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Marxism 2009: Challenging Capitalism and War" conference, Melbourne, Australia, 9-12 April 2009.
Marxism
2009 Conference
Thursday 9th April
6:30pm
Public meeting: Challenging capitalism and war: featuring a left wing activist from Egypt Mamdouh Habashi, American socialist and author of a new book on the Vietnam War Joe Allen and Socialist Alternative National Executive member Sandra Bloodworth
Friday 10th April
10am
Marxist foundations: The Russian revolution: The real story
Sri Lanka: Where Trotskyism became a mass movement
Trading in pollution: Environmental destruction & the fallacy of market solutions
11:30am
Bubble to Bust: The Global Economy Today with Deutscher prize winning author Rick Kuhn
Marxist foundations: Do revolutions always end in dictatorships?
Australia and the “Good War”: Opposition and Resistance during WW2 with Tom O’Lincoln author of a new book on the period
Does the “Russia question” still matter for the left?
2pm
Q and A with the renowned investigate reporter and documentary filmmaker John Pilger
Standing up to imperialism and war: an eye witness account from Lebanon
4pm
What does the Obama presidency mean for world politics with American socialist Joe Allen
The Northern Territory intervention: the latest racist land grab
A history of Anarchism – a Marxist critique
7pm
Debate on way forward for the union movement with Tom Bramble author of a new book on the history of the Australian union movement
Fighting back against capitalist crisis: a first hand report on worker and student resistance in Greece
Marxist foundations: What is the revolutionary attitude to violence and non- violence?
Later
Red Shelley: The life and times and revolutionary poetry of Percy Byshe Shelley with Luke Wilson
Saturday 11th April
10am
Marxist foundations: Is human nature a barrier to radical change?
Are Western workers a labour aristocracy?
When the Diggers took on the Scabs – Retaking the Waterfront in 1919 with radical historian Robert Bollard
11.30am
Marxist foundations: Socialist Alternative: Who are we? What do we stand for?
What the world economic crisis means for socialists
Comrades Come Rally: the formation of the Australian Communist Party
2pm
A report on working class resistance in the Middle East by Mamdouh Habashi from Egypt
Panel on Gay Liberation Movement with Liz Ross, Daniel Marshall and another special guest
Animal Farm and 1984: Was Orwell anti- socialist?
4pm
Marxist foundations: Why do we need a socialist organisation?
The origins of Bolshevism in Russia: a new interpretation
The Marxist theory of sexism, oppression and class
Why does capitalism go into crisis?
7pm
The socialist answer to capitalist crisis with a range of international speakers and Vashti Kenway from Socialist Alternative
9pm
Film Screening of the anti-war film Taliban Country
Radical history tour of Melbourne University conducted by Mick Armstrong
Sunday 12th April
10am
Marxist foundations: Why a class analysis matters to changing the world
Class and sect in the Middle East
The red in the rainbow – the struggle for sexual liberation
11.30am
Marxist foundations: The capitalist state: what it is and how to challenge it
Understanding exploitation – the labour theory of value
As the miracle economy falters: a special guest from Hong Kong reports on the emerging workers movement in China
2pm
The ABC of Marxist Economics
Does the Marxist theory of imperialism need updating?
More than a year of hard Labor: Rudd and Australian politics today
4pm
Lenin’s What is to be done – a re-interpretation
Why changing the world means taking power
Marxist foundations: Sexism and 21st century capitalism: Why are women still oppressed?
Check website www.marxism2009.com for further details.
Thursday 9th April
6:30pm
Public meeting: Challenging capitalism and war: featuring a left wing activist from Egypt Mamdouh Habashi, American socialist and author of a new book on the Vietnam War Joe Allen and Socialist Alternative National Executive member Sandra Bloodworth
Friday 10th April
10am
Marxist foundations: The Russian revolution: The real story
Sri Lanka: Where Trotskyism became a mass movement
Trading in pollution: Environmental destruction & the fallacy of market solutions
11:30am
Bubble to Bust: The Global Economy Today with Deutscher prize winning author Rick Kuhn
Marxist foundations: Do revolutions always end in dictatorships?
Australia and the “Good War”: Opposition and Resistance during WW2 with Tom O’Lincoln author of a new book on the period
Does the “Russia question” still matter for the left?
2pm
Q and A with the renowned investigate reporter and documentary filmmaker John Pilger
Standing up to imperialism and war: an eye witness account from Lebanon
4pm
What does the Obama presidency mean for world politics with American socialist Joe Allen
The Northern Territory intervention: the latest racist land grab
A history of Anarchism – a Marxist critique
7pm
Debate on way forward for the union movement with Tom Bramble author of a new book on the history of the Australian union movement
Fighting back against capitalist crisis: a first hand report on worker and student resistance in Greece
Marxist foundations: What is the revolutionary attitude to violence and non- violence?
Later
Red Shelley: The life and times and revolutionary poetry of Percy Byshe Shelley with Luke Wilson
Saturday 11th April
10am
Marxist foundations: Is human nature a barrier to radical change?
Are Western workers a labour aristocracy?
When the Diggers took on the Scabs – Retaking the Waterfront in 1919 with radical historian Robert Bollard
11.30am
Marxist foundations: Socialist Alternative: Who are we? What do we stand for?
What the world economic crisis means for socialists
Comrades Come Rally: the formation of the Australian Communist Party
2pm
A report on working class resistance in the Middle East by Mamdouh Habashi from Egypt
Panel on Gay Liberation Movement with Liz Ross, Daniel Marshall and another special guest
Animal Farm and 1984: Was Orwell anti- socialist?
4pm
Marxist foundations: Why do we need a socialist organisation?
The origins of Bolshevism in Russia: a new interpretation
The Marxist theory of sexism, oppression and class
Why does capitalism go into crisis?
7pm
The socialist answer to capitalist crisis with a range of international speakers and Vashti Kenway from Socialist Alternative
9pm
Film Screening of the anti-war film Taliban Country
Radical history tour of Melbourne University conducted by Mick Armstrong
Sunday 12th April
10am
Marxist foundations: Why a class analysis matters to changing the world
Class and sect in the Middle East
The red in the rainbow – the struggle for sexual liberation
11.30am
Marxist foundations: The capitalist state: what it is and how to challenge it
Understanding exploitation – the labour theory of value
As the miracle economy falters: a special guest from Hong Kong reports on the emerging workers movement in China
2pm
The ABC of Marxist Economics
Does the Marxist theory of imperialism need updating?
More than a year of hard Labor: Rudd and Australian politics today
4pm
Lenin’s What is to be done – a re-interpretation
Why changing the world means taking power
Marxist foundations: Sexism and 21st century capitalism: Why are women still oppressed?
Check website www.marxism2009.com for further details.
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