Timetable: Friday 4 July
This is the final timetable. We expect to run these meetings.
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| 10.00-11.15am | 11.45-1pm | 2-3.15pm | 3.45-5pm | 7-8.30pm | |||
| IE Logan | Afghanistan to Pakistan: on the flightpath of American power Tariq Ali |
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| IE Jeffery Hall | Explaining the crisis today Chris Harman & Larry Elliot Explaining the crisis |
Stop Global Warming – Change the World book launch with Jonathan Neale The environment |
What Lenin stood for Lars T. Lih & John Molyneux Lenin |
The Communist Manifesto Lindsey German Marxist classics |
Latin America & revolutionary strategy Mike Gonzalez Latin America |
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| RNH C | Course: Theorising Imperialism |
1948 & the establishment of Israel Ilan Pappe & Ghada Karmi Palestine |
SOAS Brunei |
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| Is the classical theory of imperialism still relevant today? Alex Callinicos Theorising imperialism |
From the Cold War to imperialism today Jonny Jones Theorising imperialism |
The economic crisis & the decline of US imperialism John Rees Theorising imperialism |
Vietnam – a soldier’s story Martin Smith & Andy Ridley |
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| RNH B | Cuba after Castro Esme Choonara Latin America |
Trotsky & the Russian Revolution Martin Smith Our history from below |
Flat Earth News Nick Davies Media |
The anti-capitalist movement & the World Social Forum Meena Menon & Chris Nineham |
John Milton & the English Revolution John Rees Art & revolution |
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| RNH A | Will this be China’s century? Charlie Hore China |
The structural crisis of politics István Mészáros |
What is fascism? Michael Bradley Fascism |
Was Lenin a democrat? Chris Bambery Lenin |
Is satire still biting? Steve Bell & Tim Sanders Visual arts |
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| IE Elvin | The Levellers & the Putney Debates
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Why is Africa poor? Makola Mayambika Africa |
Marxism & religion Colin Barker Marxism & the modern world |
Profit rates & crisis Sam Ashman Explaining the crisis |
The crisis in Zimbabwe and the way forward |
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| Birkbeck 33 | Immigration: myths and reality Anindya Bhattacharyya Race and class in Britain |
Lukács & the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg Mark T Thomas |
City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War & Resistance Haifa Zangana The world at war |
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| SOAS G2 | The Paris Commune as a model for social action Paul Mason
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What happened to post-modernism & what replaced it? Jonathan Maunder Radical thought today |
Gustave Courbet: the art of lost revolution Jim Wolfreys Art & revolution |
The red in the rainbow – the struggle for sexual liberation Hannah Dee LGBT
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CLR James & The Black Jacobins Christian Høgsbjerg Our history from below |
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| Birkbeck 35 | The roots of LGBT oppression Sara Bennett LGBT |
The credit crunch – housing bubbles and the global economic crisis Graham Turner Explaining the crisis |
War and capitalism – can science be redeemed? Rob Owen Science |
Liberal imperialism: from the Boers to Basra Richard Seymour |
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| Birkbeck 36 | Course: The International Socialist Tradition |
Guerrilla film from the 1960s to today |
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| Socialism from below Sally Campbell The International Socialist tradition |
The theory of state capitalism Ben Selwyn The International Socialist tradition |
Explaining the post-war boom – the permanent arms economy Grace Lally The International Socialist tradition |
The Third World after empire – deflected permanent revolution Colin Smith The International Socialist tradition |
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| Birkbeck 04 | Malevich Chanie Rosenberg Art and revolution |
Capitalism & genocide Sabby Sagall |
Was Mao’s China socialist? Simon Byrne China |
The Flying Pickets Dave Harker and Dave Ayre |
Defiance – the Story of One Man who Stood up to the Sicilian Mafia
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| << Thursday 3 July | |||||||
Arts and Entertainment
Irish songs of resistance and rebellion
9pm, Jeffery Hall
Musicians Alistair Hulett and Jimmy Ross explore the folk songs that emerged from Ireland’s struggle against imperialism and oppression. Songs from the 1798 rebellion, the 1916 Easter Rising, the 1960s civil rights movement and the hunger strikes against the H blocks show an Irish popular culture very different from Riverdance and fake Irish theme pubs. Come and take in Ireland’s music of dissent – from traditional Irish airs to the folk-punk of the Pogues.
Vietnam – a soldier’s story
7pm, RNH C
The US war in Vietnam brought unimaginable horror and with it a growing revolt among many ordinary American soldiers and marines who refused to fight and killed their officers rather than go out on patrol. Through music, speeches and clips from the era we tell the story of young soldiers fighting to regain their humanity.
1968 in film
9pm, JCR, SOAS
A series of short films charting the events of 1968. They include Up Against the Wall Miss America about the disruption of the 1968 Miss America pageant, Black Panther (Off The Pig), a short film used to promote their cause, and Only the Beginning – in which veterans come before the crowd and throw their medals away in front of the Capitol.