NEIL DAVIDSON MEMORIAL MEETING

Saturday, July 11th, 20.00

 

 

Join comrades and friends in an online event to remember Neil Davidson who died on 3 May 2020.

You need to REGISTER to receive details by email of how to join this Zoom event: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAof-yorjktEtGWmauKAb958o3TEgvpAD–

Neil Davidson was a socialist militant and a highly innovative Marxist historian and sociologist, a member of revolutionary socialism in the 21st century (rs21), a prominent figure in the Scottish left and a lecturer at Glasgow University.

Speakers:
Sara Bennett (opening remarks, Unite / rs21)
Alex Law (Friend and comrade)
Michelle Campbell (PCS)
Steve Edwards (HM editorial board)
Cat Boyd (Radical Independence Campaign, Conter editorial board)
Satnam Virdee (Co-editor No Problem Here)
Jamie Allinson (Salvage editorial board)
Smina Akhtar (Contributor No Problem Here)
Charlie Post (Spectre Journal editorial board)
Maureen McBride (Contributor No Problem Here)
Raymond Morell (Unite / rs21 / Conter editorial board)
Open mic for memories and tributes

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1079869152407045/

You can read an obituary by Neil’s friend and comrade Raymond Morell and add your own memories and pictures here: https://www.rs21.org.uk/2020/05/07/obituary-neil-davidson-1957-2020/

If you’ve not used zoom before there’s a beginners’ guide to joining a zoom call here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UGE128WVZWxNKe1qxubbxgV17ucN9QBFXpPK0V6ibyU/edit?usp=sharing. If you need any help or want to have a practice please ask in good time.

The event will start at 8pm UK time (UTC+1). Please join by 8pm. Participants other than planned speakers will be in the zoom ‘waiting room’ and let in to the event around 8pm.

Hosted by revolutionary socialism in the 21st century. Co-hosted by Conter, Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism and Salvage Quarterly.

 

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also see the following obituaries from Raymond Morell, rs21 and George Kerevan in bella caledonia

Obituary: Neil Davidson, 1957–2020

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2020/05/07/an-appreciation-of-neil-davidson-1957-2020/

 

and the following memorial review by Allan Armstrong

In memory of Neil Davidson: The West – No Better Than All the Rest

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