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Marxism 2019 Welcome to of Socialist a Festival Ideas Welcome to Marxism 2019 A festival 4-7 July of socialist Queen Mary Hosted by University ideas the SWP FINAL TIMETABLE Thursday 4 July SKEEL PP FOGG F PP1 PP PP2 PP 12.30-1.45pm Welcome CLIMATE THEORY INTERNATIONAL Socialism 101 KEY TO ROOMS Is overpopulation More than opium? Is China’s rise Is human nature PP: People’s Palace to blame for Marxism and sustainable? a barrier to GC: Grad Centre climate change? religion Adrian Budd socialism? : Fogg to Marxism Martin Empson Sue Caldwell Sophia Beach F 2.30-3.45pm STRATEGY Black Thinkers Matter Socialism 101 THEORY Brexit and the Walter Rodney Do we need Imperialism: unravelling of and revolution in violence to why does British politics: the Global South get real social capitalism Festival 2019 which way for Chin Chukwudinma change? create war? the left? Bethan Turner Antony Mark L Thomas Hamilton OVER THE next Tickets and Venues 4.15-5.30pm box office We are using the following four THEORY LIBERATION ECONOMICS WORKSHOP four days there will buildings at Marxism Festival. There Islamism: Trans resistance: Is there a Marxist Will the be debates, meetings, People’s is a map of them on the back page. ideology and socialism and the theory of crisis? revolution Palace foyer practice fight for trans Joseph Choonara be tweeted? culture and more to People’s Jad Bouharoun liberation Socialism and All tickets are available at the box Laura Miles social media discuss how we can office, and you can also pick up Palace (PP) Zak Cochrane change the world. replacement tickets here. This is the central hub for Marxism by Guy Smallman Photo Festival. Here you will find a We hope you enjoy the Accommodation Bookmarks bookstall, campaign stalls and the following meeting Opening rally event. If you have any office rooms: Great Hall, Skeel LT, PP1 and questions, please ask one People’s PP2. In the foyer you’ll find the box Rebellion office and accommodation office. of our team in the red Palace foyer in a world T-shirts. Come to the accommodation desk Grad Centre (GC) to find out about your booked The Grad Centre includes the main of crisis accommodation or if you have Bookmarks bookshop, crèche and Creche any questions. It is open during exhibition rooms. It also includes The opening rally is a Grad Centre, the breaks between sessions and meetings rooms Peston LT, GC201, highlight of Marxism. Make closes at 9pm. GC222 and GC203. 1st floor sure you don’t miss it! Speakers include: Opening times: Venue Fogg building (F) • Miguel Roldán, Spanish Thursday 12-1.45pm, accessibility In this venue, we are only using the firefighter facing jail for 2.15-5.30pm, 6.45-8.30pm Fogg lecture theatre. Friday, Saturday & Sunday We aim to make Marxism as helping refugees 9.45am-1pm, 2.15-5.30pm, accessible as possible. Please • Cyrus and Ivi, school 6.45-8.30pm speak to the team in the red T-shirts Drapers bar climate strikers if you have any questions. This is open for hot food and drinks • Melanie Strickland, Left luggage during Marxism. It is also where the Stansted 15 Saturday night party and the after • Venus Abduallah, There is a left luggage room in the Prayer rooms party take place. Sudanese revolutionary People’s Palace. Please speak to There are prayer rooms on campus the team for details. Luggage is left available throughout the event. Ask • Lynn Marie O’Hara, at your own risk. a team member for details Glasgow equal pay striker Thursday, 7pm Great Hall, People’s Palace, E1 4NS K marxismfestival.org.uk E Marxism Festival The opening rally at the 2017 festival Photo by Guy Smallman D @MarxismFestival Q marxism_festival #Marxism2019 Friday 5 July GREAT HALL PP SKEEL PP FOGG F PP1 PP PP2 PP GC201 GC CULTURE TENT 10-11.15am New this year KEY TO ROOMS Rebel Women CLIMATE ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL HISTORY PP: People’s Palace Angela Davis: Marxism and the An introduction to Venezuela: crisis Germany 1919: Anthropocene Marx’s Capital and imperialism 100 years on from Culture tent GC: Grad Centre women, race and class Camilla Royle Joseph Choonara Héctor Sierra the lost revolution F: Fogg New to Marxism this year, our Naima Omar Richard Donnelly outdoor tent will host radical 11.45am-1pm culture from Friday through to Sunday. Booklaunch ANTI-RACISM INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL Workshop Join us for music, spoken A Marxist History of Does unconscious Trump, Bernie Is a robot going to South Africa: Radical spoken word, dance performances, the Labour Party bias explain Sanders and the take your job? rebellions to word cultural debates and book Charlie Kimber and racism? new left in the US Gary McFarlane revolution Kurly and others Donny Gluckstein Esme Choonara Lewis Nielsen Kate Alexander launches. Events take place during 2.30-3.45pm the sessions and in the ANTI-FASCISM