Socialism 2024 Conference Program

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

Friday 16 August

6:00pm

Saturday 17 August

10:00am

How the profit motive is killing the planet
The resistible rise of the far right today
Engels: 'The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State'
Social media and the commodification of the self: Doom-scrolling, narcissism and propaganda
Strategy and the state: a critique of Nicos Poulantzas

12:00pm

Workers versus Bosses: How does social class shape our world?
The British Miners Strike of 1984-1985
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Universities, students and ideology: can we storm the ivory tower?
World Imperialism Today

2:30pm

The Russian Revolution: How workers took power
Biden, Trump & Lesser Evilism in the US Election
Socialist strategy to liberate Palestine
Luxemburg: 'Reform or Revolution?'
Theoretical debates on women's oppression: a critique of Hartmann and Vogel

4:30pm

Marx's Revolutionary Life
The NSW BLF: When workers power reshaped Sydney
A Marxist critique of Mutual Aid
Why is Labor so right-wing? The modern ALP
Class struggle in Argentina

6:00pm

Sunday 18 August

10:00am

Racism, sexism and bigotry: Why does the system need oppression?
The socialist critique of the Greens
What's wrong with campism in the 21st century?
A guide to Marx's Capital

12:00pm

Stalinist counter-revolution: A revolution betrayed
Australian solidarity against South African apartheid: Boycotting the 1971 Springbok Tour
The Spanish Revolution 1936
The Marxist critique of settler colonial theory

2:30pm

What would revolution look like today?
The story of Palestine
The limits of "lived experience" and intersectionality
The development of Lenin's theory of the party