London: Celebrating Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, Celebrating African-Asian Unity

Sunday, May 24 - 4:30 to 8:30 pm

Marx Memorial Library, 37 Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0 London

- Celebrating birthdays of Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh!
- Celebrating African-Asian Unity!
- Celebrating 40 years of independence for Angola, Vietnam and Mozambique
- Celebrating 60 years since the Bandung Conference
- Launching the academic year for the Assata-Tupac Liberation School (the educational wing of the Malcolm X Movement)

The Malcolm X Movement is organising this celebration of Malcolm X and and Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh’s birthday, who share the same birthday - May 19, and a celebration of African-Asian Unity, its history and legacies and on-going nature as well as the challenges.

Speakers:

YONGHO THAE
First secretary of the DPRK embassy in London, talking about North Korea’s history of resistance to foreign domination, and answering your questions about the DPRK

GEORGE SHIRE - Zimbabwean born independent radical intellectual, cultural theorist and decolonial thinker. Member of the editorial board of ‘Soundings ’ a UK new left journal of politics and culture

BROTHER OMOWALE - Pan-African Community Society Forum -pascf.org.uk

Chair: Sukant Chandan

More speakers TBC shortly

£3 suggested donation, first come first serve. Capacity is approx 70 people.

This is also a celebration of 60 years since the Bandung Conference (which led to the Non-Aligned Movement) which both Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh supported, especially Malcolm X considering the Bandung model to be the basic strategic model for the liberation from colonialism and neo-colonialism.

This event is also a celebration of 40 years since the liberation of Angola, Vietnam and Mozambique.