Discussions

discussions

Chomsky on Anarchism

Projectile 2008 opens with a question and answer session guaranteed to inspire and energise for you a weekend of rabble-rousing and intellectual debate. Noam Chomsky is professor of modern languages and linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his work in linguistics is recognised as internationally significant. He is also a self-professed libertarian socialist and outspoken opponent of capitalism.

ABC of Anarchism + Anarchism in Newcastle

This session offers a quick, lively run-through of the basic ideas of anarchism and some examples of anarchy in action throughout history in Newcastle and the north-east region. There’ll be something for the uninitiated and the old hands, guaranteed.

Mark Littlewood on An Anarchist's Story

Mark Littlewood, the filmmaker behind Ethel Macdonald: An Anarchist’s Story will be attending Projectile 2008 for a question and answer session following the screening of the film.

Roundtable 1: Current Struggle

Roundtable 1: Current Struggle

Paul Mason: The Paris Commune

Paul Mason author of 'Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global', and BBC Newsnight's business and industrial correspondent talks about the self-organisation of the working class from the Paris Commune to modern day China.

May '68 and After...a Geordie perspective

Based upon his forthcoming autobiography ‘Coaldust and Stardust’, Dave Douglass presents an account of Tyneside’s contribution to and perspective on the events of May 1968 and the period following.

The Making of Salud y Solidaridad

Following the screening of Salud y Solidaridad (Health and Solidarity), there will be a discussion led by Mike Valance, an anarchist from the Scottish Zapatistas Solidarity Group, who arranged for the film to be made, and the filmmakers Camcorder Guerillas.

Chris Reeves: Platform Films

A chance to meet Chris Reeves of Platform Films, makers of 'The Miners Campaign Tapes'; 'Not in My Name' and 'Proud Arabs and Texas Oilmen'. There’ll be an opportunity to see extracts from these important films and to discuss the work of Platform Films.

Fighting the Fash

Fascism hasn’t gone away and groups like the NF remain a threat. The BNP too, whilst they might be wearing suits, still peddle filth and division. What’s the best way to combat them? A chance to discuss this with people active in Antifa and the Green Brigades.