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Monthly Archives: March 2023
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DSA’s National Political Education Committee (NPEC) invites political educators and activists from DSA chapters, OCs and National Committees to participate in a collective research project on Political Education in Social, Labor & Political Movements. To submit an entry: Those interested in participating can reach out to NPEC at [email protected] for…
Introductory Note While there are many notable events in the 1950s and early 1960s leading to the development and radicalization of the Ethiopian student movement (ESM),1 the first public expression of the ESM as a leftist and Marxist-Leninist movement was in 1965, “when students came out on to the street…
DSA’s National Political Education Committee invites political educators from around the country to join us for our first Educators Conference of the year. It’s a chance to share and learn from comrades about local and national organizing efforts. Every chapter and national working group is invited to send as many…
Introductory Note The Landless Workers Movement (MST) demands land (the means of production), agrarian reform (infrastructure), and social transformation (a solidarity economy). Workers in Brazil began occupations of agricultural land in the early 1980s, inspired by liberation theology and Marxist struggles. These communities coalesced under the MST starting in 1984,…
Introductory Note PAULO FREIRE was a Brazilian philosopher whose fundamental concern was to conceptualize education as the development of human freedom. In 1964, after a right-wing coup deposed President João Goulart, Freire was exiled for his literacy efforts with Brazilian fieldworkers. While in exile, Freire published Pedagogy of the Oppressed,…