Marxism 2004 a socialist festival and conference
9th-16th July
Central London
www.marxism2004.net
020 7538 2707


This July will see thousands of socialists, anti-war activists, trade unionists, anti-capitalists and other campaigners from around the world come together in central London. Marxism is the biggest socialist conference in Britain, where people can come together to discuss and debate issues on a wide range of subjects with some of the best speakers from around the world. But Marxism is about more than meetings- it’s about the chance to meet other activists and campaigners and share experiences. Every evening after the meetings have finished a wide choice of cultural events (Live music, DJ’s, Films and theatre)to suit everybody will be taking place. Marxism has a free crèche and we can arrange free accommodation during the event.

some of this years speakers:

Tariq Ali author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms and Bush in Babylon
George Galloway the anti-war MP
Gilad Atzmon jazz musician
Walden Bello from Focus on the Global South
Tony Benn, Campaigner and former Labour MP
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
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
Billy Hayes general secretary of the CWU
Kate Hudson chair of CND
Paul Mackney general secretary of Natfhe
Mark Serwotka general secretary of PCS
Giovanni Pesce, was head of the GAP partisan fighters fighting facism in Turin. He won a gold medal for his resistance activities & is a folk hero on the Italian left
Giuliano Giuliani, the father of Carlo Giuliani murdered by the Italian police during the Genoa G8 protests
Martin Smith, author of John Coltrane, Jazz racism & resistance and the awkward squad.
Salma Yaqoob, chair of Birmingham Stop the War Coalition
Michael Albert of Znet, author of Parecon: Life After Capitalism
Michael Rosen the poet whose most
recent book is This Is Not My Nose
Ghada Karmi Palestinian activist and author of In Search of Fatima
Andrew Murray chair of the Stop the War Coalition and author of A New Labour Nightmare
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
Ursula Huws Professor of International Labour Studies at London Metropolitan University;
Phillip Knightley author of The First Casualty and The Second Oldest Profession
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;
China Mieville author of The Scar and the Perdido Street Station
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;
Jeremy Seabrook author of books including The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty
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
Gilbert Achcar author of the Clash of Barbarisms
Samir Amin author of books including The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World
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