Events
Apr 2018
11
8:00 PM
Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism
Online/Phone Only United StatesYou can register by clicking this link. The class is at 8:00 PM EDT; 7:00 Central; 5:00 Pacific This class will discuss Lenin's Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism. This text was written more than a century ago, at the dawn of the age of monopoly capitalism, before the automation and cyber revolutions. Is it […]
Mar 2018
18
8:00 PM
Women on socialism
Online/Phone Only United StatesRegister for the webinar here. Join Rossana Cambron, Diane Mohney, and Roberta Wood in a discussion of the world of work, health care, and cultural change for women under socialism. What is the assessment of how socialism changed the lives of women? What were the strengths of the socialist experience for women? What were the weaknesses? What should we expect of a […]
Mar 2018
16
6:00 PM
African American Women in the Struggle for Equality
235 W. 23rd St 7th floor New York 10011 United StatesJoin Dr. Leith Mullings in a discussion of African American women in the struggle for equality. Dr. Leith Mullings is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center CUNY. She is an anthropologist, author, lecturer and educator. She served as President of the American Anthropological Association from 2011-2013. Much of her work focuses on […]
Mar 2018
3
1:00 PM
Conference: The fight against male supremacy and misogyny
Register here. In response to what is going on in the US today, but also because of developments that have taken place within the movement for social change, we find it necessary to turn our attention to the question of male supremacy and misogyny. We want to re-familiarize ourselves with the classical writings of Marx […]
Feb 2018
14
8:00 PM
African American leaders of the CPUSA
Online/Phone Only United StatesYou can register here. From its beginnings in the early years of the 20th century, the Communist Party USA was the only left political movement emphasizing racial justice for African Americans, and many in the Black community reciprocated in their support for the Party. Recognition of the relevance of Marxism for Black liberation, and of the absolute necessity of Black-white unity, continues […]
Feb 2018
4
8:00 PM
Ben Davis: The Communist Councilman from Harlem
Online/Phone Only United StatesYou can register here. Using newspapers, election materials and historical documents, this class will explorethe unique set of circumstances leading to Ben Davis Jr. becoming a "communist councilman" from Harlem and the persecution he faced at the beginning of the Red Scare when he was sentenced to five years in prison after he was a defendant in the […]
Jan 2018
20
8:00 AM
Women’s March: Power to the Polls
A little over a year ago, the Women's March's brought literally millions into the streets to protest Donald Trump's inauguration and everything it represented. It was a hugely important moment in the resistance highlighting the leading role of women, a role that has only grown since. This year's march is just a few week's away […]
Jan 2018
14
8:00 PM
The radicalism of WEB Du Bois and Martin Luther King
Online/Phone Only United StatesClick here to register for the webinar: https://tinyurl.com/yb4kem5r At Carnegie Hall, on February 23 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a commemorative speech on the 100th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois. In his speech, King stated, “it is time to cease muting the fact that Dr. Du Bois was a genius and […]
Dec 2017
10
8:00 PM
Revolution at the Gates: Lenin in 1917 – and 2017
Online/Phone Only United StatesJoin Hank Millstein for a discussion of a selection of Lenin’s writings from 1917, conveniently collected in Revolution at the Gates by Slavoj Zizek. You can register here. These writings chart Lenin’s course from relative political isolation (even within his own Bolshevik party) to leader of the Great October Socialist Revolution—a revolution that many of his close comrades […]
Dec 2017
2
11:00 AM
CPUSA Phonathon
Online/Phone Only United StatesJoin us for a national phonathon on Saturday, December 2, 2017. We'll be calling members urging participation in the fight against the GOP tax "reforms." Sign up to participate here: https://tinyurl.com/y9zz44ku
Nov 2017
29
8:00 PM
Marxist Classes
Online/Phone Only United StatesJoin Rick Nagin for a discussion of Lenin's, The Proletarian Revolution and The Renegade Kautsky. Register NOW: https://attendee.gotowebinar. com/register/ 9012083672225905667
Nov 2017
11
12:00 AM
National party building conference
Join party members from all across the country for a two day conference to plan the all rounded building of the CPUSA. The conference broadcast online and will be held the same day in Chicago, New Haven, Los Angeles and Orlando. Write membership@cpusa.org for more information.
Oct 2017
15
8:00 PM
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Join Carl Wood for a discussion of Frederick Engels', Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. You can register here: https://tinyurl.com/ydymutgx In an eminently readable few pages, Engels explains Marxist socialism as the product of earlier utopian ideas transformed by an analysis grounded in the materialism of modern science. Wood will discuss its relevance to today's class struggle.
Sep 2017
24
8:00 PM
1917 – 2017: 100 Years of Struggle for Scientific Socialism
Join Dr. Gerald Horne for a discussion of Philip Foner's, The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Impact on American Radicals, Liberals, and Labor. This book's Centennial Edition can be purchased through International Publishers. You can register for the discussion here.
Jun 2017
14
8:00 PM
Karl Marx, The Class Struggles in France
This class will discuss the four articles published between 1848 and 1850, in which we see the great theorist of revolution grapple for the first time with a revolution as it is unfolding. In these essays, Marx traces the emergence of the “bourgeois republic” and the nature of class struggle under capitalism, paying close attention […]