Resistance National Conference
Stop Bush! Dump Howard! Save our Planet!
July 5-8, Glebe Town Hall Sydney
Click here to register for the conference online
Thursday July 5
12.00pm: Conference Welcome
12.15pm: Feature panel — Fighting the empire, fighting for socialism
1.45pm: Plenary — The global environmental crisis and the socialist
solutions by Mel Barnes.
Session will break into workshops discussing
different elements including uranium, nuclear power and
climate change.
4.15pm: 15 minute break
4.30pm - 6.00pm Workshop session:
1) Mass action, liberalism and ultra-leftism - lessons from the movement
against the Vietnam War
2) National oppression - Iraq: Occupation, resistance, and sectarianism
3) Introduction to Marxist economic theory: the character and contradictions
of the capitalist system
4) Workers taking power: The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, 1917
7.00pm: Public meeting at UTS: Global resistance to war and empire: Stop
Bush!
Friday July 6
9.00am: Plenary — The international political situation and our tasks
11.30: Workshop session
1) Marxism versus anarchism: the Spanish Revolution
2) Racism in Australia - from the dispossession of the Aboriginal peoples to
Islamophobia
3) Dialectical materialism and the long view of history
4) Indigenous revolution in Bolivia today
1.00pm LUNCH
2.00pm: Feature panel - Make Howard history, with Australian guest speakers
3.00pm Plenary: 3) The Venezuelan revolution and socialism in the 21st
century
5.15pm - 15 minute break
5.30pm Workshop session
1) The role of youth and students in the struggle for socialism
2) Women fighting for liberation
3) Stalinism and the flawed theory of “state capitalism”
4) Participatory democracy: five decades of the Cuban Revolution
6.30pm: One-hour dinner break
7.30pm: Cultural event and conference rally at Glasshouse, UTS
Saturday July 7
9.00am - 4.00pm: Venezuela Solidarity Conference - organised by the office of the charge d'affaires in Sydney
Sunday July 8
9.00am: Plenary -Fighting Bush, Howard and APEC: our tasks and perspectives
11.30am: Workshop session
1) You are not a slave! The fight for workers’ rights in Howard’s Australia
2) Fighting homophobia today
3) The role of art, culture and literature in the struggle for socialism
4) The first revolution of the 21st century: Venezuela in-depth
12.30pm: (extended) LUNCH and fractions (1-2pm)
2:00pm: Plenary: Building Resistance
4.15pm-4.30pm: Conference close.
6.30pm onwards: Food and drinks at Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale
