Timetable: Sunday 8 July
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.
| << Saturday 7 July | Monday 9 July >> | ||||
| 10-11.15am | 11.45-1pm | 2-3.15pm | 3.45-5pm | 7-8.30pm | |
| IE: Logan Hall | The economics & politics of modern imperialism |
The left in power – possibilities & prospects Tony Benn |
Tolerance as a political category |
Marxism & feminism |
Why is multi-culturalism in crisis? Weyman Bennett & Paul Gilroy Black liberation |
| IE: Jeffery Hall | Katrina to Obama – Black leadership in the post civil rights era Gary Younge The United States |
The other London Lindsey German |
Building resistance in the Middle East Kamal Khalil, Bassem Chit, Samir Diab & Hassan Jumaa Middle East |
Why did capitalism go neoliberal? David Harvey & Chris Harman Understanding contemporary capitalism |
Revolutionary strategy & tactics John Rees Revolutionaries & the movement |
| ULU: Room 101 | Stop global warming – change the world! Jonathan Neale The environment |
Academies – Education PLC Stephen Ball, Kevin Courtney & Sarah Tomlinson Education |
William Wilberforce – did he free the slaves? Kevin Ovenden Slavery |
What does the BNP look like today? Weyman Bennett Fighting fascism |
The writing on the wall Tony Benn & Roy Bailey Gig |
| ULU: Upper Hall | Cuba after Castro Mike Gonzalez Latin America |
The structural crisis of politics Istvan Meszaros |
Islamophobia Aysha Ali, Noreen Fatima & Chris Nineham |
Is Marxism anti-religion? Judith Orr |
Marxism & rubbish China Miéville Literature |
| IE: Elvin Hall | Trotsky & the United Front Chris Nineham Revolutionaries & the movement |
Scotland – on the road to independence? Jimmy Ross |
Marxism & morality John Molyneux |
Bottom rails on top – Black soldiers & the American Civil War Michael Bradley Slavery |
Up America’s ass – Britain & the US since the war John Newsinger Imperialism |
| SOAS KLT | Is Marxism a weapon in the fight against oppression? Jan Nielsen Marxism & liberation |
The fight for gay liberation in the Middle East Jinan Coulter LGBT liberation |
Barcelona & the struggle for urban space Michael Eaude |
The media & war Dave Crouch, Piers Robinson & others |
Hezbollah – is it a force for liberation in the Middle East? Simon Assaf Middle East |
| Birkbeck: B33 | Maoism – is it making a comeback? Giles Ungpakorn |
The battle of Lewisham Paul Holborow & Balwinda Rana |
The politics of disability Pat Stack |
Marx, Engels & the natural world Paul McGarr |
Darfur – is intervention the answer? Jacqui Freeman Africa |
| Birkbeck: B36 | Evolution: What is it good for? Viren Swami Science |
North Korea South Korean activist Rogue states |
Remembering the Holocaust – the anger & guilt of Primo Levi Henry Maitles Fighting fascism |
The dark side of capitalism Mike Haynes |
Stealing our youth – New Labour & young people Estelle Cooch |
| Birkbeck: B34 | Can the working class be a force for change in the Global South? Esme Choonara Class today |
The uses & abuses of Gramsci Chris Bambery |
Education in a neoliberal world Alex Callinicos, Rob Owen, Sean Vernell & a SOAS cleaner Education |
Duke Ellington Dave Sherry Music |
The Olympics Panos Garganos & John McLoughlin |
| IE: Nunn | Financial markets & global capitalism Jim Kincaid Understanding contemporary capitalism |
The world economy – uneven & combined development Sam Ashman Understanding contemporary capitalism |
Human nature – is greed in our genes? Penny Howard Science |
Lenin & the revolutionary party Dan Mayer Revolutionaries & the movement |
Lenin’s What is to be Done? Paul Blackledge |
| IE: Clarke | Can we get rid of racism? Zakeeya Amin-Tilly School students |
Is Britain a democracy? Simon Byrne School students |
Is revolution possible in Britain? Charlie Winstanley & Siobhan Brown School students |
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Arts and Entertainment
Black and White Unite and Write: Michael Rosen & Lemn Sissay
9pm, Jeffery Hall
Lemn Sissay is a writer, actor, playwright and poet extraordinaire whose poems have been described as “songs of the street, declamatory, imaginative, hard-hitting” – Independent on Sunday.
He will be teaming up with broadcaster and poet Michael Rosen to perform poetry that celebrates the lives, struggles and resistance of everyday people.
Michael will also be signing copies of his new collection of political poetry Fighters for Life.
In Focus
The Cairo Conference comes to London
2pm, Logan Hall
Since 2002 the Cairo Conference has brought together activists from the Middle East and across the world to build solidarity and discuss strategies of resistance to imperialism & neoliberalism. Marxism will host a special session with some of the leading activists from the Middle East. They will include Hamdeen Sabahi, independent Egyptian MP; Kamal Khalid, veteran Egyptian campaigner; Bassem Chit, leading Lebanese socialist; Samir Nadim Diab of the Lebanese Communist Party & others.