The HM 2013 Tenth Annual Conference 'Making the World Working Class'
Despite rising levels of class struggle - from a growing working class movement in China to the Arab uprisings and mobilisation against austerity in Southern Europe - discourses of class remain largely marginal to political debate and action. Class struggle is often recognised, namely through the language of inequality, but is being increasingly filtered, also on the left, through notions of ‘the people’ or ‘the 99%’. The tenth annual Historical Materialism aims to provide a forum for debating the descriptive and prescriptive roles that concepts of class and class struggle can have today.
See Historical Materialism website for full programme:
http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/annual10/HM2013Grid.pdf/view
(At previous conferences unwaged people were let in if they paid only what they could afford)
Despite rising levels of class struggle - from a growing working class movement in China to the Arab uprisings and mobilisation against austerity in Southern Europe - discourses of class remain largely marginal to political debate and action. Class struggle is often recognised, namely through the language of inequality, but is being increasingly filtered, also on the left, through notions of ‘the people’ or ‘the 99%’. The tenth annual Historical Materialism aims to provide a forum for debating the descriptive and prescriptive roles that concepts of class and class struggle can have today.
See Historical Materialism website for full programme:
http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/annual10/HM2013Grid.pdf/view (At previous conferences unwaged people were let in if they paid only what they could afford)
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Liberate The Land
01.11.2013 08:54
As long as people do not have free access to land, they are slaves to the land owners.
The law, the financial system and politics are designed to maintain and increase the position of those already in power.
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." -- Charles De Montesquieu
Bennie
Ticket prices
01.11.2013 11:50
Smacks of a Guardian reader event to me for the Notting Hill brigade
Actual working class
Free The People
01.11.2013 14:38
Good point about the tickets. I also took a closer look at the proposed program of lectures, it seems to me it will be aimed at communist intellectuals, or "Bollinger Bosheviks" as they have been called before.
They think, they know what's best for us, and just as happened in the Russian communist revolution and the Chinese communist revolution, they aim to replace the present ruling class with very little change for the ordinary folk.
In Spain, Russia, China and other struggles, the communist intellectuals turned against the anarchists at the most critical times. I am an ordinary anarchist that stands with the ordinary people. Anarchists have a proud track record.
Of course, they do have a nice cheese and wine selection, so I hear.
Chauncy