Live at 7.30pm, 24 November 2026
Join How To Academy at The Salon as journalist and author Paul Mason tells the story of global communism, from its first barricades to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This In Conversation event asks how a movement built on the hopes of millions of working people ended in repression and mass murder, and why its legacy still shapes Russia and China today.
Paul argues that the story is not over. Western democracies have stalled, climate breakdown demands radical economic answers, and China’s authoritarian, state-led model of development appeals to millions across the global south. He is the author of REDS.
How To Academy runs public talks, debates and conferences in London with some of the world’s most influential writers, scientists and thinkers, from Yuval Noah Harari to Natalie Portman. In November 2025 it brought Slavoj Žižek to Town Hall by Bottaccio twice in one weekend, first with philosopher of physics Emily Adlam and then in conversation with Alex O’Connor. This autumn it returns with a run of evening talks in The Salon, from Dr Kevin Fong in October to Timothy Garton Ash and Paul Mason in November.
