The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education) Presents:

THE EAST ASIAN CLASS STRUGGLE IN WORLD PERSPECTIVE
A talk by Loren Goldner

Tuesday, January 24 at 7:00 p.m.

In 2004, reports the New York Times, there were 74,000 riots in China. The countryside and China's floating population of 100 million peasants, driven off the land to seek work in the cities, are a powder keg poised to explode. The Chinese state is using every means at its disposal to keep the outbursts local, so far with success. In China, South Korea and throughout East Asia, the working class remains on the defensive. Despite a capitalist boom extending back to the 'market socialist' turn of 1978, China's industrial working class has lost 22 million jobs. In South Korea, after the explosive strikes of the late 1980's and the Asian crisis and IMF bailout of 1997-1998, the working class has been rolled back, and casualized workers make up more than 50% of the labor force.

These developments are closely intertwined with geopolitical realities of world import. The U.S. is widely perceived as a declining power in Asia, and has been using every tool available to keep the region off balance, from the Taiwan question to confrontation with North Korea to the growing nationalisms in China, Korea and Japan.

We will explore these simmering class and geopolitical contradictions, situating them in the context of the 'great game' in Eurasia, in which U.S. strategy aims at control of the perimeters of Russia and China, from the Baltic to Japan, and preventing the emergence of an independent East Asian economic powerhouse capable of throwing off it's influence. While the recent ASEAN conference in Malaysia was a symbolic gesture and East Asia is still far from overcoming national antagonisms, virtually every thread of the contemporary world situation passes through the class struggle in the region. Led by China, East Asia may well be to the world revolution of the 2lst century what Russia was to the 20th.

Loren Goldner, a NYC based writer and activist, spent the fall of 2005 in South Korea preparing a short history of the Korean working class since the 1980's.

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New SPACE classes and talks meet at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center: 107 Suffolk Street, NYC (between Rivington and Delancey Streets). F train to Delancey Street or J, M, or Z to Essex Street.

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The New SPACE
(The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education)
http://new-space.mahost.org
new-space@mutualaid.org
Tel: 1 (800) 377-6183
Mail: P.O. Box 19, Planetarium Station
New York, NY 10024-0019
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Winter 2006 Courses

THE SPIRIT OF UTOPIA
Alex Steinberg
Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
8 sessions: January 25 - March 22
(no class February 8)
Tuition: $90 - $115, sliding scale

MARX'S _CAPITAL_, VOLUMES II AND III
Andrew Kliman
Wednesdays, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
15 sessions: January 25 - May 17
(except for March 22 and April 12)
Tuition: $150 - $180, sliding scale
(Vol. II only: $75 - $100; Vol. III only: $100 - $120)

ERICH FROMM'S ENCOUNTER WITH MARX AND FREUD
Charles Herr
Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
6 Sessions: January 31 - March 7
Tuition: $75 - $100, sliding scale

FROM DADA TO ANTHROPOFFERJISM
Erika Biddle
Alternate Tuesdays, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
6 Sessions: January 31, February 14, 28,
March 14, 28 and April 4
Tuition: $75 - $100, Sliding Scale

Please see the New SPACE website for course descriptions and registration info.
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Winter 2006 Talks

THE EAST ASIAN CLASS STRUGGLE IN WORLD PERSPECTIVE
A talk by Loren Goldner
Tuesday, January 24 at 7:00 p.m.

GLOBAL BALKANS:
REVOLUTIONS IN THE BALKANS AND EASTERN EUROPE
A talk by Andrej Grubacic
Thursday, March 16 at 7:00 p.m.

THE WHOLESALE CRIMINALIZATION OF IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES:
MASS DETENTIONS, TORTURE, AND EXILE
A talk by Jeannette Gabriel
Thursday, April 20 at 7:00 p.m.

Please see the New SPACE website for additional talks.
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The New SPACE
(The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education)
http://new-space.mahost.org
new-space@mutualaid.org
Tel: 1 (800) 377-6183
Mail: P.O. Box 19, Planetarium Station
New York, NY 10024-0019