Socialism 2022 Conference Program

Marxism 101 Racism Marxist Theory Capitalism in 2022 Australian Radical History Revolutions Refugees Climate Change War and Imperialism Left Debates The Fight for Workers Power Culture Socialist Organising USA Black Lives Matter Nationalism Nations Karl Marx Economics Democracy Working Class Borders International Neoliberalism Inequality and Poverty Ideology Debates Competition Unions Gender and Sexuality Radical History 1960s and 1970s Parliament and Elections Revolution The State The far right Stalinism Party and Class Left Strategy Organising for Revolution Anarchism Theorising Oppression
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Friday 2 September

6:00pm

Saturday 3 September

10:00am

Marxism 101: Capitalism and the Environment
Historical Materialism
Black power & union struggle in the 70s: From the BLF to the Wee Waa cotton strike

12:00pm

Marxism 101: Is capitalism to blame for racism?
Global Economy today: inflation and its meaning for profits, geopolitics and struggle
The Victorian Socialists: A radical electoral project

2:30pm

Marxism 101: The 1917 Russian Revolution
Trotskyism & the Australian new left in the 60s & 70s
Is there anything radical about the Australian Greens?

4:30pm

Britain's summer of discontent feat. UK rail striker
Alienation
Nina Simone: Singin' about a revolution
The Black Armada: How Australian workers fought for Indonesian independence

Sunday 4 September

10:00am

Marxism 101: The Stalinist counter-revolution in Russia
The fight for women's and trans rights from the US to Australia
Is Marxism Eurocentric?
Imperialism today: The US, China and Russia's war in Ukraine

12:00pm

Marxism 101: What would workers revolution look like?
Marx & Lincoln: The US Civil War
Democratic struggles and permanent revolution

2:30pm

Marxism vs Anarcho-communism
The tragedy of the German Revolution
Migrant workers in post war Australia: racism, militancy and multiculturalism

4:30pm

Privilege Theory: Do workers benefit from oppression?
Australia's war on refugees
From Billy Hughes to the The Whitlam Coup: Working class struggle under Labor governments