Arise: A Festival of Left Ideas

Women for Socialist Change - International Women's Day 2023 rally #IWD23 with: Apsana Begum MP // Beth Winter MP // Holly Turner, NHS Workers Say No // Chris Peace, Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign// Christine Blower.PLUS global guests: Francesca Emanuele, Peruvian democracy campaigner // Michelle Gildernew MP, Sinn Fein // Daniele Obono, French MP for La France Insoumise.

An online rally in support of the massive day of strike action on February 1st and defending the #RightToStrikeWith... John McDonnell MP // Mark Serwotka, PCS General Secretary // Diane Abbott MP // Richard Burgon MP // Helen O'Connor, GMB Southern Region & Peoples Assembly // Angie Rojas, Acorn // Robert Poole, co-founder of Strike Map // Tandrima Mazumdar, Migrants Organise // Nabeela Mowlana, Young Labour // Holly Turner, NHS Workers Say No // Riccardo La Torre, FBU // Logan Williams, striking teacher and Arise activist // Robert Poole, Strike Map UK // James Braithwaite, RMT Young members activist.Now is the time to build the growing fightback, co-ordinate the resistance and popularise policies that put people before profit.

Here in Britain and around the world the economic crisis is deepening - was Marx right about capitalism after all? Michael Roberts discusses Marx's impact and analysis in this Labour Outlook Forum.Michael worked in the City of London as an economist for over 40 years. He has closely observed the machinations of global capitalism from within the dragon’s den. At the same time, he was a political activist in the labour movement for decades. Since retiring, he has written several books: The Great Recession – a Marxist view (2009); The Long Depression (2016); Marx 200: a review of Marx’s economics (2018): and jointly with Guglielmo Carchedi as editors of World in Crisis (2018).Was Nye Bevan right, wrong, or both when he said “Marxism put into the hands of the working class movement... the most complete blueprints for political action the world has ever seen?”Arise Festival supported this Labour Outlook Forum, as part of the Socialist Ideas Series.

Eleven million people across the UK are experiencing food insecurity. In one of the richest countries in the world, this is a national disgrace. A socialist policy seminar on enshrining the Right to Food and ensuring that nobody goes hungry. With...• Ian Byrne MP who is leading the Right to Food campaign in parliament• Kim Johnson MP on the campaign for universal free school meals• Hilary Schan, Momentum, and Carl Walker of Worthing Council on new research into Hunger Trauma and local campaigning for a right to food• Julia Felmanas from the Brazilian Workers' Party on the huge success of President Lula’s world leading “Zero Hunger Plan” that lifted millions of Brazilians out of poverty.Part of a series of online socialist policy seminars. Organised by the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs in partnership with the Labour Assembly Against Austerity & Momentum

Our public services are already on their knees and simply can’t handle any more cuts. Wealth taxes and proper windfall taxes on the super-profits are a clear alternative to the austerity announced in the Tories' Autumn Statement. Tune into this policy seminar with...- Richard Burgon MP, Secretary of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs- Prem Sikka, leading tax expert- Özlem Onaran, Co-director of Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (University of Greenwich)- Martin Cavanagh, PCS UnionArise Festival supported this socialist policy seminar from the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, Momentum and the Labour Assembly Against Austerity

Analysis and response on the Tories' Autumn Fiscal Statement with John McDonnell, Jon Trickett, Andrew Fisher, Holly Turner (NHS Workers Say No) & Ozlem Oneran, University of Greenwich.This online briefing was hosted by Arise: a Festival of Left Ideas.