Meetings and Events
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| SWP Public Meetings | |||
| Barnsley | Close the Gates—40 years since the 1972 miners’ strike With Ralph Darlington, ex‑miners |
Sat 11 Feb, 1pm | Cooper Art Gallery, Church St, S70 3AH |
| One year after the fall of Mubarak How can the Egyptian revolution win? | |||
| area | title/speaker | time | venue |
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| Birmingham | With Anne Alexander | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | Carrs Lane Church Centre, Carrs Lane, B4 7SX |
| Black Country | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | City Bar, King St, Wolverhampton WV1 1ST | |
| Dundee | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | Dundee Voluntary Action, 10 Constitution Rd, DD1 1LL | |
| Essex | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | Red Lion, 147 New London Rd, Chelmsford CM2 0AA | |
| Glasgow: North | Wed 15 Feb, 7.30pm | O’Neills backroom, Albion St, G1 1NY |
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| Glasgow: South | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | Langside Halls, Shawlands, G41 2QR |
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| Hull | With Lebanese revolutionary socialist Simon Assaf | Tue 7 Feb, 7.15pm | Hartleys Bar, 177 Newland Ave, HU5 2EP |
| Leeds | Thu 16 Feb, 7.30pm (doors open 7pm) | Broadcasting Place, Leeds Metropolitan University, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9EN | |
| London | With Gigi Ibrahim (revolutionary socialist activist and blogger, featured on Newsnight as one of the prominent voices from Cairo’s Tahrir Square) and others | Wed 1 Feb, 7pm | The Venue, University of London Union, Malet St, WC1E 7HY |
| Manchester | With Dalia Mostafa (recently returned from Egypt) | Wed 15 Feb, 7pm | Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Rosamond St West (off Oxford Rd), M15 6LL |
| Plymouth | Thu 9 Feb, 7pm | Room 210, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, PL4 8AA | |
| Sheffield | With Gigi Ibrahim, Yemeni and Syrian speakers | Tue 31 Jan, 7pm | Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James St, S1 2EW |
| Southampton | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | The Lounge, 31 Bedford Place, SO15 2DG | |
| SWP branch meetings - Weekly meetings to discuss political issues and our local interventions. All welcome | |||
| area | title/speaker | time | venue |
| Aberdeen | Inequality and the 1 percent—where does their power come from? | Thu 9 Feb, 6pm | Seminar Room, Belmont Cinema, 49 Belmont St, AB10 1JS |
| Banbury | Crisis and austerity—what is the socialist alternative? | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | Banbury Town Hall, Bridge St, Oxon OX16 5QB |
| Barnsley | If the eurozone fails will capitalism fall apart? | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | YMCA, 1 Blucher St, S70 1AP |
| Socialists and the struggle today | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Birmingham: Small Heath | The eurozone crisis—is capitalism falling apart? | Thu 2 Feb, 6.30pm | Bader Restaurant, 396 Coventry Rd, B10 0UF |
| Bradford | How can we build a rank and file movement today? | Wed 1 Feb, 6pm | The Equity Centre, 1 Longlands St, BD1 2TP |
| Can we have an equal society? | Wed 8 Feb, 6pm | ||
| Brighton | Stephen Lawrence—why did it take 19 years to get justice? | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | The Phoenix Community Centre, 2 Phoenix Place, BN2 9ND |
| Bristol: South | How can we build a rank and file movement today? | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | YHA, Narrow Quay, BS1 4QA |
| The roots of LGBT oppression | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Burnley | Why won’t Labour fight the cuts? | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | Keirby Hotel, Keirby Walk, BB11 2DH |
| Will the revolution be televised? A Marxist analysis of the media | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Bury and Prestwich | Why do socialists defend multiculturalism? | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | The Ostrich, 163 Bury Old Rd, M25 1JF |
| 1974—the last time we brought down the Tories | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Cambridge | Marxism and alienation | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | CB2 Cafe, 5-7 Norfolk St, CB1 2LD |
