Socialism 2004

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Rallies

1pm Saturday:

Opening rally – The price of Occupying Iraq: A World in Turmoil

Speakers:

Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party

Tommy Sheridan MSP (A Scottish Socialist Party member of the Scottish Parliament)

Janice Godrich, President, PCS (Civil Servants union)

Ian Page, Socialist Party Councillor, Lewisham

Haifa Zangana (exiled Iraqi writer and activist)

Joao Batista (Baba) former Brazilian Workers' Party MP, now founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberty

6.30-7.30pm Saturday:

After the elections: where now for socialists?

Clare Daley, Socialist Party councillor and anti bin-tax campaigner, Ireland

Dave Nellist, Leader Socialist Group, Coventry City Council

Hannah Sell, National Campaigns officer, Socialist Party

The Miners' strike - 20 Years On: A Civil War Without Guns

Ken Smith, author A Civil War Without Guns

Ian Isaac, member South Wales National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) executive during ’84-‘85

Sessions:

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Overview:

Marxism and globalisation:

Jobs exodus - is protectionism the solution?

Workers' struggles in Europe.

Latin America - can left populist regimes survive in isolation?

Resisting Imperialism:

Imperialism - what does it mean?

Haiti's revolutionary tradition - 200 years since independence was declared, what are the lessons for today?

Iran 1979 - why did revolution lead to an Islamic state rather than socialism?

Palestine - can national liberation be secured under capitalism?

Trade union/workplace:

How awkward are the 'awkward squad'? The struggle for fighting union leaderships.

International Socialist Resistance (ISR) - Defending young workers' rights, our role in the trade unions

Local councils - the battle for a better deal:

How can communities fight local cuts in services and tax rises?

Question and answer with local campaigners

Liverpool - how socialists led a mass, city-wide struggle against council cuts

Class struggle and everyday life:

Hijab controversy - why socialists oppose the ban on the headscarf.

Are we being poisoned? Why profits are jeopardising food safety.

Is there a 'new sexism'? Socialism and the struggle for women's liberation.

Introduction to Socialist and Marxist ideas:

(ISR) What is Socialism?

Who were the Bolsheviks? What socialists mean by a revolutionary party.

An introduction to Marxist economics.

Special sessions:

Socialist Students - what is the future of university education under capitalism? Building the socialist alternative.

Asylum and Immigration - combating the media scares.

Can free markets work? Capitalism versus socialism - a debate.

How can we fight the rise of the racist BNP?

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