Brecht Forum/NY Marxist School tape catalog

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The Brecht Forum

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Audiotapes of Brecht Forum Lectures and Seminars

This list is current as of January 1, 1996.

All lectures and seminars sponsored by The Brecht Forum and its
projects, The New York Marxist School and the Institute for Popular
Education, are available on audiotape. Prices are $8 for lecture
tapes (single cassette) and $20 for seminar tapes (usually three or
more cassettes). Listings of upcoming lectures and other events can
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Lectures:

**Mimi Abramovitz, Hunter College School of Social Work; author,
_Regulating the Lives of Women_
"Welfare Reform Today: Myths and Facts" (1/12/95)

**Maria Helena Alves, founding member, Brazilian Partido dos
Trabalhadores (PT, Workers' Party)
"Brazil: A Workers' Party Government?" (6/8/94)

**Theresa Amott, author, _Caught in the Crisis: Women and the U.S.
Economy Today_; Associate Professor of Economics, Bucknell
University
"Women in the U.S. Economy" (6/7/94)

**Robin Anderson, professor of media studies, Fordham University
"Television and Consumer Culture" (12/7/95)

**Sam Anderson, author, _The Black Holocaust for Beginners_;
mathematics professor, CCNY Center for Worker Education
"Grassrooting: Multicultural/Anti-racist Education" (5/25/95)

**Craig Benjamin, Centre for International Development Studies,
University of Guelph, Ontario
**Terisa Turner, CIDS, Guelph, Ontario
"Enabling Capitalism: Environmentalists and Advocates in the
Struggle for Land and Life" (6/13/95)

**Phyllis Bennis, FAIR--Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting;
Pacifica Radio/WBAI-FM, New York
**Laura Flanders, FAIR; WBAI
"Gerry Adams and Yasir Arafat: A Kinder, Gentler Treatment?"
(5/16/94)

**George Bernstein, Montclair State University, New Jersey
"The Gingrich Agenda: Nostalgia for a Past That Never Was"
(4/18/95)

**Walter Bernstein, scriptwriter for Woody Allen's _The Front_ and
television's _You Are There_
**Paul Buhle, co-editor, _Encyclopedia of the American Left_
"Political Amnesia and Popular Culture: The Entertainment Blacklist
and the Left Writer" (3/22/95)

**Emilio Betances, author, _State and Society in the Dominican
Republic_; Gettysburg College
**George Priestly, Director of Latin American Studies at Queens
College, CUNY
"Panama and the Dominican Republic: Turning the Tide?" (6/15/94)

**Robin Blackburn, editor _New Left Review_
"Is There Such a Thing as Socialist Entrepreneurship?" (3/31/94)

**Augusto Boal, founder, Theater of the Oppressed; Brazilian
Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, Workers Party) member of the Rio de
Janeiro City Council
"Legislative Acts: Mother Courage Goes to Rio" (5/24/95)

**Betsy Bowman, advisor to Russia's Party of Labor
**Len Krimerman, co-author, _When Workers Decide_
**Bob Stone, philosophy, C.W. Post College
"Workers Cooperatives" (4/21/95)

**Ellen Braune, New Channels Communications
**Steve Rendell, FAIR--Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
"Analyzing and Confronting Right-wing Media" (3/13/95)

**Ellen Braune
**Steve Rendell
"Mexico and the Media" (2/13/95)

**Michael Brie, East German scholarly circle; elaborated theory of
modern socialism
"Alternative Modernities: A Socialist Conception or an Apology for
Capitalism?" (11/13/95)

**Steve Brier, Director, American Social History Project, Hunter
College, CUNY
"U.S. History for Today's World" (10/5/95)

**David Brooks, Director, Mexico-U.S. Dialogos; U.S. correspondent
for _La Jornada_
**Doug Henwood, economist; editor and publisher, _Left Business
Observer_
"The Mexican Miracle--Out of Order: What's Happening to the
Bush/Clinton World Vision?" (3/15/95)

**Dennis Brutus, South African writer, poet, anti-apartheid
activist; University of Pittsburgh
**Erich Mathias, Joint Ministry in Africa, United Church of Christ;
Fifty Years Is Enough Campaign
"Fifty Years Is Enough: Time to Transform the World Bank and IMF"
(12/10/94)

