In 2020, the UK government barred anticapitalist education materials from schools, dubbing it as an ‘extreme political stance’. The policy which has been referred to by commentators as McCarthyist goes further than any British government has gone even during the Cold War.

We’ve organised a series on anticapitalism with Gargi Bhattacharyya to explore what we’re all thinking... Why is the U.K. government afraid of anticapitalism? Why is it being barred from schools? Why now? And how can we teach anticapitalism?

For March, we are thrilled to announce that we are discussing Anticapitalism and Care with Gargi Bhattacharyya and incredible guest speakers Silvia Federici and Camille Barbagallo.

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Gargi Bhattacharyya is one of the UK's leading scholars on race and capitalism. She is the author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (2018), Dangerous Brown Men (2008), Traffick (2005) and co-author of Empire's Endgame (2020).

Silvia Federici is a writer, a teacher and one of the most influential contemporary feminist theorists. In 1970s she was one of the cofounders of the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the Wages For Housework campaign internationally. In the 1990s, after a period of teaching and research in Nigeria, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U.S. anti–death penalty movement.

Camille Barbagallo is a feminist activist and organiser with the Women’s Strike Assembly and works as researcher at the University of Leeds on the ESRC Childcare During Covid 19 research project. Engaging specifically with Marxist feminist theories of social reproduction, she examines the value of social reproduction, what it costs and who pays the bill.

***This event will be livestreamed on YouTube. Please register on Eventbrite for the YouTube Livestream link!***