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Past Events

An opportunity to catch up on what we've been up to

28 November 2025

The Gabriel Rockhill Interview - 'Theory & Struggle', journal of the Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School interviews Professor Gabriel Rockhill, author of 'Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?' published by Monthly Review Press (2025)

 

13 November 2025

Ahead of November’s Budget, a panel of Marxist political economists consider the crisis of UK plc.

In September 2025, UK public borrowing hit its highest level since the Covid pandemic. While credit rating agencies have slashed France's rating and other G7 economies face mounting debt and deindustrialisation, UK is the least resilient and most exposed to the dominance of US and global finance capital through the City of London.

The current crisis of UK plc is emerging In the context of new forms of world imperialism: Trump’s trade tariffs; a UK and European debt crisis amid escalating military expenditure; the UK/EU ‘Brexit reset summit’ and talks on a European ‘defence pact’; trade sanctions on Russia, Iran, China, India, etc.

What does Marxism tell us about the crisis of UK plc?

Chair: Alex Gordon

Speakers:

  • Michael Burke, Socialist Economic Bulletin and contributor to the Alternative Defence Review
  • Radhika Desai, visiting Professor LSE, Director Geopolitical Economy Research Group and Convenor of the International Manifesto Group 
  • Tony Norfield, author of The City of London and the Global Power of Finance (Verso)
  • Michael Robertspolitical economist and former City of London financial adviser
  • Khem Rogalyresearcher of military political economy and its role in climate crisis 

 

16 October 2025

Using best practice today and the lessons of working class history, speakers will discuss how communities can be mobilised to defend collective class interests and to repel the politics of division. Speakers include: Andy Bain (Chair, Islington TUC) Drew Gilchrist (Chair, Unite Youth Committee & North Lanarkshire TUC) Alex Gordon (Past President, RMT) Stephanie Martin (Glasgow TUC & community campaigner) Chris Neville (President, Manchester TUC) Jonathan White (MML tutor & author) Beth Winter (former MP for Cynon Valley & community campaigner) Chair: Kevan Nelson (Unison, Assistant General Secretary)

9 October 2025

Michael Roberts will analyse the current phase of the world capitalist crisis and Britain’s place within it. The major economies of the world are stagnating in the 2020s. Poverty rates are rising and inequalities of income and wealth are increasing. Global warming is accelerating. And now Trump has launched a trade war against everybody to 'make America great again'. These are multiple crises for capitalism in the 21st century; But can capitalism find a way out?

19 September 2025

Marx Memorial Library Director Meirian Jump presents one of her favourite items in our collection - the scrapbook of National Unemployed Workers' Movement activist Annie Mills