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There is an alternative... Workers' Control Workers' Control Conference University of Technology, Sydney 10th-12th October Hi all, This is an invitation to register for the "Workers' Control Conference", which will be held from the 10th to 12th October, 2003. The conference will be a dynamic weekend of talks, discussion and workshops on past experiences of workers control and the current strategies of militant unionism. http://www.jura.org.au/workerscontrol/ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Keynote speakers confirmed to date include: * Michael Crosby (Co-director, ACTU Organising Centre) * Joan Doyle (newly elected Secretary, Victorian Postal Union) * Martin Kingham (Victorian State Secretary, Construction Division of the CFMEU) * Humphrey McQueen (Author, historian) * Paul True (Special Projects Officer, CFMEU. Speaking on the NSW Builders' Labourers Federation and the Green Bans. Author of "Tales of the BLF - Rolling the Right!") * Hall Greenland (Author of 'Red Hot: The Life and Times of Nick Origlass'). Topics to be covered by plenaries and workshops include: * Reforming the Union Movement Today * The Organising Model: Successes and Limitations * The NSW Builders Labourers Federation and the Green Bans * The Ability of Militants within Unions to Achieve Change. * The Possibilities and Limitations of Direct Action Today * The Harco Work-in * The Experience of the Melbourne Tram Workers * Unorthodox Leninism: Gramsci and Workers' Control * The Student-Worker Uprising in France in May 1968. * The Workers' Revolt Against Stalinism in Hungary in 1956 * The Australian Experience of Workers' Self-Management * The Social Responsibility of Trade Unions: the 1938 Port Kembla Pig-iron dispute and the NSW Builders Labourers Federation Green Bans. * The Opera House Work-In * Revolutionary Reforms and Andre Gorz. * Creating a Workplace Newsletter * Workers' Self-Management and the Upsurge of the 1960s and 70s * Workers' Control in Australia in the 1960s and 70s: successes and failures * The idea of self-management in Marxist revolutionary theory. * Workers' Self-Management and the Allende Government in Chile 1970-3 AGENDA AND MORE INFO To view a complete agenda for the conference visit the conference website: http://www.jura.org.au/workerscontrol/ REGISTRATION We strongly encourage people to register before the conference so that we can properly predict numbers for seating, printing and catering. You can register by: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 02 9572 9089 Or on our website at: http://www.jura.org.au/workerscontrol/register.html PLEASE include your name, phone number, email address and a postal address. No money is needed - you can pay on the day. SUBMITING WORKSHOPS If you would like to present a workshop please contact the conference organisers by 25th September, 2003. Workshop topics should be in the spirit of the conference. In your submission, please include a title and a 50 word overview of the workshop. Due to limited space and time, we may not be able to accept all workshops. Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are interested in workshops on any relevant topics, but in particular would be interested in both practical workshops on recent experiences of union organising in various industries, and historical workshops on the experiences of militant union movements. PUBLICITY AND MEDIA We would greatly appreciate any assistance with publicising the conference. If you contact us, we can post you copies of the agenda and posters. If you have access to your own photocopying you can download PDFs of the material from our website at: http://www.jura.org.au/workerscontrol/promo.html Please don't be shy about asking us for posters and leaflets - we have thousands of them. If you can assist by getting an advertisement or article in your union newsletter or email list, that would be excellent. If you need any statements or an article, please contact us. GET INVOLVED. INVITE YOUR FRIENDS. The Workers' Control Conference is open to all genuine participants. Please forward this email to people you think might be interested, submit a workshop, register early, and join us on the 10th, 11th and 12th for a dynamic weekend of debate and discussion. In Solidarity, Nick Harrigan For the Workers' Control Conference Organising Committee. Phone: 02 9572 9089 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail: PO Box N32 Petersham North NSW 2049 Web: http://www.jura.org.au/workerscontrol/ CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORS The Workers' Control Conference is an initiative of members of Jura Books, the Centre for Radical Workplace and Union Democracy and the Research Initiative on International Activism at University of Technology, Sydney. WOULD YOU LIKE REGULAR UPDATES FROM JURA BOOKS? If you would like to receive monthly emails from Jura Books about our upcoming events and activities then just send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]