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.
Malcolm X’s straight up opposition to colonialism in Vietnam and support for the Vietnamese revolutionaries: “It shows the real ignorance of those who control the American power structure. If France, with all types of heavy arms, as deeply entrenched as she was in what was called Indochina, couldn’t stay there, I don’t see how anybody in their right mind can think the U.S. can get in there - it’s impossible. So it shows her ignorance, her blindness, her lack of foresight and hindsight; and her complete defeat in South Vietnam is only a matter of time.” - Malcolm X, 1965
