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2019-07-24 |
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Why Palestine is still the issue - Anne Alexander, Ilan Pappé and Nur Masalha |
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Why Palestine is still the issue
Speakers: Anne Alexander, Ilan Pappé and Nur Masalha
July 2019
East London
https://marxismfestival.org.uk
Thousands of campaigners came together in east London last weekend to discuss how to change the world. Marxism Festival 2019 took place as far right groups gain influence and mainstream parties face crisis.
Student Khai said that Marxism “tells the truth that the establishment don’t want us to hear”. Extinction Rebellion member Joseph described it as a “great weekend and fantastic opportunity”.
“We need to bring people round to ideas that matter,” he said. “We all need to take action to save our planet.”
The climate crisis was a major theme as was Brexit, the Labour Party and the fight against racism. School climate strikers, Extinction Rebellion activists and others discussed what kind of action can be taken to stop climate catastrophe.
Author Ian Angus described the fight for the planet as “the most important struggle of our time”. “Capitalism has driven us to a crisis point,” he said. “If ‘business as usual’ continues, major ecological collapse is not possible, but probable.”
Suspended Labour MP Chris Williamson was warmly welcomed as he spoke to over 700 people in a meeting on Corbynism and the future of politics.
Other meetings ranged from discussing Karl Marx’s Capital to knife crime, drugs and gangs. A panel of artists spoke at a meeting on the demonisation of drill and grime music.
Sheila Coleman from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign spoke at a meeting debating the usefulness of inquiries and inquests in fights for justice. She warned against people in justice campaigns being “co-opted by the state”. “It’s so important we look to each other and stay strong,” she said.
Marcia Rigg, whose brother Sean died in police custody, spoke at a meeting on institutional racism and also at the festival’s closing rally.
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https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/48605/Thousands+of+activists+at+Marxism+Festival+2019+debate+how+best+to+resist
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2019-07-11 |
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Anti Zionism is not antisemitism - Ilan Pappé |
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Anti Zionism is not antisemitism - Ilan Pappé
Speaker: Ilan Pappé
July 2019
East London
https://marxismfestival.org.uk
Thousands of campaigners came together in east London last weekend to discuss how to change the world. Marxism Festival 2019 took place as far right groups gain influence and mainstream parties face crisis.
Student Khai said that Marxism “tells the truth that the establishment don’t want us to hear”. Extinction Rebellion member Joseph described it as a “great weekend and fantastic opportunity”.
“We need to bring people round to ideas that matter,” he said. “We all need to take action to save our planet.”
The climate crisis was a major theme as was Brexit, the Labour Party and the fight against racism. School climate strikers, Extinction Rebellion activists and others discussed what kind of action can be taken to stop climate catastrophe.
Author Ian Angus described the fight for the planet as “the most important struggle of our time”. “Capitalism has driven us to a crisis point,” he said. “If ‘business as usual’ continues, major ecological collapse is not possible, but probable.”
Suspended Labour MP Chris Williamson was warmly welcomed as he spoke to over 700 people in a meeting on Corbynism and the future of politics.
Other meetings ranged from discussing Karl Marx’s Capital to knife crime, drugs and gangs. A panel of artists spoke at a meeting on the demonisation of drill and grime music.
Sheila Coleman from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign spoke at a meeting debating the usefulness of inquiries and inquests in fights for justice. She warned against people in justice campaigns being “co-opted by the state”. “It’s so important we look to each other and stay strong,” she said.
Marcia Rigg, whose brother Sean died in police custody, spoke at a meeting on institutional racism and also at the festival’s closing rally.
Read the whole article here
https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/48605/Thousands+of+activists+at+Marxism+Festival+2019+debate+how+best+to+resist
https://marxismfestival.org.ukzionism | Israel | Palestine | antisemitism | Marxism Festival | Marxism 2019 | marxism2019 | Socialism | SWP | Socialist Workers Party | Marxism | Anti-austerity
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2018-07-16 |
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The day after: opportunities and dangers for Palestine in the Trump era - Ilan Pappé |
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The day after:
opportunities and dangers for Palestine in the Trump era
Speaker: Ilan Pappé
July 2018
https://marxismfestival.org.uk
https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/46871/Marxism+2018+++debating+the+alternative+to+a+world+in+crisis
The Marxism 2018 festival, hosted by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), took place last week in a context of deepening political polarisation across the world.
