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3pmSmall HallAstrid Proll The German Left in 1968
Speaker: 
Proll Astrid
Room: 
Small Hall
Time: 
3pm

Astrid Proll was a member of the Baader-Meinhof Group and then the Red Army Faction. The RAF was one of postwar West Germany's most active and prominent militant left-wing groups.

3pmTower Room 2The murals of Northern Ireland
Speaker: 
Peter Moloney
Room: 
Tower Room 2
Time: 
3pm
3pmArtists RoomMay 1968 Socialist Party of Great Britain
Speaker: 
Adam Buick
Room: 
Artists Room
Time: 
3pm

Was there really a revolutionary situation in France in May 68?

Adam Buick will raise this question and discuss whether what happened was

3pmBertrand Russell RoomPrague and May 68
Speaker: 
Peter Gowan
Room: 
Bertrand Russell Room
Time: 
3pm
4pmBertrand Russell RoomPiers Corbyn The Squatting Movement in 1968
Speaker: 
Corbyn Piers
Room: 
Bertrand Russell Room
Time: 
4pm

Huntley Street SquatHuntley Street Squat
From the spirit of 68 to now, What happened?
- Squatting & the Housing crisis AND

4pmLibraryStopping the War in 1968 and 2008
Speaker: 
Lindsey German
Room: 
Library
Time: 
4pm

Lindsey German is the national convenor of the Stop the War Coalition and a member of the central committee of the Socialist Workers Party.

4pmTower Room 1David Douglass From Ginsberg to Grosvenor Square a talk
Speaker: 
Douglass, Dave
Room: 
Tower Room 1
Time: 
4pm
4pmSmall HallTen Days that shook France - the May events in Paris 1968
Speaker: 
Krivine Alain
Room: 
Small Hall
Time: 
4pm

Alain Krivine is a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He is a member of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (LCR), which is the French section of the reunified Fourth International.

4pmTower Room 2Barcelona's 68 was in 76
Speaker: 
Eaude Michael
Room: 
Tower Room 2
Time: 
4pm

Barcelona's 1968 took place in 1976
by Michael Eaude

4pmArtists Room1968, Music, Capitalism
Speaker: 
Watson, Ben and Mervelet Didier
Room: 
Artists Room
Time: 
4pm

Ben Watson from www.MilitantEsthetix.co.uk and Didier Mervelet, General
Secretary of Less Fils de l'Invention (the Parisian chapter of Frank Zappa

4pmTower Room 3The Woodcraft Folk and the children of 1968
Speaker: 
Palser Rich
Room: 
Tower Room 3
Time: 
4pm
5pmTower Room 2Fear Eats the Soul: Walter Benjamin and the Baader-Meinhof Group
Speaker: 
Esther Leslie
Room: 
Tower Room 2
Time: 
5pm

Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics in the School of English
and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. She studied German and Critical