Type: Event

Radical politics in Latin America today Speakers: Jeffery Webber (author of The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same) and Dave Kellaway (Socialist Resistance).   The “Bolivarian revolution” and left governments are in retreat. In Venezuela, Chavez has died and Maduro is faltering; in Brazil, President Rousseff of the PT has

Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America Mar 27, 2017 6:00 PM Location: UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN Todd Gordon (Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, Canada), Jeffery R. Webber (Queen Mary University of London) – Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin

IIPPE Training Workshop – Value and Price after Marx Mon 27 March, SOAS Brunei Gallery (room B102) The International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) announce their next Training Workshop at SOAS (room B102, in the Brunei Gallery), London on 27 March 2017 (registration from 9.30am). Simon Mohun will lead the workshop. In the morning session

Global Civil War: Solidarity by Proxy Tuesday 25 April 2017 6:30pm to 8:00pm Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE Hosted by the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Research Group at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights Speaker: Professor Susan Buck-Morss Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu In the twenty-first century any world war

Start: Jun 21, 2017 06:00 PM  End: Jun 21, 2017 08:00 PM Location: IAS Common Ground, Ground Floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building Communards and other Cultural Histories brings together a collection of 32 articles by Adrian Rifkin, written over a period of 40 years. It contains pathbreaking and influential studies on the archives of art, urbanism, music and popular life

NEGRI IN CAMBRIDGE AND LONDON On Tuesday 25 April the Italian political thinker Antonio Negri will be in Cambridge to deliver the first of two talks on the possibilities for a renewal of revolutionary thought and action. His chosen topic for the Cambridge talk is: “Post-operaismo or neo-operaismo”. In this talk he will give a

MARXIST FEMINISM: STRATEGIC REFLECTIONS To be followed by A PARTY CELEBRATING THE COMING OF NOWRUZ (IRANIAN NEW YEAR) featuring live music with Mansoor & friends SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2017  6:00-8:00 PM (Marxist Feminism discussion), 8:30-? music and celebration Westside Peace Center 3916 Sepulveda Blvd., near Venice Blvd. (free parking in rear) Suite 101-102, press #22 at

Dr Alejandro Colas (Birkbeck, UK) Dr Liam Campling (Queen Mary, UK) Capitalism and the Sea: Sovereignty, Territory and Accumulation in the Global Ocean Tuesday, 7 March, 5-7PM Room: Alumni Lecture Theatre (ALT), Room 110, Senate House North Block, SOAS   We introduce the term ‘terraqueous territoriality’ to analyse a particular relationship between capitalism as a

Could the Front National take power in France? Marine Le Pen and the 2017 presidential election Thursday 2 March 6pm, King’s College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS (Room -2.18, Strand basement) Film: Marine Le Pen La Derniere Marche (English subtitles) followed by Q&A with Emmanuel Blanchard and Grégoire Kauffmann. On the eve of the French Presidential election, with Marine Le Pen currently leading

Tariq Ali (writer and filmmaker) Professor August H. Nimtz (University of Minnesota, US) Professor Tamás Krausz (Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary) The Russian Revolution and Global Development: Lessons from the First Hundred Years Tuesday, 28 February, 5-7PM Room: SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre (BGLT)   The Russian Revolution was the greatest anti-capitalist

Centenary Lecture: Raja Shehadeh, writer and lawyer 7.00pm, Thursday 9 March 2017 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of LondonRussell Square WC1H 0XG Admission Free – Registration Required Does Israel fear peace? Reflections on the failures of international law and human rights, and on sources of hope. It is almost 50 years since the Six-Day War.

Salvage #4 – with Rosie Warren, Andreas Malm, Richard Seymour, Hannah Elsisi and Caitlin Doherty Friday 10th March 19:00 – 20:30 at London – Piccadilly ————— Salvage is new a quarterly of revolutionary arts and letters. Edited and written by and for the desolated left, Salvage is for those committed to radical change. Publishing essays,