`Shining the spotlight on capitalism and theories of how to challenge it'
Thursday 21st October
11am-4pm
11am-12pm: The Shock Doctrine – seeing our system in a new light. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. Have you read the book and want to talk about it? Or have you not yet read the book but would like to learn the gist of what it's all about by exploring an example case study in the book with us?
12pm: Lunch break (bring your own)
12:30 – 1:30pm: The Global Financial Crisis – the failure or resilience of capitalism?
1:30pm: Break
1:45 - 2:45pm: The Marxist view of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex oppression … and how to fight it!
2:45pm: Break
3 -4 pm: How to challenge capitalism: Effective activism, popular power and unity in struggle - Learning from leading Latin American Marxist activist and intellectual Marta Harnecker's 12-part `Ideas for the Struggle' published this year.
Please email hobart@socialist-alliance.org or call 0418 643 133 to register for one class or the full program.
Classes are free and will be held at the Hobart Activist Centre, 225 Murray St, Hobart. All welcome!
