Ideas for Freedom, 11-13 July
Workers' Liberty | 17.06.2008 16:26 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | South Coast
Ideas for Freedom is an annual weekend of socialist debate and discussion hosted by the Alliance for Workers' Liberty. Its purpose is to facilitate discussion about the way forward for working-class, anti-capitalist struggle, help us develop our ideas and persuade activists to join the fight for socialism.
Friday 11 July
7pm: Film showing and social at the Bread & Roses in Clapham
We will be showing "I Stand by the River", a film about the Memphis refuse workers' strike, which Martin Luther King was supporting when he was assassinated.
US trade unionist and socialist Kim Moody, who was active at the time, will discuss the politics of race and class struggle in America in 1968 and today.
Saturday 12 July (11.30am-8pm)
Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 (nearest Tube: Holloway Road)
- Where the Chinese regime comes from: the working class, Maoism and the history of real Chinese communism
- The politics of Simone de Beauvoir, with Carole Seymour-Jones
- Forum: is there a feminist revival? with speakers including Feminist Fightback
- The state of the unions, with Kim Moody and trade union activists
- The fire last time: France's working-class uprising in 1968
- Intro to Marxism 1: the Communist Manifesto
- Intro to Marxism 2: "How capitalism works", Marx's Capital for beginners
- The Italian elections and the massacre of the left
- World economy in crisis
- Plus a speaker from the International Socialist Organisation Zimbabwe on the crisis of Mugabe's regime, and Zimbabwean workers' fight against neoliberalism and dictatorship
Followed by a social
Sunday 13 July (10am-4.30pm)
- Alternatives to Capitalism: launch of a new book from the AWL
- Is the Labour Party dead? How can the working-class create a political voice? With speakers including John McDonnell, chair of the Labour Representation Committee, and Mark Serwotka, general secretary of PCS (invited)
- Debate on revolutionary traditions: Marxism vs anarchism
- The politics of Antonio Gramsci
- Debate on LGBT, "queer" and gender politics
- Intro to Marxism 3: "Broad movement" or "revolutionary party"?
- Intro to Marxism 4: The "other Trotskyism" - the historical tradition of the AWL
- Simon Pirani discusses his new book on the Russian revolution
- Forum: the way forward for climate change activists, with Aled Dilwyn Fisher from Green left and speakers from Plane Stupid and Workers' Climate Action.
Cheap food, free creche and accommodation.
Email:
awl@workersliberty.org
Phone: 020 7207 3997
Tickets are £25 waged, £18 students/low-waged, £13 unwaged, with a £3 discount if you pay in advance. Day tickets also available.
You can book online at
http://www.workersliberty.org/ideas or send a cheque payable to AWL to AWL, PO Box 823, London SE15 4NA.
7pm: Film showing and social at the Bread & Roses in Clapham
We will be showing "I Stand by the River", a film about the Memphis refuse workers' strike, which Martin Luther King was supporting when he was assassinated.
US trade unionist and socialist Kim Moody, who was active at the time, will discuss the politics of race and class struggle in America in 1968 and today.
Saturday 12 July (11.30am-8pm)
Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 (nearest Tube: Holloway Road)
- Where the Chinese regime comes from: the working class, Maoism and the history of real Chinese communism
- The politics of Simone de Beauvoir, with Carole Seymour-Jones
- Forum: is there a feminist revival? with speakers including Feminist Fightback
- The state of the unions, with Kim Moody and trade union activists
- The fire last time: France's working-class uprising in 1968
- Intro to Marxism 1: the Communist Manifesto
- Intro to Marxism 2: "How capitalism works", Marx's Capital for beginners
- The Italian elections and the massacre of the left
- World economy in crisis
- Plus a speaker from the International Socialist Organisation Zimbabwe on the crisis of Mugabe's regime, and Zimbabwean workers' fight against neoliberalism and dictatorship
Followed by a social
Sunday 13 July (10am-4.30pm)
- Alternatives to Capitalism: launch of a new book from the AWL
- Is the Labour Party dead? How can the working-class create a political voice? With speakers including John McDonnell, chair of the Labour Representation Committee, and Mark Serwotka, general secretary of PCS (invited)
- Debate on revolutionary traditions: Marxism vs anarchism
- The politics of Antonio Gramsci
- Debate on LGBT, "queer" and gender politics
- Intro to Marxism 3: "Broad movement" or "revolutionary party"?
- Intro to Marxism 4: The "other Trotskyism" - the historical tradition of the AWL
- Simon Pirani discusses his new book on the Russian revolution
- Forum: the way forward for climate change activists, with Aled Dilwyn Fisher from Green left and speakers from Plane Stupid and Workers' Climate Action.
Cheap food, free creche and accommodation.
Email:
awl@workersliberty.org Phone: 020 7207 3997
Tickets are £25 waged, £18 students/low-waged, £13 unwaged, with a £3 discount if you pay in advance. Day tickets also available.
You can book online at
http://www.workersliberty.org/ideas or send a cheque payable to AWL to AWL, PO Box 823, London SE15 4NA.
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