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Marxism is a five-day political festival hosted by the SWP, featuring 200 forums and debates plus film, gigs, theatre and exhibitions.

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Thousands of people to come together with authors, artists, leading activists and campaigners to discuss what's happening in the world and debate how we can mount an effective challenge to global capitalism.

"Marxism, at which I speak at every year, is one of the most important universities of the labour movement. It brings together a vast range of people. It is an honour to be invited, and I am very much looking forward to the discussion and debate that will go on"
Tony Benn

Speakers confirmed so far include:

• Tony Benn president of Stop the War Coalition
• David Hilliard leading Black Panther
• Tariq Ali 1968 veteran activist & author
• Howard Zinn historian
• Moazzam Begg former Guantanamo prisoner
• John Bellamy Foster environmentalist
• Nick Davies award-winning journalist
• Wendy Savage pro-choice campaigner
• Mark Serwotka PCS General Secretary
• Paul Gilroy author There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack
• Lindsey German convenor, Stop the War Coalition
• Ilan Pappe author, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
• Sally Hunt AUT General Secretary
• Sami Ramadani Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation
• Alex Callinicos author, New Mandarins of American Power
• Steven Rose scientist and author, Not in our Genes
• Ghada Karmi author and Palestinian activist
• Hossam el-Hamalawy Egyptian blogger and activist
• Haifa Zangana Iraqi writer
• Ben Fine author, Marx’s Capital
• Michael Rosen poet and children's laureate
• Jacqueline Rose author Myths of Zion
• Walden Bello Focus on the Global South
• Zoe Williams Guardian columnist
• Chris Bambery editor Socialist Worker
• Billy Hayes CWU General Secretary
• Melissa Benn journalist and writer
• Steve Bell cartoonist
• Kim Moody author, US Labour in Trouble and Transition
• Michael Billington theatre critic
• Jeremy Dear General Secretary NUJ
• Gilbert Achcar author, Clash of Barbarisms
• Chris Harman author, People's History of the World
• Lemn Sissay poet
• Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillips artists
• John Mcdonnell MP
• István Mészáros author, Marx’s Theory of Alienation
• Rikki Beadle Blair actor, playwright and director
• Mike Gonzalez author, Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution

and many more…

Key speakers at Marxism include:

Howard Zinn
Historian, activist and celebrated author of A People's History of the United States

David Hilliard
Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party - an icon of resistance for millions in the 1960s

Tariq Ali
A prominent historian, novelist, journalist and filmmaker since the movement against the Vietnam War

Lindsey German
National convenor of Stop the War coalition and radical candidate for Mayor of London

Hossam el-Hamalawy
Cairo-based blogger and journalist reporting on the Egyptian strike wave

Moazzam Begg
Former Guantanamo prisoner and campaigner

Ilan Pappe
Israeli historian and peace campaigner, a vocal supporter of Palestinian resistance