ROCK AGAINST RACISM @ MARXISM 2004
- When: Saturday, July 10th, 2004
- London
LMHR is providing two nights’ entertainment at the week-long political festival ‘Marxism 2004′ starting this Friday (9th July) in central London.
The festival/conference consists of hundreds of debates and guest speakers from all over the world discussing every hot political issue from the war on Iraq to fighting women’s oppression. In the evenings there’s music, film, theatre etc.
On the SATURDAY night (10th July), starting at 9pm in the ULI building, there’s a ‘Rock Against Racism’ night featuring popular Manchester indie-rock band HAVEN plus support. See the bottom of this page for ticket details.
There are also a good number of meetings on racism and fascism:-
Sat 10th July, 10-11.15am ‘Is Racism on The Rise?’ - introduced by Weyman
Bennett (Unite Against Fascism joint scretary)
Sat 11.45-1pm ‘Should the Left Reclaim Englishness?’
Sat 7pm-8.30pm ‘Is fascism a threat today?’ with Chris Bambery & Roger Griffin
Sun 11th July, 11.45am-1pm ‘Italy & the birth of fascism’ with Matthew Cookson.
Sun 2pm-3.15pm ‘France 1934: popular front, fascist coup’
Sun 3.45-5pm ‘Malcolm X: by any means necessary’ Donna Guthrie of Unite
Sun 7pm-8.30pm ‘Rap, Guns, and Racism’ - Asher D (So Solid Crew), Weyman
Bennett (Unite), Corey Johnson, and Skeme (hip-hop artists)
Mon 12th July, 10-11.15am ‘How has fascism changed since the 1930s?’
- Jim Wolfreys
Tues 13th July, 10-11.15am ‘Could Hitler have been stopped?’ - Michael Bradley
Tues 10-11.15am ‘The roots of racism’ - Yunus Bakhsh
Tues 7-8.30pm ‘Why do black boys underachieve in education?’ - Dean Ryan
Thurs 14th July, 10-11.15am ‘How real is multiculturalism?’ - Kevin Ovenden
Thurs 7-8.30pm ‘Marvin Gaye: what was going on?’ - Martin Smith
TICKETS for the entire festival are priced as follows:-
Week ticket ?55 (?46 unwaged/HE student)
Weekend ticket ?46 (?32 unwaged/HE student)
School/FE/Under 18: Week ?22/Weekend ?16
Alternatively, you can book a morning/afternoon/evening session ticket. An evening session ticket includes the last debate of that evening as well as that night’s entertainment. Session tickets cost ?9 or ?5 for students/school/unemployed.