ECONOMICS THEORY Black Thinkers matter Socialism 101 CULTURE breaks. You can find it in the Alt-right to far Can Corbynomics The ‘snowflake Frantz Fanon: Do revolutions Mozart: overture main square outside the right: what is work? generation’: who decolonisation and always end in to revolution Grad Centre. fascism? Jane Hardy and decides the limits revolution failure? Lorna McKinnon Weyman Bennett Graham Turner of free speech? Ken Olende Oisín Challen Flynn Paddy Nielsen Red in the face... 4.15-5.30pm ECONOMICS AUSTERITY CLIMATE ANTI-RACISM SOCIETY Socialism 101 Booklaunch Comedy night Is this the end of Social security: Is our diet Race, class Legalise! Is there anything Alexander Pushkin: globalisation? can we undo the destroying the and identity The case for cool about The Man Who Comedian Jasmine Fischer Alex Callinicos damage of welfare planet? Yuri Prasad decriminalising Stalinism? Shook his Fist at returns to host a comedy reform? Amy Leather drugs Tomáš the Tsar night for the masses Mark Serwotka, Maxine Bowler Tengely-Evans Jack Robertson Labour MP, Paula not the ruling classes, Peters, Ellen Clifford with a line-up of Marxist comedians including Chris 7-8.30pm Tavner, Goz Ugochukwu, The big debate Evening culture Evening film Bethan Turner and more! The return The dialectics Decolonising Friday, 9pm • Drapers bar of socialism: of art education with Corbynism and the John Molyneux a screening of future of politics Everything Mark Serwotka, Must Fall Revolution on the stage Liz Wheatley, Rehad Desai & Charlie Kimber and Nadia Sayed a special guest Bertolt Brecht and The Threepenny The big debate PCS union general secretary Emergency meeting Opera Mark Serwotka, union activist The return Liz Wheatley, Socialist Worker Solidarity Dave Gilchrist, manager of editor Charlie Kimber and a Bookmarks the socialist of socialism: special guest debate where next with Miguel bookshop, will be leading for the Corbyn project. us on a musical journey Corbynism How can the left cut through Miguel Roldán, a firefighter facing jail exploring the politics of the Brexit paralysis? Can Corbyn for rescuing refugees, will be joined by radical playwright Bertolt & the future beat the establishment? Join us to special guests to discuss solidarity with Brecht and especially his play debate these questions and more. refugees and the fight against racism in The Threepenny Opera. Friday, 7pm • Great Hall Campaigning for Corbyn Europe. Friday, 5.45pm • Culture tent Friday, 8.30pm • Culture tent of politics Photo by Guy Smallman Photos on this spread by John Englart and Lightbrigading @ flickr by John Englart and Lightbrigading on this spread Photos Saturday 6 July Saturday 6 July GREAT HALL PP SKEEL PP PESTON GC FOGG F PP1 PP PP2 PP GC201 GC GC222 GC GC204 GC CULTURE TENT 10-11.15am 10-11.15am KEY TO ROOMS Booklaunch STRATEGY ANTI-FASCISM INTERNATIONAL HISTORY Booklaunch HISTORY PP: People’s Palace System Change not In defence of Women and the Does Trump want Explaining the Gandhi: Workers’ party building far right war with Iran? inexplicable: movements in Iran, GC: Grad Centre Climate Change Experiments in Sarah Ensor, John Molyneux Judith Orr Simon Assaf understanding the Civil Disobedience Poland and South : Fogg F Ian Angus and Holocaust Talat Ahmed Africa from 1979-89 Martin Empson Anna Gluckstein John Rose 11.45am-1pm 11.45am-1pm STRATEGY ANTI-RACISM ECONOMICS JUSTICE SEXISM SOCIETY STRATEGY THEORY Rebel women Revolutionary Why do our Cryptocurrencies: Inquests and From #MeToo to Does modern Is Scottish Why do we hate Frida Kahlo: politics in the schools fail black the future of inquiries: how can abortion bans: capitalism need a independence Mondays? Marxism revolutionary era of crisis and children? money? we get justice? why does sexism welfare state? inevitable? and alienation icon? Corbynism Zahra Bei, Michael Roberts Sheila Coleman run so deep? Kevin Doogan Bob Fotheringham Fran Manning Jan Nielsen Amy Leather Daniel Kebede, and Moyra Samuels Sally Campbell Brian Richardson 2.30-3.45pm 2.30-3.45pm ECONOMICS CLIMATE ANTI-FASCISM AUSTERITY SCIENCE SOCIETY Booklaunch Booklaunch CULTURE The world The discovery and Farage, Johnson How can the unions Mind shift: how Can we win a home A Rebel’s Guide A People’s History The legacy of economy: rediscovery of and the rise of fight austerity? did the human for everyone? to Alexandra of the Portuguese two-tone music, which way? metabolic rift racist populism Nita Sanghera, brain acquire Tanya Murat and Kollontai Revolution forty years on Michael Roberts Ian Angus Michael Bradley Jane Loftus, consciousness? Glyn Robbins Emma Davis Raquel Varela Basil Gabbidon Ian Hodson and John Parrington and guests Karen Reissmann 4.15-5.30pm 4.15-5.30pm PALESTINE ANTI-RACISM Debate HISTORY Booklaunch SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL HISTORY
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