**Dennis Brutus
**Sylvia Federici, author; Hofstra Univerity
**Erich Mathias
"The World Bank in the New World Order" (12/2/95)

**Paul Buhle (see entry under Walter Bernstein)

**Joseph Buttigieg, writer; Fellow, Center for European Studies,
University of Notre Dame
"Popular Culture in the United States" (12/11/95)

**Joseph Buttigieg
"Which Gramsci? Why Now?" (5/6/94)

**Alexander Buzgalin, economist, Moscow State University; former
deputy, Moscow City Council
"Marxism on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century" (4/15/94)

**Alexander Buzgalin
"New Social Bases of Left Movements in Russia" (11/20/95)

**Alexander Buzgalin
**Boris Kagarlitsky, founder, Russian Socialist Party; Russian
Party of Labor; former member, Moscow City Council; author, _The
Mirage of Modernization_
**Carlos Vilas, author, _Between Earthquakes and Volcanoes: Market,
State, and the Revolutions in Central America_; winner, 1986, Casa
de las Americas prize; Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
"Confronting the Neoliberal Agenda" (4/5/95)

**Peter Camejo, chairperson, Progressive Assets Management and
Earth Trade, Inc.
"Can Progressives Use Capital Markets for Social Change?" (5/10/95)

**Jan Carew, author, _Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in
Africa, England and the Caribbean_
"The Malcolm X Biographies: Gender and Class--Historiography Gone
Astray" (1/27/95)

**Lynn Chancer, Barnard College; author, _Sado-Masochism in
Everyday Life: The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessness_
"Sado-Masochism in Everyday Life" (2/8/95)

**Marilyn Clement, Director, Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom; former Director, Health Care: We Gotta Have It!
**Marshall England, co-chair, Commission on the Public Health
"Strategies for the Health Care Struggle" (4/26/94)

**Marilyn Clement
**Jennie Green, staff attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
**Jan C. Jamshidi, Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press
"Report Back from the Beijing Women's Conference" (11/30/95)

**Ron Daniels, Director, Center for Constitutional Rights; former
Executive Director, National Rainbow Coalition
"The Politics of Social Transformation" (3/23/95)

**William DiFasio, co-author, _The Jobless Future_
**Helen Lachs Ginsburg, co-author, _Jobs for All: A Plan for the
Revitalization of America_
**Sumner Rosen, co-founder, New Initiatives for Full Employment
"Full Employment or a Jobless Future?" (11/30/94)

**Matthew Dumont, psychiatrist; author, _Treating the Poor_ and
_The Absurd Healer_
"The Global Economy and the Privatization of Mental Health"

**Helene Dunkelblau
**Ed Vernoff
**Bob Weil
teachers who taught in China in 1993-1994
"Students in China: First-hand Accounts" (1/22/95)

**Marshall England (see entry under Marilyn Clement)

**Bret Eynon, Education Director, American Social History Project
"Who Makes History?" (4/25/95)

**Sylvia Federici (see entry under Dennis Brutus)

**Paula Finn, Director, Education Department, 1199 National Health
and Human Service Employees Union
**Maureen La Mar, Program Director, Worker Family Education
Program, International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)
"Educating Labor: Trade Union Techniques" (7/24/95)

**Bob Fitch, journalist, author, _The Assassination of New York_
"The Rudy Revolution: Giuliani's Assault on the Poor, People of
Color, and the Public Sector" (11/3/94)

**Bob Fitch
**Michael Letwin, President, New York legal aid attorneys union
"Fighting Giuliani and the Cuts: An Alternate City Budget"
(5/18/95)

**Laura Flanders (see entry under Phyllis Bennis)

**Eric Foner (historian, Columbia University; author,
_Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877_);
"Race and Citizenship in American History" (3/25/95)

**Joan Gibbs, civil and human rights activist
**Richard Levins, biologist, Harvard University
"Out from under the Bell Curve" (1/19/95)

**Helen Lachs Ginsburg (see entry under William DiFasio)

**Stephen Jay Gould, biologist, paleontologist, Harvard University;
author, _The Mismeasure of Man_, _Ever Since Darwin_; columnist,
_Natural History_ magazine
"Styles of Explanation in Science" (5/25/94)

