The Saturday at Marxism is always the busiest day – everyone who will be attending the event has arrived by then and nobody will be going home until the Sunday at the earliest and this year was no exception.
Nevertheless, i was not unduly worried that we got to Euston Square with only a bare 10 minutes before the start of the first meeting, although the bad news for me was that I was heading up to the seventh floor of the Institute of Education (due to the way in which the floors are numbered only 3-4 floors above where you enter the building depending on which side you go in) which since I refused to use the lifts meant a bit of a climb upstairs.
Although I enjoyed everything that I attended as I usually do at Marxism I am going to concentrate on the 3:45 – 5PM slot, at which I attended Ten years on: remembering Paul Foot, which was organised with four excellent platform speakers all of whom had known and worked with Paul Foot, and a few contributions from others likewise, but not run as a standard meeting.
Inspired by this session I changed my plans for the last meeting, giving John Molyneux on Art and WW1 a miss and instead attending Alex Callinicos on Is the far left in crisis? instead, which meant a return to the Logan Hall. Mention of WW1 leads again to those links: www.greatcharity.org, www.facebook.com/GreatAuction and www.twiiter.com/great_auction
All in all a thoroughly good day, and as you will see, plenty of good photos…
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