Category: Other Events
Two Events to Celebrate Karl Marx
Marx 200 – an international conference
A major international conference celebrating Marx’s work and exploring the significance of Marxism in the world today
5 May 2018
09:00 – 17:00
SOAS, University of London, EC1H 0XG
Organised by the Marx Memorial Library on the bicentenary of Marx’s birth
£15/10 concession – tickets available here…
Plenary sessions on:
• political economy and its relevance today – why Marx was right
• philosophy and human development – Marxism and the battle of ideas
• the international role of the working-class movement – Marxism as a force for change
With speakers including:
John McDonnell MP, the Shadow Chancellor;
Sarah Mosoetsa (professor of sociology at the National Institute for the Humanities & Social Sciences, Johannesburg);
Isabel Monal (editor of the Cuban theoretical journal Marx Ahora);
David McLellan (visiting professor of political theory at Goldsmith College, University of London);
Ben Fine (professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London);
John O’Neill (professor of political economy at Manchester University);
Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxism);
Ann-Kathrin Krug, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin;
Luo Wendong, deputy editor-in-chief of Social Sciences in China Press, Beijing 
Saturday 5th May
10am-6pm
Rich Mix, London
E1 6LA
As Marx’s 200th birthday approaches, his ideas could hardly be more relevant. Read on ...
Action for The Silenced of Syria
Agit Lit Night Monday 8th January 2018 at 7.30 pm
Syrian and International Poets and Musicians for Peace in Syria
Poetry Cafe
22 Betterton Street
London WC2H 9BX
Nearest tube: Covent Garden or Leicester Square
£5 or £3 Exiled Writers Ink members and asylum seekers.
“By Our Own Hands” – A People’s History of the Grenadian Revolution
Steve Cushion and Dennis Bartholomew
22nd January 2018, 17:30
London Socialist Historians Group
Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Much ink has been spilt over the final days of the Revolution in Grenada (1979-83), while much less research has been done on the preceding four years. Read on ...