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What isocialism?
Q&A: Everything you want to know about socialismHannah Sell,
author of Socialism in the 21stCenturyChair: Tom Baldwin,
Socialist Party National Committee (NC)
50 years of the Socialist Party: socialism in actionLeading
activists: Steve Score, Hugo Pierre,
Tony Mulhearn, Eleanor DonneChair: Alec Thraves, Socialist Party
NC
Is there a way out of the crisis for capitalism?Hannah Sell,
Socialist Partydeputy general secretaryChair: Bob Severn, the
Socialist industrial editor
Whyotskyism?
Debates on Trotskys idea of permanent revolutionBob Labi,
International Secretariat of the CWIChair: Matt Kilsby, Salford
Socialist
Party secretary
What went wrong in the USSR?Clare Doyle, International
Secretariat of the CWIChair: Ted Woodley, Birmingham Socialist
Party
secretary
Acenturyof war
Is an end to conict in Israel-Palestine possible?Judy Beishon,
International Secretariat of the CWIChair: Matt Gordon, Bristol
North East
Socialist Party secretary
100 years since the Great SlaughterDave Reid, secretary of
Socialist Party WalesChair: Dave Semple, East Kent Socialist
Party
secretary
Isis: what it is and how can it be defeated?Niall Mulholland,
International Secretariat of the CWIChair: Ryan Aldred,
Plymouth
Socialist Party secretary
Minerstrike andworkersstruggle
today
reparingfor the2015
lections
Rebel councillors can ght backDave Nellist, former socialist
councillor in Coventry;Keith Morell, anti-cuts councillor in
SouthamptonChair: Dave Grifths,West Midlands Socialist Party
secretary
In defence of the Trade Unionist and SocialistCoalitionClive
Heemskerk, Socialist Party Executive CommitteeDaren Ireland, RMT NW
regional organiserChair: Nancy Taaffe, 2014 TUSC candidate
Can the Greens give the workingclass its own political
voice?Claire Laker-Manseld,Socialist Party student organiserChair:
Hugh Caffrey, North West SP secretary
Strugglemerging
After Scotlands Indyref, the ghtagainst austerity goes onPhilip
Stott, Socialist Party Scotland national secretary;Matt Dobson,
Generation Fightback organiserChair: John McInally, PCS
vice-president
Latin America: an upturn in struggleTony Saunois, CWI secretary
and author ofChe Guevara, Symbol of StruggleChair: Paul Hunt,
Socialist Party
National Committee
Ideasto
changehe world
Marxist economics:a users guideRobin Clapp, secretary of
Socialist Party South WestChair: Ronnie Job, TUSC prospective
parliamentary
candidate Swansea West
Is dialectical materialism relevant tothe struggle for socialism
today?Ken Douglas,Socialist Party Executive CommitteeChair: Wyllie
Hume, Shefeld Socialist Party secretary
Historical materialism: how Marxistsunderstand societys
changesRoss Saunders,Socialist Party National CommitteeChair: Scott
Jones, Llanelli Socialist Party secretary
evolutionin
ourtime?
Is revolution possible in Britain?Lenny Shail, Socialist
PartyNational CommitteeChair: Dave Walsh, Unite convenor at
Liverpool council
Is there an easier wayto change the world?Paula Mitchell, London
Socialist Party secretaryChair: Matt Whale, student activist
Could the US turn socialist?Kshama Sawant,Seattle socialist
councillorChair: Ian Pattison, Socialist Party youth organiser
Fighting
usterity
Forum: renters rise upSarah Wrack, deputy editor of the
Socialist;Lindsey from New Era estate campaign;
Jasmine from E15 Focus mumsChair: Lois Austin, Newham TUSC
mayoral candidate
Forum:Can the privatisation bulldozer be s topped?John McInally,
vice-president PCS;Martin Powell-Davies, NUT NEC;Invited speaker
from Care UKChair: Helen Riddett, health worker activist
olidarity
Caste, race and class: what socialists saySpeakers: Senan, Tamil
socialist activist and writer,Meena Kandasamy, author of Gypsy
GoddessChair: Marvin Hay, Socialist Party Black and Asianmembers
organiser
Ukip, Europe and immigration:a Marxist approach
Alistair Tice, secretary of Yorkshire Socialist PartyChair:
Heather Rawlings,Leicester Socialist Party activist
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Disable austerity: the ght fordignity in cuts BritainBecci
Heagney, secretary Socialist Party EastMidlands, Nick Wright,
disabled rights activistChair: James Kerr, Lewisham Socialist Party
secretary
Revolution storming the stage:is political theatre back?
James Ivens, actor and Socialist Party Lambeth secretaryChair:
Mike Forster,
secretary Hudderseld Socialist Party
Newessionsadded
Prot killing: Ebola and Big PharmaDr Jon Dale,Socialist Party
activistChair: Andy Ford,
health worker and activist
Forum: Women on the front line of austerityElaine Brunskill,
secretary of Socialist Party Northern;
Jane Nellist, NUT NEC;
Ruth Coppinger, TD ghting for abortion rights in IrelandChair:
Tessa Warrington, Leicester SP secretary
Ireland: mass movementagainst water chargesPaul Murphy and Joe
Higgins,Socialist Party TDsChair: Nick Chaffey, Socialist Party
Southern secretary
Trotskyism in the 21st centuryPeter Taaffe, general secretary of
the Socialist PartyChair: Paul Callanan, South London Socialist
Party organiser
Caste, race and class what socialists saySenan, Tamil socialist
activist and writer,Meena Kandasamy, author of Gypsy GoddessChair:
Marvin Hay, Socialist Party Black and Asianmembers organiser
European forum: building a political voice for 99%Victor Egio,
Izquierda Unida local councillor;Laura Gutierrez from Podemos;
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD (MP) in DublinChair: Claire Job,
Swansea Socialist Party secretary
Forum: Fracking and climate changeChris Baugh, assistant general
secretary PCS;Padraig Mulholland, Nipsa president;Clara Paillard,
PCS national executiveChair: Dave Jones, secretary Wirral Socialist
Party
The heroic 1984-85 miners strikeKen Smith, author of A Civil War
Without Guns;
Joyce Shepherd, Women Against Pit Closures activist;Barbara
Jackson, Orgreave Truth & Justice CampaignsecretaryChair:
Katrine Williams, PCS DWP Group vice-president (pc)
Workers struggle today: low pay,zero-hour contracts and
austerityRob Williams, NSSN chair;Helen Pattison, Fast Food Rights
activist;
Jon Hughes, St Mungos striker
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