Jul 01

09:00 am

Conference Day 1 registration

Victorian Trades Hall
Tickets, Welcome

10:00 am

Fight Climate Change not War

Clifton D'Rozario, Reihana Mohideen, Pip Hinman, Senator Jordon Steele-John
Solidarity Hall
Anti-war, AUKUS, China, Climate crisis, Nuclear powered submarines, Imperialism, live-stream

11:30 am

Unions, politics and how we fight for change

Tash Wark, Anthony Veal, Mike Treen, Sarah Hathway
Balit-mil
Unions

Imperialism in the 21st century

Sam Wainwright
Quilt Room
Capitalism, China, Imperialism, Russia, War

Freedom vs Fortresses: A conversation with Behrouz Boochani

Behrouz Boochani
Solidarity Hall
Manus Island, Offshore detention, Refugees, live-stream

Fighting for West Papua Today

Cyndi Makabory, Paula Makabory
Wooke kire bang-al
West Papua, Indonesia

01:00 pm

Lunch Break

Food, Drinks, Snacks

02:00 pm

Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

Kohei Saito
Solidarity Hall
Climate crisis, Ecosocialism, Degrowth, Marxism, live-stream

04:00 pm

Housing as a Human Right

Kristin O'Connell, Karyn Brown, Rachel Evans, Margaret Kelly
Balit-mil
Housing, Cost of living

Class Struggle in South East Asia

Cheong Huei Ting, Sonny Melencio, Kokila Annamalai
Quilt Room
Activism, South East Asia, Political organising

Woman, Life, Freedom – the ideas that inspired the Rojava revolution and the popular uprising in Iran

Nilüfer Koç
Solidarity Hall
Rojava Revolution, Woman, Life, Freedom, live-stream

Queer Liberation for All: Opposing the Trans Hysteria

Nova Sobieralski, Chloe Holmes
Wooke kire bang-al

06:30 pm

A Celebration of Cultural Dissent

Loading Bay
Jul 02

09:00 am

Conference Day 2 registration

Victorian Trades Hall
Tickets, Welcome

10:00 am

Climate Justice & The Global South

Cheong Huei Ting, Farooq Tariq
Balit-mil

Patriarchy and the origins of women’s oppression

Sue Bull
Quilt Room

Myanmar's Spring Revolution and the Rohingya genocide

Maung Zarni, Habiburahman
Solidarity Hall
Myanmar, Rohingya, live-stream

Capitalism in Crisis

Mike Treen
Wooke kire bang-al
Capitalism, Marxism

11:30 am

The Fight for Democracy in India: Is Modi Fascist?

Clifton D'Rozario, Ruchira Talukdar
Solidarity Hall
International solidarity, Modi, BJP, India, live-stream

01:00 pm

Lunch Break

Food, Drinks, Snacks

02:00 pm

'Artificial intelligence', capitalism and liberation

Aishik Saha
Balit-mil
AI, Artifical Intelligence, Capitalism, Technology

Relevance of Marxism for the 21st Century

Peter Boyle
Quilt Room
Marxism, Socialist Alliance

Fighting for First Nation's Justice & Sovereignty

Senator Lidia Thorpe, Joel Shackleton
Solidarity Hall
First Nations, Remote communites, Treaty, Voice to Parliament, live-stream

Caste & Class in India today

Clifton D'Rozario
Wooke kire bang-al

04:00 pm

Re-conceptualising Revolution in the Age of the Climate Emergency

Farooq Tariq, Liam Flenady, Susan Price
Solidarity Hall
Ecosocialism, live-stream