Marxism Conference 2014 Program

UNION THEATRE STUDENT LOUNGE RAYMOND PRIESTLY ROOM 1ST FLOOR 2ND FLOOR (ROOM 1) 2ND FLOOR (ROOM 2) BASEMENT

10AM-

11AM

Fighting the Liberals in

government

Matthew Kunkel and Jerome

Small

Organising workers

Class: the key to

understanding society

Grace Hill

Marxism for beginners

Heroes and crowds: the role

of the individual in history

Nick Everett

Philosophy

American Teamster Vincent

Dunne

Emma Norton

Forgotten revolutionaries

Austerity, SYRIZA and

the rise of the Greek

radical left

Panos Petrou and Mick

Armstrong Special guests

Is the ruling class truly

transnational?

Tom Bramble

Modern issues

11.30AM-

12.45PMA Good Day to Die

(2010)

Film festival

‘The people want!’ A

radical exploration of

the Arab uprising

Gilbert Achcar Special guests

Privilege, power and control

in modern capitalist society

Jess Payne

Marxism for beginners

Turning the tide against the

Abbott government

Diane Fieldes and Sue Bolton

Modern issues

Militants in the maritime

industry then and now

Mike Barber, Bob Carnegie

and Perc White

Organising workers

The struggle for

independence in West Papua

Ronny Kareni and Liz Walsh

Indigenous rights and struggle

2PM-

3.30PM‘A Black life’ with Gary

Foley

Gary Foley

Special guests

The 1986 Victorian nurses’

strike

Lalitha Chelliah and

Eric Leroy

Organising workers

Palestinian Trotskyist Jabra

Nicola

Simone McDonnell

Forgotten revolutionaries

What does neoliberalism

mean for the left?

Ben Hillier

Modern issues

Elite schools and the

formation of the 21st century

ruling class

Jane Kenway

Students and education

James P Cannon and the

revolutionary party

Corey Oakley

Revolutionary organising

4PM-

5.30PMThe Act of Killing

(2012)

Jess Melvin and Joshua

Oppenheimer

Film festival

Revolution and

reaction in Syria today

Gilbert Achcar, Corey Oakley

and Michael Karadjis

Special guests

Workshop: theatre of the

oppressed

Tania Canas

Radical culture

Patenting our DNA: the

human genome project

Lewis Todman

Modern issues

Women and the criminal

injustice system

Vickie Roach and

Roz Ward

Gender and sexuality

Rebuilding blue collar unions

Marcus Harrington and Kath

Larkin

Organising workers

7PM-

8.30PMOne step forward: the

Egyptian revolution

Ahmed Shawki

Special guests

Divide and conquer:

oppression and capitalism

Heidi Claus

Marxism for beginners

Religion and revolution:

liberation theology in Latin

America

Rebecca Barrigos

Radical history

Organising in white collar

unions

Michelle McCann and Adam

Bottomley

Organising workers

Zinovievism and the early

years of the Comintern

Vashti Kenway

Revolutionary organising

Marx’s concept of an

alternative to capitalism

Patrick Weineger

Philosophy

SPECIAL

EVENING

SESSIONS

8.30pm, Red Flag Bar

Conscious Indigenous

hip hop with MC Bek Poetik

9pm, Student Lounge

Chants for socialism, featuring pieces by

William Morris

9pm, North Court

Radical walking tour of

Melbourne University

10AM-

11AM

Unions with a social

conscience: the fight against

racism

Ted Wymarra, Les Alderton

and Cathy Lewis Indigenous rights and struggle

The Russian revolution: fact

and fiction

Julia Jones

Marxism for beginners

The student struggle for

education rights

Sarah Garnham and Jess

Lenehan

Students and education

Through adversity to

victory: PALEA and

workers’ struggle in

the Philippines

Special guests

The fight for equal pay in

Australia

Katie Wood

Organising workers

From grassroots to seats

of power: the evolution

of the Australian Greens

Ben Hillier

Modern issues

11.30AM-

12.45PMHow to Survive a

Plague (2012)

Graham Willett and Phil

Carswell in conversation

with Roz Ward Film festival

Spring is coming:

students’ and workers’

struggle in China

and Taiwan

Au Loong Yu Special guests

Did Lenin lead to Stalin?

Alex Chklovski

Marxism for beginners

Pink and blue don’t mix: why

the police are no friends of

LGBTI people

James Vigus

Gender and sexuality

‘Left’ and ‘labour’ Zionism

and the struggle for

Palestine

Daniel Taylor

Against empire

Brazil: the Workers Party

and the left

Roberto Jorquera Modern issues

2PM-

3.30PM‘Rage, tenderness

and the grit of the

underdog’

Race and politics in the

USA today

Boots Riley Special guests

A history of the International

Socialist Tendency

Mick Armstrong and Ahmed

Shawki

Revolutionary organising

NSA, Wikileaks and the world

of surveillance

Alexis Vassiley

Against empire

Women of the 2013 Yallourn

lockout plus the radical

history of the Latrobe Valley

Glenda di Labio, Janine

Williamson, Jenny Jackeulen

and Naomi Farmer

Radical places

Sverdlov: Russian

Bolshevism’s imperious

chairman

Declan Murphy

Forgotten revolutionaries

4PM-

5.30PMThe Tall Man (2011)

Film festival

Literary pride and

class prejudice in

Australian literature

Patricia Cornelius and Ali

Alizadeh Special guests

The rebirth of radicalism in

Indonesia

Modern issues

Fracking: the new frontline

in environmental destruction

Jo Mettam

Environment

The humanism at the heart of

Marxism

Liz Walsh

Philosophy

Debates about women in the

Russian revolution

Lian Jenvey

Gender and sexuality

7PM-

8.30PMCelluloid comrades

- Australian union

filmmakers

Lisa Milner Film festival

What is the role of gender in

society?

Jade Eckhaus

Gender and sexuality

Out of the shadows: the

origins of Australian

Trotskyism

John Percy

Radical Australian history

The belly of the beast: US

politics today

Barry Sheppard

Special guests

Why you should be a socialist

today!

International guests and

Rebecca Barrigos

Revolutionary organising

The political theory of

Georg Lukács

Daniel Lopez

Philosophy

9PM Red Flag Bar

Boots Riley: Unplugged and unapolagetic

With special guests Pataphysics and Ezekiel Ox

10AM-

11AM

Book launch: 200 years of

Australian imperialism

Tom O’Lincoln

Against empire

Aboriginal control of

Aboriginal affairs: the fight

against protectionism from

the NT to Lake Tyers

Chris Graham and Marjorie

Thorpe Indigenous rightsand struggle

Marx and Engels’

contribution to fighting

women’s oppression

Sarah Garnham

Gender and sexuality

The role of socialist politics

in trade union activity

Jerome Small

Organising workers

Harry Braverman’s Labour

and Monopoly Capital

Kosta Rologas

Economics

Class struggle in ancient

Greece

Michael Lane

Radical places

11.30AM-

12.45PMPersons of Interest:

Gary Foley (2013)

Gary Foley

Film festival

WWI and the ANZAC hysteria

Robert Bollard and Kat

Henderson

Radical Australian history

Who is Socialist Alternative?

Josh Lees

Marxism for beginners

Women workers in

Bangladesh

Liz Ross

Organising workers

Schools or corporations?

Neoliberalism in education

Paul Coats

Students and education

Theories of revolution in

advanced capitalist societies

Sandra Bloodworth

Revolutionary organising

2PM-

3.30PM

‘Cole not dole’: the 30th

anniversary of the 1984/85

British miners’ strike

Janey Stone

Organising workers

Open the borders, close the

camps, free the refugees

Victoria Martin, Trevor Grant

and Nimal Nim

Modern issues

The origins of the ‘gay

community’: changes in sex

and personal life after WWII

Cat Rose

Gender and sexuality

Why the market can’t fix the

environment

Gemma Weedall

Environment

Western Marxism and the

New Left

Sadia Schneider

Philosophy

The 1936 Palestinian

general strike

Kim Bullimore

Against empire

4PM-

5.30PMRocking the

Foundations (1986)

Pat Fiske

Film festival

The criminalisation

of Aboriginality

Shiralee Hood and

Kutcha Edwards

Indigenous rights andstruggle

Racism and the

overpopulation myth

Scott Barrasford

Environment

Communist literature:

Dorothy Hewett and

Katharine Susannah Prichard

Jordan Humphreys

Radical culture

Vygotsky and how children

learn

Manolya Mustafa

Students and education

7PM-

8.30PM

A radical history of Darwin

Liam Ward

Radical places

Sartre: between

existentialism and Marxism

James Plested

Philosophy

Forty years on from

the women’s liberation

movement: how far we’ve

come and where to next

Louise O’Shea

Gender and sexuality

The RSL: foot soldiers of

capital

Sarah Gregson

Radical Australian history

Early Japanese women

communists

Shomi Yoon

Forgotten revolutionaries

Accumulation: the motor

of capitalism?

Damian Ridgwell

Economics

9PM Join us in the Red Flag Bar for a conference wrap-up and a final word from our international guests

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EASTER WEEKEND 17th-20th April University of Melbourne

Socialist Alternative and Red Flag newspaper present

Disaster capitalism and the need for resistancePanel featuring Ahmed Shawki, Gilbert Achcar, Diane Fieldes and more

Panel featuring Ahmed Shawki, Gilbert

Achcar, Diane Fieldes and more

6.30PM THURSDAY 17TH APRIL

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