*Marxism 2004*
will see various debates and discussions. It brings together from across Britain and the world activists from many unions and social movements, speakers, writers and campaigners. Over the course of the event they will take part in over 250 separate meetings, forums, debates, discussions and cultural events.
Why not come along, ask questions, seek answers, and meet other activists?

Speakers confirmed already this year include:

Gilbert Achcar author of the Clash of Barbarisms; Michael Albert of Znet, author of Parecon: Life After Capitalism; Tariq Ali author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms and Bush in Babylon; Samir Amin author of books including The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World; Gilad Atzmon jazz musician; Walden Bello from Focus on the Global South; Tony Benn;

Sue Bond vice-president of the PCS; Mark Curtis director of the World Development Movement and author of Web of Deceit; Alex Callinicos author of books including An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto and The New Mandarins of American Power; Jeremy Dear general secretary of the NUJ; Father Vitaliano Della Sala peace activist and radical priest from Italy who has been barred from administering his parish for his radical views; Terry Eagleton professor of cultural theory in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Manchester; George Galloway the anti-war MP;

Luciana Genro a deputy in the Brazilian parliament expelled from the Workers Party for resisting neo-liberalism; Lindsey German convenor of the Stop the War Coalition; John Gittings author of several books about China and former East Asian editor of the Guardian; Roger Griffin is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University; Billy Hayes general secretary of the CWU; Kate Hudson chair of CND; Ursula Huws Professor of International Labour Studies at London Metropolitan University;

Ghada Karmi Palestinian activist and author of In Search of Fatima; Phillip Knightley author of The First Casualty and The Second Oldest Profession; Hannah Kuchler convenor of School Students Against the War; Dr Esther Leslie from the School of English and Humanities Birkbeck College author of Walter Benjamin, Overpowering Conformism; Dr Scott Lucas head of the Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, and author of books including Betrayal of Dissent and George Orwell;

Paul Mackney general secretary of Natfhe; China Mieville author of The Scar and the Perdido Street Station; David Miller author of Tell Me Lies and The Lying Game; Andrew Murray chair of the Stop the War Coalition and author of A New Labour Nightmare; John Newsinger senior lecturer in the School of History and Cultural Studies, Bath Spa University, author of books including United Irishman, Orwell’s Politics and British Counterinsurgency; Gareth Peirce is one of Britain’s leading criminal lawyers and currently represents some of those still held in Guantanamo Bay; Bill Riseboro London based architect;

Steven Rose Professor of Biology at the Open University; Michael Rosen the poet whose most recent book is This Is Not My Nose; Jeremy Seabrook author of books including The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty; Mark Serwotka general secretary of PCS; Charles-Andre Udry Economist, teaching at Venice University and a director of the magazine à l'encontre; Stuart Weir professor of government and head of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex; Salma Yaqoob, chair of Birmingham Stop the War Coalition