SYSTEM

Speakers include
Sheila Coleman
from the Hillsborough
Justice Campaign
Tariq Ali on The American
empire and its discontents
John Bellamy
Foster speaks on The
Anthropocene and the
global ecological crisis
Green Party leader
Natalie Bennett debates
Where next after the EU
referendum? with Joseph
Choonara
FBU general secretary
Matt Wrack and CWU
general secretary Dave
Ward will join a panel to
discuss Trade unions in the
era of Corbynism
Michael Roberts
asks Robots and artificial
intelligence: utopia or
dystopia?
Stathis Kouvelakis and
Panos Garganas debate
Syriza and Greece today
Irish TDs Brid Smith and
Richard Boyd Barrett on
Ireland’s new politics
Alex Callinicos discusses
China and the global
slump and asks What did
Marx learn from Hegel?
CAGE outreach director
Moazzam Begg joins the
opening rally
Anti-racist campaigners
Maz Saleem and Nahella
Ashraf join a panel to
discuss fighting sexism and
Islamophobia
Jack Shenker talks
about his new book The
Egyptians: a Radical Story
Ilan Pappé looks at
Israel: the apartheid state
Ghayath Naisse
discusses Syria today:
from revolution to war
Hsiao-Hung Pai on her
book Angry White People
Sean Sayers explores
Marx and progress
Hassan Mahamdallie
analyses the changing
nature of racism in Britain
Laura Miles on The
fight for trans liberation:
resistance and solidarity
Weyman Bennett analyses
the state of the Nazis and
the far right in Britain
Deirdre O’Neill on her
new film about food banks
Anne Alexander analyses
The rise of Saudi Arabia
and the Arab counter
revolutions
Author of Marxism and
Women’s Liberation
Judith Orr on fighting
sexism today
Author Alan Gibbons
talks about Nina Simone:
artist and revolutionary
Ifhat Shaheen joins
a panel challenging
Islamophobia and the
Prevent strategy
BFAWU national
president Ian Hodson
takes on the Tories
Kate Evans on her
new book Red Rosa: a
Graphic Biography of Rosa
Luxemburg
Mark Perryman from
Philosophy Football
launches his new book
1966 and Not All That
Dave Randall examines
Beyoncé, Bowie and Bono:
popstars and politics
Kieran Allen on his
new book 1916: Ireland’s
Revolutionary Tradition
Kevin Doogan
on Precarity: minority
condition or majority
experience?
Jeremy Corbyn speaking at an anti-austerity protest Photo: Lewisham Dreamer @ Flickr
BREAKING
FREE FROM
A FAILED
SYSTEM
If you were excited by Jeremy
Corbyn’s election as Labour
leader, if you are horrified by
the treatment of refugees,
want action over climate
change or are looking for an
alternative to austerity and
war then Marxism Festival
2016 is the place for you.
Marxism 2016 is a five day
political festival hosted by the
Socialist Workers Party.
Thousands of activists,
campaigners, trade unionists,
students, writers and
academics will come together
at over 150 different meetings.
There will be space
for discussion and debate
involving people from all over
the globe united by a desire
to see a world where people
Marxism 2016 • A five day political festival • 30 June-4 July, central London
come before profit.
You can come for one
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In the evenings there
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showings, music, spoken
word, plays and much more.
Come and be part of the
discussion.