Marxism 2009 agenda
Posted by John, March 31st, 2009 - under Marxism 2009.
Updated Program for Marxism 2009
Easter weekend: Thursday April 9 until Sunday April 12 at Melbourne University
For bookings and more information visit Marxism 2009
Thursday 9th April
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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
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10am |
Marxist foundations: The Russian revolution: The real story Sri Lanka: Where Trotskyism became a mass movement with Vashti Kenway Trading in pollution: Environmental destruction & the fallacy of market solutions with Liz Walsh |
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11:30am |
Bubble to Bust: The Global Economy Today with Deutscher prize winning author Rick KuhnMarxist foundations: Do revolutions always end in dictatorships?
Australia and the “Good War”: Opposition and Resistance during WW2 with Tom O’Lincoln, author of a soon to be published book on the war
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2pm |
Q and A with renowned investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker John Pilger
Fighting back against capitalist crisis: a first hand report on worker and student resistance in Greece with Greek socialist activist Thanasis Kourkoulas
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4pm |
What does the Obama presidency mean for world politics with American socialist Joe Allen The Northern Territory intervention: the latest racist land grab with NT Aboriginal activist Barbara Shaw, one of the leaders of the Intervention Rollback Action Group, and Socialist Alternative’s Diane Fieldes
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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 and Grahame McCulloch, General Secretary, National Tertiary Education Union The red in the rainbow – the struggle for sexual liberation with Socialist Alternative National Executive member Louise O’Shea
Marxist foundations: What is the revolutionary attitude to violence and non- violence?
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9pm |
Red Shelley: a recital by Luke Wilson of the revolutionary poetry of Percy Byshe ShelleyPlus a Radical history tour of Melbourne University conducted by Mick Armstrong |
Saturday 11th April
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10am |
Marxist foundations: Is human nature a barrier to radical change?Are Western workers a labour aristocracy? with Lian Jenvey
When the Diggers took on the Scabs – Retaking the Waterfront in 1919 with radical historian Robert Bollard |
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11:30am |
Marxist foundations: Socialist Alternative: Who are we? What do we stand for? What the world economic crisis means for socialists with Socialist Alternative National Executive member Diane Fieldes
Comrades Come Rally: the formation of the Australian Communist Party with Patrick Weiniger |
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2pm |
Panel on Gay Liberation Movement with Liz Ross, Daniel Marshall and another special guest The origins of Bolshevism in Russia: a new interpretation with Sandra Bloodworth
Why does capitalism go into crisis? with Diane Fieldes |
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4 pm
6pm |
Marxist foundations: Why do we need a socialist organisation? Imperialism and the struggle for a free Palestine with a Palestinian socialist, guest speakers from the Middle East and Socialist Alternative’s Mick Armstrong
Animal Farm and 1984: Was Orwell anti-socialist? with Liam Byrne
Power point presentation on the campaign against Connex’s Apartheid railway in occupied Palestine with Jerome Small |
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7pm |
The socialist answer to the deepening capitalist crisis with a range of international speakers and Vashti Kenway from Socialist Alternative
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9pm |
Film Screening of the Walkley award winning anti-war film Taliban Country, directed by Carmela Baranowska
Plus a Radical history tour of Melbourne University conducted by Mick Armstrong |
Sunday 12th April
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10am |
Marxist foundations: Why a class analysis matters to changing the worldDoes the “Russia question” still matter for the left? with Socialist Alternative magazine editor Corey Oakley
The Marxist theory of sexism, oppression and class with Fleur Taylor |
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11:30am |
Marxist foundations: The capitalist state: what it is and how to challenge it A history of Anarchism – a Marxist critique by Colleen Bolger
A report on working class resistance in the Middle East by Mamdouh Habashi from Egypt |
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2pm |
The ABC of Marxist Economics with Ben Hillier
Does the Marxist theory of imperialism need updating? by Tom Bramble More than a year of hard Labor: Rudd and Australian politics today with Rebecca Barrigos |
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4pm
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Lenin’s What is to be done – a re-interpretation by Mick Armstrong
Why changing the world means taking power with Allyson Hose Marxist foundations: Sexism and 21st century capitalism: Why are women still oppressed? |
5.40pm Final round Up International speakers and Vashti Kenway from Socialist Alternative