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Renowned Italian Marxist theorist and activist Franco “Bifo” Berardi discusses our current political impotence and the tool of humiliation in demoralizing and manipulating citizens, which helps to explain Trump’s victory and the power of figures like Nigel Farage. But rather than despair, Bifo argues that we should see in this humiliation the possibility of autonomy and eventually, communism. He maintains that we should emancipate from the superstition of waged labor and create a world where richness is for everyone. Whenever there is a hippie, a punk, an engineer, a rebel with a keyboard, the global silicon Valley is there. If we want to win the battle against the global corporations that are the real force of capitalism, it’s not politics that will help us, it’s not the nation state or political parties, it’s us. Since 2015, April Ryan, Washington Bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks and author of At Mama’s Knee and The Presidency in Black and White, has brought together panelists and moderated an ongoing series of discussions on the topic of race in America today. During these panels, which are often broadcast on C-SPAN Book TV, leading writers and commentators address recent and longstanding issues with candor and urgency. Click the images on the left to view previous discussions, and find out more about the upcoming or most recent event below.
Panelists Include: Mary Frances Berry, Avis Jones-DeWeever, Wesley Lowery, and Julianne Malveaux
Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. 
Laurie Penny launches her new book Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults. Compiled and displayed as a manifesto for change, the essays here address issues of gender, feminism, and power – all inexorably a part of politics.
As the inalienable rights of marginalized peoples are under siege by the rise of conservatism in the western world, Penny lends her voice to the resistance, battling social and political injustice with dark humor and cutting wit. Penny critiques the rise of the alt-right, the US presidential election, women’s gender roles, and tackles questions related to sex work, trigger warnings, rape culture, cyber-bullying, and much more.
Laurie Penny is an award-winning journalist, essayist, public speaker, writer, activist, internet nanocelebrity and author of six books, including Unspeakable Things (Bloomsbury 2014) and Everything Belongs To The Future (Tor, 2016). She is Contributing Editor of New Statesman magazine, a columnist for The Baffler, and writes for many other outlets including The Guardian, Time Magazine, Buzzfeed, The New York Times, Vice, Salon, The Nation, The New Inquiry, Tor.com and Medium. When she’s not on the road, Laurie is based in London, UK. Read more at www.laurie-penny.com. 
David Roediger in conversation with Jordan T. Camp, Christina Heatherton, and Donna Murch.
New York launch of David Roediger’s latest book, “Class, Race, and Marxism,” at Verso Books in Brooklyn on June 30, 2017.
Since the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the political fault-lines opened up by the 2016 US elections, the question of the relationship between race, class, and politics in modern societies has dominated the media landscape.
In this new collection of pathbreaking essays, Roediger tackles the question of race and its relationship to capitalism, and through this challenges the way we thinking about whiteness and racism, intersectionality, solidarity, and the future of organizing against racism.
David Roediger’s work over the past 25 years has set the agenda for work on the constructions race in US history. His books have defined the field of Critical Whiteness Studies, and been hailed by the likes of Angela Davis, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Paul Gilroy, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
In “Class, Race, and Marxism,” Roediger argues that racial division is not only part of the history of capitalism but is fundamental to the nature of work and capitalism itself. Class, Race, and Marxism is an essential guide to current discussions about race and class that provides useful histories for forging solidarity.
About David Roediger:
David Roediger is the Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Kansas University. Among his books are “Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day” (with Philip S. Foner), “How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon,” and “The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.”
About the panelists:
Jordan T. Camp is a term assistant professor of American studies at Barnard College. He recently published “Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of Neoliberalism” (UC Press, 2016). He is the co-editor of “Policing the The Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter” (Verso, 2016).
Christina Heatherton is an assistant professor of American Studies at Barnard College, co-editor of “Policing the The Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter” (Verso, 2016), and author of “The Color Line and the Class Struggle: The Mexican Revolution, Internationalism, and the American Century” (University of California Press, forthcoming).
Donna Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and the author of “Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California” (The University of North Carolina Press, 2010). She is the author of the forthcoming book, “Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives” (Haymarket Books, 2017). 
Dr. Parker is one of the few physicians offering abortion services to women in Alabama, and his Pink House is the very last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi. Awarded the 2015 Planned Parenthood Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award for his dedication to the reproductive justice movement, Parker believes that it is his duty, both as a medical doctor and as a Christian, to help women in need, and to do so without judgment. His frank, illuminating memoir recounts the professional and spiritual paths that led him to give up private practice, obstetrics, a Hawaiian penthouse, and fundamentalism, and to take up the life of an outspoken and courageous itinerant abortion provider.
Parker is in conversation with Katha Pollitt, “Subject to Debate” columnist for The Nation and author of Pro.
Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. Rakesh Satyal is an award-winning novelist, book editor, and cabaret singer. His second novel, No One Can Pronounce My Name, just came out in May from Picador to incredible reception. It has been named one of Goodreads' Best Books of May, one of BuzzFeed's 31 Incredible Books You Need to Read This Spring, one of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of 2017, and has received praise from writers such as Hanya Yanagihara, Maria Semple, Garth Greenwell, Celeste Ng, and Kate Christensen and rave reviews from critics at Fresh Air and Rolling Stone.
