Re: [Marxism] Whatever happened to the LMers?

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Philip Ferguson wrote:
> Last night I was watching 'BBC World', which plays through the night on
> TV1 in New Zealand.  At one point, up popped what the BBC newsreader
> described as "terrorism expert" Bill Durodie.  Under his name, it had
> that he was from the Centre for Defence Studies.  This morning I looked
> up CDS on the net.  The home page says:

For comrades who are not familiar with Living Marxism (LM) or Bill
Durodie, this is what he and they were up to in 1996.

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LIVING MARXISM CONFERENCE THIS WEEK

The Myth of Empowerment and the Reality of State Power

While government institutions are generally held in low esteem, a
comprehensive critique of state power is singularly lacking. Global
trends in economics, communications and population movement are widely
believed to make the nation state a  redundant institution. But the
theory that the state is ineffective in the face of globalisation serves
only to close down the debate about politics and state power.
This conference aims to redress the balance by taking a critical look at
the unchallenged concepts of contemporary political theory like
empowerment, governance and the enabling state. The goal of the
conference is to develop an up-to-date critique of the modern forms of
state power-the better to challenge these in practice.

Sunday 24 March 1996
Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1

Booking details at the bottom of this page

Agenda

9.00  Registration

10.00 Opening Plenary

* Who Needs a Written Constitution                 James Heartfield

11.30 Workshops

* Globalisation and Power                          Norman Lewis
* Judging Democracy                                Daniel Lloyd
* European Superstate                              Bill Durodie
* Northern Ireland: Government by Peace Process    Kevin Kelly
* Living Marxism and the Net-nanny State           Andrew Calcutt/
                                                   Nico Macdonald
* Citizen School: Training Stakeholders            Claire Foster

12.30 Lunch

1.30  Plenary

* The Myth of Empowerment                           Frank Furedi

2.30  Workshops

* Policing the Police                               Rob Knight
* Battered Women and the Courts                     Sara Hinchcliffe
* Welfare Rights and Advocacy                       Duleep Alirajah
* Anti-social Courts                                Martin Mitchell/
                                                    Liam Harris
* The Myth of the Powerless State                   Phil Murphy

3.30  Tea break

4.00  Workshops

* Include me out!-Tackling Participatory Democracy  Bruno Waterfield
* Doctoring the State                               Mike Fitzpatrick
* The Feminist State                                Ellie Lee
* Tolerance or Free Speech                          Jenny Bristow
* The Welfare Debate                                Jo Herlihy

5.15  Final plenary

* Independence, power and the question of control   Mick Hume


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