**Jennie Green (see entry under Marilyn Clement)

**Joan Greenbaum, author, _Windows on the Workplace: Computers,
Jobs, and the Organization of Officework in the Late Twentieth
Century_
"Technology, Jobs, and Work Organization" (5/16/95)

**Dianne Greene, Director, Committee in Solidarity with the People
of El Salvador (CISPES)
**Jack Hammond, sociologist, author, New York
**Gerardo Renique, author, _Peru: Time of Fear_; City University of
New York
**Zeze Weiss, New York representative, Brazilian Partido dos
Trabalhadaros (PT, Workers' Party)
"The Latin American Left Faces the Future" (4/21/94)

**Robert Guttmann, Hofstra University and Universite Paris Nord;
author, _How Credit Money Shapes the Economy_
"Credit and the Economy" (2/15/95)

**Jack Hammond, sociologist, author, New York
"Teaching and Learning as a Political Act: Popular Education in El
Salvador" (6/12/95)

(Jack Hammond: see additional entry under Dianne Greene)

**David Harvey, geographer, author, _The Urban Experience_ and _The
Limits of Capital_; Oxford University and Johns Hopkins University
"Capital and Globalization" (9/15/95)

**David Harvey
"Politics in an Urban World: The Relevance of Marxist Theory"
(4/8/94)

**Doug Henwood, economist; editor/publisher _Left Business
Observer_
"Democratizing Finance: Can It Be Done?" (6/22/94)

**Doug Henwood
"Economy Up, People Down" (2/1/95)

(Doug Henwood: see additional entry under David Brooks)

**Jan C. Jamshidi (see entry under Marilyn Clement)

**Boris Kagarlitsky, founder, Russian Socialist Party; Russian
Party of Labor; former member, Moscow City Council; author, _The
Mirage of Modernization_
"The Russian Left and Mass Movements" (11/4/94)

(Boris Kagarlitsky: see additional entry under Alexander Buzgalin)

**Jan Kavan, member, Czech Social Democratic Party; member,
Czechoslovak Parliament, 1990-1992; main dissident contact in
London for twenty years until 1989
"The Czech Left, Civil Society, and the Role of Vaclav Havel"
(6/24/94)

**Mark Kesselman, political economist; professor of government,
Columbia University
"Changing Forms of Work" (10/27/94)

**Dieter Klein, professor, Humboldt University, Germany
**Bill Tabb, author, _The Post-war Japanese System: Cultural
Economy and Economic Transformation_
"Imperialism and Globalization: Clarifications at the End of the
Twentieth Century" (11/16/95)

**Joel Kovel, Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies, Bard College;
author, _White Racism: A Psychohistory_ and _History and Spirit: An
Inquiry into the Philosophy of Liberation_
"Ecology and Capital Accumulation" (6/9/95)

**Joel Kovel
"The Roots of U.S. Anti-Communism" (5/11/94)

**Len Krimerman (see entry under Betsy Bowman)

**William Kunstler, attorney, New York [d. 1995]
"Crime, Justice, and the Right to Counsel" (11/17/94)

**David Laibman, editor, _Science and Society_; author, _Value,
Technical Change and Crisis_; Professor of Economics, Brooklyn
College, CUNY
"The Direction of History: What Can We Explain and Predict?"
(5/23/95)

**Maureen La Mar (see entry under Paula Finn)

**Michael Lerner, editor, _Tikkun_ magazine; author, _The Socialism
of Fools: Anti-Semitism on the Left_
"Anti-Semitism on the Left" (5/16/94)

**Michael Letwin (see entry under Bob Fitch)

**Richard Levins, biologist, Harvard University
"Science in Politics, Politics in Science: Prediction, Surprise,
Chaos" (5/13/94)

(Richard Levins: see additional entry under Joan Gibbs)

**Clarence Lusane, author, _African Americans at the Crossroads_
"The Duboisian Challenge" (12/15/94)

**Harry Magdoff, editor, _Monthly Review_
**Paul Sweezy, editor, _Monthly Review_
"Market Socialism: An Answer to What?" (9/27/95)

