Relaunching the LSE Agitator! with LSE SU Students for Justice in Palestine

The LSE SU Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) have resurrected the revolutionary pamphlet created by the LSE Socialist Society in the 1960s, ‘The Agitator’! The pamphlet served to bring attention to the university’s complicity in overseas colonial regimes and its repression of student movements on campus. The relaunch of the Agitator 2.0 emerges from very similar conditions and concerns. It seeks, among other things, to provide students and staff with radical information, tools and perspectives towards building campus solidarity and collective organising for Palestinian liberation. The Agitator is more than a publication, it is an open, collective, and always incomplete process – a practical way to politicise the university and lead people into organising on campus. On November 20th the SJP will present the Agitator at MayDay Rooms. The event will involve a history of the original publication and process behind the relaunch, followed by a conversation about the purpose of political writing and education, and the importance of archiving in this process. The event will hear from original contributors to the first issues of the Agitator in 1968 so that student organisers old and new can learn from one another. There will also be a small exhibition of original Agitator issues currently held in the LSE & MayDay Rooms archive. You can pick up a copy of the Agitator 2.0 at MayDay Rooms during your next visit! This event is very limited capacity so if you would like to join please email us at in-formation@maydayrooms.org