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Timetable: Monday 7 July

This is the final timetable. We expect to run these meetings.

<< Sunday 6 July    
 
  10.00-11.15am 11.45-1pm 2-3.15pm 3.45-5pm 7pm till late
IE Jeffery Hall Perspectives on Latin America
Jeremy Corbyn
Latin America
A People’s History of the World
Chris Harman
Our history from below
Can genetics explain human nature?
Steven Rose
Science
Closing rally, IE Logan Hall
Shaping a new world
Martin Smith, Trevor Ngwane, Mark Serwotka, Jane Loftus & others

Astoria 2
Cultures of Resistance

Dance to some of the best rebel music from 1978 to today

Linton Kwesi Johnson
Bashy
The Neville Staple Band
Jerry Dammers
Michael Rosen

Astoria 2
Only £5 for Marxism ticket holders

IE Elvin Iran from revolution to rogue state
Dominic Kavakeb

Diego Rivera & the Mexican Revolution
Mike Gonzalez
Art and revolution

What did 1968 achieve?
Ian Birchall
1968 anniversary
   
Birkbeck 34 The Myth of Mars and Venus
Deborah Cameron
Women’s liberation
Zombi-economics & the social sciences
Ben Fine
Antonio Negri & the politics of Empire
Dan Mayer
Radical thought today
   
SOAS KLT What’s behind the rise of reality TV?
Colin Sparks
Media
The world food crisis: myth and reality
Sarah Ensor
Art & the state of the nation
Peter Kennard, Noel Douglas, John Slyce & others
Visual arts
   
Birkbeck 36 Gramsci
Penny Howard
Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation
Eyal Weizman
Palestine
Trotsky, culture, & the struggle for socialism
Gareth Jenkins
Marxism & culture
   
<< Sunday 6 July