No expertise required,
Hydra Books is hosting a study circle for anyone interested
in getting to know Karl Marx’s by reading his original works on capitalism.
Marx devote his life to writing about this most contemporary of topics,
and the study circle will be a peaceful, non judgmental to look into his work and
relate it to the world today.
Please bring a donation, and a copy of the first part of Capital if you have one.
This is a weekly event starting in October 2013.
Filed under Events, Good Reads, History, Hydra Event
Date: Thursday 25th July
Time: 7.30-9.30pm
Cost: Donation
What’s behind the protests that mobilized hundreds of thousands of Brazilians and shocked the country in the middle of the Confederations Cup?
Who are the protesters and what are their flags and demands? What are the direction and the consequences of the mobilization?
Two eye-witnesses will give a visual report on what happened in São Paulo and try to answer these questions.
Thursday 27th of June
7:30 – 9:30
Price: Donation
Speaker: Gifford Hartman
One of the forms in which the working class exists today is at the various nodal points along global commodity chains. Global production is based on a system of “factories without walls,” where increasingly components are manufactured using an inventory-less subcontracting system that races around the globe looking for the “leanest” costs of production – especially cheap and compliant labor. Yet these just-in-time chains are vulnerable and this presentation identifies the nodes where struggles offer the greatest possibility for solidarity to spread down supply chains – and across oceans and borders. The presentation will show the links between bread riots worldwide in 2008, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy shutdown of the Port of Oakland, California in November, 2011. Gifford Hartman is a writer and activist from California, USA.
Steve Higginson will interpret the re-birth of misogyny by looking at the period of the Great Plague, 1345 onwards, and the great moralising discourse that swept across Europe post plaque. Located within this discourse of purity, women were viewed as both cause and effect of the plague, and were to be “enclosed” accordingly within the domestic sphere. The purity campaign against women was attributable to a re-reading of the Old Testament plus a resurgance of interest in Aristotlian ethics.
Steve hails from Liverpool and was a Union organiser in the Communication Workers Union. Now a post-graduate, Steve lectures at John Moores University. His recent projects include an examination of time, memory and movement in port cities (principally Liverpool) as co-author of Edgy Cities (2006). He has been a regular contributor of Bristol Radical History Group events.Steve Higginson will interpret the re-birth of misogyny by looking at the period of the Great Plague, 1345 onwards, and the great moralising discourse that swept across Europe post plaque. Located within this discourse of purity, women were viewed as both cause and effect of the plague, and were to be “enclosed” accordingly within the domestic sphere. The purity campaign against women was attributable to a re-reading of the Old Testament plus a resurgance of interest in Aristotlian ethics.
Steve hails from Liverpool and was a Union organiser in the Communication Workers Union. Now a post-graduate, Steve lectures at John Moores University. His recent projects include an examination of time, memory and movement in port cities (principally Liverpool) as co-author of Edgy Cities (2006). He has been a regular contributor of Bristol Radical History Group events.
08/03/2012
Price: Donations
Time: 7pm
One hundred years ago immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts led by the Industrial Workers of the World organized a strike that held for over two months for fairer wages and better working conditions.
This was an momentous event in the history of labour relations in the United States and has inspired the Bread and Roses award for radical literature given by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers (of which The Hydra is of course a member).
Can you imagine a two month strike in these times? comments welcomed…
Filed under History
We are proud to be a member of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers
