16/02: Their Europe and ours: Europe-wide crisis, Europe-wide workers' fightback
Workers' Liberty | 10.01.2013 18:02 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London
Join us, and speakers from across Europe, to discuss how we can develop European working-class unity and a Europe-wide fightback, and what Marxist ideas can contribute to that fight.
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THEIR EUROPE AND OURS
Europe-wide crisis, Europe-wide workers' fightback
A Workers' Liberty event
11.30am-6pm, Saturday 16 February
University of London Union, Malet St, London WC1
On 14 November, Europe saw its first-ever cross-border general strike, with mass strikes in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, and protests in many other countries.
In Greece, prolonged social crisis has led to the collapse of the former ruling party, Pasok, and a huge growth of workers' struggles and the left - but also to the rise of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn.
Resistance to neo-liberal economics and falling living standards played a major role in the revolutionary upheavals in North Africa. Is revolution possible on this side of the Mediterranean?
In Britain, in a situation of high working-class anger but low working-class confidence, and a heavily bureaucratised labour movement, how do we make links with and learn from much more intense struggles in countries like Greece?
Why is so much of the British left for Britain getting out of the EU? And is that right?
Join us, and speakers from across Europe, to discuss how we can develop European working-class unity and a Europe-wide fightback, and what Marxist ideas can contribute to that fight. Discussions will include:
* What is a revolutionary situation? Is there one now in Greece?
* Should we want the EU to break up?
* Fighting the far right across Europe
* What is Syriza?
* How Trotsky and Gramsci's ideas can help us understand the crisis
* Working-class history: the European revolution, 1917-23
* Women across Europe fight back
Evening social, cheap food, free accommodation and free creche - if you want to use the creche or accommodation please get in touch.
Tickets bought in advance are £10 waged, £7 low-waged/uni students, £5 unwaged/school or college students. Book now at http://www.workersliberty.org/europe
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/354267264670508/
awl@workersliberty.org / 07796 690 874
Europe-wide crisis, Europe-wide workers' fightback
A Workers' Liberty event
11.30am-6pm, Saturday 16 February
University of London Union, Malet St, London WC1
On 14 November, Europe saw its first-ever cross-border general strike, with mass strikes in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, and protests in many other countries.
In Greece, prolonged social crisis has led to the collapse of the former ruling party, Pasok, and a huge growth of workers' struggles and the left - but also to the rise of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn.
Resistance to neo-liberal economics and falling living standards played a major role in the revolutionary upheavals in North Africa. Is revolution possible on this side of the Mediterranean?
In Britain, in a situation of high working-class anger but low working-class confidence, and a heavily bureaucratised labour movement, how do we make links with and learn from much more intense struggles in countries like Greece?
Why is so much of the British left for Britain getting out of the EU? And is that right?
Join us, and speakers from across Europe, to discuss how we can develop European working-class unity and a Europe-wide fightback, and what Marxist ideas can contribute to that fight. Discussions will include:
* What is a revolutionary situation? Is there one now in Greece?
* Should we want the EU to break up?
* Fighting the far right across Europe
* What is Syriza?
* How Trotsky and Gramsci's ideas can help us understand the crisis
* Working-class history: the European revolution, 1917-23
* Women across Europe fight back
Evening social, cheap food, free accommodation and free creche - if you want to use the creche or accommodation please get in touch.
Tickets bought in advance are £10 waged, £7 low-waged/uni students, £5 unwaged/school or college students. Book now at
http://www.workersliberty.org/europe Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/354267264670508/ awl@workersliberty.org / 07796 690 874
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