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The History and Legacy of Clara Zetkin Mar 04, 2021

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Listen to the history and legacy of a true internationalist, feminist visionary, Clara Zetkin. This podcast is a Zoom recording of one of the sessions of our Revolutionary Feminism course. This session was taught by David Chung of the People's Forum and Kavita Kabeer of All Indian People's Science Network.

Clara Zetkin was a leader in early socialist and feminist movements, often known as the "grandmother of German communism." Zetkin co-organized the International Socialist Women’s Congress, the Spartacist League, International Women’s Day, and opposition to World War I, fascism, and the Nazi party. In 1919, she became a founding member of the German Communist Party. Her feminist analysis was rooted in and with the exploited class; in her words, socialism was the only movement that "could truly serve the needs of working-class women.

Kollontai and Revolution. A lecture by Professor Jodi Dean. Jul 29, 2020

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Under capitalism, gender oppression and violence is a permanent condition. State violence, domestic violence, femicide, and economic marginalization are real and urgent issues for women both in the United States and internationally, and we must fight for another world! However, we know that no revolution has been possible without the struggle, organization, and leadership of women. For this reason, we must study the legacy of revolutionary women that came before us.

Jim Crow North and the Challenges of Liberalism Jul 15, 2020

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Jim Crow was not a regional sickness, it was a national cancer. Even at the high point of twentieth century liberalism in the North, Jim Crow racism hid in plain sight. Perpetuated by colorblind arguments about “cultures of poverty,” policies focused more on black criminality than black equality. Procedures that diverted resources in education, housing, and jobs away from poor black people turned ghettos and prisons into social pandemics. Liberalism, rather than lighting the way to vanquish the darkness of the Jim Crow North gave racism new and complex places to hide. Americans in the North made this history. They tried to unmake it, too.

Jim Crow North, the Law and Law Enforcement Jul 15, 2020

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Join The Peoples Forum and the editors and contributors of the anthology The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South (NYU Press, 2019) for a two-day investigation into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow.

Hybrid Wars with Vijay Prashad Jul 14, 2020

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Hybrid Wars, Sactions and more.

Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Chief Editor of Leftword Books, delivers a presentation on Hybrid Wars and U.S. Imperialism at "Holding the Future Hostage: A Conference on Hybrid Wars, Sanctions, and Solidarity," held on Oct. 19, 2019 at The People's Forum in New York City.

Reading "Grundrisse" With David Harvey (PT12) May 26, 2020

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Class 12: Bastiat and Carey, Pages 881-893 & Reprise.

A new podcast series featuring David Harvey teaching Marx's Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft). Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. Recorded live in 2020 first at The People's Forum and then in quarantine, these 12 accessible lectures both guide the reader through the major themes of Marx's seminal text, as well as feature contemporary commentary relating the text to the pandemic and economic crisis. David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor at CUNY.