2026 Neil Smith Lecture: Glen Coulthard, University of British Columbia

2026 Neil Smith Lecture: Glen Coulthard, University of British Columbia Maoism without guarantees: red power internationalism during Canada's 'Long Seventies'. This lecture will provide a reconstructed history of Red Power radicalisation and Indigenous-Marxist cross-fertilisation during Canada's ‘long seventies', examining the political work undertaken by numerous Red Power activists and organisations from 1967 to 1982. Glen Coulthard, of the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia, argues that Indigenous political organising and theory building during this period borrowed substantively and productively from a Third World-adapted Marxism which provided an appealing international language of political contestation that they not only inherited but sought to radically transform through a critical engagement with their own cultural traditions and land-based struggles. Not unlike many radicalised communities of colour during this period, these activists molded and adapted the insights they gleaned from Third World Marxism abroad into their own critiques of racial capitalism, patriarchy and internal colonialism at home. This talk is free to attend and open to all but please book your ticket or tickets.