ANNOUNCING AN IMPORTANT EVENT FOR ACTIVISTS AND TRADE UNIONISTS

ANNOUNCING AN IMPORTANT EVENT FOR ACTIVISTS AND TRADE UNIONISTS

A Better World Is Possible… Fight for Socialism!

SOCIALISM 2002

A weekend of political discussion, debate, and entertainment

June 13–16 -- Chicago -- Congress Plaza Hotel

Some of the more than 100 meetings…

Bush’s War at Home -- Opposing Israel's Apartheid -- Class Struggle in Latin America --War Is Peace: Washington’s Permanent War -- Labor Organizing in the U.S. South -- Reform or Revolution? -- What Happened to the Russian Revolution? -- The Politics of Che Guevara -- Where Does Racism Come From? -- Gandhi, King, and the Politics of Nonviolence -- Nuclear Madness -- The Vietnam War -- Incarceration Nation —America’s Prisons -- The Global AIDS Crisis -- The Argentinazo -- Geopolitics of Oil: The New "Great Game" - Hollywood Goes to War -- Palestine and the Middle East -- Will Bush Overturn Roe v. Wade?

Some of the featured speakers…

NASEER ARURI, editor, Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return

DAVID BARSAMIAN, director, Alternative Radio

PATRICK BOND, South Africa-based economist and writer

JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER, co-editor, Monthly Review

MARLENE MARTIN, national director, Campaign to End the Death Penalty

RANIA MASRI, Palestinian activist

TOM LEWIS, writer on Latin American issues

OSCAR OLIVERA, Bolivian labor leader and social justice activist

GREG PALAST, investigative journalist and author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

LEO PANITCH, co-editor, Socialist Register

AHMED SHAWKI, editor, International Socialist Review

SHARON SMITH, columnist, Socialist Worker

SHERRY WOLF, author, Stop Sweatshop Labor Here and Abroad

To find out more, including a complete list of workshops and sessions, and to register online visit www.socialism2002.org or e-mail socialism2002@hotmail.com.

Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, publisher of Socialist Worker

and the Center for Economic Research and Social Change, publisher of International Socialist Review.