Little reminder about the above! Venue is the University Technology Centre, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, I think the postcode is M13 9PL from 10:00am until 7:30pm.
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Capitalism's crisis is engulfing the Eurozone. While the super-rich maintain lavish lifestyles ordinary people have been thrown into ever greater poverty by wage and pensions cuts.Resistance is growing. From Greece to Portugal millions of workers have joined mass revolts and general strikes.The revolutions in Egypt and the Arab world have shown a different path to change and have been a testament to our collective strength.At these events we will discuss and debate the alternative to cuts, austerity and capitalism, how we can turn sporadic resistance into revolution, and how we can effectively fight for liberation and socialism.Everyone is welcome!SPEAKERS INCLUDE: -Alex Callinicos, author of The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx -Peter Thomas, author of The Gramscian Moment -Hannah Dee, chair of Defend the Right to Protest -Jeff Webber, author of Red October -Hossam El-Hamalawy & Gigi Ibrahim, Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists (skype video link-ups) -Judith Orr, author of Sexism and the SystemSESSIONS INCLUDE -What's the future of the Arab revolutions? -Marxism and feminism -Crisis and resistance in the Eurozone -The politics of autonomism -Marxism or Keynesianism? -The ideas of Antonio Gramsci -Golden Dawn – the face of fascism today -Marxism and Black liberation -Occupy and the indignados – what next for anticapitalism? -How can Palestine be free?