US revolutionary Marxist to be honoured at Royal Albert Hall

Women of the World have commissioned Master of the King’s Musick Errollyn Wallen to write a choral piece for International Women’s Day at the Royal Albert Hall.

So far so nice. Now read this:

WOW Founder Jude Kelly CBE will lead this huge celebration with an evening of big ideas and conversations, laughter, joy, stories, music and performance. Legendary activist Angela Davis will make a rare UK appearance as one of the event headliners in a conversation with Jude Kelly honouring her life and achievements.

Angela Davis was vice-president of the US Communist Party and a Black Panther who was charged with ‘aggravated kidnapping and first degree murder in the death of Judge Harold Haley.’ She was feted in the USSR, Cuba and East Germany and became a vocal supporter of UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Palestine liberation fighters. She presently holds the title of Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Life and achievements, huh?

Hey, Jude…

Ms Kelly is former CEO of London’s South Bank Centre.

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