
Karl Marx
MARXISM 2011 TIMETABLE
Central London 30 June – 4 July
Final timetable out now: www.marxismfestival.org.uk/2011/timetable.html
Book online: www.marxismfestival.org.uk/2011/bookonline.html
New speakers and sessions now confirmed:
* Kamal Abu Aita of the Egyptian tax collectors’ union will join the general secretary of the PCS civil service workers’ union Mark Serwotka and striking workers at the opening rally, which takes place on the evening of a day of coordinated strike action by up to a million workers
* Panos Garganas of the Greek Socialist Workers Party will speak on “Greece & the Eurozone Crisis”
* Laurie Penny (Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism) will join Nina Power (One Dimensional Woman) and Judith Orr (Sexism and the System) to discuss “Women, Class & Capitalism”
*Mireia Rosello of the Spanish “indignados” movement will join Sean Vernell of the lecturers’ UCU union to speak on “Youth, Anger and Revolution in Egypt, Spain, Britain…”
* Omar Bargouti, Mohammed Tonsi & Wassim Wagdy will participate on the panel “Eyewitnesses to the Arab Spring”
* Gilbert Achcar (The Arabs and the Holocaust and The Clash of Barbarisms) will debate Simon Assaf on the Libyan intervention
Other highlights:
* Owen Jones launches his acclaimed book Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class
* Terry Eagleton (Why Marx was Right) speaks on the Communist Manifesto
* John Bellamy Foster (The Ecological Rift) on “Marxism and Ecology”
* Tariq Ali speaks on “The Arab Intifada and American Power”
* Iain Sinclair (Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire) on “London and the Olympics”
* Graham Turner (No Way to Run an Economy) asks “Where is the Global Economy Going?”
* Peter Thomas (The Gramscian Moment) on “Gramsci and us: Building Socialist Hegemony Today”
* Danny Dorling launches Bankrupt Britain
* Alberto Toscano (Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea) on “University Struggles then and Now”
* Ben Fine (From Political Economy to Economics) on “Reading Marx’s Capital”
* Peter Hallward (Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment) on “Marx against Fatalism”
* Owen Hatherley speaks on his book A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
* Stuart Christie and Andy Durgan debate the Spanish Revolution
* Authors China Mieville and Max Schaefer discuss “Committed Fictions: Politics and Writing”
* Ronnie Kasrils launches The Unlikely Secret Agent
* Guglielmo Carchedi (Behind the Crisis) on “Marxism and Crisis Theory”
* Alex Callinicos (Bonfire of Illusions) on “Crisis and Revolution after the Arab Revolts”
* Istvan Meszaros (Beyond Capital) on “The Structural Crisis of Capitalism”
Join thousands of others at Europe’s biggest festival of radical ideas—featuring over 200 meetings, debates, film screenings, and musical performances.
For more go to: http://www.marxismfestival.org.uk
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‘I believe in the afterlife.
It starts tomorrow,
When I go to work’
Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Human Herbs’ at: http://www.myspace.com/coldhandsmusic (recording) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7tUq0HjIk (live)
‘Maximum levels of boredom
Disguised as maximum fun’
Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ at: http://www.myspace.com/coldhandsmusic (recording) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLjxeHvvhJQ (live, at the Belle View pub, Bangor, north Wales)
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