Here is the schedule.
FRIDAY 30 May
7pm: Bullets and ballots Babu Maharjan a Maoist from Nepal gives an eyewitness account of the mass movement for change.
8pm Vote socialist 2008: The Workers Party launches its election campaign with a view to being on ballot papers in every home
SATURDAY 31 May
10am - Revolution and Resistance: A panel discussion
Denis Maga on the mass movement in the Philippines (from the radical trade union the KMU); Don Carson (a long-time campaigner for Palestine) on the relentless struggle for liberation; Mike Treen (Independent Marxist) on Cuba surviving encirclement; and John Edmundson (Workers Party) on Afghanistan’s long-running resistance.
11.45: Australia: new government, old problems? Anthony Main (Socialist Party of Australia) talks about the current situation
12.30 - 1.15: Lunch
1.15 -3pm: 1968: The Year that Rocked the World - Mike Kay (Workers Party) on the tumultuous events of forty years ago.
John Moore (Independent Marxist) speaks with former Polynesian Panthers about radicalism in Polynesian Ponsonby
Short break
3 - 4pm: Building a Fighting Force Matt McCarten (Unite Union) and Don Franks (Workers Party) on how to fight redundancies and build mass resistance
Short break
4-15pm - 5pm: What is socialism? Jared Phillips (Workers Party) a historical view
Parallel session: Dialectics of nature vs nurture Daphna Whitmore (Workers Party) looks at the dichotomy debate.
SUNDAY 1 June
12.30: Sex and Socialism Bryce Edwards (Politics lecturer) brings two of the most interesting words in the English language together in a libertarian-socialist talk where discussion will range from pornography to prostitution, lesbianism to childcare, ‘raunch culture’ to abortion.
1.15 Debate: That open borders bring freedom Tim Bowron (Workers Party) argues the affirmative; Brian Van Dam (Left-wing activist) argues the negative.
2.30 break
2.45 pm: The vital role of a revolutionary paper Don Franks (Workers Party, editor of The Spark)
3.30: Who needs a revolutionary party? Philip Ferguson (Workers Party) argues the essential need for a revolutionary organisation