2014 Programs
2014 Programs
“Big Sweep Up In Subcontracting”
March 2002, Paris. Cleaners doing subcontracted work in Accor hotels go on strike. Most of the strikers are women with West African origins and are fighting for their rights for the first time in their life....
Peter Marcuse, Rachel Laforest, Matt Birkhold
With the election of Bill Deblasio to mayor of New York City prgressive possibilities could emerge that have been dormant for the past 25 years. As part of the Brecht Forum's "Re-Imagining the City" series, ...
Writer and Revolutionary
Richard Greeman
This semester follows Serge through his adventures during the Russian Civil War (1919-21), the German Revolution (1923), at Comintern HQ in Vienna (where he worked with Gramsci and Lukacs), and the battles of...
Part 2
Revolutions Study Group
In 1905, sections of the Russian working class and peasantry organized and fought in radical new ways, including building the first revolutionary Workers Councils in Moscow and St. Petersburg. We will study...
On December 18th more than 45 people came to the Brecht Forum to discuss the political leadership of the Brecht Forum, what it contributes to movement building, and what it should contribute to movement...
Alan Akrivos, Jen Roesch, Bhaskar Sunkara, Moderated by John Halle
The 2013 municipal elections offered a few signs of hope for the Left. In Seattle, Kshama Sawant won a City Council seat as an avowed socialist, while fellow Socialist Alternative candidate Ty Moore finished...
Matt Birkhold, Reg Flowers & Amaka Okechukwu
Join Arts and Labor Alternative Economies for a Screening of Paper Tiger Television's Rerooting the Motor City: Notes on a City in Transformation followed by a round table discussion.
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with The Red Microphone
THE RED MICROPHONE hits Montclair, NJ
The Red Microphone will be performing at Downtown Music & Variety in Montclair, New Jersey. Come and enjoy a bit of "Brecht in...
A Left Analysis of the Current Situation
George Cicariello-Maher & Greg Wilpert. Moderated by Gerardo Renique.
December 8 marks the one-year anniversary in which Chávez made his last address to the Venezuelan people and designated Nicolas Maduro as his successor. Also, December 8 of this year were the elections for...
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...
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...
Silvia Federici
Based on the book Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, this class will focus on the the restructuring of gender relations through the witch-hunts, and other social/...
Jose Rosa
Jose Rosa, an immigrant from El Salvador, with 15 years experience teaching Spanish to teenagers and adults, will conduct classes to develop conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms...
A. Shahid Stover
In this class participants will explore how racism makes the very assertion of human agency by Black people within the context of a western imperialist continuum inherently ‘problematic’ and constitutive of a...
Lessons for Palestine, Political Prisoners, and Economic Justice
Glen Ford, Laura Whitehorn, and Joel Kovel
Millions mourned the recent death of South African leader Nelson Mandela, who was instrumental in bringing about an end to Apartheid in that country. In the midst of well-deserved accolades, however, little...
Russell Dale
Hegel's philosophy has had a great influence on much of what has happened in the world since his time (1770 – 1831) and is crucial to understanding much of modern social thought and philosophy as well as to...