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Sydney, April 10-12 (Easter), 2009: World at a Crossroads - Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century
World At a Crossroads:
Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century
April 10-13 (Easter), 2009
Sydney
International speakers
from:
VENEZUELA, ARGENTINA, CANADA, PAKISTAN, INDONESIA,
MALAYSIA, PHILIPPINES, TIMOR LESTE, INDIA,
(initial list of speakers below)
April 10-12, 2009
Venue:
For more info and to book your tickets:
Email: dsp@dsp.org.au
or sydney.resistance@gmail.com
Phone: (+
612) 9690 1230
Visit: www.WorldAtACrossroads.org
A conference that brings together
socialists and progressive activists from around Australia, Latin America,
Asia-Pacific and North America in dozens of panel presentations and workshops
over four days to discuss the urgent questions of our time,
including:
* The capitalist economic crisis:
Putting people and planet before corporate profits
* Stopping global warming:
Social change, not climate change
* Emerging alternatives to capitalism: The
Venezuelan revolution and anti-imperialist rebellion in Latin
America
* Crisis in the Middle East:
Resisting imperialism and war
* Organising to fight for a better world:
Building mass movements, alliances and left parties
* and more
..see below for more
info on panels and workshops, or visit www.WorldAtACrossroads.org
Initial list of
international speakers:
MICHAEL LEBOWITZ,
Venezuela & Canada - Reknowned Marxist economist;
researcher at the Centro Internacional Miranda, Caracas, Venezuela; author
of Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of
the Working Class, winner of the Isaac Deutscher memorial prize
(2004).
REIHANA MOHIDEEN,
Philippines - Chairperson of Transform Asia, a
gender and labour institute, Party of the Laboring Masses (PLM) International
Department.
IAN ANGUS, Canada
- Founder of
the Ecosocialist International Network; editor of Climate and Capitalism, Marxist
historian; and writer and activist on environmental issues.
LUIS BILBAO,
Venezuela & Argentina Marxist journalist and author,
central participant in the construction of the mass United Socialist Party of
Venezuela.
KAVITA KRISHNAN,
India Former president of the All India
Students' Association (1999-2006), Central Committee member of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist Leninist); editor of Liberation.
PLUS: Roger Annis, Socialist Voice and Haiti solidarity in Canada; Daphne Lawless and Vaughan Gunson, Socialist Worker-New Zealand; Tomas Freitas, Luta Hamutuk, Timor Leste; Nelson Davila, Venezuelan Ambassador to Australia; and representatives from the People's Democratic Party in Indonesia, the Socialist Party of Malaysia and the Labour Party Pakistan.
Topic streams include:
GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
Capitalism's crisis and socialist economic
alternatives
Capitalist economic crisis: Its impacts
and responses in
Models and experiences of public and
social ownership
The history of anti-capitalist activism
during economic crises
Understanding Marxist
economics
Recessions, jobs and workers'
control
GLOBAL WARMING & ENVIRONMENTAL
CRISIS
Achieving a just transition to
environmental sustainability
Constructing a red-green
alliance to save the planet
The social roots of the climate
crisis
Working for green unions in the 21st
century
Food and water crisis: Capitalism,
agribusiness and the food sovereignty alternative
Climate refugees and the "overpopulation"
debate
Climate change solutions: What role for
the market?
Sustainable cities: The social versus the
individual
Constructing a red-green alliance to save
the planet
LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTION: ALTERNATIVES TO
CAPITALISM
Building popular power: Workers' control,
communal councils and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela
50
years of the Cuban Revolution
A history of
Central American revolutions: Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador
Defeating capitalism and
counter-revolution: The struggle for socialism in
Latin American integration:
Anti-imperialist cooperation or regional capitalist development?
Evo Morales and
CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: RESISTING
IMPERIALISM AND WAR
What solution to the crisis in the
The world after Bush: Obama and
Who are Hamas and Hezbollah?
The undeclared war against
War on terror or war on
Muslims?
LEFT UNITY: ALLIANCES, MOVEMENTS AND
REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATION
Building socialist parties in the 21st
century
Theory and practice of left unity in
Socialists in parliament: Constructing
left electoral alliances
The crisis of social democracy
Stalinism, Leninism and the legacy of the
Russian Revolution
AND MORE, INCLUDING ...
Why be a Marxist today? Introduction to
Resistance and the DSP
Women's oppression and
liberation
Same-sex marriage rights
Marxism and nationalism
Reports on the peoples struggles in
Organised by
the Democratic Socialist Perspective and Resistance
Sponsored by Green Left Weekly