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1917 Centenary REVOLUTIONARY FESTIVAL

1917. Russian Revolution. Workers took power and began to establish a new socialist order, where capitalism was abolished and democratic, accountable councils took decisions.

The revolution challenged war, hunger, colonial domination and women’s oppression. Around the world, poverty-stricken people took heart. There was an explosion of new ideas for workers movements, liberation struggles and cultural innovation.

2017. One hundred years later, join Johannesburg’s Revolutionary Festival. Celebrate 1917, reflect on its impact, and inspire for the future. Our world is run by a tiny few, who create misery and destroy our globe. It’s time that we, the working-class majority, took charge, and organised society democratically, in the interests of all humanity.

Participate in Over 20 teach-ins and debates, book launches, rallies, stalls, revolutionary walk, exhibition, film festival, two cultural events with top bands, DJs and poets.

 

Meetings include

 

  • Revolution – then and now
  • Why was there a workers revolution in Russia?
  • There can be no socialism without women’s liberation
  • Black Power, Black Consciousness
  • Fanon and decoloniality
  • Sex, identity and intersectionality
  • Can capitalism solve climate change?
  • Students struggle, a precursor for a wider revolt?
  • Globalisation, xenophobia and the rise of right wing politics
  • Economic transformation: radical or revolutionary?
  • The lessons of Marikana
  • Marxism, anti-colonisalism and armed struggle
  • From Lula to Corbyn – possibilities and perils of social democracy
  • State capture and the future of the ANC
  • Palestine and Zionism
  • Socialism or barbarism

And many more…

Kunst/Kultur

10. November 2017
12. November 2017, All Day
The Workers Library and Museum
, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Centre for Social change, FT=MV, 1917 Centenary