{"title": "PANEL: How Can Socialism Work in the 'Real' World?", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00Z", "place": "Housmans", "address": "Caledonian Road 5, London", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-listening-with-love-by-vishwam-gurudas/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "A panel discussion marking the publication of The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World by Ben Burgis, Bhaskar Sunkara and Mike Beggs, examining how socialism can work in the real world, what 'real' means, and for whom socialism must work. It is presented by Housmans, with Tribune and Verso, and features Oliver Eagleton, editor of Tribune magazine; Amelia Horgan, author of Lost in Work and Principal Editor at the Common Wealth think tank; and Ben Burgis, one of the book's authors, a Jacobin columnist, adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University and host of the YouTube show and podcast Give Them An Argument. The book lays out a system where workers control every lever of production, with competitive markets and state planning coexisting side by side, drawing on the history of socialist experiments and the economic debate over planning and markets. 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It is created by Sophie Huckfield & Company with Production Designer Rosanna Vize. The show is divided into two 'Acts': one set in the Lucas corporate offices with archival materials, the other the backstage of a working theatre with a recreation of the Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre stage and original and reimagined props. Talks, performances and collaborative activities throughout revisit this history with members of Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre and Lucas Workers sharing their stories, with scripts rewritten, objects remade and the play restaged.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sophie-huckfield-company-a-socially-useful-production-the-pa-42058/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c606f17ca361a8050baf2d028768869cdc8e22bbe21f63973721c67623c79058-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hope Working Group: Roundtable and Book Launch, David Chandler's Hope (Routledge Shortcuts)", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "University of Westminster", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.routledge.com/Hope-Shortcuts-to-a-Big-Idea/Chandler/p/book/9781041058656", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/books", "society/politics"], "description": "A roundtable and book launch for David Chandler's Hope (Routledge Shortcuts), hosted by the Hope Working Group. Discussants include Noga Glucksam, Seán Molloy, Nitasha Kaul and Emma McCluskey, chaired by Aidan Hehir. The book explores the politics of hope against a world shaped by global crises, from political disillusionment to catastrophic climate change. Copies will be available to buy for £20 cash only.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hope-working-group-roundtable-and-book-launch-david-chandler-70738/", "official_url": "https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/hope-working-group-roundtable-and-book-launch-david-chandlers-hope-routledge-shortcuts", "image": "https://noky.io/images/495c5363dda8b311c4500c0d6b21b01bf5368198d3f5d354e1a68124064c4480-1200.webp"}, {"title": "PANEL TALK: PUBLISHING AS COLLECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE with Minor Compositions", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00Z", "place": "Housmans", "address": "Caledonian Road 5, London", "price": "Sliding scale", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-confessions-of-a-london-river-hunter-by-john-rogers/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/publishing", "society/media"], "description": "A panel talk and launch for the book Publishing as Collective Infrastructure, a collectively authored, polyphonic work that rethinks the book-form as an intervention into academic and open-access publishing. Emerging from the ServPub project, it brings together artists, academics, technologists, feminist server collectives, and experimental publishers to examine how publishing is shaped by extractive platforms, proprietary software, unpaid labour, and opaque infrastructures. The book, involving In-grid, Minor Compositions, noNames, Shape, and Systerserver with further contributions, documents alternative models grounded in free and open-source tools, collective authorship, feminist care practices, and self-hosted, small-scale infrastructures. Tickets are on a sliding scale, with free tickets available on request.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/panel-talk-publishing-as-collective-infrastructure-with-mino-41518/", "official_url": "https://housmans.com/event/panel-talk-publishing-as-collective-infrastructure-with-minor-compositions/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/165c8ba440082f120ffa58309099067bccedd41166b20efc0705b977761ab8a9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Marx Reading Group", "start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/marxism"], "description": "The Marx Reading Group is a monthly space for reading and discussing Capital together, working through the text slowly as a group. It aims to make Marx's writing accessible by sharing thoughts, questions and ideas, and everyone is welcome with no prior knowledge needed, as all readings are free online. November's session covers part 3 of chapter 3 of Volume 1 and the preface and chapter 1 of Volume 3, the group's first on Volume 3, with anyone who has read Volume 1 encouraged to attend. Each meeting ends with the group agreeing on the next reading and inviting volunteers to introduce sections in future sessions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/marx-reading-group-70403/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/marx-reading-group-november-set-social-peckham/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4e2a54197f55118ba0e0dae90d3ef262a800edfa1e4702c940be5f71dbb5dd2c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "MAGAZINE LAUNCH: PINKO #5", "start": "2026-11-08T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T21:00:00Z", "place": "Housmans", "address": "Caledonian Road 5, London", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-confessions-of-a-london-river-hunter-by-john-rogers/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics", "literature"], "description": "An evening magazine launch for issue 5 of PINKO, titled \"From Each to All,\" held in London for the first time. It is hosted by the Pinko editorial collective, a print magazine of gay communism founded in 2019, now on its fifth installment. Editors, collective members, contributors and collaborators will discuss the latest issue, the project's trajectory, and the political stakes of thinking gay communism together. 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Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, marks the launch of an updated edition of his book The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. He argues that democratic capitalism, the pairing of free markets and free elections, is under attack, citing Donald Trump's tariffs, Elon Musk's alignment with far right parties and the rise of extreme parties worldwide, and makes the case for why the combination of both democracy and capitalism is needed more than ever. The audience can ask questions in a live Q&A.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-threat-of-capitalism-without-democracy-with-martin-wolf-35425/", "official_url": "https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-threat-of-capitalism-without-democracy-with-martin-wolf/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed9f82dfdf88b3014c3d50be2174fc63d970a6c47988f1ed827d294a99e05d06-600.webp"}, {"title": "Meet the Bàrd - Tareq Baconi", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T21:00:00Z", "place": "Bàrd Books", "address": "Roman Road 341-343, E3 5QR London", "price": "From £5.00 (ticket only) to £12.99 (ticket plus book)", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "12.99", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics", "literature"], "description": "An exclusive pre-launch evening for Tareq Baconi's new book 'What Now', held in conversation with Eyal Weizman. Writer Tareq Baconi, a Palestinian writer, scholar and activist, presents a literary manifesto on Palestine and our collective future, arguing that Palestine is a litmus test whose repercussions extend beyond the Middle East. It is a philosophical and political treatise on what liberation for Palestine and our world will look like in the twenty-first century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meet-the-bard-tareq-baconi-41014/", "official_url": "https://www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-details/meet-the-bard-tareq-baconi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5703c8da5241981b0159f54855cc4de452787161f437c16996cc0c51c650347-2000.webp"}, {"title": "2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-twelve-days-shook-middle-east", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A public lecture, also streamed online, discussing what forms of knowledge and analysis are needed beyond documenting conditions in Palestine. The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) presents its 2026 Annual Lecture with Rafeef Ziadah, co-hosted at SOAS by the Centre for Palestine Studies and the SOAS Middle East Institute, chaired by Dina Matar. It examines the political and economic projects being assembled around Palestine, including infrastructures of regional integration, energy, logistics, reconstruction and normalisation. Admission is free, but registration is required and seating is first come, first served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-50444/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-knowledge-production-and", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e938b9debef8b95d6129d3c305ce4e2fbad2471ae52b2b6be8eef06b5002bc31-2000.webp"}]}