Event overview
Join us for the launch of Derek Wall's new book: "Hugo Blanco - A Revolutionary for Life"
Derek Wall's new book, Hugo Blanco - A Revolutionary for Life, is an engaging biography which tells the story of one of Latin America’s most important revolutionary leaders. This Goldsmiths launch of the book is a fantastic opportunity to see Hugo Blanco and Derek Wall will discussing the book, followed by an audience Q&A and then a drinks reception.
Hugo Blanco led a successful uprising for land rights in Peru in the 1960s. Praised by Che Guevara, remarkably Hugo is still politically active and militant in 2018. A Marxist in the 1960s, Hugo’s life charts a whole history of the Latin American left. He escaped the Chile coup of 1973, promoted indigenous struggles across the continent and met up with Zapatistas in the 1990s. Today Hugo is one of the world’s most prominent ecosocialist leaders, who argues that the most important task on the left is to fight climate change by transcending capitalism.
This is a book that draws practical political lessons about how we change the world so that humanity and the rest of nature has a future.
Dates & times
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27 Feb 2019 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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