[Marxism] A New Era, A New Left: Socialism 2009 conferences in Chicago and SF

[Louis Proyect]

Building a New Left for a New Era
Socialism 2009

A weekend of revolutionary politics, debate and entertainment
June 18-21, Chicago
July 2-5, San Francisco

http://www.socialismconference.org


The world economic crisis has shattered the free-market, neoliberal 
consensus that has dominated politics for the last generation. The 
election of the first African-American president has raised expectations 
among millions of people that long overdue change is coming. With 
capitalism in crisis, even some in the corporate media are admitting 
that Karl Marx was right. A recent Rasmussen national poll showed that 
one third of young people in the United States prefer socialism to 
capitalism.

There has never been a better time for those who seek fundamental change 
to gather together to debate, discuss and organize for a society based 
on the needs of the many instead of the profits of the few. In other 
words, there has never been a better time to organize a new socialist 
Left to meet the challenges of a new political era.

That’s the purpose that Socialism 2009—expanded to two sites this 
year—has set for itself. Gather with activists from all over to take 
part in dozens of discussions about changing the world: How do we 
understand the political terrain we face today? How do activists develop 
a challenge to capitalism and its crises? Can we end racism? What kind 
of strategies and organization do we need? What would a future socialist 
society look like? All of these issues and many more will be debated at 
the largest annual conference of the revolutionary Left in the United 
States.


Featured Speakers:
MICK ARMSTRONG, Socialist Alternative, Australia; ROSE AGUILAR, host, 
Your Call, KALW, 91.7FM; IAN ANGUS, editor, Climate and Capitalism; 
DAVID BACON, author, Illegal People; NORA BARROWS-FRIEDMAN, co-host, 
Flashpoints Radio, KPFA; BARBARA BECNEL, director of Stan Tookie 
Williams Legacy Network; ROBERT BRENNER, author, The Economics of Global 
Turbulence; DENNIS BRUTUS, longtime anti-apartheid and global justice 
activist; PAUL D’AMATO, author of The Meaning of Marxism; NEIL DAVIDSON, 
University of Strathclyde, Scotland; MIKE DAVIS, author, In Praise of 
Barbarians; SAM FARBER, author, Origins of the Cuban Revolution; LAURA 
FLANDERS, host, GRITtv; JOEL GEIER, associate editor, International 
Socialist Review; TIKVA HONIG-PARNASS, co-author, Between the Lines; DR. 
JESS GHANNAM, Al-Awda Right of Return Coalition, Free Palestine 
Alliance; ANAND GOPAL, Kabul correspondent for the Christian Science 
Monitor; JAMES GREEN, author, Death in the Haymarket; DAHR JAMAIL, 
author, Beyond the Green Zone; BRIAN JONES, performing Howard Zinn’s 
play Marx in Soho; CLAUDIO KATZ, author, Las disyuntinvas de la 
izquierda en America Latina (the challenges of the Latin American Left); 
NATIVO LOPEZ, president, Mexican American Political Association; ALAN 
MAASS, editor, Socialist Worker; DAVID McNALLY, New Socialist Group, 
Canada; MARLENE MARTIN, Campaign to End the Death Penalty; ANURADHA 
MITTAL, director, the Oakland Institute; CHINA MIEVILLE, author, Un Lun 
Dunand Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law; 
DERREL MYERS, Campaign to End the Death Penalty and Murder Victims’ 
Families for Reconciliation; CHRISTIAN PARENTI, The Nation, on 
Afghanistan; JOHN RIDDELL, co-editor, Socialist Voice (Canada); HEATHER 
ROGERS, author of Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage; JEFFREY 
ST.CLAIR, co-editor of CounterPunch.org and author of Been Brown So Long 
It Looked Green to Me: The Politics of Nature; MARTIN SANCHEZ, consul 
general of Venezuela, San Francisco; LANCE SELFA, author, The Democrats: 
A Critical History; AHMED SHAWKI, editor,International Socialist Review; 
CINDY SHEEHAN, founder, Gold Star Families for Peace; BARRY SHEPPARD, 
author of The Party: the Socialist Workers Party, 1960-1968; SHARON 
SMITH, author of Subterranean Fire and Women and Socialism; LEE SUSTAR, 
labor editor, Socialist Worker; SHERRY WOLF, author, Sexuality and 
Socialism; KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR, editorial board of International 
Socialist Review; DAVE ZIRIN, author, A People’s History of Sports; 
SOCIALISTS from France, Greece, Venezuela, Brazil, and many more!


What you’ll find at Socialism 2009: More than 160 meetings, a bookfair, 
films, entertainment, debates, and parties.

Check out http://www.socialismconference.org to register and for more 
information about schedule, housing, and childcare.

Sponsored by:
The Center for Economic Research and Social Change
Publisher of the International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books

Co-sponsored by:
The International Socialist Organization
Publisher of Socialist Worker




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Aaron Hess
Haymarket Books
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