MARXISM2008 - Festival of Resistance

bristol | miscellaneous | event notice Saturday March 29, 2008 19:50 by Dave Weltman - Socialist Workers Party bristolswp at gmail dot com

3 - 7 JULY, CENTRAL LONDON

Another chance to experience this brilliant annual festival of political ideas and culture: including 100s of meetings on every important political topic you can imagine (theory, revolutionary history, strategy and tactics for political change, Middle East, Latin America, radical economics, Climate Change, avant-garde theatre, women's liberation, etc., etc,) + film showings, art and photography exhibitions and nightly gigs.

** War ** Recession ** Resistance **
The credit crunch and unfolding economic crisis is adding to people’s sense of the need for resistance to a world in turmoil. Even a headline in the Financial Times this week was forced to admit: “The market no longer has the answers”; Marxism will be a place where we get to the heart of why capitalism goes into crisis, why workers shouldn’t pay and what our alternative is. Don’t miss out – book by 31st March and get £5 off your ticket.

Speakers confirmed so far include:
- Tony Benn; president of Stop the War Coalition
- David Hilliard; leading Black Panther
- Tariq Ali; 1968 veteran activist & author
- Howard Zinn; historian
- Moazzam Begg; former Guantanamo prisoner
- John Bellamy Foster; environmentalist
- Nick Davies; award-winning journalist
- Wendy Savage; pro-choice campaigner
- Mark Serwotka; PCS General Secretary
- Paul Gilroy; author There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack
- Lindsey German; convenor, Stop the War Coalition
- Ilan Pappe; author, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
- Sally Hunt; AUT General Secretary
- Sami Ramadani; Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation
- Alex Callinicos; author, New Mandarins of American Power
- Steven Rose; scientist and author, Not in our Genes
- Ghada Karmi; author and Palestinian activist
- Hossam el-Hamalawy; Egyptian blogger and activist
- Haifa Zangana; Iraqi writer
- Ben Fine; author, Marx’s Capital
- Michael Rosen; poet and children's laureate
- Jacqueline Rose; author Myths of Zion
- Walden Bello; Focus on the Global South
- Zoe Williams; Guardian columnist
- Chris Bambery; editor Socialist Worker
- Billy Hayes; CWU General Secretary
- Melissa Benn; journalist and writer
- Steve Bell; cartoonist
- Kim Moody; author, US Labour in Trouble and Transition
- Michael Billington; theatre critic
- Jeremy Dear; General Secretary NUJ
- Gilbert Achcar; author, Clash of Barbarisms
- Chris Harman; author, People's History of the World
- Lemn Sissay; poet
- Peter Kennard and Cat Picton; Phillips artists
- John Mcdonnell; MP
- István Mészáros; author, Marx’s Theory of Alienation
- Rikki Beadle Blair; actor, playwright and director
- Mike Gonzalez; author, Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution
and many more…

Visit website to register, and for full list of meetings and recordings of previous years' highlights: http://www. marxismfestival.org.uk/

TASTER:
Enjoy a taster of what’s come to Marxism. Listen to Egyptian blogger and journalist Hossam el-Hamalawy discussing Egypt ’s strike wave on: http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=2549

Marxism2008 is organised by the Socialist Workers Party (www.swp.org.uk)