As a stream of new participants are added each day, we now have a new program. Of course, the bulk of the program published yesterday is still valid. But we have newly added names from Italy, Iran, Algeria, Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. We hope that this program will be the final version.
Conference Program
(All times are Moscow-Istanbul-Athens time.)
25 June Saturday
Opening:Internationale
Session I: The view from former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact countries
(14:00-18:45 with two 15 minute breaks)
Time given:15 min for each speaker, main report 20 min
Moderator:Sungur Savran (Chairman, DIP, Turkey)
Speaker, Political Affiliation, Country
1) Main Report: Savas Mihail-Matsas (Secretary General, EEK, Greece), on behalf of Rakovsky
2) Levent Dölek (Deputy Chairman, DIP, Turkey), on behalf of RedMed
3) Alexey Albu (Borotba, Ukraine)
4) Yuri Shakhin (Against the Current, Ukraine)
5) Daria Mitina (Deputy Secretary General in charge of International Relations, OKP, Russia)
6) Evgeni Kozlov (Secretary General, RPK, Russia)
7) Iosif Abramson (Central Committee, RPK, Russia)
8) Mikhail B. Konashev (Ass.SU, Russia)
9) Artem Kirpichenok (Historian, Russia)
10) Said Gafourov (Russia)
11) Vadim Vinnik (Marxist Circle, Belarus)
12) Tamás Krausz (journal Eszmélet, Hungary)
13) Annamaria Artner (Eszmélet, Hungary)
14) Ewa Groszewska (Poland)
15) Daniela Penkova- Iliyan Stanchev (Bulgaria)
16) Revolutionary Marxists of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan
17) Ali Rakhimov (Uzbekistan)
Session II: Voices from Latin America
19:00-21:00
Time given:15 min each
Moderators: Armagan Tulunay / Daria Mitina
Speaker, Political Affiliation, Country
1) Osvaldo Coggiola (Brazil/Argentina)
2) Angelica Lovatto (Centralidade de Trabalho, PSOL, Brazil)
3) Frank Garcia Hernández (comunistas.org, Cuba)
4) José Capitan (Opción Obrera, Venezuela)
5) Marcelo Novello (Argentina)
6) Edgar Azevedo (Brazil)
7) Italo Aquino (Brazil)
8) Andre Rossi (Brazil)
Closing session of first day: Organisers
21:00-21:15
26 June Sunday
Session III: Voices from Europe, United States, Britain, Australia
14:00-16:30
Moderator:Savas Mihail-Matsas & Iosif Abramson
Time given:10 min. Each
Speaker, Political Affiliation, Country
1) Dimtiris Mizaras (MTL, Finland)
2) GastonBégéneix(ROR, France)
3) Alessandra Ciattini (Collettivo La città futura e Unigramsci, Italy)
4) Carla Filosa (La Contraddizione and Unigramsci, Italy)
5) Antonio Marcó (Red Roja, Barcelona (Spanish State))
6) Gian Franco Camboni (Sardegna Rossa, Sardinia)
7)Giorgos Michailidis (NAR, Greece)
8) Christos Nomidis (OKDE-Spartakos, Greece)
9) Alex Mitchell & Judith White (Australia)
10) Davey Heller (Class Conscious, Australia)
11) Bethany Cooper (USA)
12) Hans-Peter Breitman (Bolshevik Tendency, Britain)
Session IV: Voices from Africa and the Middle East
16:45-18:00
Moderators:Ernesto Sagel & Iosif Abramson
Time given: 10 min. Each
Speaker, Political Affiliation, Country
1) Latief Parker & Godfrey (Unity, South Africa)
2) Abdallah Abdallah (Secours Rouge Arabe, Lebanon)
3)Kamel Badaoui (Algeria)
4) Hakan Öztürk (EHP, Turkey) &
5) Jülide Yazıcı (Teori ve Politika, Turkey)
6)Omid Aghdami, (Central Comittee member, Left Party of Iran (People's Fadaian))
7) Aziz Şah (Cyprus)
8) Kutlu Dane, Friends of Palestine Against Imperialism and Zionism Platform (Turkey) (5 min)
9) Kurtar Tanyılmaz, Devrimci Marksizm/Revolutionary Marxism (Turkey) (5 min)
Session V: Forum: What is to be done?
18:15-20:00
Moderators:(Savas Mihail-Matsas & Daria Mitina)
Closing session: Organisers
20:00-20:30
Internationale