Socialism 2025 Conference Program

Understanding Capitalism Today Marxist Foundations Left Debates Australian Working Class History Revolutions Marxist Classics
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Friday 15 August

6:00pm

Saturday 16 August

10:00am

Social class, exploitation and struggle: why are workers a 'revolutionary' class?
Marxist Foundations
Gaza genocide: why the whole capitalism system is to blame
Trump's America: capitalist hellscape and the prospect of resistance
Understanding Capitalism Today
The 1966 Gurindji Strike
Australian Working Class History
What Marx learnt from the 1848 revolutions
Marxist Classics

12:00pm

Is there an electoral road to socialism?
Marxist Foundations
Wounded Masculinity? How do we smash Tate & the manosphere
Understanding Capitalism Today
Imperialism today: building socialist opposition to war and militarism
Understanding Capitalism Today
Poland 1980-1981: Solidarnosc and the self-limiting revolution
Revolutions
'What is to be done?' Lenin's conception of the party
Marxist Classics

2:30pm

What would revolution look like?
Marxist Foundations
Socialist strategy in trade unions: rank and file versus bureaucracy
The struggle for women's equal pay: from Zelda D'Aprano to today
Australian Working Class History
The European Far Right
Understanding Capitalism Today
Co-ops, mutual aid and "building community": are they an alternative to class struggle?
Left Debates

4:30pm

How and why does capitalism create racism?
Marxist Foundations
How Stalinism distorted Marxism: from the popular front to campism
The war on woke is a war on workers
Understanding Capitalism Today
Why the alternative to Trumpism is not a return to the so-called "rules based order"
Understanding Capitalism Today
The Industrial Workers of the World: Australian revolutionaries in WW1
Australian Working Class History

6:00pm

Sunday 17 August

10:00am

The 1917 Russian Revolution: when workers took power
Marxist Foundations
Capitalism and the housing crisis (with Jordan van den Lamb aka purplepingers)
Silicon Valley: the dystopian techbros who run our world
Understanding Capitalism Today
A socialist response to the transphobic backlash
Understanding Capitalism Today
Trotsky's theory of what Fascism is and how to fight it
Marxist Classics

12:00pm

Socialist Q+A
Marxist Foundations
Why identity politics can't liberate the oppressed
Left Debates
Can Democrats fight the Oligarchy? Sanders, AOC, and the resistance to Trump we need
Understanding Capitalism Today
Italy 1919-1920: Biennio Rosso
Revolutions
An international balance sheet of the “broad party” strategy
Left Debates

2:30pm

Stalin's counter-revolution: the triumph of state capitalism
Marxist Foundations
ICE raids and offshore prisons: the assault on immigrant rights today and the socialist case against borders
Understanding Capitalism Today
Socialist strategy to liberate Palestine
NSW Socialists: a new vehicle to fight for socialist politics, as Victorian Socialists goes federal
50 years since The Whitlam dismissal
Australian Working Class History