Neville Alexander Memorial Gathering

Описание: The theme for the day is 'Left Internationalisms’ and we have three sessions planned starting with colleagues from Brazil, Palestine, New Zealand, Portugal/USA and Germany/Switzerland speaking to the question ‘Where is Left Internationalism now?’. The second session will be hosted in collaboration with Surplus Radical Bookshop, when we launch two books coming out of struggles around land led by Abahlali baseMjondolo. The third session asks colleagues to reflect on ‘Continuing radical work in the face of violent backlash’ with inputs from struggles in Sudan, Kenya, Palestine and South Africa.

Please find the programme for the day below. A more detailed programme with speaker bios will be circulated shortly as well as a poster programme for easier sharing. We look forward to seeing you there. Please feel free to pass this invitation on to others who may be interested to attend one or all of the sessions.

Neville Alexander Memorial Gathering
Left Internationalisms
Neville Alexander Auditorium


Saturday 13 December 2025

10:15 - 12:00: Session 1
Panel: ‘Where is Left Internationalism now?’

With Neville Alexander in mind, we ask how transformative, radical activities against ongoing racial capitalist planning are shaping a contemporary left project. What can we learn about what and where the left is by paying attention to the organising being done to change material conditions in many places? What are our current general contradictions and how are they being transformed into strategies that we can share and experiment with together?

Panelists:
Emmy Rakete (New Zealand), Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Portugal/USA), Vanessa Thompson (Germany/Switzerland), Fathi Nemer (Palestine), Fransérgio Goulart (Brazil); Giselle Florentino (Brazil); facilitated by Kelly Gillespie (South Africa)


12:15 - 1:30 – Session 2
Book Launch
S’bu Zikode, ‘We are still not counted as human’
Abahlali baseMjondolo, ‘Twenty Years of Courage and Struggle: Twenty Years of Organising in the Shanty Towns of South Africa’.

1:30 – 3:00: Lunch provided


3:00 – 5:00: Session 3
Panel: ‘Continuing radical work in the face of violent backlash’

From Sudan to Kenya, Palestine to South Africa, and many other parts of the world, progressive organisations are defending against violent right-wing backlash. How are comrades continuing to work under conditions of extreme repression to hold open possibilities of a different world, even when that world seem far away?

Nisrin Elamin (Sudan); Wangui Kimari (Kenya) and Rawan Masri (Palestine) and S’bu Zikode (South Africa) facilitated by Leigh-Ann Naidoo (South Africa)