Come to the DC-Baltimore Socialist Conference!

Marx is back: Socialist ideas for changing the world!

A day-long conference of revolutionary politics, debate and discussion
Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization

Saturday, April 18, 2009
All Soul's Church, 2835 16th Street, NW
(16th & Harvard Sts, NW: Columbia Heights metro - Green line)

$5 | $10 solidarity | No one turned away for lack of funds

To secure a ticket and register, email dcsocialistconference@gmail.com or call 202 903 6906.

Schedule:

10am - Registration

11am-12:30pm - Opening Session: Marx is Back! Socialist ideas for changing the world
Featuring Sherry Wolf, author of the forthcoming Sexuality and Socialism (Haymarket Books, 2009) and member of the editorial board of the International Socialist Review

12:30pm-1:30pm - Lunch Break

1:30pm-3pm Workshops Session 1

* Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine: Occupation and resistance today
* A world without racism, sexism and homophobia?: Marxism and oppression

3pm-3:15pm Break

3:15-4:45pm Workshops Session 2

* Workers Fighting Back: Lessons from the 'Labor Wars'
* Why we need a revolutionary party

7pm - Closing plenary: Haymarket Books presents: "Obama and the Left"

Featuring Dedrick Muhammad of the Institute for Policy Studies; John Nichols of The Nation magazine; writer and activist Laila Al-Arian; radical sports journalist Dave Zirin

Venue: 1525 Newton St., NW (Closest metro-Columbia Heights metro-Green line)