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Sessions at Socialism 2008 will include:
* Crash! Capitalist crisis & the socialist
alternative
* Fighting for a workers’ international: 70
years since the founding of the 4th International
* Art & Revolution
* Building the Shop Stewards movement &
fighting for a New Workers’ Party
* Obama, Nader & the US elections
… and many more
Below is the programme for 2007
Socialism 2007 sessions
Join the fight back!
 Rally for Socialism
Speakers include:
Mark Serwotka, general secretary PCS
Brian Caton, general secretary POA
Matt Wrack, general secretary FBU
(above speakers in a
personal capacity)
Peter Taaffe, general secretary Socialist Party
Allesendra Lacerda, Party of Socialism and Liberty Brazil,
and much
more…
Saturday 17 November 6.30 – 9.30 pm
Euston Friends Meeting House,
London
Tickets available on door from 6 pm
Hosted by Dave Nellist, Coventry Socialist Party councillor
Sessions for 2007
Saturday 3 – 5 pm (2007 sessions)
| Course |
Session |
Speakers |
| Struggle in Britain
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Public health not private wealth:
defending the NHS |
Jackie Grunsell, Huddersfield Save
our NHS councillor, Lois Austin Socialist Party health
spokesperson, and more. |
| History of the Shop Stewards
Movement |
Socialism or syndicalism? Trade
Unionism in the 1900s |
Alison Hill Industrial editor for
the socialist |
| Global Turmoil |
60 years since partition: What way
forward for India and Pakistan |
Senan, Socialist Party black and
Asian group |
| Global Turmoil |
Fighting for workers’ rights in
Poland |
Wojtek Orowiecki, Grupa na rzexz
Partii Robotniczej (CWI Poland) |
| Anniversaries and their relevance
today |
The Chinese Revolution 1925 – 1927 |
Greg Maughan, Socialism 2007
coordinator |
| Ideas to Change the World |
Historical Materialism: How Marxist
view history |
Sean Figg, Secretary South East
Socialist Party |
| Debates |
Campaigning to Defeat Fees |
James Kerr, Socialist Students
Gemma Tumelty, NUS President |
| Debates |
Socialist planning – could it save
the planet? |
Pete Dickinson, author of ‘Planning
Green Growth’ and Jenny Jones Green Party London Assembly Member |
| History of the Russian Revolution |
Who led the February Revolution? |
Martin Powell-Davies, Socialist
Party National Committee |
| Lessons of the Russian Revolution |
Who were the Bolsheviks? |
Alec Thraves, Socialist Party Wales
Secretary |
| Other sessions |
Burma: how can the dictatorship be
defeated? |
Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers
International. |
Sunday 10 – 12 noon (2007 sessions)
| Course |
Session |
Speakers |
| Struggle in Britain
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End the race to the bottom:
Organising migrant workers |
Wojtek Orowiecki, CWI Poland,
Glenroy Watson Chair Finsbury Park RMT |
| History of the Shop Stewards
Movement |
The shop stewards movement in the
1970s |
Bill Mullins, Socialist Party trade
union organiser and co-organiser of the National Shop Stewards
Network |
| Global Turmoil |
Workers’ struggle in Brazil |
Allesendra Lacerda, Party of
Socialism and Liberty and an eyewitness account from Linda
Taaffe NUT executive (personal capacity) |
| Global Turmoil |
Can China save world capitalism? |
Lynn Walsh, Editor of Socialism
Today |
| Anniversaries and their relevance
today |
Breaking the chains: Abolition of
the slave trade 1807 |
Hugo Pierre, Socialist Party Black
and Asian Group |
| Ideas to Change the World |
Marxist Economics: how the bosses’
rip us off |
Jane James, Socialist Party trade
union organiser |
| Debates |
Can Labour be ‘reclaimed’ and
prospects for a new mass workers’ party. |
Clive Heemskerk, Socialist Party
Executive and a representative of the Labour Representation
Committee plus Sascha Stanicic national secretary of the
Socialist Party’s sister party in Germany - SAV |
| History of the Russian Revolution |
July: days of insurrection |
Dave Reid, Socialist Party National
Committee |
| Lessons of the Russian Revolution |
Is revolution still possible today? |
Sarah Sachs Eldridge, youth editor
of The Socialist |
| Other sessions |
The bubbles deflate: prospects for
world economic crisis. |
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party
general secretary |
| Other sessions |
How to build a trade union in your
workplace |
Jude Ritchie and Marc Glasscoe
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Sunday 1 – 3 pm (2007 sessions)
| Course |
Session |
Speakers |
| History of the Shop Stewards
Movement |
Building the shop stewards movement
today |
Rob Williams, T+G convener Visteon
Swansea (personal capacity) |
| Global Turmoil |
Italy’s Prodi government: the
‘lesser evil’? |
Alessandro Leni, Controcorrente –
Sinistra Prc ('Countercurrent – Prc Left') |
| Anniversaries and their relevance
today |
Che Guevara: Forty years after his
death, what lessons can we draw from his life and struggle? |
Matt Dobson, Convenor of Socialist
Students. |
| Ideas to Change the World |
Dialectics: The science of change |
Judy Beishon, Editor of The
Socialist |
| Debates |
Anarchism or Socialism? Network or
Party? |
Adam Lincoln, Industrial Workers of
the World, Hannah Sell Socialist Party Executive |
| Debates |
What way forward for the Venezuelan
revolution? |
Karl Debbaut, Committee for a
Workers’ International, Jorge Martin Hands off Venezuela |
| History of the Russian Revolution |
October: revolution or coup? |
Robin Clapp, Secretary South West
Socialist Party |
| Lessons of the Russian Revolution |
Was Stalinism inevitable? |
Dave Griffiths, Secretary West
Midlands Socialist Party |
| Other sessions |
Women and the family |
Eleanor Donne, Socialist Party Women |
| Other sessions |
Fighting for LGBT rights |
Greg Randall, Convenor of Socialist
Party LGBT group |
| Other sessions |
The politics of reggae |
Jason Toynbee, author of ‘Bob
Marley: Herald of a post-colonial world’ |
Closing rallies
(2007 sessions)
Build the shop stewards movement and fight for a new mass
workers’ party
Speakers include:
Dave Nellist, Chair of the Campaign for a New Workers’ Party
Bill Mullins, co-organiser of the National Shop Stewards Network
Representative of the Remploy Workers
1917 – the year that workers changed the world. Lessons of the
Russian Revolution for the 21st century
Speakers include:
Hannah Sell deputy general secretary of the Socialist Party
Socialist activist from Russia
Sascha Stanicic national secretary of the Socialist Party’s
sister party in Germany - SAV
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