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Marxism 2009 festival
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Gueat speakers at this year’s conference include:
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Friday |
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6.00-7.30 |
Are we seeing the end of Fianna Fail? Melisa Halpin |
Raunch culture, pole dancing and porn – sexism and the system Sara O’Rourke (Organiser for the People Before Profit Alliance)
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8.00-9.30 |
OPENING RALLY Strike, Protest, Occupy: People Power on the Rise SPEAKERS: Christian Vasenthien, Die Linke Germany; Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit Alliance; Joe Tully, Irish Nurses Organisation (personal capacity); Thomas Cook worker; John Kidd Convenor of Dublin Fire Brigade and 24/7 Alliance |
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10.00-12.00 |
Conference Club |
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Saturday |
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10.00-11.15 |
Is Ireland a Democracy? Fintan O’Toole (Deputy editor Irish Times) Donal Mac Fhearraigh (editor Socialist Worker) |
I am Spartacus: Slave revolts in history Theresa Urbainczyk (UCD Classics lecturer, author of Slave Revolts in Antiquity) |
Culture Zone 11.45 -1pm 2-3.15pm 3.45-5pm © or copyriot – Home taping to 7-9pm Constructing Utopia: Bauhaus +90
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Engels, anthropology and women’s oppression Madeleine Johansson (SWP organiser)
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The Left, Religion and Resistance Movements John Molyneux (Lecturer Portsmouth University and author of Rembrandt and Revolution) |
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11.45-1.00 |
Migrants, work and discrimination - The rise of racism in Ireland Bernadette McAliskey (S.T.E.P. Migrant Workers' Support Project Northern Ireland), Siobhan O'Donoghue (Director Migrant Rights Centre Ireland) James O Toole (SWP)
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Marxism and Culture Terry Eagleton (Author of The Ideology of the Aesthetic, and Literary Theory: An Introduction) |
Boycotts, roadmaps, resistance: How can Palestine win freedom? Claudia Saba (Irish Anti War Movement p/c) |
Sodom today G’morrah the world: LGBT liberation and socialism Ailbhe Smyth (Chair of the National Lesbian and Gay Federation) Lisa Connell (LGBT equality candidate in local elections 2009) Crea Ryder (SWP) |
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2.00-3.15 |
After the Ryan report: The church and state in Ireland today Christine Buckley (director of the Aislinn education and support centre at Jervis House in Dublin and one of the first former residents to go public on her experiences in the Goldenbridge institution), Mary Smith Dr Peadar O Grady (Child Psychiatrist) |
The Young Marx: From philosopher to revolutionary Kieran Allen (Lecturer in Sociology in UCD, author of The corporate takeover of Ireland, and The Irish economic crisis) |
The Blues: The sound of rebellion Dermot Connolly |
A revolutionary in the council chamber Cllr Hugh Lewis (People Before Profit Alliance councillor) |
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3.45-5.00 |
1989: The End of Utopias Goretti Horgan (Lecturer in the University of Ulster) |
Imperialism and Global political economy Alex Callinicos (Prof of politics UCL and author of Imperialism and Global Political Economy) |
What is Alienation? Peadar O Grady |
Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution: Populism and Democracy in a Globalised Age Barry Cannon (DCU) and Sean Mitchell |
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7.00-9.00 |
Where now for the left? Brid Smith (People Before Profit Cllr); Declan Bree (Ind Socialist); Goretti Horgan (Lecturer in the University of Ulster), Paddy Healy (Tipp. Workers & Unemployed Action Group); Christian Vasenthien (Die Linke) |
Race and Class in the US after Obama Brian Kelly (US socialist, history lecturer QUB and author of Race and Class in the Alabama Coalfields) |
Climate change: Is a Green New Deal possible? Donal Mac Fhearraigh
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Are people too greedy for socialism? Gerry Carroll (VP University of Ulster Students Union, Jordanstown)
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9.30-11.30 |
CULTURE ZONE (Room 1) 9.30-11.30pm: Sergei Eisenstein, Strike (Room 2) 9.30 Dublin Premiere of award winning documentary about the Corrib Gas pipeline in Mayo
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Sunday |
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10.30-11.45 |
Workplace Occupations: The seeds of socialist revolution Tom Hogan (Waterford Crystal occupation), John Maguire (Visteon Belfast occupation)
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Lenin: Revolutionary democrat or bloodthirsty dictator? James O’Toole (Organiser for the SWP)
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CULTURE ZONE 10.30-11.30 Anti-War Film: Sir No Sir 12-1.15
1.30-2.30pm 2.30-3.45 Also at Marxism 2009’s Culture Zone [beside Bookshop running all day Sat & Sun] |
150 years since ‘The origin of the species’ Is Darwin still radical? Pat O’Sullivan |
David Harvey’s Marxism Alistair Fraser (lecturer in NUIM)
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12-1.15 |
NAMA, the Shock doctrine and Ireland’s economic crash Vincent Browne (author, journalist, broadcaster), Kieran Allen (author of The Irish economic crisis) |
Teamster Rebellion: The class revolt in the US in the 1930s Colm Bryce (SWP) |
'In the days when you werehopelessly poor, I just liked you more'The Smiths and socialism Colin Coulter (lecturer in sociology NUIM) |
Marxism and philosophy Sinead Kennedy (lecturer in English NUIM)
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2.15-3.30 |
Northern Ireland: Eamonn McCann (author, journalist) |
Zombie Capitalism: Brian O’Boyle (lecturer in economics) with Alex Callinicos (Prof of European Studies, Kings College London and author of Imperialism and Global Political Economy) |
Servants of the State? Writers, Intellectuals and Capitalist Crisis Joe Cleary (Professor of English NUIM and author of Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland) |
WWII: Was Ireland wrong to stay neutral? Liam Cummins
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4.00-5.15 |
The Logic of ‘Capital’ Alex Callinicos (Prof of European Studies, Kings College London and author |
Afghanistan: Memet Uludag , Richard Boyd Barrett (Chair of the Irish Anti-War Movement) |
Ireland’s Apartheid: Healthcare inequality in Ireland Jo Tully (Irish Nurses Organisation Exec p.c.) Marie O Connor Author - Emergency - Ireland's Hospitals in Chaos
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Ideology, false consciousness and commodity fetishism Marnie Holborow (lecturer DCU) |
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5.15-6.00 |
Closing Rally Make Capitalism History |
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Sunday night