In building as we fight, activists dream of a new world, one that puts human needs over profits and provides for all. But how do we get there?  What are the lessons learned and the battles yet to be fought for a new society?

Return to the Source, a three-day Marxist intensive looks at the roots of the current crisis and what people can do about it. Using Marxist methodology, as developed by revolutionary people’s movements over the years have answers to  the crisis of war, economic depression and environmental degradation. Rather than being static or dogmatic, Marxism blends the traditions of civil rights and immigration, women and queer liberation movements into a dynamic way of viewing-not only seeing history, but changing it.

Teachers include:

Vivek Chibber teaches sociology at New York University and is author of Locked in Place: State Building and Late Industrialization in India.

Silvia Federici is author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation, and editor of Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its "Others."

Lisa Maya Knauer teaches history at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.. She has co-edited two books on public history and was a founder of the REPOhistory Arts Collective.

Joel Kovel is the author of The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? and editor-in-chief of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism.

Richard Levins. co-author with Richard Lewontin of The Dialectical Biologist, is an ex-tropical farmer turned ecologist, biomathematician and philosopher of science whose central intellectual concern has been the understanding and influencing of processes in complex systems, both abstractly and as applied to evolutionary ecology, economic development, agriculture and health.

Jeff Perry is author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism and editor of  A Hubert Harrison Reader..

Juliet Ucelliis a public school social worker and activist and a founder of the New York Marxist School.

Lincoln Van Sluytman was a coordinator of Groundings, a commemoration of the life of Walter Rodney held in Guyana in June 2005. He has been a political activist for many years and has worked closely with the Working People's Alliance of Guyana.

Rick Wolff is is author of Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and Wht to Do About it, among many other works.. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan. http://www.rdwolff.com.