Meeting Topics
There are around 200 meetings and events at Marxism. These pages allow you to look up issues that interest you. You can also follow courses on some topics including Marxism, economics, theory, slavery, science, the environment, women’s liberation and much more – enabling you to really get to grips with the subject.
Courses
- The Marxist Method for Beginners
- Capital for Beginners
- Understanding Contemporary Capitalism
- Class Today
- The Russian Revolution
- Imperialism
- Rogue States
- Marxism and Liberation
- LGBT Liberation
- Material Girls – Women, Men and Work
- Black Liberation
- Fighting Fascism
- Changing the World
- Revolutionaries and the Movement
- The United States
- Slavery – How We Buried the Chains
- Resisting Neoliberal Britain
- Education
- Radical Theory in Perspective
- The Environment
- Latin America
- Middle East
- Africa
- Islam
- Course for School Students
- Science
Rallies
- Opening rally: Global resistance to neoliberalism and war
Lindsey German, Michael Lavalette, Trevor Ngwane, Kamal Khalil & others
Thursday 7-8.30pm, Friends Meeting House - Closing Rally: Shaping a new world
Martin Smith, Moazzam Begg, Hassan Jumaa & others
Monday 3.45-5.30pm, IE Logan Hall
Arts & Culture
Entertainment
Other meetings
Thursday
- Against postmodernism
Grace Lally
Thursday 2-3.15pm, ULU 3E - Gandhi
Sadia Jabeen
Thursday 3.45-5pm, ULU 3E
Friday
- Capitalism & food
Elane Heffernan
Friday 10-11.15am, Birkbeck B33 - Scotland, Union & empire
Neil Davidson
Friday 10-11.15am, SOAS - The case for a global pension and youth grant
Robin Blackburn
Friday 11.45-1pm, IE Nunn - The Paris Commune
Donny Gluckstein
Friday 11.45-1pm, Birkbeck 405 - Britain's dirty war in Ireland
Simon Basketter
Friday 11.45-1pm, Birkbeck B36 - Is Iraq the new Vietnam?
Chris Nineham
Friday 2-3.15pm, ULU Upper Hall - Capitalism & genocide
Sabby Sagall
Friday 2-3.15pm, IE Clarke - Communal living
Chanie Rosenberg
Friday 2-3.15pm, IE Nunn - France in revolt: social struggles and political cycles
Stathis Kouvelakis
Friday 3.45-5pm, Birkbeck B33 - Imperialism and women’s oppression
Elaheh Rostami Povey
Friday 3.45-5pm, IE Nunn - The politics of the Tour de France
Michael Lavalette
Friday 3.45-5pm, ULU Upper Hall - What’s so funny about politics?
Alistair Beaton
Friday 3.45-5pm, IE Elvin Hall - Can identity politics help us fight the BNP?
Billy Bragg & Martin Smith
Friday 7-8.30pm, IE Logan Hall - Che Guevara
Andy Brown
Friday 7-8.30pm, ULU Upper Hall - Walter Benjamin's Marxism
Michael Löwy
Friday 7-8.30pm, IE Elvin Hall - Andreu Nin – from soviet Russia to revolutionary Spain
Andy Durgan
Friday 7-8.30pm, Birkbeck B36 - Cultural relativism
Gareth Jenkins
Friday 7-8.30pm, IE Clarke
Saturday
- India’s war of independence
Salvinder Dhillon & John Game
Saturday 10-11.15am, SOAS - Student movements last time round
Colin Barker
Saturday 10-11.15am, IE Nunn - Engels & the rise of class society
Mark Thomas
Saturday 10-11.15am, IE Elvin Hall - Rebel Girls – their fight for the vote
Jill Liddington
Saturday 11.45-1pm, ULU Upper Hall - Phil Piratin – the East End’s Communist MP
Michael Bradley
Saturday 11.45-1pm, IE Elvin Hall - An Attitude Problem? Mental Health, Inequality and the 'Science of Happiness'
Iain Ferguson
Saturday 11.45-1pm, IE Nunn - Tony Cliff – a revolutionary for today
Chris Harman & Gerry Jones
Saturday 2-3.15pm, ULU Room 101 - The politics of Ian Paisley
Pat Stack
Saturday 2-3.15pm, ULU Upper Hall - What’s wrong with television news?
