Provisional sessions and streams include:
Plenary Sessions
A world to win! Revolutionary struggle across the globe today
A planet to save! The role of socialists in responding to the climate crisis
Marxism 101
Where does racism come from?
The myth of capitalist democracy
Work, eat, sleep, repeat: understanding working class oppression
What would a workers’ revolution look like?
Why is capitalism destroying the planet?
Can socialism come through parliament?
The real story of the Russian Revolution
The case for joining Socialist Alternative
The system behind sexism
Reform vs revolution: lessons from Chile 1973
Socialist Q&A
Historical Materialism: an introduction to Marxism philosophy
Socialist FAQs
Does non-violence work? with Mick Armstrong
Hasn’t socialism been tried and failed?
From apathy to rebellion: what makes workers fight? with Liam Ward
Are police necessary? with Beth Jackson
Left debates
The capitalist state and socialist strategy today with Charlie Post
Debating the neo-reformists: the modern state and the necessity for insurrection with Sarah Garnham
The politics of “leaderlessness” with Sadia Schneider
A Marxist critique of privilege theory
The theory of the trade union bureaucracy and the ‘rank-and-file’ strategy
Corbynism: a balance sheet with Moira Leahy
The fallacy of market socialism with Rick Kuhn
Workers control, workers participation and workers power
Save the Planet
Dystopian futures: authoritarianism, racism and the state in the context of climate chaos with Sagar Sanyal
“Green growth” and reformist utopias: the Green New Deal and beyond with James Plested
After the tipping points: is socialism still possible in a hot house earth?
From paddock to plate: capitalism and food production with Roxanne Kelly
PANEL: From bushfires to industrial fires: how corporate greed is destroying the planet and working class communities featuring Lavanya Thavaraja
Global revolts, repression and resistance
Eyewitness to the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong, with Red Flag editor Ben Hillier
Revolution and imperialism in the Middle East today with Omar Hassan
PANEL: West Papua: the struggle for freedom
Kashmir’s struggle for independence with Lee Rhiannon
US politics and history
Race, class and resistance in the USA with Todd St Hill
Why the Democrats will never be a social democratic party with Charlie Post
PANEL: Bernie Sanders, the Democrats and building the left in the US today
Imperialism today: the USA vs China
Left challenges inside the Democrats: Jesse Jackson’s campaign for president
The Weather Underground: a Marxist critique of left wing terrorism
Latin America
Schooled in America: imperialism and the far right in Latin America
Urban rebellion and factory occupations: Argentina in the early 2000s with Luis Meiners
Women on the frontlines: the struggle for abortion rights in Argentina with Andrea Lanzette
The uprising in Chile with Jorge Jorquera and Luis Meiner
Rebellion, reformism and reaction in Bolivia with Rebecca Barrigos
Fascism, racism and fighting the far right
Fascists Among Us: Online hate & the Christchurch massacre with Jeff Sparrow in conversation with Vashti Fox
Modi and the BJP: is Hindu nationalism fascism? with Vishnupriya De
‘Italians first’: the rise of the far-right in Italy with Chris di Pasquale
PANEL: No justice, no peace: the fight to stop Black deaths in custody featuring Gavin Stanbrook
‘Native Title’ is not land rights
Edward Said in perspective with Dougal McNeil
Book launch: A Jewish resistance fighter among Nazi soldiers with author Nathaniel Flakin
Radical history
Force and consent: the role of the Red Guards in the Russian Revolution
Gramsci and the role of factory councils with Luca Tavan
Marx and the 1871 Paris Commune
The Spanish revolution and civil war
Marxist theory
The dictatorship of the proletariat from Marx to Lenin with Darren Roso
Marx and money
Marxism and elections
An introduction to Marx’s Capital Vol. 1
Class power, anarchism and authoritarianism
Middle East and Palestine
Palestinian youth voices from Hebron
Book launch: The story of Palestine: Empire, repression and resistance with author Vashti Fox
Iran’s role in the Arab counter-revolution with Corey Oakley
Gender and sexuality
Are men to blame for sexism? Power, structures and ideology with Roz Ward
Socialism and the politics of transgender liberation with April Holcombe
PANEL: Class struggle and women’s liberation
Bolsheviks, anarchists, socialists: early women revolutionaries in Korea
Militant women: a Marxist history of the suffragettes
Australian history, politics and struggle
PANEL: 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War moratorium march in Australia
Wildcat strikes in the Latrobe Valley with Naomi Farmer
Book launch: Stuff the Accord! Pay up! The Accord and workers’ resistance with author Liz Ross
“Our backyard”: Australian imperialism in the Pacific
Militants in the workplace: rebuilding our unions today
Captain Cook 1770: paving the way for British imperialism in Australia
Art and culture
Musical extravaganza: the struggle against racism
The commodification of creativity
‘A change is gonna come’: how music shaped and was shaped by the black civil rights movement with Kerri Parke