand historically black and white American colleges and universities organized, demanded, and protested for Black Studies, progressive...

The Bolivarian Circle of New York invite the general population

Those who die for life can not be called dead

A Celebration and procession for the life of our comrade Hugo Chávez...

These Tuesday evenings begin with updates and analyses of major economic events during the last month. We focus especially on the ongoing global capitalist economic crisis, government responses, and how they...

Join us for a community-wide discussion on the legacy of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution  What will his passing mean to the mass movements in  Venezuela? How will U.S. policy shift for Venezuela...

Mass unemployment. School closures. Rampant misogyny. Police shootings. What does a revolutionary struggle look like today? Marian Kramer comes to the Brecht Forum to talk...

All across the country, the bosses are burning our contracts. Documents that once offered a guarantee of steady if modest raises and some measure of protection against arbitrary employment policies today...

These Tuesday evenings begin with updates and analyses of major economic events during the last month. We focus especially on the ongoing global capitalist economic crisis, government responses, and how they...

Is profit motive the engine of scientific inquiry? Are scientific breakthroughs the product of great minds or movements?  How is science, technology and political power interwoven?

In this kickoff...

The Great Recession has thrown huge economic chal­lenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up Escalator...

The unmanned attacks (drone wars) that have taken place in Pakistan, Yemen and the horn of Africa have morphed into domestic surveillance programs for US law enforcement. Indeed, drones are being used to...

In the past two years, the young workers of India's largest automobile manufacturer in the Gurgaon, Haryana Industrial Belt, outside Delhi, have led a ground-breaking campaign against systemic exploitation...

In the aftermath of the economic collapse of 2008, ever-expanding wars, escalating attacks on immigrants and people of color and worsening ecological catastrophes, many on the Left wondered “Where’s the...

Roy Bourgeois (founder of the School of the Americas Watch) and Medea Benjamin (CODEPINK/Global Exchange cofounder) have sustained the Antiwar movement for decades and inspired activism in others. Join with...

 These Tuesday evenings begin with updates and analyses of major economic events during the last month. We focus especially on the ongoing global capitalist economic crisis, government responses, and how...

An interactive discussion and sildeshow on the 2012 Quebec student uprising by Stefan Christoff, author of the recent booklet Le fond de l'air est rouge. Christoff who was an active participant...

There will be a reading, "Poets for Peace in Palestine", and then a viewing of the documentary,"Drawn from the Fire, Children of the Intifada." Following that, the program will end with a Q&A with Ms....

Coming out of the echo of the Occupy Movement, Idle No More is an indigeous movement that has rocked the foundations of the Canadian settler state.. As a movement of First People's it has challenged the...

The legacy of the Mexican Revolution has continued to inspire social movements over the century. From organizing efforts of the United Farm Workers, the Zapatistas, to protests against ongoing drug war, the...

Africa is portrayed as a tragedy in the mainstream media, the victim of bad leaders and bad luck. Yet if we scratch the surface, what we perceive as tragic is the result of years of underdevelopment. The...

Please join Stanley Aronowitz, Frances Fox Piven, and author Penny Lewis to discuss and celebrate the publication of Hardhats, Hippies and Hawks, The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory (...

The historical documentary  Greek American Radicals - the untold story  presents  a forgotten page of Greek immigrant experience in America: the role of immigrants in the radical labor movement in the United...

Does it matter that popular yoga magazines rarely feature South Asians on the...

The Foucauldian concept of specific forms of resistance has come to the fore in radical thought, as seen in terrains as diverse as academic social theory and anarchist activism. It has displaced earlier...

A powerpoint overview of Martin A. Lee’s new book, Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific. Lee discusses how cannabis first took root in the western...

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) established a reputation as one of the most important civil rights organizations of the early 1960s. In the wake of the southern student sit-ins, CORE created new...

Maligned in official accounts, the riot has in fact been a decisive feature of American politics. Nevertheless, analyses of its significance have hitherto remained divergent and inconclusive. In this...

Topics this evening will include the ongoing capitalist global crisis in the US, Europe and Japan versus that of China, India and Brazil and the crisis of socialisms spanning Europe to China. We will also...

Join author Lynne Segal to celebrate the launch of her book, Out of Time.

In Out of Time, leading thinker Segal examines her life and surveys the work and lives of other writers...

Five progressive crime writers discuss working in a popular genre with a long history of social commentary (going back to Dashiell Hammett in the 1920s), how and why they incorporate such viewpoints in their...

These Tuesday evenings begin with updates and analyses of the last month’s major economic events. We focus on the global capitalist economic crisis, government responses, and the growing challenges to...