FRIDAY, MAY 24 AT 7:00PM The idea of “the commons” is increasingly used within a wide range of social movements, especially the environmental movement, as an attempt to understand the process where capitalism takes things that were once held in common by society and turns them into commodities to be bought and sold for a profit. If it aids in understanding how capitalism can steal   Read More ...

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 AT 6:30PM Every year the International Socialist Organization raises funds for people who would like to go to the Socialism Conference but need financial assistance. We do this because we think the Socialism Conference is a place where the people from the Radical Left can meet to discuss their work in movements, debate theories, discuss history, ask questions and contribute to a   Read More ...

TUESDAY, MAY 14 AT 7:00PM The Davis and Gray families–along with many others–have been forced to mourn the tragic deaths of their loved ones taken by the hands of police in East Flatbush. The question must be asked: what kind of society do we live in where the police can kill with impunity? How is it that New York City has the lowest crime rate   Read More ...

SATURDAY, MAY 4 AT 6:30PM Radicals have always been at the heart of the best elements of the American labor movement. From the eight hour day movement in the 1880s to the Chicago teachers strike of last year and every major step forward in between, socialists and anarchists playing key roles. That’s because the union movement has always been strongest when it sees that sexism,   Read More ...

SATURDAY, APRIL 20 AT 7:00PM We invite you to participate in a People’s Forum to advance May Day and the struggle of men and women workers and oppressed peoples at this time when all workers are under attack, unionize and non unionized, documented and undocumented, the need to build and strengthen the fight back for our basic human rights. Groups below are uniting together to   Read More ...

THURSDAY, APRIL 18 AT 6:30PM The U.S. “War on Drugs” and “War on Terror” have produced a parallel system of state violence and social control, manifested through unjust prosecutions and the mass incarceration of people of color. Join us on April 18th from 6:30-8:30pm for a town hall discussion as we hear first-hand stories from former prisoners, family members, lawyers, intellectuals, historians and activists about   Read More ...

Dear supporters of public education, Jesse Hagopian has been nominated by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences for the national “Secondary Teacher of the Year” Bammy Award. If you believe in the work Jesse is doing to improve public education—and want to give visibility to the MAP test boycott or the Social Equality Educators—Please visit the Bammy Award website to vote for Jesse. People   Read More ...

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 AT 7:00PM The charm of stylish dissent: less Chomsky, more poetry. Empires may come and go but Tariq Ali, the rebel who has lost the streets but gained the ghettos, is here to stay, to fight on … Buy his spirit. —India Today Marx once wrote that ‘history weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living,’ and even twenty years   Read More ...

STARTING APRIL 11 Feel like capitalism is ruining education? Bought a copy of Education and Capitalism and want to read it with others? Daydream about what liberated education would look like? There will be three different reading groups for the book Education and Capitalism at the following locations: Downtown Brooklyn/Boerum Hill Apartment 138 Bar and Restaurant Fridays @ 4:30 PM Start date: April 12th! For   Read More ...

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 AT 6:30PM One in Four women on college campuses in the US has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime One in Three LGBTQ youth homeless will be turned away from shelter because of their gender identity/ expression – 58% will be sexually assaulted Such statistics on sexual assault are sobering and often times immobilizing. The expanse   Read More ...