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JANUARY 2024

Saturday, January 27, 2024 | 2:00 PM ET
Liberating Gaza by Working Class Means

Current Cosponsors: Center for Marxist Education, Boston May Day Coalition, Encuentro Cinco, Labor Fightback Network, Veterans for Peace - Boston, Smedley D. Butler Brigade 
 
As bombs rain down on Gaza and forces of the Israeli regime continue to assassinate civilians, youth and working-class people worldwide are joining together in opposition. Hundreds of thousands have mobilized here in the US joining millions around the world denouncing the genocide. We are making a difference and deep divisions are developing within the imperial powers as they fuel the genocide. Millions here are impacted and the movement will influence generations to come. The conflict risks the danger of developing into a regional conflagration.

How can Gaza be liberated by working class means? What will that require -- and how can the effort advance liberation of all oppressed nations, as well as ending apartheid across historic Palestine? What working-class actions defending Palestinians are taking place today? What are the broader possibilities for union activity and action on a world scale. 

Join us for a discussion with Wadi'h Halabi, whose family ended up in Gaza after being driven out of Jaffa during the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. We will also be taking up a history of Palestinian resistance, the 'Beirut Commune' of spring 1976, weaknesses and errors of the world labor movement, and what can be done today to correct those weaknesses and errors. The implications go far beyond Gaza. For an earlier interview with Wadi'h Halabi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mOrmocgyEg 

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OCTOBER 2023

Thursday, October 26, 2023 | 7:00 PM ET
Lenin's State and Revolution - Chapter III: Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx's Analysis

Facilitated by David Keil
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ead State & Revolution at the Montreal Worlds Fair, 1967, joined Young Socialist Alliance the next year after a class on it. Now in the Green Party, DSA, and Organizing Committee for a Democratic Revolutionary Left (political personality split into 3).

The difference between Communists and reformists is not the reforms such as, for a shorter workweek, decent affordable housing, or to tax wealth. The difference is reformists' belief that capitalist states can be reformed to serve the interests of workers and oppressed. Lenin's State and Revolution is crucial in this regard. Drawing on Marx and Engels' work and lessons from the defeat of the Paris Commune, Lenin's State and Revolution helped guide the victory of the Russian and subsequent revolutions. 

As part of a CME series on the Marxist classics, we will be reviewing one chapter of State and Revolution each month. This month, we will delve into Chapter III: Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx's Analysis, which is broken up into five sections:

What Made the Communards' Attempt Heroic?
What is to Replace the Smashed State Machine?
Abolition of Parliamentarism
Organisation of National Unity
Aboloition of the Parasite State

Find the full text here: State and Revolution.

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Saturday, October 28, 2023 | 6:00 PM ET 
Nae Pasaran

Reviewed by Zach George, Center for Marxist Education
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In a Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. Four years pass before the engines, left to rust in factory yard, mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. 

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SEPTEMBER 2023

Sunday, September 17, 2023, 4:00 PM ET
Combatting Working-Class Racism in the Left
Facilitated by Edward Carson

Working-class people should be unified across racial lines; however, the lack of racial solidarity and the division capitalism promotes regarding class and race continues to divide them, as noted by the rise of Donald Trump. Suppose the white, Black, and brown working class were fully unified. In that case, they might grasp their intersectional identities and achieve an understanding of themselves as wholly marginalized people, often comprised of multiple identities: LGBTQ, people of color, women, etc. Racism has long divided the working class and the left community, and today is no different. This talk offers examples of a fractured working class and left community in the greater Boston area and nationally. Beyond a critique of the problem, a solution-oriented approach will allow for a robust conversation.

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Thursday, September 21, 2023 | 7:00 PM ET
Lenin's State and Revolution - Chapter II: The Experience of 1848-51
Facilitated by Edward Carson

The difference between Communists and reformists is not the reforms such as, for a shorter workweek, decent affordable housing, or to tax wealth. The difference is reformists' belief that capitalist states can be reformed to serve the interests of workers and oppressed. Lenin's State and Revolution is crucial in this regard. Drawing on Marx and Engels' work and lessons from the defeat of the Paris Commune, Lenin's State and Revolution helped guide the victory of the Russian and subsequent revolutions. 

As part of a CME series on the Marxist classics, we will be reviewing one chapter of State and Revolution each month. This month, we will delve into Chapter II: The Experience of 1848-51, which is broken up into three sections:

The Eve of Revolution
The Revolution Summed Up
The Presentation of the Question by Marx in 1852

​Click here for the full text: State and Revolution.

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JULY 2023

Saturday, July 22, 2023 | 2:00-4:00 PM ET 
Trade union tasks after a socialist revolution: Discussions on union policies while Lenin was alive 
Facilitated by Brad Crowder, CPUSA

As the dangers of counter-revolutions mounted in the 1970s and 1980s, workers in the Soviet Union and worldwide did not rise up to defend their own states -- not just in the USSR, but in Albania, Yugoslavia, Poland -- twelve states in all fell to counter-revolution. Unions' tasks expand enormously after working class seizure of power. Correct communist trade union policies and practices may have saved working class power, and prevented grievous defeats still affecting us. Developing and implementing such policies were a major responsibility of the world communist movement.

This presentation will review early Soviet discussions of unions' tasks while Lenin was alive.

