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Saturday and Sunday 8-9 April, Glebe Town Hall, Sydney
MAJOR SESSIONS AND SPEAKERS
No to war: Australia, China and the new imperialism
Speakers: David Brophy (author China Panic and lecturer in Modern Chinese history, Sydney Uni), Phil Griffiths (Former lecturer, Political Economy, USQ), Chinese student
Last week’s $368 billion decision to buy nuclear subs shows that the Australian government is heightening tensions with China by locking in behind the US. This session will explore Australia’s role as a regional bully and the threat of war with China.
What’s the alternative to the Voice?
Speakers: Ian Brown (Gomeroi activist), Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor (Gadigal, Bidgigal and Yuin elder), Paddy Gibson (Solidarity & Jumbunna Institute UTS in personal capacity)
The Voice to Parliament would have no real powers and deliver little for Indigenous people. Some are pushing for a Treaty as an alternative. This session will discuss whether there is an alternative to the Voice, what kind of Treaty is possible and how we can get the action desperately needed on deaths in custody, child removals, Indigenous poverty, and win real land rights.
Has Enterprise Bargaining killed the
right to strike?
Speakers: Dave Hauser (Rank & File First, Rail Tram & Bus Union NSW), Sophie Cotton (NTEU Branch Committee, Sydney Uni), Erima Dall (MUA site committee, Hutchison Port Botany)
Workers are facing a cost of living crisis as inflation surges following years of stagnating wages. The new Labor government has passed multi-employer bargaining laws that some unions have hailed as providing an opening to push for pay. But there are still few unions organising the serious industrial action needed to make gains. This panel will hear from rank-and-file union activists about efforts to fight back, from the seven strike days and counting at Sydney Uni, to the halted industrial action on trains and on the docks.
Plus climate catastrophe, radical history, Marxist theory and more
Other sessions include Marxism, gender and the system; Climate, capitalism and catastrophe, Crisis and revolt in the Middle East, Spain’s 1936 revolution: when anarchism failed and One year on: What’s the point of Labor?
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Ticket prices
Weekend $45 waged $20 student/concession
One Day $25 waged $12 student/concession
Keep Left is held at Glebe Town Hall, Sydney