Program

Friday, May 9

9:00 - 10:00am Registration/check-in

10:00 - 11:15am
Room 1: The Tet Offensive and the US defeat – G. Hodge
Room 2: The revolutionary roots of Islam - Ritch Whyman
Room 3: What is capitalism? – Sid Lacombe
Room 4: Canada’s economy: immune from US crisis? – Pam Frache
Room 5: Hugo Chavez after the referendum – Paul Kellogg, Chad Brazier

11:30 - 12:45pm
Room 1: Poisoned environment: Canada's shameful record – John Bell
Room 2: Gramsci’s Marxism – Jessica Squires
Room 3: Russian 1917: how a revolution was won – Ken Golden
Room 4: The housing question in the age of neoliberalism – Andrew Mindszenthy, Paul Denison
Room 5: Suez Canal crisis and the real legacy of Canadian peacekeeping – Pam Johnson

12:45 - 2:00pm Lunch break

2:00 - 3:15pm
Room 1: Is the US empire in decline? – Pam Frache
Room 2: Socialism and freedom: alienation and emancipation – Abbie Bakan, Mat Nelson
Room 3: Teamsters strike of 1934: rank and file rebellion – Christine Beckermann
Room 4: Music and revolution: Ali Aumeer, Belladonna
Room 5: Abortion rights and the struggle for woman’s equality – Judith Orr, Kathryn Palmateer, Kelly Holloway

3:30 - 4:45pm
Room 1: The US, China and the world economy – Carolyn Egan
Room 2: Israel 1948: the making of a colonial settler state – Mazen Masri, Chantal Sundaram
Room 3: The Olympics: competition unplugged – Stephen Boyd
Room 4: Mining, oil and gas companies: the face of Canadian imperialism – Joel Harden
Room 5: SDS and the 1960s student revolt – Doug Nesbitt

5:00 - 7:00pm Dinner break

7:30 - 9:30pm
Room 1: Booms, slumps and the Marxist theory of crisis – Judith Orr
Room 2: Racism and education: religious schools and Africentric schools – Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Chantal Sundaram

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