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*Left Forum Update* As we live through and try to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, we face many difficult decisions. After conferring at length and considering the conditions at our venue, Long Island University in Brooklyn, as well as travel constraints and the governor's recent ban on large gatherings, board members and staff together have decided to cancel the Left Forum 2020 conference originally scheduled for May 29-31, 2020. We at Left Forum are committed t...o ensuring the health and well-being of the conference participants, the public and our supporters. We have begun planning for events later this year and next. We ask that you check our website and assure you that we will be in touch soon. Respectfully, Left Forum Board of Directors and Staff #LeftForum2020andBeyond #AnotherWorldisPossible

Leo Panitch speaking at #LeftForum in 2015! #RIP "Syriza, Podemos, Left Bloc, and the Left: A European Revolutionary Politics?"

Tickets still available for Trotsky in Tijuana, a discussion with the novel's author Dan La Botz who will be joined for a discussion with Alan Wald, Suzi Weissm...an and you as tickets are still available at marxedproject.org or via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trotsky-in-tijuana-with-author See more

Sister Helen Prejean, one of the world’s best known anti-death-penalty activists, says the spate of federal executions carried out by the Trump administration r...eflect a fundamental flaw in the law, which does not set limits on use of the death penalty. When you give absolute power over life and death to government officials, they can really do what they want, she says. See more

This Friday! Andy Merrifield discusses his new book from Monthly Review Organized by Marxist Education Project

"Abolition asks us to dream bigger than reform, because an abolition democracy is one that is predicated on community self-determination and collective care wit...hout relying on carceral systems and their technologiesprisons, detention centers, psychiatric wards, police unions, juvenile detention, and more. For those working to move away from such agents that prop up racial capitalism, abolition democracy is the vision and horizon. True democracy cannot coexist with these systems of control." See more

Hadas Thier will appear December 13 to talk about her vital new book from Haymarket Press. A few weeks later, Sam Salour will begin a 14 week class reading and discussing A People's Guide to Capitalism on January 10.