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APRIL 2023

Sunday, April 30, 2023 | 4:00-5:30 PM US ET
CME May Day Special 
Paul Robeson, "The Tallest Tree in the Forest"
Presentation by Timothy V. Johnson, CPUSA

Paul Robeson is often referred to as the “Tallest Tree in the Forest.” This is a reflection of his overarching impact on the progressive movement. This influence permeated through the African American, labor, socialist, and anti-imperialist movements in the mid-twentieth century. The repression of the McCarthy era attempted to wipe Robeson’s contributions and his very existence from the broad progressive movement. However succeeding generations of scholars and activists have resurrected Robeson’s contributions and with that - his significance to the struggle for democracy. April 9th marked the 125th anniversary of Paul Robeson's birth.

The program will begin with a short documentary (produced by ABC/Australia), Paul Robeson: The singer who fought for justice and paid with his life, followed by a presentation on Robeson’s personal history and his theoretical and political contributions to the international struggles for democracy and socialism. Discussion will follow.

Timothy V Johnson is a member of the African American Equality Commission of the CPUSA and is the former director of the Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archives at New York University.

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MARCH 2023

 Saturday, March 25, 2023 | 2:00-3:30PM ET
Lenin's State and Revolution -- The opening chapter 
Facilitated by Yusuf Gursey, CPUSA and the CME 

The difference between Communists and reformists is not the reforms such as, for a shorter workweek, decent affordable housing, or to tax wealth. The difference is reformists' belief that capitalist states can be reformed to serve the interests of workers and oppressed. Lenin's State and Revolution is crucial in this regard. Drawing on Marx and Engels' work and lessons from the defeat of the Paris Commune, Lenin's State and Revolution helped guide the victory of the Russian and subsequent revolutions. 

As part of a CME series on the Marxist classics, we will be reviewing one chapter of State and Revolution each month. 

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Find text of Chapter I at The State and Revolution.

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JANUARY 2023

Saturday, January 7, 2023 | 2:00-3:30 PM US ET
Proletarians and Communists - Chapter Two of the Communist Manifesto
Reviewed by Yusuf Gursey, CPUSA and Center for Marxist Education

This chapter examines the relation between the Communist Party and the working class as a whole. Like the title itself, this chapter provides important clues on what is necessary to avoid further defeats and advance human liberation and the transition from capitalism to socialism. Find the text online here: Manifesto of the Communist Party.

This is the fourth in a CME series on the Marxist classics. The next session, on Saturday, January 14 at 2:00-3:30 PM, will be led by the YCL in Boston. It will review the two closing chapters of the Manifesto. After this we will be reviewing State and Revolution by V.I.Lenin.

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DECEMBER 2022

Saturday, December 3, 2022 | 2:00-3:30PM
What do the Communist Manifesto's prefaces add or subtract from the original? 
Facilitated by Deb Wilmer, CPUSA

Marx and Engels penned seven prefaces in the 45 years following the Manifesto's publication. What corrections or modifications did they make? Neither author was 30 years old when the Manifesto was written. Much followed in the months and decades that followed. Come find out what they had to say. The prefaces are attached. 

This is the second in a CME series on the Marxist classics. The next session, on Saturday December 10, will review the first chapter of the Manifesto. 

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Saturday, December 17, 2022 | 2:00-3:30 PM US ET
A specter haunting -- Chapter One of the Communist Manifesto
Reviewed by Zach George, Center for Marxist Education

One hundred and seventy-five years after Marx and Engels wrote the Manifesto, its opening words instill fear in the capitalists -- and continue to embolden the workers of the world! It is time to complete the work that the Paris Commune began to implement. In this, the third in a series, we review the first chapter of the Manifesto. Find the text online here: Manifesto of the Communist Party. 
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This is the third in a CME series on the Marxist classics. The next session will review the second chapter of the Manifesto. Date to be announced soon. (Because of an illness, we had to postpone this session, which had been scheduled for Saturday December 10.)  

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NOVEMBER 2022

​Saturday, November 19 | 2:00-3:30PM
The Communist Manifesto's actual title provides a clue to the fall of the Soviet Union! Facilitated by Wadi'h Halabi

Embedded in Marx and Engels' full title for the Manifesto is an amazing clue to one of the decisive factors leading to the fall of the Soviet Union and other severe defeats for the workers of the world and humanity. Join us for a presentation and discussion of this clue, hidden in plain sight! Three examples will be raised. Workers can face the truth and correct our mistakes. 

This will be the first in a CME series on the Marxist classics. The next session, on Saturday December 3, will review Marx and Engels' prefaces to subsequent editions of the Manifesto. 

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OCTOBER 2022

Saturday, October 15, 2022 | 1:00-4:00 PM
CME ANNUAL PICNIC

We hope you'll join us at the Charles River Park for the CME Annual Picnic. It's our favorite event of the year. Good conversation with old and new friends in the fresh air and sunshine - it's just good for the soul! 

Bring a chair and your favorite dish to share with friends! 

When: Saturday, October 15 | 1PM - 4PM (Rain Date: October 16)
Where:  1175 Soldier Field Rd., #A, Allston, MA 02134

Directions by Car: Head west on Soldiers Field Road. After the Eliot Bridge, the Charles River will be on your right. Look for the last parking lot. We will be just past the swimming pool and playground area. 

Directions by Public Transportation: Take bus 70 to Western Ave. and Everett St. It's about a 10 minute walk. Go down Everett St and turn right at Soldiers Field Road. It's about 1.3 miles from the Harvard Square T stop

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