Revolution at Point Zero
A Book Launch and Discussion with Silvia Federici
Thursday April 4 at 6:30pm
1610 Ste-Catherine West (Faubourg Building), Room B-060
(métro Guy-Concordia)
– This event is free.
– For free on-site childcare, please call 24 hours in advance: 514-848-7585.
– Wheelchair accessible.
– Il y aura une service de traduction chuchotée vers le français.
Join us for a discussion with feminist and anti-capitalist activist Silvia Federici, a veteran of the Wages for Housework campaign and author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation.
Federici will discuss her most recent book Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (PM Press 2012), a collection of texts written between 1975 and 2010. In this talk she will specifically address social reproduction in an era of globalized capitalism providing a feminist and autonomous Marxist analysis of the ongoing recolonization and decimation of much of the planet. As outlined in Revolution at Point Zero, this process fosters a permanent crisis of reproduction and survival. As women continue to bear the brunt of this onslaught, Federici puts forth a vision of the commons as a site of resistance.
Copies of Caliban and the Witch and Revolution at Point Zero will be on sale along with other feminist and anti-capitalist literature.
This event is co-sponsored by QPIRG Concordia, QPIRG McGill and Kersplebedeb Publishing.
(Note that Silvia will also be giving a workshop on “Reproductive Work and the Construction of the Commons in an Era of Primitive Accumulation” at the Anti-Capitalist Teach In on April 7th. For more information, visit: https://www.qpirgconcordia.org/?p=4319)
info: 514-848-7585 – info@qpirgconcordia.org
www.qpirgconcordia.org – www.qpirgmcgill.org – www.kersplebedeb.com