IDEAS FOR FREEDOM - a weekend of socialist discussion and debate
Alliance for Workers' Liberty | 17.05.2006 12:34 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London
Ideas for Freedom is a weekend of socialist discussion and debate hosted by the Alliance for Workers' Liberty. It is a forum in which socialist, labour movement and anti-capitalist activists can freely debate the big issues facing the left and the working class. Speakers this year include campaigning journalist Greg Palast discussing his new book on big business and the Iraq war, and Kim Moody, former editor of US Labor Notes.
Ideas for Freedom is a weekend of socialist discussion and debate hosted by the Alliance for Workers' Liberty. It is a forum in which socialist, labour movement and anti-capitalist activists can freely debate the big issues facing the left and the working class. Speakers this year include campaigning journalist Greg Palast discussing his new book on big business and the Iraq war, and Kim Moody, former editor of US Labor Notes.
Saturday 1 July
12 noon
1. Blair, New Labour's crisis and the fight for working-class representation
2. Chavez, friend or foe of Venezuelan workers? Debate between AWL and Hands Off Venezuela
2.15pm
1. The threat from the BNP and how to fight it
2. What allies in the struggle against Islamism? Debate with Maryam Namazie, Worker-communist Party of Iran
3. The AWL's tradition. 1966: why we founded our tendency
4pm
1. US workers and capitalist globalisation. Kim Moody, former editor of Labor Notes
2. After the defeat of the CPE: the struggle in France. Speakers from the French student movement and revolutionary left
3. Discussion on left anti-semitism. Speakers including David Hirsh, Engage
6.30pm
The Iraq war and the corporate invasion of Iraq. Greg Palast discusses his new book, Armed Madhouse
Sunday 2 July
11am
1. Class struggle vs "democratic commitment" - debate on the Euston Manifesto.
2. The AWL's tradition. The 1968 left: where succeeded and where it failed
2pm
1. How do we get a new mass workers' party? The AWL debates the Socialist Party
2. The Bolivian revolution - where next? With a speaker from the Bolivia Solidarity Campaign and eyewitness accounts from Bolivia
3. Our history: Hungarian workers against Stalinism, 1956
3.15pm
1. Iran: a discussion of the US war threat and the nature of the Iranian regime, with Iranian socialist speakers
2. Our history: 70 years since the Spanish revolution, anarchism and Marxism tested in struggle
Plus an exhibition on the British General Strike of 1926. Creche, cheap food, bookstall, accommodation available.
1-2 July, The Resource Centre Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7
Tickets are currently £20 waged, £11 students or low-waged, £6 unwaged for the weekend; or £12, £6 and £3 for one day. Tickets bought before the end of May are cheaper.
For more details contact us at the details below.
Saturday 1 July
12 noon
1. Blair, New Labour's crisis and the fight for working-class representation
2. Chavez, friend or foe of Venezuelan workers? Debate between AWL and Hands Off Venezuela
2.15pm
1. The threat from the BNP and how to fight it
2. What allies in the struggle against Islamism? Debate with Maryam Namazie, Worker-communist Party of Iran
3. The AWL's tradition. 1966: why we founded our tendency
4pm
1. US workers and capitalist globalisation. Kim Moody, former editor of Labor Notes
2. After the defeat of the CPE: the struggle in France. Speakers from the French student movement and revolutionary left
3. Discussion on left anti-semitism. Speakers including David Hirsh, Engage
6.30pm
The Iraq war and the corporate invasion of Iraq. Greg Palast discusses his new book, Armed Madhouse
Sunday 2 July
11am
1. Class struggle vs "democratic commitment" - debate on the Euston Manifesto.
2. The AWL's tradition. The 1968 left: where succeeded and where it failed
2pm
1. How do we get a new mass workers' party? The AWL debates the Socialist Party
2. The Bolivian revolution - where next? With a speaker from the Bolivia Solidarity Campaign and eyewitness accounts from Bolivia
3. Our history: Hungarian workers against Stalinism, 1956
3.15pm
1. Iran: a discussion of the US war threat and the nature of the Iranian regime, with Iranian socialist speakers
2. Our history: 70 years since the Spanish revolution, anarchism and Marxism tested in struggle
Plus an exhibition on the British General Strike of 1926. Creche, cheap food, bookstall, accommodation available.
1-2 July, The Resource Centre Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7
Tickets are currently £20 waged, £11 students or low-waged, £6 unwaged for the weekend; or £12, £6 and £3 for one day. Tickets bought before the end of May are cheaper.
For more details contact us at the details below.
Alliance for Workers' Liberty
e-mail:
office@workersliberty.org
Homepage:
http://www.workersliberty.org/ideas
