<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-family:calibri;color:black;font-weight:bold"><font size="4">Center for Marxist Education</font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-family:calibri;color:black;font-weight:bold"><font size="4">May 2017 Events Schedule</font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-family:calibri;color:black;font-weight:bold"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black;font-weight:bold">Thursday, May 4 | 7:00 – 8:30 PM</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0);font-weight:bold">BookTalk: Capital </span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Sandeep </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Choubey</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Capital </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">is Karl Marx's magnum opus, and remains the best explanation of how capitalism works and why this system is prone to cycles of booms and busts. Join us for an engaging discussion of this still relevant text, twenty pages at a time.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black;font-weight:bold"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black;font-weight:bold">Wednesday, May 10</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0);font-weight:bold">Committee for International Labor Defense</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Business Meeting| 6:30 PM  (All are welcome.)</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Educational </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">| </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">7:00 – 8:00 PM</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0);font-weight:bold">Defense Efforts in the McCarthy Era, Part 2</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">John </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Vago</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">, </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri">decades-long activist for peace, democracy, labor, social justice, against racism and imperialism, for socialism; in New York, Philadelphia, and now in the Boston area.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri">At the last CILD educational, John </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri">Vago</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri"> provided the historical back drop for the McCarthy period. For the upcoming May 10 educational, John </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri">Vago</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri"> will finish the presentation and we’ll learn how he and his family were impacted under McCarthyism. In this way we’ll get a glimpse of what imprisonment for communists meant for the prisoners, their families, and defense efforts.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri">   </span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black;font-weight:bold">Saturday, May 13 | 3:00 – 4:30 PM</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0);font-weight:bold">Report Back From China</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Wadi’h</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Halabi</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">, Economics Commission, CPUSA </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">and CME</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">The Russian Revolution of 1917 was the greatest step forward in the history of humanity, not so much because it solved problems immediately (although it did some, such as land reform), but for making it possible to address problems that capitalism is incapable of doing, from jobs for all to environment. Among thousands of legacies, the Revolution also created the Communist Parties and the Communist International, and led to the formation or transformation of unions worldwide. The Communist Party of China is organizing forums to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. This is a report from one such forum, in Wuhan in late April</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black;font-weight:bold">Tuesday</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black;font-weight:bold">, May 16 | 7:00 – 8:30 PM</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0);font-weight:bold">BookTalk: State and Revolution, Part 2</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Eddie Carson, </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">CPUSA, CME</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Delve into Lenin’s premier work on the role of the state, the dire need for a proletariat revolution, and the weaknesses of social democracy vis-à-vis a capitalist framework in granting the rise of a working-class state. Lenin addresses the criticisms of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, while offering a crucial critique of bourgeoisie power.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;font-weight:bold"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;font-weight:bold">Sunday, May 21 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0);font-weight:bold">Overcoming the Culture of Exploitation</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Wadi'h</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Halabi</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">, Economics Commission, CPUSA </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">and CME</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri">Strands of a spider's web can trap and kill long after the spider has died. The same applies to the web of exploitation that ruling classes began to weave from their earliest days. The Russian Revolution broke the main strands of exploitation, such as the exploiters' 'bodies of armed men' and their system of miseducation. But finer strands remained, from idealism to inequalities such as between men and women or between intellectual and manual labor. Remaining strands of capital's 'web of exploitation' affected leaders' ability to speak the truth, and played a role in the collapse of the Soviet Union and several other states like it. Identifying the many strands of the culture of exploitation will help workers strengthen conscious expression of working class power and avoid further defeats. Based on presentations in China and dedicated to the memory of Richard </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri">Levins</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri">.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black;font-weight:bold"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black;font-weight:bold">Wednesday, May 24 | 7:00 – 8:30 PM</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0);font-weight:bold">BookTalk: Capital</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Sandeep </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Choubey</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Capital </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">is Karl Marx's magnum opus, and remains the best explanation of how capitalism works and why this system is prone to cycles of booms and busts. Join us for an engaging discussion of this still relevant text, twenty pages at a time.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;font-weight:bold">Saturday, May 27 | 3:00 – 4:30 PM</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0);font-weight:bold">Red, Black and Queer</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0);font-weight:bold">​</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Gerry </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Scoppettuolo</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">, Workers World </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Party, ACT-UP</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Red</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">, Black and Queer is a slideshow presentation which demonstrates how socialists and revolutionaries of all backgrounds brought the LGBTQ struggle into the labor movement, deepening the class struggle in the process. While extolling the leading role of the queer community, Red, Black and Queer is careful to show that this fighting history of working class people from all nationalities didn't happen by accident. The class conscious intervention of socialists and communists in the labor movement - and history itself - over many decades, was crucial in advancing LGBTQ civil and human rights and liberation. It is these type of struggles that will eventually contribute to establishing socialism in the area now known as the United States and internationally.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-weight:bold">Sunday, May 28| 6:00 – 8:00 PM</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0);font-weight:bold">Lumumba </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0)"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx4Dxfk_sVA" target="_blank">(</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0)"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRPYtkQon10" target="_blank">Watch the trailer.)</a></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Richard Pendleton,  CME</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">The story of political leader Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first prime minister who helped lead his country to independence from Belgium in the late 1950s. Lumumba's vision of a united Africa gained him powerful enemies: the Belgian authorities, who wanted a much more paternal role in their former colony's affairs, and the CIA, who supported Lumumba's former friend Joseph Mobutu. This was in order to protect U.S. business interests in Congo's vast resources and their upper hand in the Cold War power balance. During the tenuous first six months of Congo's independence when civil war threatened to erupt, Lumumba tried to quell hostilities but was eventually betrayed by Mobutu whom he had appointed as head of the army. In 1961 with several conspiracies occurring at once, Lumumba met a brutal death--a mere nine months after becoming the country's first Prime Minister.</span></p></div><div><br></div><br></div>