Socialism Conference 2024

Socialism is a two-day conference with sessions on Marxist ideas, radical history and understanding capitalism today.

It is taking place at the Nedlands campus in Nedlands cafe, Hew Roberts lecture theatre and NCLF: G02 Seminar Room 4.

Conference agenda:

Saturday

10am

• Abolish Banksia hill: WA's racist torture camp for kids


• Climate crisis & destruction: understanding capitalism & the profit motive

11.30am

• Israel and Imperialism


• 21 century revolution, Marxism and the working class


• Reform vs revolution: Can we get to socialism through parliament?

2pm - Why you should be a socialist today

3pm

• What's left of Labor? Albanese's neoliberal and militarist agenda


• The life and politics of Rosa Luxemburg


• What does revolution look like?

5pm

• Radical UWA walking tour


• How the anti-Vietnam war movement won

Sunday:

10am

• Sexism, homophobia & transphobia: why capitalism needs oppression


• Biden vs Trump: the farce of US democracy

11.45am

• The politics of Palestinian mass rebellion: the first Intifada


• Explaining the far-right resurgence in Europe


• The real story of the Russian revolution

2.15pm

• Israel's genocide in Gaza and the fight for a free Palestine


• Spanish civil war: worker's revolution against fascism


• Workers control: snapshots from Australian history

4.15pm

• The limits of "lived experience" and intersectionality


• A political economy of social media

6pm: Closing panel: Another world is possible: solidarity and resistance today