Mike Wayne
Saturday 2-3.15pm, IE Elvin Hall - Gun crime – who is to blame?
Dean Ryan & Claudia Webbe
Saturday 2-3.15pm, Jeffery Hall - Socialism and democracy
Tom Hickey
Saturday 2-3.15pm, IE Nunn - Respect – what next?
George Galloway, John Rees & Ray Homes. Chaired by Rania Khan.
Saturday 3.45-5pm, IE Logan Hall - Reporting the War
Yvonne Ridley & Giuliana Sgrena
Saturday 3.45-5pm, IE Elvin Hall - Zionism & anti-Zionism
John Rose
Saturday 3.45-5pm, SOAS - Foucault – friend or foe of the left?
Colin Wilson
Saturday 3.45-5pm, IE Clarke - What’s wrong with conspiracy theories?
Richard Seymour
Saturday 3.45-5pm, Birkbeck B33 - Stop the War
Mark Thomas, Craig Murray, Rose Gentle & Andrew Murray. Chaired by Lindsey German
Saturday 7-8.30pm, IE Logan Hall - Charlie Chaplin – a rebel in tramp’s clothes
Simon Furze
Saturday 7-8.30pm, Birkbeck B33
Sunday
- Maoism – is it making a comeback?
Giles Ungpakorn
Sunday 10-11.15pm, Birkbeck B33 - The structural crisis of politics
Istvan Meszaros
Sunday 11.45-1pm, ULU Upper Hall - The left in power – possibilities & prospects
Tony Benn
Sunday 11.45-1pm, IE Logan Hall - The other London
Lindsey German
Sunday 11.45-1pm, IE Jeffery Hall - The uses & abuses of Gramsci
Chris Bambery
Sunday 11.45-1pm, Birkbeck B34 - Scotland – on the road to independence?
Jimmy Ross
Sunday 11.45-1pm, IE Elvin Hall - The battle of Lewisham
Paul Holborow & Balwinder Rana
Sunday 11.45-1pm, Birkbeck B33 - Islamophobia
Aysha Ali, Noreen Fatima & Chris Nineham
Sunday 2-3.15pm, ULU Upper Hall - Tolerance as a political category
Slavoj Zizek
Sunday 2-3.15pm, IE Logan Hall - The politics of disability
Pat Stack
Sunday 2-3.15pm, Birkbeck B33 - Marxism & morality
John Molyneux
Sunday 2-3.15pm, IE Elvin Hall - Barcelona & the struggle for urban space
Michael Eaude
Sunday 2-3.15pm, SOAS - Marx, Engels & the natural world
Paul McGarr
Sunday 3.45-5pm, Birkbeck B33 - The media & war
Dave Crouch, Piers Robinson & others
Sunday 3.45-5pm, SOAS - Is Marxism anti-religion?
Judith Orr
Sunday 3.45-5pm, ULU Upper Hall - The Olympics
Panos Garganos & John McLoughlin
Sunday 7-8.30pm, Birkbeck B34 - The dark side of capitalism
Mike Haynes
Sunday 3.45-5pm, Birkbeck B36 - Stealing our youth – New Labour & young people
Estelle Cooch
Sunday 7-8.30pm, Birkbeck B36 - Lenin’s What is to Be Done?
Paul Blackledge
Sunday 7-8.30pm, IE Nunn
Monday
- Is the anti-capitalist movement in crisis?
Alex Callinicos & Trevor Ngwane
Monday 11.45-1pm, ULU Room 101 - The Enlightenment
Neil Davidson
Monday 11.45-1pm, ULU 3E - A rebel’s guide to Rosa Luxemburg
Judy Cox
Monday 2-3.15pm, ULU 3E