Workers in the Cuban revolution – London, 23 October

Tuesday 23 October, 2018, 6.30pm: Workers in the Cuban revolution. Steve Cushion, University of London. Marchmont Community Centre, 62 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB. More info. The “social histories of the 1960s” series of talks in London continues on Tuesday 23 October with a talk by Steve Cushion on “workers in the Cuban revolution”. The series, which follows

W.E.B. DuBois: Myth, Legend, Legacy -Los Angeles, 27 October

The Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library invites you to a panel on: W.E.B. DuBois: Myth, Legend, Legacy Join us for a celebration of the 150th anniversary year of Dr. DuBois’s birth   Speakers:  Dr. Lisbeth Gant-Britton, PhD, Author of Holt African American History Professor Silas Munro, Communication Arts Department, Otis College of Art & Design Professor Wonda Powell, History

The Invention of the Savage – SOAS, 16 October

Dr Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, University of London) The Invention of the Savage: Philosophy, Politics and the Ideologies of Development Tuesday, 16 October, 5-7PM Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building   Development has all too often set up a cordon sanitaire around itself, fending off discomfiting reminders of its entanglements with the ideologies and

Soviet Cosmologies and Ontologies, 1960s-1970s – University of Westminster, 26 October

Friday 26th October 2018, 10.00 – 18.00 The Boardroom (room 117), University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW Soviet Cosmologies and Ontologies, 1960s-1970s Marie Curie Foundation Symposium, Individual Fellowship, Horizon 2020 Hosted by the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster in conjunction with the Faculty of Arts, University of Wolverhampton

Series of Talks at King’s College London

Majed Akhter (King’s College London)Geopolitics of the Belt and Road: Space, State, and Capital in China and Pakistan 17 October 2018 6pm Bush House SE 1.01 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a major plank of the Chinese infrastructural vision for Eurasian inter-connectivity known as the Belt and Road Initiative. Within

Development Studies Seminar Series: Neoliberalism, Populism, Fascism: The Implosion of Democracy in Brazil, SOAS – 9 October

SPECIAL PANEL EVENT Alfredo Saad-Filho (SOAS University of London) Anthony Pereira (King’s College London) Marieke Reithof (University of Liverpool) Pedro Loureiro (University of Cambridge) Francisco Dominguez (Middlesex University London) Neoliberalism, Populism, Fascism: The Implosion of Democracy in Brazil Tuesday, 9 October, 5-7PM Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building   Brazil is in turmoil.

Agrarian Change Seminars Term 1, 2018-19 – SOAS

Agrarian Change Seminars Term 1, 2018-19 Journal of Agrarian Change and Department of Development Studies, SOAS Room FG01 (Faber Building), SOAS 17 October, 5.15 pm How Lives Change: Seven Decades of the village Palanpur, India Himanshu (Jawaharlal Nehru University) 24 October, 5.15 pm Class differentiation and agricultural dynamics without expenditure data or tears: Malawi and

Understanding MARXISM & FREEDOM 60 Years Later – Los Angeles, 23 September

Understanding MARXISM & FREEDOM 60 Years Later   A Discussion of Raya Dunayevskaya’s Revolutionary Text   Sunday, September 23 6:30-8:30 PM Westside Peace Center 3916 Sepulveda Blvd., near Venice Blvd. (free parking in rear) Suite 101-102, press #22 at door to get into building Culver City (LA area)   Speakers: Kieran Durkin, UCSB visiting scholar

The Amazing Miss Macfarlane – Glasgow, 15 September

The Amazing Miss Macfarlane Hosted by The Year of Helen Macfarlane 15 September 2018 at 18:30–21:30 The Space, 257 London Road, G40 1PE Glasgow, United Kingdom 200 years ago Helen Macfarlane was born in Barrhead, destined to become a Chartist revolutionary, radical philosopher and campaigner for equality. We’re coming together to celebrate her life: –

Double Crisis Over Iran – Los Angeles, 19 August

Double Crisis Over Iran: Trump’s Warmongering and Anti-Regime Struggles of Working People and Women   Sunday, August 19 6:30-8:30 PM Westside Peace Center 3916 Sepulveda Blvd., near Venice Blvd. (free parking in rear) Suite 101-102, press #22 at door to get into building Culver City (LA area)   Speaker: Ali Kiani, longtime Iranian Marxist and

NEW SERIES OF EVENTS ON “THE LONG 1960s”

Social Histories of Revolution: the long 1960s A series of events on an era of extraordinary global upheaval   Social Histories of Revolution: the Long 1960s explores the spirit of an era of extraordinary global upheaval, from the perspectives of those whose marches, strikes and movements shook the world. Through a monthly series of public discussions,