Meetings grappled with how the collapse of mainstream politics has fuelled the rise of the far right—but has also created opportunities for the radical left.
At a meeting on the Windrush scandal and “Britishness”, anti-racist activist Weyman Bennett argued that “a crisis of the extreme centre” has led mainstream politicians to turn on migrants, refugees and Muslims.
Latifa Abouchakra an NEU teachers’ union member, told the opening rally, “With the white working class, they’re told the reason they’re short of money is because the Muslims and the immigrants are here.”
In a meeting on Donald Trump’s trade wars, Alex Callinicos said Trump represented a response that is not wedded to neoliberalism. He warned that the far right have taken the opportunity to grow from Trump’s policies.
A lively debate over the racist US president’s politics sprang up at a panel meeting on the resistance to Trump.
US Marxist John Bellamy Foster argued that Trump was a “neo-fascist”—which he contended was different to “traditional” fascism.
He pointed out that Trump’s support comes from the same social base as does fascists’—the middle classes.
However, people pointed out that neither Trump nor the Republican Party is aligned to a street movement, as is the case with fascist parties. All attending agreed that the need to confront the fascists on the streets was of paramount importance.
Other discussions focused on how the left can use the political crisis to build an alternative.
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https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/46871/Marxism+2018+++debating+the+alternative+to+a+world+in+crisis
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2016-07-12 |
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Israel: the apartheid state - Ilan Pappé |
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https://www.marxismfestival.org.uk
https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/43012/Marxism+2016+-+we+can+exploit+the+bosses+crisis
Around 2,700 people gathered at the Marxism 2016 festival last weekend. Hundreds heard former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg address the opening rally on Thursday of last week.
Newly elected People Before Profit MP Brid Smith from Ireland also spoke alongside French train driver Axel Persson and others. Sheila Coleman from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign spoke about the struggle to expose state injustice.
She said, “The police got away with their behaviour because it was sanctioned by the state.”
The event, hosted by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), took place at a time of intense political crisis.
Discussions about the meaning and implications of the Leave vote in the European Union referendum ran through it (see right).
Activists debated how socialists should relate to the Labour Party, the state of fascist groups in Britain, the level of class struggle and much more.
Karen Reissmann introduced a session on From Benn to Blair—Labour from the 1970s to the 1990s.
She described how Labour’s strategy of electing left wing candidates to councils only saw them coming under pressure to make more cuts.
Speakers in a number of meetings stressed the need to build activity outside parliament to fend off attacks and defend Labour
leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Writer Tariq Ali introduced a meeting on The American Empire and its Discontents. He argued that the US was an “ultra imperialist” power that had united other advanced capitalist powers under its leadership.
He said, “The dominance of the US remains unchallenged.” In the discussion others argued that Ali underplayed the weaknesses of US imperialism.
Alex Callinicos introduced a meeting on Imperialism Today. He said the failure of the US in Iraq was a “bigger defeat” than the one it suffered in Vietnam.
Weyman Bennett introduced a discussion on the state of the Nazis in Britain. He stressed the need to properly define fascism as a specific threat to the working class and democracy.
Weyman said anti-fascists had held back the Nazis in Britain, but their frustration meant they could be “incredibly violent”.
He and others stressed that the main focus for anti-racists in Britain is not fascist groups but fighting racism in the mainstream.
Alex Kenny from the NUT union joined a panel meeting on resisting Prevent and Islamophobia. A speaker from the Muslim Public
Affairs Committee said this racism “has not emerged since the Brexit vote. It was years of drip, drip.”......
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https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/43012/Marxism+2016+-+we+can+exploit+the+bosses+crisis
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