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1968 and all that

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5pmArtists RoomStewart Home
Speaker: 
Banksy and 1968
Room: 
Artists Room
Time: 
5pm
5pmBertrand Russell Room"If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know. [ R D Laing ]
Speaker: 
Oakley Haya
Room: 
Bertrand Russell Room
Time: 
5pm

'Anti-psychiatry' and the cultural climate of 1968. Haya Oakley is a psychoanalyst in private practice who came to London in 1968.
5pmSmall HallThe USA and 68
Speaker: 
Marqusee Mike
Room: 
Small Hall
Time: 
5pm

Mike Marqusee(born 1953) is an American-born writer, journalist and political activist in London.
5pmTower Room 1Vygotsky: Revolutionary Educationalist for Today
Speaker: 
Franklin Shirley
Room: 
Tower Room 1
Time: 
5pm
6pmMain Hall1968 - what to cherish and what to discard
Speaker: 
Alain Krivine, Astrid Proll, Sheila Rowbotham and Eamonn McCann - with poetry from Adrian Mitchell
Room: 
Main Hall
Time: 
6pm

A final rally with some of the leading figures from 1968 discussing the importance of that year and the tasks ahead. And with Adrian Mitchell.

Ady Cousins filmed Eamonn McCann on What to Cherish:
7pmSmall HallWorking-Class Power: What is really worth remembering about May 68 - a talk by Ian Birchall
Speaker: 
Birchall, Ian
Room: 
Small Hall
Time: 
7pm

What is worth remembering of 1968. Most of what is said about 1968 tends to focus on students, posters, graffiti, situationism etc.
7pmBertrand Russell RoomStudents in May and Students Today - a talk by Stewart Halforty
Speaker: 
Halforty, Stuart
Room: 
Bertrand Russell Room
Time: 
7pm

Stewart Halforty was President of Goldsmiths College Students Union in 2005 and is now an organiser for the Stop the War Coalition.
7pmTower Room 31968 - Why bookselling was more profitable than drug dealing - a talk by Nick Rochford
Speaker: 
Rochford, Nick
Room: 
Tower Room 3
Time: 
7pm

In 1968 Nick Rochford together with Diana Gravill opened Compendium Bookshop in Camden. Compendium became the pre-eminent radical/altenative bookshop in Britain.
7pmArtists Room1968 and Spain - autonomy and anarchism
Speaker: 
Torres Maggie
Room: 
Artists Room
Time: 
7pm
7pmTower Room 1Militant Pacifism
Speaker: 
Beale Albert
Room: 
Tower Room 1
Time: 
7pm
8pmBertrand Russell RoomBritish Trades Unions and 1968
Speaker: 
Alan Thornett
Room: 
Bertrand Russell Room
Time: 
8pm

Alan Thornett was a leading shop steward at the Cowley car plant in 1968.
8pmSmall HallThe Credit Crunch, Food Riots and the New Capitalist Crisis
Speaker: 
István Mészáros, Chris Harman, Gerry Gold
Room: 
Small Hall
Time: 
8pm

The great upsurge of 1968 marked the peak of a long post war economic boom that gave way to a long period of economic crisis and a huge upsurge of workers struggles around the world.
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