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, AUSTRALIA and more
(initial list of speakers below)
April 10-12, 2009
Sydney
Venue: Sydney Girls High, Cnr Anzac Pde & Cleveland St, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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 South-East Asia
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
Latin America: Revolt, revolution and socialism in the 21st century
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 Venezuela
Latin American integration: Anti-imperialist cooperation or regional capitalist development?
Evo Morales and Bolivia's Indigenous revolution
CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: RESISTING IMPERIALISM AND WAR
What solution to the crisis in the Middle East?
The world after Bush: Obama and US imperialism
Who are Hamas and Hezbollah?
The undeclared war against Pakistan
Israel - An apartheid state
Iraq and Afghanistan; The US' unwinnable wars for oil
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 Australia and internationally
Socialists in parliament: Constructing left electoral alliances
The crisis of social democracy
Stalinism, Leninism and the legacy of the Russian Revolution
AND MORE, INCLUDING ...
Australia's radical history
Why be a Marxist today? Introduction to Resistance and the DSP
Women's oppression and liberation
Australia's black history: Struggles for Aboriginal rights
Same-sex marriage rights
Marxism and nationalism
Reports on the peoples struggles in Asia, Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Oceania
Organised by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and Resistance
Sponsored by Green Left Weekly