FRIDAY OCTOBER 17

Rally for Liberation:
'Fighting for Bread—and Roses Too' 7.30 pm:

Chair: Anita Halpin Sue Webb, Joanne Stevenson, Azar Sephr, Lynda Walker, Mary Davis

SATURDAY OCTOBER 18

10am  Plenary 2:
PHILOSOPHY, WHO NEEDS IT?
Erwin Marquit, Martin Levy, Mary Davis
Chair: Marj Mayo

11.30am Workshops 2A-2C
2A: Women, race and class  Joginder Bains
2B: Race and pseudo-science   Roger Fletcher
2C: Nationalism and national liberation   Lynda Walker

1.15pm  Briefing 1: All change in the White House?  Sue Webb
 
2pm  Plenary 3:
CRISIS FOR CAPITALISM - OPPORTUNITY FOR THE LEFT?
Eugene McCartan, John Haylett, George Waterhouse
Chair: Emily Mann

3.45pm  Workshops 3A-3C
3A: Socialism, Communism and the withering away of the state  John Foster
3B: Is China socialist?  Jennie Clegg
3C: May 1968—lessons from history  Nick Wright

4.45 pm  Question Time, Our History:
CLASS STRUGGLE ON TWO FRONTS - THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN BRITAIN 1952-64
Panel: Jean Turner, Graham Stevenson, Kevin Halpin, Ben Stevenson
Chair: Robert Griffiths

6.30pm  DVD screening: Political Annie's Off Again (a film about women fighting for equal pay in the south Wales valleys)

7.45pm till late  COMMUNIST UNIVERSITY SOCIAL EVENT

SUNDAY OCTOBER 19

10am  Plenary 5:
CHALLENGING IMPERIALISM, SAVING THE WORLD
Harriet Roethling, Manfred Idler, Derek Wall 
Chair: John Foster

11.30am  Workshops 5A-5C
5A: 'Peak Oil'   Carol Turner 
5B: Health care and education—commodities?  Bill Greenshields
5C: The European Union v The People  Eugene McCartan

1.15pm  Briefing 2: Colombia's trade unions against neo-liberalism  Liam Craig-Best
Briefing 3: Autonomy and state power in Euzkadi speakers from BAITOKIA-Basque Human Rights Watch

2pm Plenary 6:
FOR A CHANGE OF COURSE, FOR A MASS PARTY OF LABOUR
Moz Greenshields, Robert Griffiths, John McDonnell, Bob Crow
Chair: Carolyn Jones

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