Political Education Project
A brand new collection of podcasts/readings to provide a background for meaningful reflections on current affairs and ways forward from a broadly Marxist perspective.
Session 1 - What Is Socialism?
Recommended Reading
Hal Draper – ‘The Two Souls of Socialism’ (1966)
James Connolly – ‘State Monopoly Versus Socialism’ (1899)
Recommended Listening
www.SocialistThinkTank.Podcast/HalDraper
Session 2 - Covid Climate and Capital Crises
Recommended Reading
Joe Guinan and Sean Byers- COVID Climate and Capitalist Crises
Session 3 - Covid Climate and Capital Crises
Recommended Reading
Reclaiming The Struggle
Keston K. Perry - Climate Reparations - An Internationalist approach for the 21st Century
Recommended Listening
A Sivanandan's Communities of Resistance - Writings on Black struggle
Climate Reparations - An internationalist approach for the 21st Century
Session 4 - Women and Oppression
Recommended Reading
Rosa Luxemburg - Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle (1912)
Angela Davis - Women, Race and Class (1981)
Recommended Watching
A Woman's Worth: The Story of the Ford Sewing Machinists
Session 5 - Building Working Class Power
Recommended Reading
Karl Marx - General Rules of the First International
Alan Sears - Creating and Sustaining Communities of Struggle
Bill Fletcher Jr. – 5 Ways to Rebuild Labor and Transform America