Asia Pacific Solidarity and Education Conference
MARXISM 2000 - Sydney, January 5 - 9, 2000
Intiated by the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance
GUEST SPEAKERS:
JOHN PILGER - Internationally acclaimed left journalist and film maker.
JAMES PETRAS - Latin American specialist, New York University,
contributing editior Links international journal of socialist renewal.
FRANCISCO NEMENZO - Professor of political science, President of the
University of the Phillipines.
LEADERS OF LEFT PARTIES AND SOCIALIST ACTIVISTS FROM:
INDIA - Communist Party of India Marxist Leninist, PHILLIPINES - Socialist
Party of Labour, PAKISTAN - Labour Party of Pakistan, INDONESIA - Leaders
of the revolutinalry democratic movement, BRITAIN - Socialist Democracy
Group, UNITED STATES - Solidarity
As well as activists from East Timor, Burma, New Zealand, Japan, Papua New
Guinea, Bougainville, Malaysia, France, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Scotland,
Palestine, Bangladesh.
PLENARY TOPICS:
*Is Marx still relevant for the 21st Century
*The state of the world capitalist economy
*Global political and military strategies of imperialism
*Problems of revolutionary strategy in advanced capitalist countries
*Problems of revolutionary strategy in developing countries.
*Will the socialist countries all yield to capitalist pressures?
*Recent experiences in trade union and labour organising
*Marxism and the national question.
*Women and the fight for socialism
*What basis for international left collaboration and socialist renewal?
*Can humanity survive the 21st century? (environmental destruction, the
nuclear cycle and genetic engineering)
WORKSHOPS
*The IMF and the World Bank - how they work.
*Imperialism's impact on the Asian and Pacific economies.
*The contribution of Trotskyism to the workers' movement
*The history of the Phillipines left
*Political implications of the internet
*Issues in women's liberation today
*Internationals and internationalism.
CLASS SERIES
*Fundamentals of Marxist economics
*Introduction to Marxist philosophy
*The history of the Russian revolution
*A history of bourgeois revolutions
*How Marxism analyses women's oppression
*The history of the Australian Labour movement
*Socialism, capitalism, and the environment
SOCIAL EVENTS:
Cabaret
Songs of Struggle (International song night)
Films and videos including Indonesian and East Timor films by John Pilger
and Jill Hickson
FACILITIES:
Hawkesbury campus of the University of Western Sydney - semi rural setting
just outside of Sydeny. Range of Accomodation. Olympic size swimming
pool, tennis courts, professional child care, bar and coffee shop. Well
stocked conference book shop
REGISTRATION
COSTS: 5 days - $50, $30 concession or $15 per day, $10 concession
ACCOMODATION AND MEAL COSTS: (per day)
$22 for dormitory, no linen, 3 meals
$35 for twin share, no linen, 3 meals
$52 for a single serviced room with three meals
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
PO BOX 515, Broadway 2007, Australia
Telephone: (61-2)9690 1230
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