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Author Jodi Dean (The Communist Horizon) is joined in conversation with Bruno Bosteels and Astra Taylor about her new book The Communist Horizon. The Communist Horizon is part of Verso Pocketbook Communism series(versobook.com) This event was held at the Brecht Forum Thursday October 18, 2012.
September 27, 2012 Panitch and Gindin’s newest book offers a significant rethinking of the development of global capitalism. Focussing on the American state, they argue that its distinctiveness rests in its capacity to identify the interests of its own capital with that of capital in general, while restructuring other states to the end of spreading capitalist social relations and preventing economic crises from interrupting capital’s globalizing tendencies. Examining recent economic crises, th...
September 18th, 2012 7:30 PM BOOK PARTY/FORUM After Zionism One State for Israel & Palestine After Zionism brings together prominent thinkers on the Middle East question to dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and to explore possible forms of a one-state solution. Time has run out for the two-state solution because of the unending and permanent Jewish colonisation of Palestinian land. Although deep mistrust exists on both sides of the conflict, growing number...
Firoze Manjil. Moderated by Sam Anderson The Brecht Forum, Sept 17, 2012 Few books have been as influential in understanding African impoverishment as this groundbreaking analysis. Rodney shows how the imperial countries of Europe, and subsequently the US, bear major responsibility for impoverishing Africa. They have been joined in this exploitation by agents or unwitting accomplices both in the North and in Africa. With oppression and liberation his main concern, Rodney 'delves into the past'...
Panel Discussion on Global Women Empowerment with Shani Jamila; Panelists: Paloma McGregor, Aimee Cox, Imani Uzuri, Kayhan Irani, Anusha Mehar, Dayanara Marte. Sponsored by Ocean Ana Rising, Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative and The Brecht Forum
Women on Wednesday Performance Arts and Culture Series. Curated by Ocean Ana Rising and Betty Daughter's Art Collaborative
June 26th, 2012 6:30 PM The Black Athlete From Jack Johnson to Metta World Peace Theresa Runstedtler in conversation with David J. Leonard Moderated by Marc Lamont Hill. Sports are central to American public life in the twenty-first century – evidenced by the power and profitability of ESPN, the congressional hearings about steroids, and the ubiquity of sports programming in the mainstream media. Of course, this is nothing new. From Jack Johnson to Jackie Robinson, and from the 1968 Olympic pr...
Harmony Goldberg, Donna Murch & Shahid Stover This panel discussion builds on the Marxist notion of praxis (conscious political and creative action) as seen through the lens of Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci; the development of the Black Panther Party; and the creation of hip hop. The three topics are interwoven in a need on the part of revolutionaries to develop a revolutionary culture that can challenge the dominant practices of the US capitalist state. How do current organizing practices ...
July 28, 2012- Author and activist Jodi Dean presents on the Communist Horizon, part of her new book Communist Horizon to be published by Verso Press. The presentation was part of "All That Solid Melts Into Air: The Red Power Mixtape" Brecht Forum's Marxist Intensive www.brechtforum.org
