Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Marxism festival 2025

Marxism 2025 is a festival of socialist ideas taking place from Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 July in Shoreditch, London. It brings together meetings, speakers, debates, live music, a culture tent, film screenings, and more.

 Check out the timetable for yourself and other info here: 

https://socialistworker.co.uk/marxismfestival/

Highlights for socialist historians include:

Andrew Feinstein on the long struggle for justice from South Africa to Palestine 

Raquel Varela on the Portuguese Communist Party and the 1974 Revolution (book launch) 

Mark Krantz on the fight against Mosley and the British Union of Fascists 

Ilan Pappe on is Zionism finished? 

Martin Empson on the German Peasant's War 500 years on (book launch)

Kehinde Andrews in conversation on the legacy of Malcolm X (book launch)

Geoff Brown on A People's History of the Anti Nazi League (book launch) 

Judy Cox and Charlie Kimber on the British general strike of 1926 

Huw Williams on 50 years since the defeat of the US in Vietnam  

Plus over 100 other meetings inc on Frantz Fanon; slavery, reparations and empire; resisting imperialist feminism; art and culture after the Russian Revolution, The Battle of Algiers film; the development of women's oppression - worth checking out the timetable for yourself!