James Counts Early joins Manolo De Los Santos and Claudia De La Cruz, Co-Executive Directors of The People’s Forum, for the tenth and final interview of New World Coming. For this episode, James becomes the interviewee and he discusses the personal and historical currents that developed his radicalization and informed his politics. They also discus…

OUT NOW! Click over to our YouTube page to watch the 9th episode of New World Coming: Working-class Pan-Africanism! In this interview, James Early is in conversation with Mikaela Nhondo Erskog, editor and researcher with the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In this conversation, James and Mikaela discuss how popular movements are revi…

For the past 4 years, the Haitian people have continuously mobilized in protest against inhumane living standards, rapid inflation and skyrocketing fuel prices, and most recently, rejecting calls for foreign intervention and demanding the resignation of U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ariel Henry. As significant sectors of the US media and foreign polic…

James Counts Early is joined by Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, activist in the Movement for Black Lives, and author of important texts like Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (2018) and Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (2013). In this conversation, they discuss the impor…

James Counts Early is joined by Esteban Morales Domínguez, economist, social scientist, militant participant of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, and pioneering scholar on the question of race and racism in Cuba. In this conversation, they discuss the strategies for confronting and beginning to resolve racism and discrimination in Cuban society, how the C…

James Counts Early is joined by activist and doctor, Mary Louise Patterson, to discuss Mary Louise’s upbringing under two leading organizers with the Communist Party USA, the importance of community and family in the lifelong struggle for liberation, and her Cuba solidarity work with IFCO/Pastors for Peace. Mary Louise Patterson is an activist and …

For Episode 4 of New World Coming, James Counts Early is joined by historian, activist, and former diplomat, Jesus “Chucho” Garcia to discuss the complexities of the state, social and civil organizations, and the people working together to deepen the principles of the Bolivarian Revolution. They also discuss the power relations of developing democr…

James Counts Early is joined by British historian Hakim Adi to discuss history as a tool for social political change, culture as a place to challenge the power relations of society, and how the global communist struggle attracted revolutionaries from across the world. Hakim Adi is a Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the…

James Counts Early is joined by scholar and activist Zuleica Romay Guerra to discuss the history of Afro-descendants in Cuba’s historic struggle for liberation, what anti-racism work looks like in Cuba, and the complexities of what comes after revolution. Zuleica is the Director of Afro-american Studies at Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba. This…

James Counts Early is joined by historian and activist Robin D.G. Kelley to discuss Robin’s career work on racial capitalism, multiculturalism and identity, and the history of the struggle for socialism.The People's Forum による

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 sociali…

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, orga…

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, hou…

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, hou…

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…

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 fir…

Class 11: The Chapter on Capital, Pages 759-880. 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…

Class 10: The Chapter on Capital, Pages 707-758. 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…

Class 9: The Chapter on Capital, Pages 668-706. 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 …

Class 8: The Chapter on Capital, Pages 595-668. 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 …

Class 7: The Chapter on Capital, Pages 516-594. 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 …

Class 6: The Chapter on Capital, Pages 423-515. 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 …

Class 5: The Chapter on Capital, Pages 373-423. 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 …

Class 4: The Chapter on Capital, Pages 304-370. 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 …

Class 3: The Chapter on Capital, Pages 239-304. 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 …

Class 2: The Chapter on Money, Pages 115-238. 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 Th…

Class 1: Introduction, pages 83-111. 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'…

Class 11: Chapter 25 ‘the general law of capitalist accumulation’The People's Forum による

This final episode is Class 12: Chapters 26 through 33, which make up Part Eight: So-Called Primitive Accumulation.The People's Forum による

Better late then never! Class 10: Skipping ahead to Chapters 23 ‘simple reproduction’ and 24 ‘thetransformation of surplus value into capital’The People's Forum による

Class 9: Chapter 15 ‘machinery and large scale industry’ (second part)The People's Forum による

Class 8: Chapter 15 ‘machinery and large scale industry’ (first part)The People's Forum による

Class 7: Chapters Twelve, Thirteen, and Fourteen, the beginning of part four; ‘theproduction of relative surplus value’The People's Forum による

Class 6: Chapters Ten ‘the working day’ and Eleven ‘the rate and mass ofsurplus value’.The People's Forum による

Class 5: Chapters Seven, Eight, and Nine, the beginning of Part Three; TheProduction of absolute surplus value.The People's Forum による

Class 4: Chapters Four, Five, and Six, ‘part two; the transformation of money intocapital'The People's Forum による

Class 3: Chapters Two “The Process of Exchange” and Chapter Three "Money, or the circulation of commodities."The People's Forum による

Class 2: Reading Chapter One “The Commodity"The People's Forum による

Class 1: Read the various prefaces and postfaces by Marx and Engles as well as the first section of Chapter One “The Commodity” (“The Two Factors of theCommodity”), pages 89-131.The People's Forum による