**Manning Marable, writer; Institute for Research in African-
American Studies, Columbia University
"Beyond the Politics of Identity" (5/1/94)

**Manning Marable
"Beyond Black and White" (10/26/95)

**Peter Marcuse, Columbia University
**Mzwanele Mayekiso, leader of Alexandra civic movement; U.S.
representative of South African National Civic Organizations
(SANCO)
**Ron Shiffman, New York City Planning Commissioner
"Apartheid's Future in South Africa and the United States: Signs of
Convergence (12/1/95)

**Erich Mathias (see entries under Dennis Brutus)

**Mzwanele Mayekiso, leader of Alexandra civic movement; U.S.
representative of South African National Civic Organizations
(SANCO)
"The Civic Movement in South Africa: Current Challenges and
Prospects" (3/9/95)

(Mzwanele Mayekiso: see additional entry under Peter Marcuse)

**Gerald Meyer, author, _Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician_
"Electoral Reform: A Priority for the Left" (11/2/94)

**Julie Meyer, solidarity activist; coordinator, Mujer a Mujer,
Washington, DC
"Feminism and Solidarity: How Can Women in the 'First' and 'Third'
Worlds Work Together?" (6/16/94)

**Alan Milchman, political science, Queens College, CUNY
**Alan Rosenberg, philosophy, Queens College, CUNY
"Why Isn't the Holocaust an Issue for the Left?" (11/10/94)

**Ralph Miliband, author, co-editor, _Socialist Register [d. 1994]
"For and Against Utopia" (4/7/94)

**Jakob Moneta, member, Federal Executive, German Party of
Democratic Socialism; former labor attache in Paris for Metal
Workers Union
"Trade Unions in Germany and Europe" (3/10/95)

**Serge Mukendi, representative and founding member, Workers and
Peasants Movement of the Congo (Zaire) (MOP)
"Dynamics of Continental Crisis in Africa and the Congo" (12/6/94)

**Jan Myrdal, Swedish author, television producer
"The End of the Welfare State?" (12/4/95)

**David Nasaw, author, _Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public
Amusements_ and _Children of the City: At Work and at Play_
"Popular Amusements and the Politics of Whiteness" (2/6/95)

**June Nash, writer; professor, City University of New York
"Chiapas in Context" (11/16/94)

**Stuart Newman, developmental biologist; board member, Council for
Responsible Genetics
"Darwin vs. Dialectics: The Mechanization of the Living World"
(9/29/95)

**Stuart Newman
"The Gene-ing of America: Use and Abuse of Genetic Science"
(3/24/95)

**Bertell Ollman, author; Professor of Political Science, New York
University; spent eighteen months in Japan
"Why Does the Emperor Need the Yakuza? Toward a Marxist Theory of
the Japanese State" (11/9/95)

**Leo Panitch, editor, _Socialist Register_
"Globalization and A 'Different Kind of State'" (2/17/95)

**Jim Paul, Executive Director, Global Policy Forum
**Suzanne Paul, Chair, NGO Committee on Aging; President, Global
Action on Aging
**Margaret Willig-Crane, Director, Economic and Social Human Rights
Advocacy Network (ESHRAN)
"A Report from the Social Summit" (5/11/95)

**Suzanne Paul (see entry under Jim Paul)

**George Priestly (see entry under Emilio Betances)

**Paddy Quick, Union for Radical Political Economics
"Cuba Today: How Cubans Defend Their Revolution" (11/7/94)

**Steve Rendell (see entry under Ellen Braune)

**Gerardo Renique (see entry under Dianne Greene)

**Sumner Rosen (see entry under William DiFasio)

**Alan Rosenberg (see entry under Alan Milchman)

**Sheila Rowbotham, author, _Woman's Consciousness, Man's World_
"New Visions of Socialism" (2/21/95)

**Nan Rubin, founder, Community Media Services
"The Global Information Superhighway" (2/9/95)

**Annette Rubinstein, activist; literary critic; author, _American
Literature: Root and Flower_ and _The Great Tradition in English
Literature: From Shakespeare to Shaw_
"The Hidden Dorothy Parker" (3/8/95)

**Bill Sales, author, _From Civil Rights to Black Liberation:
Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro-American Unity_; Seton Hall
University
"Malcolm X: Toward a New Paradigm of Black Liberation" (10/17/95)

