Socialism 2008

Saturday 8 November - Sunday 9 November

University of London Union, Malet Street London WC1

Nearest tube: Euston or Goodge Street

Registration opens 12 noon

Rally for socialism

Saturday 8 November

5.30pm-8.30pm

Speakers include Matt Wrack (FBU general secretary) and Peter Taaffe (Socialist Party general secretary)

Euston Friends Meeting House

173 Euston Road, London

www.socialism2008.net

Whole weekend (£25 waged or £12 unwaged/low wage)

One day only (£15 waged or £7 unwaged/low wage)

Rally for socialism only (£5)

Sessions at Socialism 2008 will include:

Internationals

• The first and second internationals
• The rise and fall of the Comintern
• The fourth international and after

Fighting the far right

• How to fight the BNP
• What is fascism?
• Why does racism exist?

China

• Rising dragon - is China the world's new superpower? (with Paul Mason, author of Live working, die fighting)
• What happened at Tiananmen Square?

Britain

• The NHS at 60
• Fight for a new workers' party
• Building a fightback in the unions

The Middle East

• Could we see another war?
• Iranian revolution 1978-79
• History of workers' struggles

1968 anniversaries

• Prague spring
• France may days
• The fight for civil rights in the US

Introducing socialism

• Was Stalinism inevitable?
• Is revolution still possible today?
• The socialist case for nationalisation

Other sessions

• Crash!
• What will turmoil in the world economy mean for workers?
• Pakistan and the permanent revolution today
• US: does Obama's candidacy mean the end of racism in the US?
• Defend and extend abortion rights (with Abortion Rights and Socialist Women)
• The great Olympic swindle: a review of Beijing and what 2012 could be like here
• Art and revolution
• Where now for the Bolivian revolution?
• Is Georgia the start of a new cold war?

• Greece: a new wave of struggle
• Introducing Marxist philosophy
• LGBT session: 20 years since section 28

• Introducing Marxist economics
• Science, Marxism and the big bang

Closing rallies

• 70 years since the foundation of the fourth international: building a workers' international today.
• Building working class political representation hosted by the campaign for a new workers' party.