Timetable: Saturday 7July
This is the provisional timetable. We hope to run all these meetings, but we may make changes - for example, so as to fit in extra meetings on topical subjects. The final timetable will be available shortly before Marxism.
| << Friday 6 July | Sunday 8 July >> | ||||
| 10-11.15am | 11.45-1pm | 2-3.15pm | 3.45-5pm | 7-8.30pm | |
| IE: Logan Hall | Building Fighting Unions Jane Loftus, John McDonnell, Mark Serwotka & Matt Wrack Resisting neoliberal Britain |
The shape of the working class today Billy Hayes, Paul Mason & Martin Smith Class today |
Respect – what next? George Galloway, John Rees, Ray Holmes Chaired by Rania Khan |
Stop the War Mark Thomas, Craig Murray, Rose Gentle & Andrew Murray Chaired by Lindsey German |
|
| IE: Jeffery Hall | Understanding American imperialism Alex Callinicos Imperialism |
Are today's Euro-fascists the same as the Nazis? Chris Bambery Fighting fascism |
Gun crime – who is to blame? Dean Ryan & Claudia Webb |
The fight for freedom in Africa Trevor Ngwane & Mani Tanoh Africa |
Q & A with Nick Broomfield, Hsiao-Hung Pai & Jez Lewis, with screening of Ghosts Film |
| ULU: Room 101 | The environment & the limits of market solutions Martin Empson The environment |
Tell It Like It Is David Okoro, Paul Mackney, Brian Richardson & Sharon Geer Education |
Tony Cliff – a revolutionary for today Chris Harman & Gerry Jones |
Sexism & the system – a rebel’s guide to women’s liberation Judith Orr Marxism & liberation |
1977 when Babylon burned: punk, politics & resistance Drew McConnell,Chris Salewicz & Paul Sillett Music LMHR gig 9pm |
| ULU: Upper Hall | The British working class – politics & resistance Charlie Kimber Class today |
Rebel Girls – their fight for the vote Jill Liddington |
The politics of Ian Paisley Pat Stack |
From Marx’s Capital to capitalism in the 21st century Alex Callinicos Capital for beginners |
Workers’ power & popular power Chris Harman Changing the world |
| IE: Elvin Hall | Engels & the rise of class society Mark Thomas |
Phil Piratin – the East End’s Communist MP Michael Bradley |
What’s wrong with television news? Mike Wayne |
Reporting the war Yvonne Ridley & Giuliana Sgrena |
New learning for our times Jane Coles & Terry Wrigley Education |
| SOAS KLT | India's war of independence Salvinder Dhillon & John Game |
40 years since gay sex was legalised – how do we make freedom real? Noel Halifax LGBT liberation |
Before the civil rights movement – Communists in the Deep South Brian Kelly The United States |
Zionism & anti-Zionism John Rose |
Pablo Neruda Mike Gonzalez Literature |
| Birkbeck: B33 | Does capitalism still need the nation-state? Julie Waterson Understanding contemporary capitalism |
Africa before the slave trade Gary McFarlane Africa |
A revolution in paint – 100 years since Picasso’s Demoiselles John Molyneux Art |
What’s wrong with conspiracy theories? Richard Seymour |
Charlie Chaplin – a rebel in tramp’s clothes Simon Furze |
| Birkbeck: B36 | What would a revolution look like? Jen Wilkinson Changing the world |
How do we deal with the state? Amy Leather Changing the world |
Revolution-aries & elections Colin Smith Changing the world |
Does social change have to be violent? Helen Salmon Changing the world |
Toussaint L’Ouverture Yunus Bakhsh Slavery |
| Birkbeck: 405 | Marx’s method in Capital Jonny Jones Capital for beginners |
Where does profit come from? Sian Ruddick Capital for beginners |
Accumulation – the driving force of capitalism Joseph Choonara Capital for beginners |
Soul music – a soundtrack to the civil rights movement? Yuri Prasad Music |
Toni Negri Dan Swain Radical theory in perspective |
| IE: Nunn | Student movements last time round Colin Barker |
An Attitude Problem? Mental Health, Inequality and the 'Science of Happiness' Iain Ferguson |
Socialism & democracy Tom Hickey |
Can capitalism run on debt forever? Jacob Middleton Understanding contemporary capitalism |
Do Western workers benefit from imperialism? Ken Olende Imperialism |
| IE: Clarke | Was Marx a revolutionary? Ian Taylor School students |
Terrorists or resistance fighters? Leila Moulana Allen School students |
How do we get rid of sexism? Siobhan Brown School students |
Foucault – friend or foe of the left? Colin Wilson |
|
| << Friday 6 July | Sunday 8 July >> | ||||
Arts and Entertainment
A celebration of William Blake
9pm, Logan Hall
William Blake is famous for two poems, Jerusalem and The Tyger. Yet how many people know that Jerusalem is about a vision of society where all of humanity is free, and The Tyger was in part a defence of the French Revolution? In this evening of spoken word and music celebrating Blake, poet Adrian Mitchell and jazz musicians Mike and Kate Westbrook celebrate the politically dangerous & inspiring Blake – an artist who was tried for sedition for allegedly cursing the king!
In Focus
The shape of the working class today
7pm, Logan Hall
Myths about the disappearance of class and class struggle are staple fare for Blairites, Brownites and mainstream sociologists.
But there is also a debate in the movement concerning the shape of the working class today and whether or not it has the potential to fight back and change the world.
These issues are debated by Billy Hayes, general secretary of the CWU, Martin Smith, author of a recent ISJ article on the working class, and Paul Mason, industrial correspondent of Newsnight and author of a new book Live Working or Die Fighting.