#IFF25
Ideas for Freedom STARTS TOMORROW - 22-23 November - in Highbury.
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Tickets £50 waged, £27 low-waged and students, £9 unwaged. + day and half-day tickets (cheaper in advance)
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Ukrainian socialist activists discuss their struggles and the support they need.
On Saturday at 2.10 pm, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets (cheaper in advance) and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
How have revolutionary socialists in France intervened in the recent anti-government struggles? With French activists.
On Sunday at 11am, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, Islington.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Halaleh Taheri, Middle Eastern Women & Society Organisation (MEWSO), and workers facing visa-sponsorship revocation discuss the struggle for migrant rights.
On Saturday 11.45am, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, London.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Members of the Women's Fightback editorial board discuss the politics of sex and sexuality in the age of the sexual counter revolution.
On Sunday at 1pm, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, London.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
How have Russian activists defied Putin’s regime? Simon Pirani, author of a new book collating speeches given in court by Russian dissidents and Reuben Woolley outline perspectives.
On Saturday at 2.10pm, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, London.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Debate on 'A New Party? The future of the left in Britain'
💬With Ruth Cashman (AWL), Archie Woodrow (rs21 Marxist Unity Caucus/Prometheus), Louise Lewis (Socialist Alternative) & Greens Organise.
⏰Fri 21 Nov, 7pm at Indian YMCA, W1 6AQ.
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⏰ Part of IFF25: workersliberty.org/iff25
A new party? The future of the left in Britain
A debate on how socialists should relate to mass politics? A new left party, or stick with Labour?
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November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The legacy of US Marxists Phyllis and Julius Jacobson is discussed by Kent Worcester, co-editor of ‘Third Camp Socialism: A Phyllis and Julius Jacobson Reader’
on Saturday at 5.40pm, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff2
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
IFF25 – Highlights

Sometimes in the past at this film festival, I have accidentally picked myself really grim selections of films, or really hard-going selections - whether that means lots of death and murder or lots of political heavy thinking films - but this year I appear to have picked myself…
IFF25 – Highlights
Sometimes in the past at this film festival, I have accidentally picked myself really grim selections of films, or really hard-going selections - whether that means lots of death and murder or lots of political heavy thinking films - but this year I appear to have picked myself a selection of really sad films. They’ve been generally excellent films but I have spent a disproportionate amount of time crying in La Scala this year.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
How has Milei governed since coming to power? What resistance has his regime encountered? Argentinian socialist Daniela Lopez from Socialismo o Barbarie will lead a discussion.
On Saturday 3.35pm, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
IFF25 – Frederick Wiseman Retrospective

I do enjoy the slightly scattershot nature of the retrospective strands at the Inverness film festival. In 2023 it was a couple of Powell and Pressburger films as part of a larger BFI re-release of all their films, a few years before that it was Iranian…
IFF25 – Frederick Wiseman Retrospective
I do enjoy the slightly scattershot nature of the retrospective strands at the Inverness film festival. In 2023 it was a couple of Powell and Pressburger films as part of a larger BFI re-release of all their films, a few years before that it was Iranian cinema - the Afternoons in Iran season. This year it was the documentarian Frank Wiseman, presumably prompted by screening his latest release…
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November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Pete Boggs, Workers’ Liberty, discusses how the Erdoğan regime fits into the global far right nationalism? And how are Turkish and Kurdish socialists and democrats organising against it?
On Sunday 2.40pm, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
How did an “arms industry” develop? Prof. Catherine Fletcher talks about forthcoming book 'The Firearm Revolution' & role of guns in history and economics. @cath_fletcher
On Saturday at 2.10pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
2025 is the 200th anniversary of the British railway network. Janine Booth author of ‘Railworkers 200’, recounts the railworkers’ struggles.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
With women’s rights under attack what kind of socialist-feminist politics do we need? Iranian-American writer Frieda Afary and CeCe Hyde, Women’s Fightback editorial board, discuss perspectives.
Sat 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
IFF25 – Small Docs

On of my favourite things about the Inverness Film Festival is the commitment to showing all kinds of short films, and as many Scottish shorts as they can. Short films are of course a vital part of the independent film ecosystem, but outside of specialist nights, they tend not…
IFF25 – Small Docs
On of my favourite things about the Inverness Film Festival is the commitment to showing all kinds of short films, and as many Scottish shorts as they can. Short films are of course a vital part of the independent film ecosystem, but outside of specialist nights, they tend not to get screened in actual cinemas. (Outside of the film festival, if I go to a screening of short films, it’s highly likely that a high percentage of the audience will be there because they know someone involved in making one of the films.) As a fan of short films, it’s always a delight when you show up for a film and there’s a surprise short film at the start.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Paul Hampton, author of a new book, ‘Culpable: Deregulation, Austerity and the Causes of the Grenfell Tower Fire’ discusses the political and economic choices that led up to Grenfell.
On Saturday at 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
After global neoliberalism is a new mode of capitalism emerging, more nationalist, protectionist, and state-interventionist? With Martin Thomas, editor of ‘Crisis and Sequels..’
On Sunday 2.40pm, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, Islington.
🎟 Tickets and details: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
How have revolutionary socialists in France intervened in the recent anti-government struggles? With French activists.
On Sunday 11am, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, Islington.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Mark Osborn, editor of Workers’ Liberty’s newly-updated pamphlet 'How to Beat the Racists', and Justine Candady Tower Hamlets Unison (pc) make the case for an anti-fascism rooted in working-class unity.
Saturday 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Some on the left saw, and still see, the post-1949 Maoist regime as progressive. Socialist activist Chan Ying will argue it was a brutal totalitarian regime.
On Saturday at 11.45am, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Details and tickets: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
IFF25 – Documentaries

The Inverness Film Festival is upon us once more! I’m planning to watch - and write about - twelve feature films and two sets of short films over the next week. In an exciting development, for me, the timetable for this year’s festival has worked out in such a way that it is…
IFF25 – Documentaries
The Inverness Film Festival is upon us once more! I’m planning to watch - and write about - twelve feature films and two sets of short films over the next week. In an exciting development, for me, the timetable for this year’s festival has worked out in such a way that it is in fact possible for me to see every last documentary that’s showing - short films included - so obviously I structured the entire rest of my film festival attendance around doing just that.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
As trans rights face attacks from across the political spectrum two trans activists, Natalia Cassidy and Kacey de Groot, discuss how to build the fightback we need.
Saturday 3.30pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, Highbury, London.
🎟 Tickets/details: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Does national self-determination matter, or is it a distraction from class struggle? Workers’ Liberty debates Lotta Communista (en.internationalism.org).
On Saturday at 3.30pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Heat Strike and Fare Free London @farefreelondon.bsky.social join us at IFF25 to discuss working-class demands to deal with and stop climate change.
On Sunday 1pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM