Socialism 2026 Conference Program

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Saturday 5 September

10:00am

Palantir, AI and the sci-fi dystopia the techbros are making
Exploitation and Class Struggle
The Communist Manifesto
Courts, cops and class: how the law serves the rich
German Revolution Part 1, 1918-19: Who Killed Rosa Luxemburg?

12:00pm

Can socialism come through parliament?
Combating the threat of One Nation
"Israel lobby and the ""Epstein class"": Why conspiracies can't explain the world
Indigenous union struggles in the 60s & 70s
The Hidden History of Australian Fascism

2:30pm

The real story of the Russian Revolution
The Mass Strike
Why Stalinism should stay dead
NSW Socialists: a socialist voice in the NSW elections
Resisting Trumps America: War, Racism and Authoritarianism

4:30pm

Why does capitalism need sexism?
Why migrants aren't to blame for the housing crisis
The Cuban Revolution
The Battle of Cable Street 1936: the epic defeat of the fascists in the Jewish East End
Free Palestine: Socialist Strategy for Liberation

Sunday 6 September

10:00am

What is socialism anyway?
Incel Creeps and Looksmaxers: how capitalism created the Manosphere
Revolution & Counter-Revolution in Iran 1979
Lenin on the Soviets and the Revolutionary Party
Why anti-imperialism doesn't mean support for dictators

12:00pm

Revolution Betrayed: Stalin's counter-revolution
Why identity politics isn't liberating
The good, the bad and the ugly: the Communist Party's strategy in unions
State & Revolution, Lenin

2:30pm

Revolution on Film
How can we rebuild radical unions? The Socialist approach to trade unions
A Marxist Critique of the Greens
German Revolution Part 2 1920-1923: Centrism, Ultra-leftism & the Comintern
Imperialism Today