Conference on Socialism and Activism

Conference on Socialism and Activism"

During the 1980's, a lot of Marxist groups held "conferences" on "socialism" with varying names. One joint effort by the maoist-oriented, Marxist "Guardian" (U.S. weekly), "Socialist Review", et al (To be added) was the holding of at least two "Conference on Socialism and Activism" in 1985 and 1986. Notices of these conferences found in the "Guardian newspaper are reproduced en toto for the years 1985 and 1986, the latter including Bernie Sanders as one of their speakers.

Conference on Socialism and Activism 1985

The Guardian issue of announced the forthcoming "Conference on Socialism and Activism" to be held on Dec. 1985, at ...

Conference on Socialism and Activism 1986

The Guardian of December 26, 1986, p. 17, announced the forthcoming "Conference on Socialism and Activism" to be held on December 5-7, 1986 at Hunter College, New York City. The full text of the notice is as follows:

"December 5, 6, 7 - 1986, In These Unprecedented Times, Join Us At the 2nd Annual "Conference on Socialism and Activism", Co-Sponsored by: The Guardian (Guardian, The Progressive, Socialist Review, WBAI-FM

Keynote speakers include:

• Rep.John Conyers (D-Mich) - the Communist Party's top supporter in Congress at that time
• June Jordan - identified with the Marxist Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO)
• Bertell Ollman - avowed Marxist professor
• Benjamin Spock - Vice presidential candidate on the Marxist Peoples Party ticket in the 1980's. CITATION NEEDED
• Mayor Bernie Sanders - Burlingham, Vermont - avowed "socialist"
• Digna Sanchez - Puerto Rican Marxist, associated with the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PRSP) and its publication Claridad, formerly the Movement for the Independence of Puerto Rico (MFIPR)
• Michio Kaku - former member and supporter of the maoist Communist Workers Party (CWP)

Workshops include:

• Using the Electoral Arena
• Afro-American Women
• Strategies for Survival
• Redefining the Family
• Structural Racism and How to Combat It
• Homophobia in the Left Community
• Central America and Southern Africa: Making the Links
• The Debt Crisis
• Disarmament: Delivering the Goods
• Producing Activist Media
• Community empowerment
• Union Organizing in the 80s
• Housing
• The Crisis in Agriculture: Here and in the Third World
• Environmental Activism
• Culture and Liberation Movements
• Getting Healthcare into Shape
• Independent Political Action
• The Middle East
• Political Prisoners
• Urban Miseducation
• Labor and Foreign Policy
• New Strategies for Socialism

For More Information Call (212) 903-4029 Registration Form (in clip off format) Name, Address, City, State, Zip Enclosed Find: $8 Senior, Student Unemployed $12 Regular Advanced Registration $ --- Contribution Mail check or M.O to: Conference, Box 0716, Brooklyn, NY 11240 Hunter College New York City

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