What's On
Can't find a meeting in your area? The Socialist Party holds meetings all round the country. Contact the national office or one of our regional organisers for events in your area. Numbers at the bottom of this listing, or click here to email us
29 May 2012
Bristol Socialist Party: The Surveillance State
Tuesday 29 May 2012
7:30pm
Cheltenham Rd Library, Bristol BS6 5QX
For more info, call/text 07814 377198 or email johnyeandle@live.co.uk
Monthly city-wide meeting of Bristol Central, Bristol East and Bristol South Socialist Party branches.
29 May 2012
Leeds North West Socialist Party: Greece and the Eurozone crisis
Tuesday 29th May 2012
7.30pm
The Packhorse, 208 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds
30 May 2012
Salford Socialist Party: Campaign Kazakhstan
Wednesday 30th May 2012
7.00pm
White Swan (back room), Worsley Road, Swinton, M27 5SN
31 May 2012
Reading Socialist Party: What's happening in Greece?
Thursday 31st May 2012
7:30pm
Global Café (RISC), 30-35 London St, Reading
Speaker Ken Douglas, Socialist Party executive committee member
5 June 2012
Liverpool Socialist Party: Greece & France - Austerity rejected
Tuesday 5 June 2012
7.30pm
Downstairs in the Casa pub, 29 Hope St, Liverpool L1 9BQ (off Mount Pleasant/Hardman Street.
Speaker: Amalia Loizidou
5 June 2012
Bristol Central Socialist Party: The role of the monarchy in capitalist society
Tuesday 5 June 2012
7:30pm
Cheltenham Rd Library, Bristol BS6 5QX
Britain is one of the oldest capitalist countries, and yet is holding a national holiday for the Diamond Jubilee and still retains its royal family. Michael Wright looks at the reasons why the monarchy is yet to be abolished.
For more info, call/text 07814 377198 or email johnyeandle@live.co.uk
5 June 2012
Leeds North West Socialist Party: Perspectives for the USA (including Occupy)
Tuesday 5th June 2012
7.30pm
The Packhorse, 208 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds
6 June 2012
Bristol East Socialist Party: LGBT liberation today
Wednesday 6 June 2012
7:30pm
Cross Keys Pub, 627 Fishponds Road, Bristol BS16 3BA
6 June 2012
Salford Socialist Party: Europe against austerity
Wednesday 6th June 2012
7.00pm
New Oxford pub, Bexley Square, off Chapel Street, Salford M3 6DB
Speaker: Steve North (Secretary, Salford against Cuts / Salford UNISON in personal capacity)
9 June 2012
National Shop Stewards Network 6th annual national conference
Speakers include:
RMT general secretary, Bob Crow
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka
A leading Rank and File Unite construction electrician
Kevin Courtney, NUT deputy general secretary
Saturday 9th June 2012
11-4pm
Friends Meeting House, London
12 June 2012
Liverpool Socialist Party: The monarchy
Tuesday 12 June 2012
7.30pm
Downstairs in the Casa pub, 29 Hope St, Liverpool L1 9BQ (off Mount Pleasant/Hardman Street).
Speaker: Chris McDermott
12 June 2012
Bristol Central Socialist Party: The Pentonville Dockers
Tuesday 12 June 2012
7:30pm
Cheltenham Rd Library, Bristol BS6 5QX
July will see the 40th year anniversary of the arrest of the Pentonville Five for refusing to stop picketing a container depot. Roger Thomas describes how thousands of striking workers and the threat of a general strike brought about their release.
For more info, call/text 07814 377198 or email johnyeandle@live.co.uk
13 June 2012
Salford Socialist Party: Scottish independence - in whose interests?
Wednesday 13th June 2012
7.00pm
White Swan (back room), Worsley Road, Swinton, M27 5SN
19 June 2012
Bristol Central Socialist Party: Art and Politics
Tuesday 19 June 2012
7:30pm
Cheltenham Rd Library, Bristol BS6 5QX
Should we just view art aesthetically, or see it as a product of its historical context? Is art stifled in class society, and can it be a force for social change? Dan Smart looks at the relationship between art and politics.
21 June 2012
Bristol East Socialist Party: There is an Alternative
Thursday 21st June 2012
7:30pm
St George's Library, Church Road, St. George, Bristol BS5 8AL
Matt Gordon will look at why the capitalist system is in crisis and explain there is an alternative to ordinary people paying the costs through cuts, job losses and inflation. In the process he will need to answer the question: 'What's socialism got to do with it?'
26 June 2012
Liverpool Socialist Party: Opposing austerity within the EU
Tuesday 26 June 2012
7.30pm
Downstairs in the Casa pub, 29 Hope St, Liverpool L1 9BQ (off Mount Pleasant/Hardman Street).
Speaker: Roger Bannister
10 July 2012
Liverpool Socialist Party: Housing crisis - a socialist solution
Tuesday 10 July 2012
7.30pm
Downstairs in the Casa pub, 29 Hope St, Liverpool L1 9BQ (off Mount Pleasant/Hardman Street).
Speaker: Dave Walsh
11 July 2012
Bristol East Socialist Party: No Pasaran! Fighting the far right
Wednesday 11th July 2012
7:30pm
Cross Keys Pub, 627 Fishponds Road, Bristol BS16 3BA
With the EDL proposing to march in Bristol on July 14th, and with the growth of far-right parties in some European countries, socialists need to fight for unity and solidarity within the working class.
24 July 2012
Liverpool Socialist Party: A Marxist view of history
Tuesday 24 July 2012
7.30pm
Downstairs in the Casa pub, 29 Hope St, Liverpool L1 9BQ (off Mount Pleasant/Hardman Street).
31 July 2012
Liverpool Socialist Party: Marxist Economics
Tuesday 31 July 2012
7.30pm
Downstairs in the Casa pub, 29 Hope St, Liverpool L1 9BQ (off Mount Pleasant/Hardman Street).
20 October 2012
National TUC demonstration: 'A future that works'
Saturday 20th October 2012
A march through central London will culminate in a rally in Hyde Park
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