[Reader-list] LONDON EVENTS: student struggles, capitalist crisis, syndicalism

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Please publicise the following events widely, thanks:
 *Hillel Ticktin talks on: THE CRISIS AND THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM TODAY*
SATURDAY 4 DECEMBER, 1.30pm. 
Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1, near Farringdon tube.
"The crisis is not simply a periodic crisis, but a crisis in both the strategy of capitalism and its structure, and Keynesians are not addressing these issues, whereas the right, consciously or unconsciously, is trying to come to terms with the real underlying political economic problems of capitalism … Sections of capital have decided to fight to the bitter end in order to inflict an epoch making defeat of the working class ... However one has to wonder whether the bourgeoisie has a death wish ... The cuts can only educate a whole new generation of the population of the need to change the capitalist system ... The contemporary form of the ideology of capitalism is now so threadbare that only a masochist can support it."
(Articles by Ticktin can be found at libcom.org and here http://www.cpgb.org.uk/article.php?article_id=1004129 )
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Picket Nick Clegg in Camden 6pm, Tuesday 23 November, Kings Place Hall, 190 York Way, N1. 
No tuition fees! No to Workfare!
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National Walkout Against Fees
 *WALKOUT OF YOUR SCHOOL, COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY NEXT WEDNESDAY, 24 NOVEMBER*
Walkouts took place at hundreds of schools and colleges against the Iraq war in 2003, against 'third world' debt in 2005, and several colleges walked out against cuts in 2009-10. 
Organisers suggest: 'Download national leaflet at anticuts.com http://anticuts.com/ , writing on the details of your local meet-up point, photocopy and hand it out. Use email, facebook, texts, phone calls to advertise the time and place of your protest.' 
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Coalition of Resistance National Organising Conference 
10am-5pm Saturday November 27, Camden Centre, Bidborough St, London WC1
Organisers say: 'The conference will hear speakers from struggles in Greece, Spain, France and from delegates from the anti-cuts and anti-privatisation groups springing up in this country. There will be workshops and the opportunity for all to have their voices heard.'
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A Commune  http://thecommune.co.uk/  meeting on Monday 29th November will look at interwar European syndicalism, and on Monday 13th December Sheila Cohen will talk about the 1970s experience, which Eric Hobsbawm called 'syndicalism without syndicalists'. Bothmeetings arefrom 7pm at the Artillery Arms, 102 Bunhill Row, near Old St. tube.
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Critique Conference http://www.critiquejournal.net/conf2007.html 
STALINISM AND ITS DESTRUCTIVE LEGACY http://example.com/?1290000087108 
 /What is Stalinism? Was capitalism stabilised by the end of Stalinism and the Cold War? Why is it so difficult to defeat Stalinism?/
SATURDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 2011
9am-5pm, rm. H216, Connaught Hse, London School of Economics, Houghton St., Holborn tube 
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See http://london.indymedia.org/events  for further London events.