2019-08-02

Socialism Conference 2019 | Program

Socialism Conference 2019 | Program

SOCIALISM 2019CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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SATURDAY 24 AUGUST

10:00AM

Marxism 101: Climate strikes, climate justice: A socialist response to global warming


Eyewitness to the refugee crisis on Manus


Trump, Bernie, and US politics today


How capitalism limits scientific progress


Left Strategy: Lenin's theory of the revolutionary party


12:00PM

Marxism 101: Divide and conquer: How capitalism creates racism


Democratic socialism: An easier method of change?


The struggle for justice in Palestine


Back to class: Capitalism and the school system


Left Strategy: Perspectives for revolution in the West


2:30PM

Marxism 101: Marx's theory of social class


50 years since Stonewall: Birth of Gay Liberation


State-controlled slavery: Stolen Indigenous wages and the fight for justice in Queensland


From revolutionary hope to fascist despair: Germany 1918 - 1933


Left Strategy: Strike together, march separately: Understanding the united front


4:30PM

Marxism 101: Trotsky and the Russian Revolution


Panel: Rebuilding radical unionism today


Against the concrete jungle: The politics of urban development


Reformism, reaction & revolutionary politics in Latin America


Left Strategy: Marxism, economism and the fight for revolutionary consciousness


6:30PM


SUNDAY 25 AUGUST

10:00AM

Marxism 101: The myth of capitalist democracy


Does foreign aid help the poor?


The metabolic rift: Marxism and ecology


Revolution and the struggle for freedom in Sudan and Algeria


Text - Federici's Witches, Witch-hunting and Women


12:00PM

Marxism 101: The roots of women's oppression


Revolution on film


Angela Davis and the case for prison abolition


Why is the far right growing and how can we stop them?


Left Strategy: The popular front in France 1936


1:45PM


2:30PM

Marxism 101: All your questions answered: Socialist Q&A


Imperialism today: What’s behind China/US/Australia tensions?


How can we fight antisemitism today?


Why we feel shit too often: Marx on alienation


Text - Fanon's Wretched of the Earth


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