You're invited to a weekend of debate and discussion on how to change the
world...
SOCIALISM 2000: IDEAS FOR A BETTER WORLD
to be held at the Melbourne Trades Hall cnr Lygon and Victoria Sts, Carlton
over the weekend of 14-15 August.
Highlights include:
After the fall of the Berlin Wall; what future for socialism?
Race Matthews, a leading member of the Fabian Society and a former Minister
in the Cain Labor government and Jeff Sparrow from Socialist Alternative
will debate the future of socialism after the collapse of the Eastern bloc.
NATO's all new "humanitarian" imperialism.
Stewart Gardiner presents an overview of what Marxists mean by imperialism
and how it has evolved politically since the end of the Cold War. It will
look at how the US/NATO are using the mask of humanitarianism to extend
their spheres of influence into Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
>From struggle to self-obsession: what's happened to sexual liberation?
Our sexual lives are intimately connected to the rest of our lives, and
thus to the whole of capitalist society. So it's no surprise that, as the
working class struggles of the 1970s slowly dimmed into the cynical 90s,
the horizons of the movements for sexual liberation also narrowed. The
"polymorphous perversity" and early revolutionary hopes of the early Gay
Liberationists have now been whittled back to the narrow categories and
border patrols of identity politics.
Fleur Taylor will discuss the shifting reltionships between sexual
politics, other struggles against the system, and the structure of
capitalism today.
Fighting for a better world: mass movements and social change. A panel
discussion.
"I support your cause, but there's no way of stopping them".
One of the biggest questions that every campaign has to answer is "how are
we going to win?" And despite inspirational strugggles like that of the
Maritime Union last year, victories for our side have been few and far
between. Sandra Bloodworth, who cut her political teeth in the Movement
Against Uranium Mining in the late 1970s, and Harry Van Moorst, who played
a leading role both in the most militant protests against the Vietnam War
and in the much more recent campaign against the Werribee toxic dump, will
kick off this discussion on strategies for social change.
The battlers versus the elites: the new divide in Australia?
It's the new consensus. Everyone from Pauline Hanson to Martin Ferguson to
the theorists of globalisation agrees. Australia is divided, not between
labour and capital, but by the split between the inner-city elites and the
traditional Aussie battlers. What truth is their in the argument? Geoff
Boucher examines whether a politics centred around class is still relevant.
"From little things, big things grow": the origins of the student revolt
How can we move from seeming apathy to mass revolt in the streets? Mick
Armstrong will look at how the student movement burst onto the scene in the
1960s and will draw out some lessons for the the potential for upheavals
today.
plus many more sessions including:
An Introduction to Marx's Capital
What does self-determination mean?
Class struggle on camera: a playwright's response to the Chilean coup
The price for the two days is only $6/$3 concession.
For more information and bookings mail to Socialist Alternative PO Box
4202, Richmond East 3121 or phone 9421 4439.
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