Timetable
We suggest you arrive from 10h onwards to give yourself time to pick up your day-pass wristband.
You can also grab a cup of tea or even your whole breakfast from our amazing caterers, Veggies.
| 10.00-10.30 |
Registration Please arrive on time |
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| 10.30-11.00 |
Welcome to ‘Up the Anti’ Opening session Ed Lewis (New Left Project) Joana Ramiro (Anticapitalist Initiative) |
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| 11.00-12.15 | What are we fighting for?
Federico Campagna (editor, What We Are Fighting For) Mark Fisher (author, Capitalist Realism) Preeti Kaur (IOPS) |
War and revolution in Syria
Jamie Allinson (Middle East researcher) Dr Zahera Harb (City University) |
How can we turn trade unions into a force for change?
Open discussion with contributions from Jerry Hicks (Unite Grassroots Left) Kate Ford Hackney NUT) Chris Ford (IWGB) Ewa Jasiewicz |
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| 12.15-13.00 | Lunch | |||
| 13.00-14.30 | What should 21st century journalism look like?
Open discussion with contributions from Hicham Yezza (Ceasefire) Flaminia Giambalvo (OT) Dan Hind (author, The Return of the Public) |
Beyond Capitalism? The Future of the Radical Left
Book launch organised by Zero Books Luke Cooper & Simon Hardy (co-authors) Aaron Peters (Resonance FM) |
Radical interpretations of the current crisis: a dialogue across traditions
Organised by Platypus Review David Graeber (author, Debt: the First 5000 Years) Saul Newman (author, From Bakunin to Lacan) Hillel Ticktin (co-founder, Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory) James Woudhuysen (Sp!ked Magazine) |
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| 14.45-16.00 | New struggles, new possibilities: Lessons from the dramatic return of street protest
Open discussion with contributions from Guy Aitchison (OpenDemocracy) Aaron Peters (Resonance FM) James Butler (blogger) Ragnhild Freng Dale (OT) Hannah Black (artist) |
Islamophobia: the racist politics of extradition
Hamja Ahsan (brother of Talha Ahsan) Victoria Brittain (The Guardian) |
The city and its houses
SQUASH (Squatters Action for Secure Homes) Anna Minton (author, Ground Control) Ray Woolford (Lewisham People Before Profit) Tawanda Nyabango (Save the Carpenters Estate) |
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| 16.15-17.30 | Are ‘debt strikes’ the future of anticapitalist resistance?
David Graeber (author, Debt: the First 5000 Years) Nick Mirzoeff (Occupy Wall St/Strike Debt) |
Radical lessons from the Global South
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Birkbeck) Moshé Machover (University of London) |
The Left in Greece: contours of the national crisis
Eugene Michail (University of Sussex) Yiannis Baboulias (New Statesman) |
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| 17.30-18.15 | Dinner | |||
| 18.15-20.00 |
18:15-19:00
General Assembly Getting involved in 2013 – what are the key campaigns?
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19:00-19:45 Plenary Moving forward Drawing conclusions from a day of discussion and debate Dan Hind Emma Dowling (Plan C London) Simon Hardy Kate Ford Nick Wrack (Independent Socialist Network) |
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| 20.00-23.00 |
“Stand up… Against the Government” Comedy night and live music Sean Taylor Kate Smurthwaite Chris Coltrane |
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Many speakers will be present in a personal capacity.
