PRELIMINARY
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FRIDAY
MAY 28 (Registration
opens at 12.00 Noon)
2.00
- 3.15
Room 1 20 years since Oka: the fight for indigenous sovereignty Ellen Gabriel & Valerie Lannon
Room 2 Should socialists be in the NDP? Peter
Leibovitch, Joel Harden & Pam Frache
Room 3 Trotsky's theory of Permanent revolution Octavian
Cadabeschi
Room 4 From draft-dodgers to war measures: the real
legacy of Pierre Trudeau Jessica Squires
3.30
- 4.45
Room 1 From South Africa to Israel: histories of
Apartheid Joe Kelly & Clare O'Connor
Room 2 The rise of the new sexism Judith
Orr
Room 3 Democracy in Canada: is it disappearing? G.
Francis Hodge
Room 4 Zombie capitalism: global crisis and the relevance
of Marx Faline Bobier
7.00
- 8.30
After Cochabamba: the fight for climate justice with Clayton
Thomas-Muller, Andrea Harden & Charlotte Ireland
SATURDAY
MAY 29
(Registration opens at 9.00am)
10.00
- 11.15
Room 1 The new McCarthyism: Harper's attack on Palestine solidarity Rafeef Ziadah, Khaled Mouammar, Diana Ralph & Tim McCaskell
Room 2 Revolutions
& coups: Latin America today Paul Kellogg
Room 3 Lenin: democrat or dictator? Ritch Whyman
Room 4 Co-ops, collectives & communes: can we live the
revolution now? Sid Lacombe
11.30
- 12.45
Room 1 Can the market stop climate change? Jessica
Bell & Charlotte Ireland
Room 2 Feminism, secularism & Islam Sedef Arat-Koç,
Gilary Massa & Benoit Renaud
Room 3 Can China save capitalism? Pam Frache
Room 4 The
radical roots of Pride Christine Beckermann
Room 5 Noam Chomsky: media & mass action Jason
Gannon
1.00
- 2.00 Lunch break
Room 1 Introduction to the International Socialists
Peter Hogarth
2.00
- 3.15
Room 1 Tar sands: the case against the world's most destructive
development Clayton Thomas Muller
Room 2 Clara Zetkin: the Communist Women's International
John Riddell
Room 3 Building a bigger left: lessons from Québec
solidaire Benoit Renaud & Monique Moisan
Room 4 The new scramble for Africa Ali Awali &
Abdi Dirshe
Room 5 Can capitalism be fixed? Marx vs Keynes Jonathon
Hodge
3.30
- 4.45
Room 1 Floods, famines & earthquakes: the rise of disaster capitalism Jesse McLaren
Room 2 Picket lines & protest signs: Canada's working
class Michelle Robidoux
Room 3 Gramsci & Lukacs: how do ideas change?
Chantal Sundaram
Room 4 Afghanistan & Pakistan: imperialism's new fault line Judith Orr & Salmaan Khan
Room 5 What would socialism look like? Brian Donnelly
7.00
Crisis & Resistance: from Greece to the G20
• Kostas Katarahias, General Council, Federation of
Hospital Doctors Unions of Greece
• Judith Orr, Leading member, British
Socialist Workers Party & anti-war activist
• John Cartwright, President, Toronto and York
Regional Labour Council
• Carolyn Egan, President, Steelworker
Toronto Area Council; International Socialists
9.00
A TRIBUTE TO HOWARD ZINN Evening social with John Bell performing
excerpts from MARX IN SOHO
SUNDAY
MAY 30
9.30
Protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Northeast corner of Strachan Avenue and Princes Boulevard
Opposite Princes' Gate, at the Canadian National Exhibition, on the east side of Strachan
12.00 Lunch break
12.30
- 1.45
Room 1 Marxism & ecology: is capitalism justly sustainable? Kim Kerridge
Room 2 Rosa Luxemburg: strikes, reforms & revolution Amelia
Murphy-Beaudoin
Room 3 From Cairo to Tehran: the fight for democracy in the
Middle East James Clark & Niaz Salimi
Room 4 Canada's racist immigration policies Abbie
Bakan
2.00
- 3.15
Room 1 Canada's war on terror: from secret trials to torture Shanaaz Gokool, Mohamed Harkat & Christine Jones
Room 2 Obama's America: one year later Virginia Rodino
& Eric Fretz
Room 3 Why we consume crap John Bell
Room 4 How do we build solidarity? Pam Johnson &
Steve Craig
Room 5 Whose truth? Science under capitalism Bradley
Hughes
3.30 Closing rally
Carolyn Egan, Judith Orr, Virginia Rodino and Kostas Katarachias
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