SOCIALISM 2000 EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE
A last minute reminder that Socialism 2000: Ideas for a better world -- a
weekend of debate and discussion on how to change the world will be held
this coming weekend 14-15 August.
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
1. After the Berlin Wall: what future for socialism?
Race Mathews, a former Minister in the Cain Labor government and a leading
member of the Fabian Society, who has just published a new book on
worker-owned co-operatives and alternatives to economic rationalism and
Jeff Sparrow from Socialism Alternative will debate the future for
socialism after the collapse of the eastern bloc.
2. NATO's all-new "humanitarian" imperialism.
Stewart Gardiner presents an overview of the development of imperialism
since the end of the Cold War, in particular examining the lessons of
NATO's war on Serbia.
3. 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 argue that Australia is divided not between
capital and labour but by the split between the inner city elites and the
traditional Aussie battlers. Geoff Boucher cuts through the arguments to
see whether a politics centred on class is still relevant in Australia.
4. From struggle to self-obsession: what's happened to sexual liberation?
Fleur Taylor will discuss the shifting relationships between sexual
politics, other struggles against the system, and the structure of
capitalism today.
5. Fighting for a better world: mass movements and socialis change.
A Panel discussion
One of the biggest questions that every campaign has to answer is "how are
we going to win?" And despite inspirational struggles like that of the
Maritime Union last year, victories for our side have been few and far between
Sandra Bloodworth, who cut her teeth in the Movement Against Uranium Mining
in the late 1970s and Harry Van Moorst, who played a leading role in the
movement against the Vietnam War and more recently on the campaign against
the Werribee toxic dump, will kick off this discussion on strategies for
social change.
plus
An Introduction to Marx's Capital
What does self-determination mean?
"From little things, big things grow": the origins of the student revolt of
the 1960s.
Venue: New International Bookshop
Trades Hall
cnr Victoria & Lygon Sts
Carlton
Cost: only $6 ($3 concession) for the entire weekend
Presented by Socialist Alternative
For more information ph 9421 4439
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