Socialist Alternative presents:

MARXISM 2010: Ideas to challenge capitalism



Melbourne University, Student Union Building

http://marxism2010.com/

Easter Weekend: Thursday the1st-Sunday the 4th of April

Marxism 2010 is a 4 day conference to beheld in Melbourne over the 2010 Easter weekend (April1-4). It will be bringing together hundreds of socialists and other left-wing activists from across Australia and the world. Marxism 2010 features international guest speakers from the US, Palestine, China, South Africa and elsewhere.

But that is only a part of the event. There will be more than 60 sessions over the weekend, on topics ranging from radical history to the fight for women’s and LGBTI liberation, imperialism and the Middle East, the global economic crisis and workers’ struggles today.

NEW SPEAKER CONFIRMED:Spokesperson for Alyawarr nation and the Ampilatwatja walkoff, Richard Downs will be speaking at Marxism2010. Richard will be reporting back about the ongoing resistance to the Northern Territory Intervention. (For more details go to the website.)

Some of the International speakers and special events featured at this year’s conference are:

Renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker John Pilger

Sameh Akram Habeeb. Palestinian journalist based in Gaza and founder of the Palestinian Telegraph – one of the first websites and electronic resources to operate directly out of Gaza

Trevor Ngwane. Veteran anti-apartheid activist and founder of the Anti-Privatisation Forum and the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee which led the fight against electricity and water cut-offs in South Africa’s urban working class townships.

Ashley Smith. Ashley Smith is an American Marxist activist, journalist and editor. He is an organizer for the International Socialist Organization. He is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and has written for numerous left-wing publications such as CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Socialist Worker, and ZNet.

Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana. Vice Chairperson of the International Department, Working Peoples Association. Has previously been involved in struggles against the Soeharto dictatorship and more recently involved in campaigns to defend working class living standards against Government attacks.

Amongst the 60 sessions we will behaving over the weekend, we will be holding specialty streams including: The Marxist foundations Stream and Women, Sexuality and Oppression.

These streams in particular are devoted to addressing some of the core questions to do with Marxist politics, for all those who are coming into contact with Marxist ideas for the first time or are wanting to deepen their understanding of revolutionary politics.

From the Lower East Side to the Warsaw Ghetto: the Jewish radical tradition, given by long term Socialist Janey Stone

Did Lenin lead to Stalin? A debate between Adrian Jones a lecturer in Russian history at La Trobe University and Diane Fields from Socialist Alternative

How real was the threat of fascism in Australia during the 1930s? Associate Professor of History at the University of Western Sydney

To find out more about theseparticular sessions or purchase tickets please click on the linkhttp://marxism2010.com/