Program | Marxism 2020

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Thursday 9th April

Thursday 6:30pm

Marxism Opening Night!

Friday 10th April

Friday 10:00am

Capitalism in crisis: is the world economy on the brink of a new slump?

Captain Cook 1770: paving the way for British imperialism in Australia

From bushfires to industrial fires: how corporate greed is destroying the planet and working class communities

Students in revolt: Mexico 1968

The dictatorship of the proletariat from Marx to Lenin

Marxism 101 - The myth of capitalist democracy

Marxism 101 - The system behind sexism

Friday 11:45am

Class power, anarchism and authoritarianism

Dystopian futures: authoritarianism, racism and the state in the context of climate chaos

Book launch: Stuff the Accord! Pay up! The Accord and workers’ resistance

The masses on the move: the revolt in Chile

Why the Democrats will never be a social democratic party

Marxism 101 - Work, eat, sleep, repeat: understanding working class oppression

Friday 2:15pm

A Marxist approach to parliamentary elections

An introduction to Marx’s Capital

PANEL: Kashmir's struggle for independence

Red Guards and workers militias in the Russian Revolution

The theory of the trade union bureaucracy and the rank and file

Marxism 101 - What would a workers' revolution look like?

Friday 4:15pm

PANEL: 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War moratorium march in Australia

Abolish the police: liberal vs revolutionary perspectives

Debating the neo-reformists: the modern state and the necessity for insurrection

France's strike movement: 21st century class struggle

PANEL: Class struggle and women's liberation

Urban rebellion and factory occupations: the 2001 popular revolt in Argentina

Marxism 101 - Where does racism come from?

Friday 7:15pm

PANEL: A world to win! Revolutionary struggle across the globe today

Saturday 11th April

Saturday 10:00am

Feminism for the 99%? A critical approach to Social Reproduction Theory

Book launch: The story of Palestine: empire, repression and resistance

From apathy to rebellion: what makes workers fight?

Rebellion, reformism and reaction in Bolivia

The fallacy of market socialism

Marxism 101 - Why is capitalism destroying the planet?

'Our backyard': Australian imperialism in the Pacific

Saturday 11:45am

Iran’s counterrevolutionary 'anti-imperialism'

Race, class and resistance in the USA

Remembering the Gurindji strike: Land rights and working class struggle

Marxism 101 - The real story of the Russian Revolution

Where is China going? A Marxist analysis

Why do we need a revolutionary party?

'Green growth' and reformist utopias: the Green New Deal and beyond

Saturday 2:15pm

After the tipping points: is socialism still possible in a hot house earth?

Fascists Among Us: online hate and the Christchurch massacre

How can workers run the economy: participation or power?

Militant women: the suffragettes in Britain

PANEL: West Papua's struggle for freedom

Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa today

Marxism 101 - The case for joining Socialist Alternative

Saturday 4:15pm

A Marxist critique of privilege theory

Marxism 101 - Can socialism come through parliament?

Marx and the mystery of money

PANEL: No Justice, No Peace: the fight to stop Black Deaths in Custody

The struggle for democracy in Hong Kong

The Spanish revolution and civil war

Saturday 7:15pm

Amandla! A multi-media spectacular against racism

PANEL: A planet to save! The role of socialists in responding to the climate crisis

Sunday 12th April

Sunday 10:00am

Book launch: Martin Monath: A Jewish resistance fighter among Nazi soldiers

Gramsci and the factory councils

In perspective: Edward Said

Does non-violence work?

Schooled in America: Imperialism and the far right in Latin America

Socialism and the politics of transgender liberation

The capitalist state and socialist strategy today

Sunday 11:45am

From paddock to plate: food production and capitalism

Left challenges inside the Democrats: Jesse Jackson’s campaign for president

PANEL: Militants in the workplace

Marxism 101 - Reform vs revolution: lessons from Chile 1973

The politics of 'leaderlessness'

Lega vs Sardines: the rise of the far-right in Italy

Sunday 2:15pm

PANEL: Bernie Sanders, the Democrats and building the left in the US today

Has socialism been tried and failed?

Marx and the 1871 Paris Commune

PANEL: Socialist QandA

The art and politics of Bertolt Brecht

The Weather Underground: a Marxist critique of left-wing terrorism

Women on the frontlines: the struggle for abortion rights in Argentina

Sunday 4:15pm

Radicals and revolutionaries: Korean women in struggle

Marxism 101 - Historical materialism: an introduction to Marxist philosophy

Marx, Hegel and the Enlightenment

Modi and the BJP: is Hindu nationalism fascism?

Rebellion in the veins: Bolivia's revolution in 1952

Wildcat strikes in the Latrobe Valley in the 1960s

'A change is gonna come': how music shaped and was shaped by the black civil rights movement

Sunday 7:15pm

CLOSING NIGHT: Another world is possible