Join us for special evening with Max Farrar, Kevin McDonnell and guests from BASE discussing the history of Big Flame, the lessons that can be learnt from its failures and successes, and the future of radical politics in the UK. Max and Kevin will be in discussion with members of BASE Social Centre, a base for anarchy & solidarity in Easton, East Bristol.

Big Flame (1970 – 1984) was a revolutionary socialist feminist organisation with a working-class orientation founded in Liverpool in 1970. The movement grew quickly and spread to other cities in the UK, engaging in workers’ struggles, Marxist reflection and critique, while continuously challenging racist, patriarchal capitalism. They published the magazine *Big Flame* and the journal *Revolutionary Socialism*.

Max Farrar, a former member of Big Flame, is Professor Emeritus at Leeds Metropolitan University, where he was head of community partnerships and volunteering and professor for community engagement. He is the author (with Kevin McDonnell) of *Big Flame: Building Movements, New Politics* (Merlin Press, 2024), the definitive monograph on the group, offering a critical interpretation of its ideas and practices.

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