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1968 - 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.

Astrid 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.

Ten 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.

David Douglass From Ginsberg to Grosvenor Square a talk

Speaker: 
Douglass, Dave
Room: 
Tower Room 1
Time: 
4pm

The Bishop, the Beatniks and Free Derry Wall

Speaker: 
Eamon McCann
Room: 
Small Hall
Time: 
1pm

Eamon McCann was one of the original organizers of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA).

Stopping 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.

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