Joe Glenton among speakers on 7 May

ÔªøTimetable for Counterforum on Saturday 7 May in central London.
See HERE for full event details.

Session 1) 12.00 - 1.15pm

The next steps: how protest can change the world

with:
Sanum Ghafoor, activist and maker of YouTube hit March 26th London: what really happened
Lindsey German, convenor of the Stop the War Coalition,(pc) socialist and author of several books including Material Girls:Women, Men and Work
Chris Bambery, socialist activist, author and National Secretary of Right to Work (pc)
Joe Glenton, ex-soldier who went to prison for refusing to return to Afghanistan

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Session 2) 1.30 - 2.45pm

From crisis to slump

with:
James Meadway, New Economics Foundation (pc), regular commentator on the economic crisis

Islamophobia: tackling the new racism

with:
Shamiul Joarder, Friends of al-Aqsa and the Enough Coalition against Islamophobia, and others

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Session 3) 3.15 - 4.30pm

Counterfire: What we do and why we do it

with:
Jo Gough, UNISON activist and member of Counterfire editorial board
Chris Nineham, vice-chair Stop the War Coalition (pc) and author of Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs

The working class and the movement today

with:
Neil Faulkner, writer, historian and officer of the Coalition of Resistance (pc)
Dot Gibson, pensioners leader and socialist activist

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Session 4) 4.45 - 6.00pm

Revolution and imperialism in the Middle East

with:
Egyptian activists from Cairo
Joseph Daher, Middle East commentator and student activist
Lowkey, rapper, activist and member of the Equalities Movement
John Rees, eyewitness from Egypt and Tunisia and author of Imperialism and Resistance

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