Sue Pennicuik

Sue Pennicuik

"100 years after the Russian Revolution"

Join Beatrix Campbell, UK author, playwright, filmmaker, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster, in debating current politics in Melbourne, Saturday 11 November 2017.

In a wide-ranging address, Bea will explore the various forms of inequality today; realistic strategies towards an egalitarian and just society; the meaning of socialism in this centenary year of the Russian Revolution; the failure, collapse and rejection of the totalitarian Soviet model of socialism; and forms of democratic socialism that are feasible in the 21st century.

Following the key note address Beatrix Campbell will be in discussion with Peter Love – labour historian and trade union activist, Stuart MacIntyre – historian and Anitra Nelson – Activist-scholar, Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University.

Fighting the Good Fight – a discussion of how do we develop a general, systematic ‘moral economy’ to shape our vision of a just, ethical and greener future? Can we emulate the surges in socialist sentiment that have surprised so many in the US and UK? How do we build new alliances that will change the shape of politics?

Speakers include Matt Kunkel – Vice-President of the SEARCH Foundation, Dimity Hawkins – nuclear free activist and PhD candidate, a co-founder of ICAN, Sue Pennicuik MLC (Southern Metropolitan Region) – Victorian Greens.

Organised by the SEARCH Foundation