| What do socialists say about the Labour Party? | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Canterbury | Markets and capitalism | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | Westgate Hall, Westgate Hall Rd (off St Peter’s Lane), CT1 3BT |
| Cardiff | How do socialists build in the workplace? | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | Cathays Community Centre, Cathays Terrace, CF24 4HX |
| The Nigerian oil crisis | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Chesterfield | Why is Labour moving to the right? | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | Hurst House, 11 Abercrombie St, S41 7LW |
| Sexuality, socialism and LGBT liberation | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Colchester | Why is the West targeting Iran? | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | Albatta Cafe, 18A Sir Isaac’s Walk, CO1 1JL |
| Coventry | Beyond the movie—the real Thatcher then and now | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | Koco, Unit 15, Koco Buildings, Arches Industrial Estate, Spon End, CV1 3JQ |
| Doncaster | Iran—the next target of the West? | Wed 1 Feb, 7pm | Women’s Centre, 21 Cleveland St, DN1 3EH |
| Spartacus—when Hollywood defied the blacklist | Wed 8 Feb, 7pm | ||
| Dudley | Saltley Gate—when workers’ solidarity beat the Tories | Wed 8 Feb, 8pm | The What Centre, 23 Coventry St, Stourbridge, DY8 1EP |
| Dundee | Stephen Lawrence, police and racism today | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | Dundee Voluntary Action, 10 Constitution Rd, DD1 1LL |
| Edinburgh | Welfare or Workfare?—The Tories’ plans for the welfare state | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | Friends Meeting House, Victoria Terrace, EH1 2JL |
| Crisis in the Middle East | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Essex | One year after the fall of Mubarak—How can the Egyptian revolution win? | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | Red Lion, 147 New London Rd, Chelmsford, CM2 0AA |
| Glasgow: North | Beyond the movie—the real Thatcher then and now | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | O’Neills backroom, Albion St, G1 1NY |
| The eurozone crisis—have the bankers won? | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Glasgow: South | After N30 strikes—trade union leaders and the rank and file | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | Langside Halls, Shawlands, G41 2QR |
| Harlow | Migrants are not to blame for unemployment and poverty | Thu 16 Feb, 7.30pm | Common Room, Gibson Court, Bishopsfield, CM18 6FF |
| Hastings | Fighting austerity—Greek resistance shows the way | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | The Clarence, 57 Middle St, TN34 1NA |
| Alienation—an introduction to Marxist theory | Thu 16 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Huddersfield | Inequality—who are the 1 percent and where does their power come from? | Wed 1 Feb, 6.30pm | Cafe Society, Byram St (near main post office), HD1 1DR |
| Why is the West targeting Iran? | Wed 8 Feb, 6.30pm | ||
| Hull | Militancy in Britain—lessons from the 1926 General Strike | Tue 31 Jan, 7.15pm | Hartley’s Bar, 177 Newland Ave, HU5 2EP |
| Leeds: City Centre | What is wrong with postmodernism? | Thu 2 Feb, 7pm | The Swarthmore Centre, 2-7 Woodhouse Sq, LS3 1AD |
| From revolution to Reform Act—class struggle in Britain 1789–1832 | Thu 9 Feb, 7pm | ||
| Leeds: Harehills and Chapeltown | Global warming—why we need to change the world | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | Trinity United Church, Banstead Terrace, Roundhay Rd, LS8 2HU |
| Rosa Luxemburg and the mass strike | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Liverpool | Beyond the movie—the real Thatcher then and now | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | Methodist Centre (above News from Nowhere bookshop), 96 Bold St, L1 4HY |
| The roots of LGBT oppression | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| London: Battersea & Wandsworth | The police and state repression | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, SW11 5TN |
| London: Brent & Harrow | Trade unions and the Labour party—are they heading for divorce? | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | Trellick Lounge, 11 Golborne Rd, W10 5NY |
| The fight against climate change | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| London: Brixton | How can we build a rank and file movement today? | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | Vida Walsh Centre, 2b Saltoun Rd (near Effra Rd), SW2 1EP |
