RedFest 2025: fight the right, build the left

Name: RedFest 2025: fight the right, build the left
Start: 2025-11-07T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-09T18:00:00+00:00
Location: Queen Margaret Union - QMU

Schedule

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Queen Margaret Union - QMU | Glasgow, SC

🎟️ tickets and more info: https://red.scot/
🔥Scotlands largest annual anti-capitalist event, RedFest is a forum for the left and activists across Scotland to discuss our collective response to the crises affecting working class people and the planet.
Donald Trump is presiding over a decomposing world order. The genocide in Palestine continues, while the flames of war spread across the Middle East. Tariff wars threaten economic turmoil, and greater power competition with China.
Trump's servile lackey, Keir Starmer has surpassed everyone's worst expectations with his attacks on workers, disabled people, Palestine activists, trans+ people and others. The SNP offers no alternative with its own brand of austerity, militarism and deference to the British state. Only the racist leaders of Reform UK seem to have any momentum.
And meanwhile, the world continues to hurtle towards climate catastrophe, with record-breaking high temperatures and extreme weather events becoming normalised.
Can we stop the right, their racism and attacks on women's and LGBT+ rights? Can workers go on the offensive against Starmer? Can we build more resistance and a bigger left to lead it? Are we doomed by capitalism - or is a socialist future possible?
Initial speakers and themes:
- Phil Marfleet launches new book Palestine, Imperialism and the Struggle for Freedom
- Raquel Varela launches new book on the Portuguese revolution of 1974-75
- Geoff Brown launches new book A People's History of the Anti-Nazi League
- Trump, the global system, war and crisis
- The next PM? Understanding Reform UK and the new far-right
- Holyrood 2026: can there be a radical alternative?
- Marxism, class and revolution in the age of catastrophe
🎨👶Free childcare: we run a free crèche with qualified carers during sessions. Advance registration is essential. To book a place, email [email protected] before October 20th.
🚌 Advice and support with transport & accommodation: you can find a cheap accommodation guide at red.scot
You can also email [email protected] to be put in touch with local organisers who can provide advice.