LL:AGENDA - Socialism and the New Millenium Conference

[Green Left Weekly, Melbourne]

SOCIALISM & THE NEW MILLENIUM CONFERENCE
April 24 - 25 Resistance Centre, 14 Anthony Street Melbourne, Tel (03) =
9329 1320
Agenda update, Tuesday April 20


SATURDAY
9.30 am Opening panel: Issues, debates and strategies for the labour and =
social movements
Sarah Lantz, Craig Johnston, Cam Walker, Charmaine Clarke, Max Lane =
(Chair: Kerryn Williams)
11.00 Multiple choice streams
UNIONISM: Union solidarity with workers in the Asia Pacific region
Dave Cushion, Vannessa Hearman (Chair: Ben Courtice)
FEMINISM: Liberal, radical and Marxist feminism, past & present
Margarita Windisch (Chair: Jackie Lynch)
SOLIDARITY: East Timor and Indonesia: An eyewitness account
Jo Williams, Bronwyn Jennings, Harriet MacCallum (Chair: Chris Atkinson)
12.30 pm Lunch
1.30 Feature session: Europe: Nation, class and responses to Capital=92s =
agenda
Adam Novak (Chair: Susan Price)
2.30 Multiple choice streams
UNIONISM: The global recession and economics for trade unionists
Jamie Doughney, Susan Price (Chair: Mell Bull)
FEMINISM: Socialist women in the Australian trade unions
Karin Matheson, Jackie Lynch, Mary Merkenich (Chair: Justine Kamprad)
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: The campaign against nuclear energy
Greg Adamson (Chair: Aimee Lipscombe)
SOLIDARITY: El Salvador: Elections and democracy, an eyewitness account
Alan Jennings (Chair: Tania Jorquera)
4.00 Feature session: Is abortion a moral issue?
Sarah Lantz, Leslie Cannold (Chair: Anne O=92Callaghan)
5.30 Feature session: The meaning of the war in Serbia and Kosova
Kerryn Williams and a panel of speakers (Chair: Martin Iltis)

SUNDAY
9.30 am Feature session: The beginning of a new international socialist =
movement (to be confirmed)
Max Lane, Adam Novak (Chair: Jo Williams)
11.00 Todays struggles in historical perspective
* Trade union perspectives
Grant Holden, Michael Bull, and others (Chair Maree Roberts)
* A discussion about perspectives for the student movement
Bronwyn Jennings, Mandi Scott, Jacob Varghese (Chair: Sharon Simons)
* One hundred years of experiences and lessons of the socialist movement =
in Australia
Trish Corcoran (Chair: Chris Slee)
12.30 pm Lunch
1.30 Feature session: The Indonesian elections and the democracy =
movement
Arief Budiman, Vannessa Hearman (Chair: Max Lane)
2.30 Multiple choice streams
UNIONISM: The experiences of the Industrial Workers of the World
Chris Spindler (Chair: Claudine Holt)
FEMINISM: Developing a new activist feminism
Jacquie Moon, (Chair: Natalie Woodlock)
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Jobs and the environment
Gavin McFadzen, Martin Daley, Mel Bull (chair: Trish Corcoran)
SOLIDARITY: Guerillas, diplomats and democrats: The many strategies for =
Third World liberation
Joaquim Santos, Nurullah Ozbek (Chair: Jo Williams)
4.00 Feature session: Socialism after the "end of history"
Jorge Jorquera (Chair: Virginia Brown)


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