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The American Road to Capitalism: Charles Post wi...

Brecht Forum, December 8, 2011. Many US historians assume that capitalism either “came in the first ships” or was the inevitable result of the expansion of the market. Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labor in the antebellum US, most historians of the US Civil War have privileged autonomous political and ideological factors, ignoring the deep social roots of the conflict. This book, The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and ...

Ours to Master and to Own: Workers Councils from...

Manny Ness, Dario Azzelini and Victor Wallis The Brecht Forum October 17, 2011

A Post-Capitalist Order: Normative Ideas vs Hist...

Gáspár Miklós Tamás. Moderated by Maliha Safri The Brecht Forum, Sept. 29, 2011 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 native Romania to Hungary in 1978 and taught for two years at the University of Budapest. After being fired for publishing (and signing openly) illegal tracts, he has become a leading figure in the East European...

Finance, Fascism & the Crisis of 2008-09

at the Brecht Forum, Oct 18, 2011

Gerald Horne - Revisiting U.S. History

The National Security State & the Muslim Question

Speakers: Noor Elahi, Faisal Hashmi & Alicia McWilliams 9/21/11 The aim of this discussion is to explore the racism at the core of post 9/11 policies by learning about the experiences of those who have been its most recent victims. In the name of safety and order, the United States has rolled out new mechanisms and tools that have preyed upon Brown men. Suspicion based on stereotype has been validated and legalized through FBI entrapment programs, SAMs in high security prisons and racial profi...

9/11 to the Arab Spring: Decline of the U.S. Emp...

9/11 with Samir Amin

A conversation with Samir Amin in Cairo with an audience in New York City on Sept 11. Moderated by Biju Mathew

Revolutions in North Africa

Dr. Younes Abouyoub presents updates on the revolutions in North Africa and discusses the promises and pitfalls of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions in the transitional period, while shedding light on the promises of evolutionary reforms and the tense situation evolving in other countries of the region. Prof. Ali Abdulatif covers the silencing of the Italian colonial genocide in Libya in western scholarship and the trauma of such memory inside Libya today. He also analyzes the impact and u...

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