Speakers include: Terry Eagleton (author of ‘Why Marx was right’), Vincent Browne (TV3 journalist), Eamonn McCann (Journalist and activist), Richard Boyd Barrett TD, Kieran Allen (author of ‘Ireland’s economic crash’), Dave Randall (guitar player with the band ‘Faithless’)

The Revolution 2012 Festival starts in Dublin on Friday Nov 16th and runs to Sunday the 18th in the Camden Court Hotel in Dublin.

Over the course of 3 Days there will be more than 50 Meetings.

Revolution 2012 will bring together hundreds of people from around the country to discuss, debate and organise resistance. Don’t miss it.

There's a culture zone with movies, discussions on Brecht and theatre and a special meeting on the music of the Arab Spring with Dave Randall from the band Faithless.

Click below article for full timetable

Full timetable:

(Note meetings run parallel in different rooms several in each time slot so arrive early to make sure to get a seat!)

Friday Nov 16th

6pm to 7.15pm

Stuffed and starved. The politics of food. Cllr Melisa Halpin (People Before Profit)

From Batman to Buffy. The politics of superheroes. Sheamus Sweeney

Is Anarchism more radical than Marxism? Karl Gill

7.45pm to 9pm

OPENING RALLY! Speakers include Egyptian revolutionaries, Richard Boyd Barrett TD and more…

Saturday Nov 17th

10am to 11.15am
A woman’s right to choose. The fight for abortion rights North & South. Goretti Horgan

How do we get out of the crisis? Michael Taft (Unite union economist) & Brian O’Boyle (Lecturer Sligo)

Class war in Dublin 1913. Cllr Brid Smith (People Before Profit)

Chile 1973. The other 9/11. Leah Speight

11.45am to 1pm

Between revolution & counter revolution. The Arab world today. Hossam El Hamalawy (Egyptian socialist)

From the X case to Pussy Riot. The war on women. Alison Spillane & Sinead Kennedy (NUIM)

Lenin, Trotsky and the revolutionary tradition. Cllr Hugh Lewis (People Before Profit)

The changing face of sectarianism in the North. Gerry Carroll

Disability & the fight against the cuts. Disability rights activists

2pm to 3.15pm

The Return of Marx. Terry Eagleton & Kieran Allen

How do we stop the market destroying education? Marnie Holborow (DCU) & Niall Smyth (INTO)

How do we build a revolutionary party for the 21st century? James O’Toole

South Africa. Apartheid old and new. Mary Smith

When workers take power. Workers councils and the future socialist society. Tina McVeigh

3.45pm to 5pm

The future of the Irish left. Cllr Brid Smith (People Before Profit) and others

Culture and crisis. Luke Gibbons (NUIM) & Jessie Jones

Imperialism and revolution today. Mike Gonzalez (author ‘Che Guevara & the Cuban revolution’)

Is China the new superpower? Peader O’Grady

Darwin and the politics of evolution. Dave O’Farrell

7pm to 8.30pm

How capitalism is destroying democracy. Richard Boyd Barrett TD

The politics of sports. Eamonn McCann
Revolution 2.0? Social media and revolution. Gigi Ibrahim (Egyptian revolutionary)

Gandhi and the politics of non-violence. Willie Cumming

Rosa Luembourg and the German Revolution. Sara O’Rourke

9pm Sat Evening CULTURE ZONE GIG! (Check at festival for more details!)

Sun Nov 18th

10am to 11.15am

Climate change. One solution revolution? John Molyneux

American communists and race in the 1930s. Brian Kelly

100 years of Loyalist paramilitaries. John Lyons

Foucoult- friend of foe? Nicola Curry

11.45am to 1pm

James Connolly and the Irish Revolution. Conor Kostick & Kieran Allen

The point is to change it. Introduction to Marxist philosophy. John Molyneux & Helena Sheehan

The ABC of Marxist economics. Donal Mac Fhearraigh

The fight for social housing. Niamh McDonald

From relativity to the Higgs Boson. Marxism and science. Colm Stephens

Manufacturing consent. Crisis and the media. Vincent Browne & Eamonn McCann

Rebuilding the unions from below. Helena McNeill

1968 and now. Has student struggle changed? Madeleine Johansson

Language and neo- liberalism. Marnie Holborow.

Political Joyce? Paul O’Brien

3.30pm to 4.45pm

LGBT liberation today. Hannah Dee & Ailbhe Smyth

Can Greece beat the Troika? Greek speaker

The politics of water. Mike Gonzalez

Fighting racism today. Memet Uludag

Privatising health. Home help workers and others

5pm

Closing Rally: Crisis & Resistance. Building the socialist alternative today.

Tickets €26 waged / €18 student unwaged

Early Bird price: €23 waged / €15 student unwaged

For tickets & information contact

www.marxismfestival.net

Facebook:

www.facebook.com/revolutionconference12

Phone:

01-8722682

Email:

info@swp.ie

Text REVOLUTION 2012 to 0872604143

www.swp.ie