Online events of interest

[sunnysidedown]

It seems there are a few events now shifting to streaming their discussions online, including book fairs and festivals of various sorts. I though it may be worth creating a thread so people could post any they think may be of interest. I'll start off with the Red May 2020, Seattle's Radical Festival of Thought. it's onto the last couple of weeks of what was a month long series of talks, although the previous ones are available to view.

Red May 2024 | Radical Events based in Seattle

Red May is month of events in Seattle and on Youtube analyzing contemporary issues through red theory, Marxism, feminism, philosophy, & history. Share in our discussions and help us plot ways forward to a world in common beyond capitalism.

www.redmayseattle.org

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Good idea for a thread. There seems to be loads of online content similar to this at the moment.
I’m involved in a podcast which is reading EP Thompson’s classic Making of the English Working Class. We are up to Chapter 5 so far.

If people haven’t read the book or Have and wanted to discuss the themes and ideas then I’d recommend it.

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[CNT36]

Received this email from the Historical Association earlier.

Dear all


We're sorry you have not been able to benefit from our local Plymouth
programme this month. However, why not access the Historical Association
website (history.org.uk) where you'll find various interesting elements
under Virtual HA branch and Covid 19 response?


In the Virtual Branch section you'll be able to listen to talks - coming
up are the Vietnam war and the US, Tudor Life and Death, US Civil Rights
and many others in later weeks; also a History book club;


From the Covid 19 Response section you can get into various open access
resources.


We are working on a local programme for the coming academic year: online
talks in the autumn, and (we hope) a set of live events in 2021.


Alan Cousins

 

[butchersapron]

Capital and Class/CSE are hosting this at 4 this afternoon:

Debate: Trade Unions and the State in a time of Coronavirus: For or Against the Jobs Guarantee?

Wednesday 27 May 2020
4pm (UK time)
contact us for the zoom link: d.j.bailey@bham.ac.uk

hosted by CSE/Capital and Class Midlands

Michael Murray, Associate Professor of Economics, Bemidji State University, and author of numerous articles on the Job Guarantee and editor of The Job Guarantee: Toward True Full Employment

Michael Roberts, author of the well-known Michael Roberts Blog: blogging from a Marxist perspective

Yuliya Yurchenko, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Greenwich, and local UCU Health and Safety rep

Rob Johnston, Policy and Campaigns Officer, Trades Union Congress, Midlands


The TUC has recently promoted the idea of a 'Jobs Guarantee'. This raises a number of important questions around what progressive support the state can or will provide during this crisis, and how trade unions should respond.

This debate considers different positions in this debate, both more and less supportive, and aims to provide trade union activists with an opportunity to reflect on what we can and should be asking of the state during the Coronavirus Crisis.

Join us to discuss this vital question for all trade unionists and workers in the current crisis. All welcome!

 

[redsquirrel]

Damn, that ^ sounds really good (somewhat skeptical of the jobs guarantee stuff) unfortunately I've got another meeting at the same time.

If anyone can make that I'd be grateful for a brief summary

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Ditto what redsquirrel wrote. Did anyone attend?