On 23-25th October, the UCLU and SOAS Marxist societies in London will be hosting a weekend festival of revolutionary ideas: Red October! See here for a full schedule for the weekend, and buy your ticket today!
On 23-25th October, the UCLU and SOAS Marxist societies in London will be hosting a weekend festival of revolutionary ideas: Red October! See below for a full schedule for the weekend, and buy your ticket today!
Contact james@socialist.net to book your place or to request accommodation.
Tickets available through Eventbrite or through PayPal below.
Speakers include:
Matt Wrack – General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union
Steve Hedley – Senior Assistant General Secretary of the RMT
Alan Woods – Marxist author and editor of www.marxist.com
Ray Goodspeed – activist from Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners
Rachel Gibbs – editorial board of Revolution and member of the Scottish Socialist Party
With talks and discussions on:
Defend Corbyn! Fight for Socialism!
The European Crisis: past, present, future
One year after the referendum: where next for Scotland?
Liberté, égalité, solidarité: the struggle for equal rights
Marxism and Art
Capital and crisis: why Marx was right
The Spanish Revolution: then and now
An introduction to Marxist philosophy: “the point, however, is to change it”
Location: UCL and SOAS universities, London
Price: £10 unwaged (students and unemployed), £20 waged, £30 solidarity
FULL SCHEDULE
See below for a full schedule for the weekend. All meetings will be at either University College London on Gower Street (for Saturday sessions) or SOAS university, between Malet Street and Russell Square (for Sunday sessions).
We also provide links for recommended background reading for each session.
Friday 23rd October
2pm – Lenin walk: guided tour of London’s Bolshevik history (meet outside London Kings Cross on Euston Road – look out for the big red flag!)
4pm – The Life and Ideas of Lenin – Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal – Marx Memorial Library, Clerkenwell Green
6pm – Red October registration – UCL, Pearson G22 LT
7pm – Film showing: ‘October – Ten Days that Shook the World’ by Sergei Eisenstein (with an introduction by Alan Woods, author of “Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution”)
9pm – The Revolution Party (social)
Saturday 24th October (at UCL, Gower Street)
10-11am – Registration (UCL – Cruiciform B404 LT and Wilkins Gustave Tuck LT)
11am – Crime, corruption, and capitalism: the crisis of the bourgeois state – Marie Frederiksen, editor of the Danish Marxist paper “Revolution” (Wilkins Gustave Tuck LT)
11am – Capital and crisis: why Marx was right – Adam Booth, editor of www.socialist.net (Cruiciform B404 LT)
2pm – One year after the referendum: where next for Scotland? – Rachel Gibbs, editorial board of Revolution Scotland and member of the Scottish Socialist Party (Wilkins Gustave Tuck LT)
2pm – The European Crisis: past, present, and future – Josh Holroyd of the International Marxist Tendency (Cruiciform B404 LT)
4:15pm – Defend Corbyn! Fight for Socialism! – with Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, and Steve Hedley, Senior Assistant General Secretary of the RMT) (Wilkins Gustave Tuck LT)
7pm – Join the Party! (social) – SOAS, main building, room L67
Sunday 25th October (at SOAS, between Malet Street and Russell Square)
10-11am – Registration (SOAS – room L67 and Khalili LT)
11am – The Spanish Revolution: then and now – Jorge Martin, member of Podemos for Socialism (Khalili LT)
11am – An introduction to Marxist philosophy: “the point, however, is to change it” – Daniel Morley, editorial board of Socialist Appeal (room L67)
2pm – Liberté, égalité, solidarité: the struggle for equal rights – with Ray Goodspeed of Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (Khalili LT)
2pm – Marxism and Art – Alan Woods, editor of www.marxist.com (room L67)
4pm – #JoinTheRevolution (closing remarks) (Khalili LT)
MAPS
UCL Cruciform building
UCL Wilkins building
SOAS university
