[Marxism] Conference announcement

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

***Forward Widely***

War, Poverty, Racism: Time for an Alternative
Northeast Socialist Conference
www.nesocialistconference.net

Saturday, November 5, 2005
City College of New York
138th St. & Convent Avenue

New York City

A new opposition is being born. In D.C., hundreds of thousands turned out
in the biggest antiwar demonstration since the start of the Iraq war. The
anger and outrage against Bush's policies at home and abroad were summed up
in the slogans, "Make Levees Not War" and "No Iraqis Left Me on a Rooftop
to Die."

Millions of people are asking fundamental questions about, in Time
magazine's words, "system failure." The free market at home and abroad has
produced savage inequalities. Instead of addressing these, the US
government has imposed free trade policies that have further impoverished
the world's workers and peasants and pursued vicious attacks on our living
standards here at home. To back up its reactionary economic agenda, Bush
has diverted hundreds of billions of dollars to war and occupation, leaving
a trail of devastation in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Haiti.

These horrors have laid the foundation for the new opposition and a new
left. Cindy Sheehan's stirring protest outside Bush's ranch in Texas
re-galvanized the antiwar movement. Katrina then sealed the end of what
remained of Bush's post-9/11 consensus. The hurricane's devastation and the
government's callous, repressive, and racist response exposed all that's
wrong with American society.

In the wake of Camp Casey, Katrina, and the D.C. march, Bush has gone from
winning an election in a polarized country to now becoming the least
popular reelected president since Nixon, with solid majorities opposed to
all his policies.

With increasing urgency, a new generation of activists is looking for an
alternative that can explain the crisis in our world and help galvanize a
fight for a better society. This year's Northeast Socialist Conference,
"War, Racism, Poverty: Time for an Alternative," addresses today's burning
issues, as well as how to fight for immediate reforms and organize for a
new society-a socialist society built to meet human needs from New Orleans
to Baghdad.

What you can find at the Conference:

Plenary Panels:

War, Racism, Poverty: The Case for Socialism
Turning the Tide: Taking on Bush's Wars at Home and Abroad


Workshops on Organizing:

Fighting the Racist Criminal Injustice System; Abortion Rights and the
Fight for Women's Liberation; An Army of None: Building the
Counter-Recruitment Movement; Overcoming the Crisis in Education


Workshops on Marxism:

System Failure: Why the Free Market Doesn't Work; What Is Imperialism?; Why
We Need a Revolution; What Is the Real Marxist Tradition?; Why We Need a
Revolutionary Party; What Would Socialism Look Like?; Is Socialism Against
Human Nature?; Why the Working Class Can Change Society; Slavery and the
Origins of Racism


Workshops on Today's Pivotal Questions:

Can the Democrats Be the Party of the People?; The New Bigotry:
Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Racism; Che's Revolutionary Legacy; Chavez,
Venezuela, and the Fight for Socialism; War Resisters: from Winter Soldier
to Camp Casey; Blood for Oil: US Imperialism in the Middle East; The
Struggle to Free Palestine; Unnatural Disasters: Capitalism's Destruction
of the Environment; Rebels with a Cause: SNCC, SDS, and the 60s Youth
Radicalization; "They Died Because They Were Black and Poor": Race and
Class in America Today; Iraq for Iraqis: Why You Should Support the Iraqi
Resistance; No Human Being Is Illegal: The Fight to Defend Immigrant
Rights; Barry Sheppard on "Lessons of Building Revolutionary Organization
in the 1960s."


Party with Radical Rap Star Son of Nun


Conference Schedule

9:00am:                        Registration opens
10:30am:                      Opening Plenary: War, Racism, Poverty: The
Case for Socialism
Noon:                           Workshop Session I
1:45pm:                        Lunch
3:15pm:                        Workshop Session II
5:15pm:                        Workshop Session III
6:45pm:                        Dinner
8pm:                             Final Plenary: Turning the Tide: Taking on
Bush's Wars at Home and Abroad
10pm:                           Party!

City College, NAC Building, 138th St. & Convent Avenue
1 train to 137th St., A/B/C/D trains to 145th Street
Registration in NAC Ballroom: $5 for those outside NYC and $10 in NYC

For more info: call (212) 502-0707 or email nyciso@xxxxxxxxxxx
or visit http://www.nesocialistconference.net
To reserve free on-site childcare, please call by Friday, October 28


Sponsored by:

The International Socialist Organization, publisher of Socialist Worker
newspaper
& The Center for Economic Research and Social Change, publisher of the
International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books



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