Schedule

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See below for the list of debates and discussions at Socialism 2008.
We will post the detailed schedule of speakers and times soon.

Marxist Classics:

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
The Mass Strike
Trotsky on the Struggle Against Fascism
Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution
CLR James: Black Jacobins
Socialists and the State: Karl Marx on the Paris Commune (Civil War in France)

Marxist Economics:

How to Read Marx’s Capital
ABC’s of Marxist Economics
From New Deal to raw deal–1932-present
Bubble to Bust: The Global Economy Today
Can Marxism explain the current crisis?
Immigration, Migration and the World Economy

Introduction to Marxism:

Marxism and the centrality of the working class
Marxist dialectics
What is Historical Materialism
The Marxist Theory of Alienation

Leninism/Russian Revolution:

Lenin and the Birth of Bolshevism
In Defense of the Russian Revolution
Lenin and the Revolutionary Party
February 1917: Spontaneous Revolution?
Lenin and national question

Our Tradition:

The Communist International: World Revolution on the agenda
Why the Theory of State Capitalism Still Matters
Trotsky’s Struggle Against Stalinism

Other Revolutionary Currents/Political Traditions:

Is Liberalism Coming Back
Marxism and Political Islam
Mao: Myth and reality
Marx Versus the Anarchists
Are American Lifestyles Destroying the World?

American Left:

Politics of the 1960s SDS

Strategy and Tactics:

Do Socialists Support Reforms?
What do Socialists say about Direct Action?

Revolutionaries:

Che Guevara and the Politics of Guerilla Struggle
The Revolutionary Ideas of Antonio Gramsci
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the IWW
Kautsky, Plekhanov and the Second International
John Brown: revolutionary abolitionist
Eugene Debs and the American Socialist Party
Alexandra Kollantai and Women’s Liberation

Black History/Racism:

MLK’s Last Struggle
Slavery and the Origins of Racism
Black Reconstruction
Institutional Racism: How does it Work?
Red Lines: Race and Housing in the U.S.
Jim Crow Justice: From the Jena Courthouse to the Texas Death House
A System that Causes Crime, a Criminal Injustice System
Torture: From Guantanamo to Chicago Interrogation Rooms
Ida B Wells & the Campaign Against Lynching
Islamophobia in America

International:

Global perspectives: a new era?
Europe’s New Left Parties
South Africa Since the End of Apartheid
Latin America Since the Argentinazo
Live From Gaza
China puts on its game face: Repression, Revolt and the Olympics
From Al-Nakbah to Gaza - the Making of a Racist State
Palestine Today
Venezuela
Plan COLOMBIA
Cuba After Fidel
Class Struggle in the Middle East/Egypt
Communism and Nationalism in the Middle East

Imperialism:

Lenin and Bukharin on Imperialism
Forging of the American Empire
Black Soldiers and the Vietnam War
WWII: The Good War?
Rogue state: US Imperialism Since 9/11
Afghanistan: The Hidden Disaster
Iran and the Politics of the Middle East

Pages from Working-class Radicalism/Workers Struggles Today:

1930s: US Workers in Revolt
Black Workers Militancy in the 1960s
Panel on Issues for the Labor Movement
Freightliner 5 Solidarity
Immigrant Workers Struggles Today
Class Struggle and Immigrant Workers in US History
Class and Class Structure in the US Today

Antiwar:

GIs Speak Out Against Occupation
Lesssons from the Last GI movement for today:
Building a New GI Resistance Movement
Iraq: Eyewitness to Occupation

Oppression:

Tribune of the Oppressed: Marxism and Liberation
Capitalism and Sexuality
Marxism and Gay Liberation: The Real History
Unite and Fight?: Marxism and Identity Politics
History of the US Women’s Liberation Movement
Conquest of the New World

World History:

Have there always been rich and poor? The Origins of Class Society
The birth of Capitalism and Bourgeois Revolution
The Plunder of Africa and the Rise of Capitalism

Environment:

Marx’s Ecology
Green Scare
Can global warming be stopped?

Culture:

Art in Revolutionary Russia
Mozart and the Age of Enlightenment
American Hunger: Richard Wright
A People’s History of Sports in the US
1968: The Athletes’ Revolt
Protest Music of the 60s

Religion:

Kautsky and the Foundations of Christianity
The Jewish Question
The Meek and the Militant: Religion and Power

Questions for Socialists:

What would Socialism be like?
Is the Earth overcrowded?
The privatization of education