Priority tickets to first time Mutineers & contributers

We are nearly ready to set sail for our second voyage and tickets are already selling like hot cakes. If you went to the first one we are offering you the chance to get priority tickets as a way to say thank you. Please email us at jointhemutiny@gmail.com telling us what you liked best about the 1st and what could be changed and we will send you the link to the ticket site.

You also get an advance ticket if you contribute to the evening so send us some suggestions and we'll work out how to use them, and we'll give you a ticket.

Here's a glimpse of some of the artwork. We still have a few spaces for artists so email us if u want to submit something.

It's LGBT history month so we are pleased to be able to offer you some of the finest additions to the night. 5 people (including myself!) from the NUS LGBT campaign will be either speaking or exhibiting. Thanks to Belle from Soas for arranging the art exhibition.

See some of the other speakers confirmed so far at http://jointhemutiny.org/blog

In terms of other help, the simplest thing you can do is perhaps add the event link to your facebook status or invite some friends directly.

You could also print off this image and put up as a poster or make into flyers to hand out at work or college, send us short videos of you asking some of the key questions on the blog, or submit questions for our speed debating session.

Happy Valentines...

SOAS debate w Chris Knight, Hillel Ticktin and William Dixon debate: THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF REVOLUTION

ALL welcome. And a happy bah humbug to you all (this bit is from me, Clare!)

Chris Knight, Hillel Ticktin and William Dixon debate:

THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF REVOLUTION

Thursday 21 January, 7.15pm, Room B102, Brunei Gallery,

SOAS, University of London, Thornaugh St. WC1 (Russell Sq. tube).

At the next election millions will vote for pro-capitalist political parties that offer little except cutbacks and austerity. Despite economic crisis, climate chaos and disastrous wars, people see no alternative to capitalism - and revolution seems, at best, an impossible dream.

Yet all three speakers at this debate believe this situation cannot last indefinitely. Their differing interpretations of anthropology, economics and history each show that a 21st Century global revolution is a real possibility - not just a dream.

Could they be right? Come and join the debate.

Chris Knight is an anthropology lecturer, sacked for his involvement in the G20 anti-capitalist protests, and author of Blood Relations, Menstruation and the Origins of Culture.

Hillel Ticktin is editor of Critique, a Journal of Socialist Theory.

William Dixon is a Mute magazine contributor.

(The speakers' names link to interesting articles.)

Check the Critique and Radical Anthropology Group websites in 2010 for further meetings in London.

Please publicise widely, thanks.

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Ken Loach and SWP on the need for left unity

From an interview with Martin Smith in the new Socialist Review:

"My feeling is that we need to think of the regroupment of the left in Britain in terms of the European left now. The European left is a project obviously bigger than any one group. I am very encouraged by the events in France right now and the development of the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste. The European left, which is so big, will just swallow up the differences between the different groups on the left over here. I've been in meetings where we've talked about this for 45 years, and organisationally are we any further forward in all that time? If you want to be depressed, that's the depressing thing. On the optimistic side the need just gets more and more intense. It was urgent after the Iraq war, but now even more urgent with the collapse of the banks and increasing unemployment, industries closing down and so on, and the environmental disaster that's awaiting the next generation. The pressure to unite just gets bigger and bigger. Every left meeting I go to is based on the fact that the crisis is about to engulf us all. It's not in the distant future. It's unfolding before us now. We've got to get together at some point. Living in separate tents isn't going to solve anything really."

Read the open letter from the SWP HERE entitled 'Left must unite to create an alternative'