Speakers at Marxism 2012 include leading activists and authors from Britain and around the world, speaking on a wide range of topics, including:

- Gareth Peirce
Human rights lawyer and author of Dispatches from the Darkside

- Owen Jones
author of Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class

- Robin Blackburn
author of Age-Shock: How Finance is Failing Us

- Stephen Graham
author of Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism

- James Marriott
author of The Oil Road

- Steven Rose
author of Genes, Cells & Brains

- Hsiao-Hung Pai
author of Scattered Sand: the Story of China's Rural Migrants

- Alberto Toscano
author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea

- Tariq Ali
novelist, historian, journalist, campaigner

- Tony Benn
veteran campaigner

- Costas Lapavitsas
author of Crisis in the Eurozone

- Ghada Karmi
author of In Search of Fatima 

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