Glasgow Conference: Communist Manifesto

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

“150 Years of the Communist Manifesto”
22-23 May, 1998
University of Glasgow
Centre for Study of Socialist Theory & Movements
Adam Smith Building
10am-5pm (Registration on Door, 9-9:45)
£20/£10 (cons) both days  ;  £12/£6 (cons) one day


SCHEDULE

Friday, 22 May

Opening  Plenary Session:

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO:  COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST
Suzi Weissman, Savas Michael-Matsas and Mikhail Voeikov

Workshop 1 options (11:30 - 1:00)

THE NATIONAL QUESTION with....
Terry Brotherstone: “The Communist Manifesto, Marxism and Scotland”
Mick Cox: “Marx and the National Question- 1848:  Ireland and the Cold
War-1998” 
Savas Michael-Matsas: “Marx and the Jewish Question”

THE THIRD WORLD AND SOCIALISM:  ISSUES AND QUESTIONS  with....
M. Mohanty: “Creative Theory of Freedom: Communist Movements in China
& India” 
Torab:  “The Nature of  Third World Revolution”

RHETORICAL DEVICE in the MANIFESTO with....
Alastair McLeish:  “The Manifesto as a Call to Arms”


Workshop 2 options (2:00-3:30)

WORKING CLASS STRUGGLE and the WORLD WIDE WEB with....
Liverpool Dock Workers and Chris Bailey (Labournet) with Peter Kennedy
(facilitator)

THE MANIFESTO AND ITS RELEVANCE with....
Cyril Smith:  “The Manifesto: Past, Present and Future”
Ian Thatcher:  “Past Receptions of the Manifesto”

MARXISM AND THE SOVIET UNION
Committee to Study the Legacy of Leon Trotsky


Second plenary session:

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ECONOMY
Werner Bonefeld, Mick Cox and Latief Parker

Social Friday Evening
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Saturday, 23 May

Workshop 3 options (10:00-11:30)

GLOBALISATION(?!) and POLITICAL ECONOMY with....
Werner Bonefeld:  (paper not yet received)
Savas Michael-Matsas:  “A Critique of the Globalisation Thesis”

The MANIFESTO and GLOBALISATION with....
Peter Kennedy:  “Globalisation as Decline”
Peter Burnham:  “International Relations Theory and the Manifesto”

CRISIS, MARX and the MANIFESTO with....
Hillel Ticktin:  “Business Cycle or Crisis of the System?  Marx of the
Manifesto and Marxists”
 Latief Parker:  “Capitalism - the Headless Chicken”


Workshop 4  (11:30 - 1:00)

THE COMMUNIST FUTURE with....
Bertell Ollman :  “The Future of a Socialist Society”
Filio Diamanti:  “Etienne Cabet’s Influence on the Manifesto”


Workshop 5 options (2:00-3:30)

DIALECTICS in the MANIFESTO with....
Peter Hudis:  “The Dialectic of ‘Revolution in Permanence’”
Alan Horn:  “Dialectics in the Manifesto:  Pre-Scientific 
Approximations" 

ENLIGHTENMENT as OPPOSED to MYSTIFICATION in the ERA  of the COMMODITY
with....
 Bridget Fowler: “Homology of Social Relations in Archaic and
Rational Societies” 
Steve Fleetwood: “Placing Emancipation back on the
Agenda in a Post-Modern World”

THE SPECTRE HAUNTING SOUTH AFRICA with....
Latief Parker and Elaine Clarke


Closing Plenary Session:

THE MANIFESTO IN THE NEXT EPOCH
Manoranjan Mohanty, Bertell Ollman and Hillel Ticktin


NOTE:   Istvan Meszaros will not be attending the conference, as
originally scheduled, due to serious illness.
 ****	   This schedule is laible to change.