**John Saul, York University, Toronto; author, "Globalism,
Socialism and Democracy in the South African Transition"
"What Kind of Transition in South Africa?" (3/3/95)

**Ron Shiffman (see entry under Peter Marcuse)

**Anwar Shaikh, author, _The Welfare State and the Social Wage: An
International Study_; New School for Social Research
"The Stock Market: Theory and Empirical Evidence, A Marxian
Approach" (5/5/95)

**Irwin Silber, _CrossRoads_ magazine
"Formerly Existing Socialism: What Went Wrong?" (10/19/94)

**Bob Stone (see entry under Betsy Bowman)

**Paul Sweezy (see entry under Harry Magdoff)

**Bill Tabb, author, _The Post-war Japanese System: Cultural
Economy and Economic Transformation_
"It's after 'Post': Global Transformation, Marx's Theory, and
Today's Politics" (4/19/95)

(Bill Tabb: see additional entry under Dieter Klein)

**Terisa Turner (see entry under Craig Benjamin)

**Ed Vernoff (see entry under Helene Dunkelblau)

**Carlos Vilas (see entry under Alexander Buzgalin)

**Daniel Walkowitz, School of Social Work, Hunter College, CUNY
"The Muddle of the Middle Class: New York Social Workers and the
Politics of Identity" (4/20/95)

**Bob Weil (see entry under Helene Dunkelblau)

**Margaret Willig-Crane (see entry under Jim Paul)

**Zeze Weiss (see entry under Dianne Greene)

**Dietmar Wittich, Director, Institute for Social Data Analysis,
Berlin
"The Left in Germany" (4/6/94)

**Ellen Meiksins Wood, author, _Capitalism against Democracy:
Renewing Historical Materialism_
"Capitalism against Democracy" (11/3/95)

**Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., founder, Physicians for a National
Health Care Policy
"Health Care Goes Corporate: Where Do We Go from Here?" (11/19/94)

**Jorg Wollenberg, Education Department, German Federation of Trade
Unions; University of Bremen
"Workers Education in Germany" (10/2/95)

**Erik Olin Wright, coauthor, _Reconstructing Marxism_
"Marxism: Class Analysis _or_ Historical Materialism?" (2/23/95)


Seminars:

**Chip Berlet, journalist; Political Research Associates
**Matthew Lyons, PRA
"The Resistible Rise of Neo-Fascism" (9/28-30/94)

**Joseph Buttigieg, writer; Fellow, Center for European Studies,
University of Notre Dame
"Which Gramsci? Why Now?" (5/7-8/94)

**Alexander Buzgalin, economist, Moscow State University; former
deputy, Moscow City Council
"Marxism on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century"
(4/16-17/94)

**David Harvey, geographer, author, _The Urban Experience_ and _The
Limits of Capital_; Oxford University and Johns Hopkins University
"Capital and Globalization" (9/16/95)

**David Harvey
"Politics in an Urban World: The Relevance of Marxist Theory"
(4/9/94)

**Boris Kagarlitsky, founder, Russian Socialist Party; Russian
Party of Labor; former member, Moscow City Council; author, _The
Mirage of Modernization_
"The Russian Left and Mass Movements" (11/6/94)

**Joel Kovel, Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies, Bard College;
author, _White Racism: A Psychohistory_ and _History and Spirit: An
Inquiry into the Philosophy of Liberation_
"Ecology and Capital Accumulation" (6/9/95)

**Matthew Lyons (see entry under Chip Berlet)

**Jakob Moneta, member, Federal Executive, German Party of
Democratic Socialism; former labor attache in Paris for Metal
Workers Union
"Trade Unions in Germany and Europe" (3/11/95)

**Leo Panitch, editor, _Socialist Register_
"Globalization and A 'Different Kind of State'" (2/18/95)

**John Saul, York University, Toronto; author, "Globalism,
Socialism and Democracy in the South African Transition"
"What Kind of Transition in South Africa?" (3/4-5/95)

**Ellen Meiksins Wood, author, _Capitalism against Democracy:
Renewing Historical Materialism_
"Capitalism against Democracy" (11/4/95)

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