Michael Zweig’s new book, Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism, is for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today’s social justice movements. Learn more below, and join Michael Zweig and invited guests and discussants at these upcoming in-person book talks:

November 28th at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle, WA in conversation with Faye Guenther, President of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 3000. Details here.

December 1st at Powell’s Books in Portland, OR with Mary Winzig, Organizer International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). Powell’s event page.

December 3rd at the Howard Zinn Book Fair in San Francisco, CA. Panel with Isaac Ontiveros, director of strategic alliances National Nurses United, Steve Williams, director for development of strategy and strategists LeftRoots, and Morissa Zuckerman, national digital strategy director Sierra Club. View the schedule.

December 5th at 21 San Mateo Rd in Berkeley, CA at 5pm. An evening with Michael Zweig on his new book. Parking will be limited: come by AC Transit #7 or #18. Facebook event.

December 9th at Red Emma’s in Baltimore, MD with Ralikh Hayes, lead organizer NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Learn more here.

December 10th at Busboys and Poets in Takoma, MD with Nikki Cole, Director of Resource Mobilization Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) and Bill Fletcher, Jr., activist/consultant/author labor, peace, Black freedom organizations. EVENTBRITE LINK 

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Bringing forth the basic operations of capitalist economies, Class, Race, and Gender reveals what is driving many of today’s most urgent and vexing problems: the common origins of the inequalities of income, wealth, and power; environmental devastation; militarism; racism and white supremacy; patriarchy and male chauvinism; periodic economic crises; and the cultural conflicts that are tearing at US life.

Michael Zweig illuminates all propositions with specific examples from US history, from the first settlement of the New World to current life, including his own lived experiences as an activist, educator, and organizer over the past six decades. As such, the book is an urgently needed resource for activists and organizers seeking structural and moral transformation of life in the US. Building on his analysis, Zweig also presents strategies for political action in electoral and movement-building work.

Previous talks

November 12th at Busboys and Poets in Shirlington, VA with Dorian Warren, President Community Change and Earvin Godoy, organizer Starbucks Union. EVENTBRITE LINK

November 14th at Four Seasons Bookstore in Sheperdstown, WV with Everett Ehrlich, US Under-Secretary of Commerce 1993-1997 and Howard Wachtel, emeritus economics professor at American University and author of The Money Mandarins. Register here.

November 16th at The People’s Forum in New York City with Jamel Coy Hudson, TriChair NY State Poor People’s Campaign, Juliet Ucelli, founder NY Marxist School, Brecht Forum, and Darinel Velasquez, organizer NY Communities for Change. Details here.

Worker Power and Economic Democracy, the ASU Center for Work and Democracy’s Annual Conference on February 23 and 23, 2024.

Old Main Building at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. Learn more here.

Join us via Zoom Webinar by registering through this link.

Joining our lineup of brilliant speakers across organizing and academia, Kim Kelly, Kali Akuno, and Matt Meyer will give keynote addresses during this two-day conference. Kim Kelly is an independent journalist, author, and organizer whose writing has been featured in numerous big-name publications. Her book Fight Like Hell: the Untold History of American Labor was published in 2022. Kali Akuno is co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson– one of the most ambitious efforts to build a solidarity economy in decades– in addition to his extensive work in human rights. Akuno is a co-editor of Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future and the Present alongside our final keynote speaker, Matt Meyer. Matt Meyer is an internationally recognized author, academic, organizer, and educator who was recently re-elected Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). Hear from these speakers and many more at the Center for Work and Democracy’s 2024 conference!