This diverse event will take place from next Friday, October 29th to Sunday, October 1st, at the Miguel Ríos Exhibition Center and Auditorium, in the city of Rivas Vaciamadrid. It will be its 45th edition, making it the second longest-running EuroFestival after L’Humanité in Paris.
The PCE Festival, an organization that celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2021, is the largest political-cultural event in Spain that combines social, political and solidarity events with popular markets, conferences on various current topics, tributes, concerts, art and Cinema combines as well as gastronomic and cultural activities of all kinds.
For this edition, the sciences will play a special role, as the María Teresa León Space proposes with a monographic and uninterrupted program on scientific themes, which includes the exhibition “Science for the People”, announced the organizers.
The pavilion will be inaugurated on Friday by Enrique Santiago, Secretary General of the PCE. This will be followed by a round table on the theme “The path from the brilliant past of science in the Second Republic to the future”, with the participation of several panelists, including Eva García Sempere, Head of the Environmental Department of Izquierda Unida, and María Iglesias Caballero, Head of the PCE Science Secretariat.
On Saturday the space will open with a conference entitled “The impracticability of the energy transition under capitalism”, in which David Pineda, member of the PCE Central Committee, and Irene Calvé from the Energy Secretariat of the PCE will take part in the debate “The challenges of the Left in the face of eco-social crisis.” Further activities are planned for this day.
The “Experiments for All” workshop is planned for Sunday, which will be a practical session led by the PCE Science Secretariat and will conclude the three days of activities with the lecture “The Spanish Science System: Pact for Science and Other Aspirations”. with Alicia Durán and Elisa Fernández from the Federation of Workers’ Commissions.
Before the Mundo Obrero Festival, three other EuroFestivals took place in September; first, the Festa do Avante in Lisbon, Portugal; then the ManiFiesta in Ostend, Belgium, and the Fête de L’Humanité in the Essone region of Paris.
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