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It is jointly organised by the Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School and the International Brigade Memorial Trust. The speakers explore what the experience of Spain can teach the labour movement today on solidarity, internationalism and anti-fascism. 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Professor Mekki Medani El Shibly, a Research Associate in the Department of Development Studies, will look at the political economy and regional interests that sustain the conflict, and at the conditions and incentives that might make peace more viable than continued warfare. He will conclude by looking beyond a cessation of hostilities towards rebuilding legitimate and functioning civilian institutions. 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Four drag queens and also Princess Diana assemble to celebrate the supposed success of Brexit, showing that Brexit is the friends we made along the way. It is an LGBTQ+-focussed safe space where discrimination or harassment of performers, staff or attendees will not be tolerated. 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