This weekend - Doors open at 10am – You can register on
the door
International
Socialism journal weekend school
Marxism and Revolution Today
(please
note new venue)
London Welsh Centre, 157-163 Gray's Inn Road , Holborn, London WC1X 8UE
Saturday and Sunday 22-23 September 2012
In
1987, Bookmarks published Revolutionary Rehearsals, a collection of
essays on France 1968,
Chile 1972-3, Portugal 1974-5, Iran
1978-9 and Poland
1980-1. Were a “second edition” to appear a quarter century later,
what new experiences would need to be taken into account? This weekend school
will explore some aspects of the revolutionary experience of the past 25 years.
Outline
programme
Saturday 22 September
Registration 10.00-10.30 a.m.
Session
1. 10.30a.m. - 12.30 p.m.
Introductory
themes:
Neil
Davidson – “Transformations of Social Revolution: from the Year One
Thousand to the Arab Spring”
Alex Callinicos – “Old and
new in today’s revolutionary wave”
Session
2. 1.30-3.30 p.m.
The Arab Spring 2011-12:
Anne
Alexander – “From people’s revolution to permanent
revolution?”
Dalia
Mostafa – “The Egyptian Revolution.”
Session
3. 4.00-6.00 p.m.
Eastern
Europe 1989 and the
“colour revolutions” 2003-5:
Gareth
Dale – " Eastern Europe : Why was
1989 not 1980?"
Megan
Trudell – “The colour revolutions: made in the USA?”
Sunday 23 September
Session
4. 10.30 a.m. -12.30 p.m.
South Africa
Claire
Ceruti – “Apartheid and its aftermath - mechanisms of deflection
and their failure”
Session
5. 1.30-3.30 p.m.
Latin
America, 2000-2012:
Jeffery
Webber – "A Revolution Contained: Combined Liberation Struggles in Bolivia
, 2000-2012"
Mike
Gonzales – “ Latin America :
revolutions stalled?”
Session
6. 4.00-6.00 p.m.
Contemporary
problems of revolutionary politics:
John
Rose – “The significance of Lenin’s ‘Left-wing
communism’ today”
Jonny Jones – “Radical
and anti-capitalist movements since the fall of the Berlin Wall”
Colin
Barker – “The challenge of socialist revolution”
The
cost of the weekend school will be £20 (£10 unwaged)
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