Top Course Outlines and Materials

• GREEN NEW DEAL: Carl Davidson' New Slide presentation on what caused the crisis, what we need to deal with it, and how to get it. Excellent for people who are just learning about the topic. Article to go with the slides HERE.
• How Feminism Became Capitalism's Handmaiden - And How to Reclaim It Marxist philosopher Nancy Fraser explains how s movement that started out as a critique of capitalist exploitation ended up contributing key ideas to its latest neoliberal phase

• ORGANIZING WORKERS TODAY. 25 articles written for Labor Day 2018 on unions, workers, and how 21st century conditions present new challenges. Writers include Peter Drier, Sarah Jaffe and Bill Fletcher, Jr. among others.

• Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History. Helena Sheehan retraces the development of a Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that shaped it. Skilfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan shows how Marx and Engel’s ideas on the development and structure of natural science had a crucial impact on the work of early twentieth-century natural philosophers, historians of science, and natural scientists.

• THE FRENCH YELLOW VESTS: Kevin Anderson explains the French rebels as a self-mobilized mass movement with insurrectionist overtones. with politics spanning left to right.
• CLARA ZEITIN ON THE RISE OF FASCISM. Written in 1923 when she as active in the Comintern.

• THE GREAT GOD TRUMP &  THE WHITE WORKING CLASS. By Mike Davis. This is a skeptical interrogation of the widely-accepted belief that white working-class voters elected Trump. A careful analysis of Rust Belt counties that voted for Obama in 2012 demonstrates a strong correlation between recent plant closures and the collapse of the Clinton vote, but shows only a limited movement toward Trump. Good research data, excellent discussion starter.
• HOW SLAVERY SHAPED US CAPITALISM. 8 slide shows covering two important books, 'The Half Has Never Been Told' and 'Slavery by Another Name.' Prepared by Carl Davidson.
• THE SNCC DIGITAL GATEWAY. All sorts of materials for learning about the revolutionary youth movment that spured the 1960s
• THE HARD ROAD TO RENEWAL: Thatcherism And The Crisis Of The Left.  Stuart Hall's Downloadable Book On The Political Impact Of Margaret Thatcher Has Established Him As The Most Prescient And Insightful Analyst Of Neoliberalism Through A Gramscian Lens.
• NEOLIBERALISM IS A POLITICAL PROJECT: David Harvey on what neoliberalism actually is — and why the concept matters, 15 page essay for discussion group
• INTERVIEW WITH BILL GALLEGOS. By Ellly Leary and Anne Lewis in Monthly Review, the discussion gives a good account of how Marxism Merged with the Latino movement, through the experience of one of its leaders, who today is also making similar connects in Climate Change battles.
• FOR MARXISTS DOING ELECTORAL WORK, studying Poulantzas is a big help. We have a free book by him in the books section. But check out 'Calibrating the Capitalist State in the Neoliberal Era' by Colin Jenkins of the Hampton Institute to get you started.
• POLITICS & CLIMATE CHANGE. Results of an import study of the 'Six Americas' as clusters of thinking on climate change, and how they are reflected in the electorate. Key to discussion of a Green Deal Deal. Download as PDF,
• ORGANIC INTELLECTUALS. Slide Show on  Teaching and Organizing--Gramsci, Arizmendi and Ella Baker. By Carl Davidson.
• INSTRUMENTS FOR DOING POLITICS. A powerful new pamphlet by Marta Harnecker for studying strategy and tactics, and doing revolutionary work in non-revolutionary conditions to change the correlation of forces.
• Slide Show: 11 Talking Points on 21st Century Socialism
• Directory of Writings of more than 100 Marxists
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• Syllabuses: Courses on American History
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• Resources: Mapping Black Studies