Thursday November 24th, 7pm New International Bookshop, 54 Victoria St Carlton Entry: $5 or $3 for NIBS members Book here. In November, we continue our screening of CAPITALISM - an ambitious and accessible six-part documentary series that looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world. http://www.icarusfilms.com/new2015/capi.html … Continue reading Subversive Cinema: Capitalism Documentary Part 5 & 6 (of 6)
From Mao to Now: The Ongoing relevance of Marxism in China
Tickets here Author Roland Boer's argues that anybody who wants to understand contemporary China simply has to have some understanding of Chinese Marxism. As such, Roland has spent the last few years developing and teaching a massive online course on the nature, debates, and practices of Marxism in China today. Roland will discuss Chinese Marxism as … Continue reading From Mao to Now: The Ongoing relevance of Marxism in China
NIBS spring $1 Fiction Sale
Book Talk – Big Farms Big Flu – Rob Wallace – Note: Date Change Now on Tuesday 25th, 7pm
Tuesday October 25th 7pm, New International Book Shop 54 Victoria St, Carlton, 3053 Admission: By Donation RSVP here Rob Wallace, U.S based author of a new book 'Big Farms Make Big Flu,' published by Monthly Review Press, will give a talk about the book at New International Bookshop. The book is a collection of dispatches, by … Continue reading Book Talk – Big Farms Big Flu – Rob Wallace – Note: Date Change Now on Tuesday 25th, 7pm
New Books in October
W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line - Bill V Mullen - $32 The Politics of James Connolly - Allen - $32 Marx's 'Capital' - Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho - $32 We Make Our Own History - Cox and Nilsen - $42 Brics: An Anti-Capitalist Critique - Edited by Patrick Bond and Ana Garcis … Continue reading New Books in October
New Books in September
META Philosophy - Henri Lefebvre - $43 We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism - Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald Nilsen - $42 Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics - Jules Boykoff with a foreword by Dave Zirin - $24 The Australian Greens: From Activism to … Continue reading New Books in September
Globalisation & Labour in the 21st Century – Verity Burgmann
Admission: $5 or $3 for NIBS members (pre-book here) The book argues that despite the adverse impact of globalization on the working-class, today workers around the world are challenging their increased exploitation by globalizing corporations. In developed countries, many unions are transforming themselves to confront employer power in ways more appropriate to contemporary circumstances; in … Continue reading Globalisation & Labour in the 21st Century – Verity Burgmann
Subversive Cinema -Capitalism Documentary Part 1 & 2 (of 6)
When: Thursday September 15th, 7pm-9pm Where: New International Book Shop, basement Trades Hall Entry: $5 or $3 if an existing NIBS member. Pre-book here Over the last three months of 2016 NIBS will be screening CAPITALISM which is an ambitious and accessible six-part documentary series that looks at both the history of ideas and the … Continue reading Subversive Cinema -Capitalism Documentary Part 1 & 2 (of 6)
Left Q&A: Andy Blunden – On the Origins of Collective Decision Making
When: Thursday September 8th, 7pm Where: Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall, 54 Victoria St, Carlton Admission $5 - pre-book through Bell Union here. In our October installment of Left Q/A, Andy Blunden will talk about his recently published book, On the Origins of Collective Decision Making. This is the first investigation into the historical origins … Continue reading Left Q&A: Andy Blunden – On the Origins of Collective Decision Making
New Books in August
Queer Wars - Dennis Altman - $29 Can the Welfare State Survive - Andrew Gamble - $22 Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination - $35 Past Anarchism - Saul Newman - $29 What Is To Be Done?: A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy - Alain Badiou and Marcel … Continue reading New Books in August
