Highlights include
Thursday
Opening rally Global
resistance to neo-liberalism and
war, with Lindsey German,
Roland Denis, Hassan Jumaa and Oliur Rahman.- Victoria Brittain on Guantanamo – America’s gulag
Friday
- Mark Steel on Che Guevara
- Paul Gilroy and Weyman Bennett ask, Why is multiculturalism under attack?
Ghada Karmi speaks on
1948, the Nakhbah and the
creation of Israel- A feast of poetry and spoken word, Our new word order, with Adrian Mitchell, Mahmood Jamal and Michael Rosen
- Love Music Hate Racism hosts Music to change the world with Rodney P , Drew McConnell (Babyshambles), Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly and others
Saturday
Doreen Lawrence, David
Gilborn from the Institute of
Education, Paul Mackney,
joint general secretary of UCU,
Brian Richardson and The Voice
of Young People launch the new
book Tell It Like It Is – How Our
Schools Fail Black Children- Tariq Ali asks the key question, Is the empire invincible?
- Roland Denis brings news from Venezuela and the revolution within the revolution
- Round table discussion on Theatre in revolt with Sam West, John Arden, satirist Alistair Beaton and Charlotte Westenra director of Gladiator Games
- Bonfire of the liberties with Moazzam Begg, Gareth Peirce and Winston Silcott.
- Istvan Meszaros on Alienation and contemporary capitalism
Saffron Burrows introduces a screening of The Battle of Algiers
Sunday
- Tony Benn leads a discussion on Planning for the future
- Hassan Jumaa president, Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq, on Occupation and resistance, with Sami Ramadani
- George Galloway and John Rees ask, What next for Respect?
Bernadette McAliskey,
Michael Rosen and
Chris Harman discuss the 1960s- Alex Callinicos, Melissa Benn and Kevin Courtney look at Education in a neo-liberal world
- Acclaimed jazz musician Gilad Atzmon and Martin Smith, author of John Coltrane – Jazz, Racism and Resistance, celebrate John Coltrane and the civil rights movement
- Oscar Olivera discusses the battle against neo-liberalism in Bolivia.
Monday
Walden Bello and
Chris Nineham analyse the
anti-capitalist movement today- Artists Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillips demonstrate Photomontage as a weapon of mass instruction
- The final rally features Oscar Olivera, Trevor Ngwane, Azzam Tamimi, Martin Smith and Suzie Wylie.
- Ken Loach on the cinema of liberation followed by a screening of Land and Freedom.