Events for Political Affairs Readers

Political Affairs Readers Group

Gathers the First Saturday of Each Month from 10:00 to Noon at the Niebyl-Proctor Library

Who: The Communist Party USA (Oakland/Berkeley) invites you to the Political Affairs Readers Group

Where: Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library for Social Research 6501 Telegraph Ave (bet. Alcatraz and 66th) Phone (510) 595-7417.

When: Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 10 a.m. What: New Era? New New Deal?

Read the following articles from Political Affairs online: Norman Markowitz, 'It's Time for a New Deal'

John Case, Paul Krugman's Ideological Campaign for the Return of Depression Economics

Depression Economics, Recovery and Socialist Transition

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Center for Marxist Education 2009 Calendar

CHINA STUDY GROUP Thursday Feb 26, 7 P.M.: a report on recent visit to Vietnam

Moving the President and the Congress A forum on two people’s issues and the need for us to move the President Obama and the Congress forward to pass the bills: “The Employee Free Choice Act” and “Health Care for All” Saturday, February 28th, 2 p.m.

Women, Work and Society - Beginning of the discussion 1. Woman’s work in industry and agriculture 2. Arts and Sciences 3. Education and Health fields 4. High Tech and Human Services 5. Offices and Kitchens 6. And course the labor movement 7. How does the statics of women affect men and family? Wednesday, March 11th, 7 p.m.

CUBA: AN AFRICAN ODYSSEY (video) It was the Cold War’s least publicized face that of Africa, when the United States and European old imperialist nations triggered a power struggle with the Soviet Union over an unstable continent emerging from centuries of colonialism. How Cuba became involved in the complex puzzle of African liberation is the subject of this fascinating French documentary trading Cuban efforts from the early days of Che Guevara in the Belgian Congo to the 1990’s. Part I Saturday, April 11 at 2:30 pm Part II Saturday, April 18 at 2:30 pm

Celebrate MAY DAY 2009 with a film 'From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks' Friday, May 1st, 7 p.m. at the C.M.E.

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