Tired of petty sectarianism - come to Marxism 2002

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Friday November 22, 2002 15:02

by Socialist Worker - SWP

swp at clubi dot ie

PO Box 1648, Dublin 8

01 8722682

An open and un sectraian anti capitalist conference

Meanwhile back in the real world hundreds of anti capitalists will be meeting to discuss the politics of revolution

Tickets €20/Str£12 waged, €10/Str£6 unwaged, €5/Str£3 School students
Ticket Hotline: 087 683 8746 (RoI) 07901 916 156 (NI)
or write to: Marxism 2002, PO Box 1648, Dublin 8 Web: www.swp.ie

Final Timetable

Room 2037
Room 3106
Room 3071
Room 3126
Room 3051

Friday
6.00 - 7.15

Trotskyism after Trotsky
Kevin Moran
Israel and the roots of Zionism
Brian Kelly
Harte and Negri's Empire -
A critique
Colm Bryce

7.30 - 9.00
Building resistance to capital and war
Francois Duval (Ligue Communist Revolutionaire, France), Kieran Allen (SWP Ireland),
Chris Bambery (SWP Britain), Paddy Connolly (Columbia 3 solidarity campaign) [2037]

Saturday

10.00 - 11.15
From Plan Columbia to Argentina: Crisis and revolt in Latin America
Joe Carolan
David Connolly
(Columbia 3 solidarity campaign)
Deportations and the rise of racism in the South
Roy Hassey
The Matrix to Lord of the Rings - the politics of fantasy and SciFi
Richard Boyd Barrett
The marxist theory of ideology
Deirdre Cronin

11.45 - 1.00
What is fundamentalism?
Terry Eagleton
Lenin and the Bolsheviks in
revolution
Donal Mac Fhearraigh
The Red Peril: The Communist Party in Ireland in the 1930s
Willy Cumming
From Malcolm X to the Black Panthers
Grace Lally

2.00 - 3.15
Strategy and tactics of the Communist international 1919-23
Richard Boyd Barrett
Advertising and the body: Why sexism sells
Aoife Ni Fhearghail
Can socialist planning work?
Francois Duval
Protestant workers and the fight for socialism
Linda Moore
Room 4050a: Shelley, Ireland and revolution
Paul O'Brien

3.45 - 5.00
The corporate media: Is 'Big Brother' all powerful?
Eamonn McCann
What is neo-liberalism?
Marnie Holborow
Why the Irish health service fails
Dr Juliet Bressan, Jo Tully (Shop Steward, James Hospital)
Palestine, Arab workers and revolution
Michael McGrath
Aoife NíFhearghail

7.00 - 8.30
After Florence: Where now for the anti capitalist movement?
Chris Bambery,
Joe Carolan
Anarchism: An alternative to Marxism?
Conor Kostick
How do we get a fighting trade union movement?
Jimmy Kelly, Pat Cahill, Mick O'Reilly
Bush and the new imperialism
Simon Basketter

Sunday

10.00 - 11.15
The politics of Gerry Adams
Ryan McKinney
Is fascism on the rise in Europe?
Brid Smith
Terror from the skies:
A history of bombing
Dave Lordan
Marx's theory of crisis
Gordon Hewitt

11.45 - 1.00
Global warming: Can the planet survive?
John Gormley & Owen McCormack
From Germain Greer to Naomi Wolf: Where is Feminism at today?
Goretti Horgan
Was Jesus a revolutionary?
Kevin Wingfield
Brendan Behan
Ritchie Browne

2.00 - 3.15
Marx and democracy
Kieran Allen
Africa, development and socialism
Luke Choto (Zimbabwean socialist)
Sparticus and the slave revolts: Class struggle in the ancient world
Theresa Urbainczyk
Freud, the mind and conflict
Peadar O'Grady

3.30 - 4.45
American workers: prisoners of the American dream?
Mike Davis
From Punk to Rap: How industry steals our sounds
John Connolly
The revolutionary ideas of Leon Trotsky
James O'Toole
Questions & Answers:
The politics of SWP

5.00 - 5.30
Final Rally: A world to win
Chris Bambery (SWP Britain), Ann Collins (Belgrove cleaners strike), Brid Smith [2037]