| London: Camden | Is the Labour Party in decline? | Wed 8 Feb, 7pm | Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Rd, NW1 1TT |
| London: Ealing | Trade unions and the Labour Party—heading for divorce? | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | West London Trade Union Club, 33-35 High St, Acton, W3 6ND |
| London: Euston | How was the German Revolution defeated? | Wed 8 Feb, 6.30pm | Camera Cafe, 44 Museum St, WC1A 1LY |
| London: Hackney East | The roots of LGBT oppression | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | The Round Chapel, Powerscroft Rd, E5 0PP |
| London: Hackney South | Why we sell Socialist Worker | Wed 8 Feb,7.30pm | HCD Co-operative Centre, 62 Beechwood Rd, E5 3DY |
| London: Hornsey and Wood Green | Chavs—is there an underclass? | Wed 8 Feb, 7.45pm | The Small Hall, St Michael’s Church, 37 Bounds Green Rd, N22 7TL |
| London: Kingston | The EDL, the BNP and the far right in Europe | Tue 31 Jan, 7.30pm | Kingston Environment Centre, Fairfield East, KT1 2PT |
| Why is the West targeting Iran? | Tue 7 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| London: Lewisham | Trotsky and the united front | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | West Greenwich Community and Arts Centre, 141 Greenwich High Rd (near Greenwich main line and DLR station), SE10 8JA |
| London: Newham | What do we mean by alienation? | Wed 8 Feb, 7pm | Stratford Advice Arcade, 107-109 The Grove, E15 1HP |
| London: Southwark | Why is the fight against LGBT oppression important today? | Wed 8 Feb, 7pm | Snug Room, The Grand Union, 26 Camberwell Grove, SE5 8RE |
| London: Tooting | Why is the West targeting Iran? | Thu 16 Feb, 7.30pm | Derinton Rd Community Centre, 101a Derinton Rd (cnr Blakenham Rd), SW17 8HZ |
| London: Tower Hamlets | Palestine and the Arab revolutions | Thu 9 Feb, 7pm | Oxford House, Derbyshire St, E2 6HG |
| London: Waltham Forest | The 1972 miners’ strike, Saltley Gate and the defeat of the Tories | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | Quaker Meeting House, 1a Jewel Rd (off Hoe St), E17 4QU |
| London: Woolwich & Plumstead | The new scramble for Africa | Thu 9 Feb, 6.30pm | The Glyndon Centre, Raglan Rd, Plumstead, SE18 7LB |
| Luton | Beyond the movie—the real Thatcher then and now | Wed 15 Feb, 7.30pm | Postels Club, 3 Dunstables Rd (corner Cardiff Rd), LU1 1BJ |
| Manchester: Chorlton | Is a revolution possible in Britain? | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | Chorlton Library, Manchester Rd, M21 9PN |
| The media, lies and corruption | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | Beech Inn, 72 Beech Rd, M21 9EG | |
| Manchester: City Centre | Militancy in Britain—lessons of the 1926 General Strike | Thu 9 Feb, 6pm | Subway, 49 Peter St, M2 3NG |
| Manchester: Longsight and Levenshulme | 1974—the last time strikes brought down the Tories | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | Swad Cafe, 608 Stockport Rd, M13 0RQ |
| Manchester: Rusholme | The politics of sport | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | upstairs, Falafel Cafe, Wilmslow Rd, M14 5TQ |
| Middlesbrough | Will the revolution be televised? A Marxist analysis of the media | Tue 7 Feb, 7pm | St Mary’s Centre, 82-90 Corporation Rd, TS1 2RW |
| Newcastle: Central | Bloody Sunday in Derry—repression and resistance | Thu 2 Feb, 7pm | The Trent House, 1-2 Leazes Lane, NE1 4QT |
| Will the revolution be televised? A Marxist analysis of the media | Thu 9 Feb, 7pm | The Settle Down Cafe, 61-62 Thornton St, NE1 4AW | |
| Newcastle: Gateshead | Bloody Sunday in Derry—repression and resistance | Wed 1 Feb, 7pm | The Central Bar, Half Moon Lane, Gateshead, NE8 2AN |
| Will the revolution be televised? A Marxist analysis of the media | Wed 8 Feb, 7pm | ||
| Norwich | Stephen Lawrence—why did it take 19 years to get justice? | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | Vauxhall Centre, Vauxhall St, NR2 2SA |
| What are the roots of LGBT oppression? | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Nottingham | Militancy in Britain—lessons from the 1926 general strike | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | International Community Centre, 61b Mansfield Rd, NG1 3FN |
| The roots of LGBT oppression | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Oxford | Beyond the movie—the real Thatcher then and now | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | Cowley Rd Methodist Church, Cowley Rd, OX4 1BN |
| Plymouth | Neoliberalism’s crisis or capitalism’s crisis? | Thu 2 Feb, 7pm | Room 210, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, PL4 8AA |
| Portsmouth | Revolution in a digital age: activism and the internet | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | Southsea Community Centre, St Paul’s Square, PO5 4EE |
| Where is the Egyptian Revolution going? | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Rotherham | The Labour Party—whose side are they on? | Wed 8 Feb, 7pm | Bridge Inn, Greasbrough Rd, S60 1RB |
| St Albans | Is anarchism more radical than Marxism? | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | Upstairs, Trinity Church Hall, 1 Beaconsfield Rd, AL1 3RD |
| Sheffield: North | Militancy in Britain—lessons of the 1926 general strike | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | Burngreave Community Library, 179 Spital Hill, S4 7LF |
| Sheffield: South | The eurozone crisis—is capitalism falling apart? | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | Old Junior School/Sharrow Community Forum, South View Rd (off Sharrow Lane), S7 1DB |
| Southampton | Why is the West targeting Iran? | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | The Lounge, 31 Bedford Place, SO15 2DG |
| Swansea | Socialism and sport—a debate with Plaid Cymru | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | Brynmill Community Centre, St Albans Rd, SA2 0BP |
| Who are the 1 percent and where does their power come from? | Thu 9 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Telford | How can we build a rank and file movement today? | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | The Elephant and Castle, 1 High St, Dawley, TF4 2ET |
| Trade unions and the Labour Party—heading for divorce? | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| Wigan | Why is Labour backing the Tory cuts? | Wed 1 Feb, 7.30pm | The Bowling Green, 108 Wigan Lane (north end of Standishgate), WN1 2LF |
| Worthing | Cameron and the EU—what do socialists say? | Thu 2 Feb, 7.30pm | Beechwood Hall Hotel, Wykeham Rd, BN11 4JD |
| Marxism and anarchism | Thu 16 Feb, 7.30pm | ||
| York | What do we mean by socialism? | Wed 8 Feb, 7.30pm | The Yorkshire Hussar, 15 North St, YO1 6JD |
| Bookmarks events Events held at bookshop, except where indicated. Bookmarks bookshop, 1 Bloomsbury St, WC1. To reserve places phone 020 7637 1848 or email events@bookmarks.uk.com Website www.bookmarksbookshop.co.uk |
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| area | title/speaker | time | venue |
| London | Setting the Truth Free—The inside story of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign With author Julieann Campbell |
Fri 3 Feb, 6.30pm | Bookmarks bookshop |
| Movement events | |||
| area | title/speaker | time | venue |
| National | Unite Against Fascism conference www.uaf.org.uk |
Sat 25 Feb | central London |
| Unite the Resistance conference www.uniteresist.org |
Sat 18 Feb 11am – 4.30pm | central London | |
| Marxism 2012: Ideas to Change the World With over 200 workshops, panels, film showings and rallies it is the biggest event of its kind in Britain www.marxismfestival.org.uk |
5-9 Jul 2012 | central London | |
| Bristol | Unite the Resistance on tour www.uniteresist.org |
Mon 6 Feb, 7pm | |
| Glasgow | Thu 9 Feb, 7pm | ||
| Manchester | Wed 29 Feb, 7pm | ||
| Dorchester | How do we understand China? Organised by Dorset Socialists |
Sat 11 Feb, 1.30pm | Colliton Club (opposite County Hall), Colliton Park, DT1 1XJ |
| London | A history of riots London Socialist Historians Group conference londonsocialisthistorians. blogspot.com |
Sat 25 Feb, 12 noon-5pm | Room 350, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, WC1E 7HU |
| London: Battersea | Release Shaker Aamer! Close Guantanamo & Bagram! Single file march through Battersea, with orange jump suits, black hoods http://saveshaker.org |
Sat 11 Feb, 12 noon | Assemble: Baptist Church, Northcote Rd, SW11 6DB. Rally: Battersea Mosque, Falcon Rd, SW11 2PF |
| London: Tooting | Keep Our NHS Public Public meeting with NHS consultant, GP, Unite, Unison, Rethink Mental Illness Organised by Keep Our NHS Public. Supported by SW London Mental Health Trust Unison |
Tue 7 Feb, 7.30pm | St Augustine’s Church Hall, Broadwater Rd, SW17 0EF |
