Marxism2018 Timetable (May be subject to change)

The US: a war-making state

Marxism and women’s liberation

Yoo Shi-min’s What is the State ? a Marxist critique

Socialism from below

The workers’ revolution in China 1925-27

[Marxist method] historical materialism

Democracy and Marxism

[Theory of imperialism for beginners] Why do wars persist under capitalism?

[Centennial of the German Revolution] How did the German Revolution of 1918-23 end in defeat?

Antonio Gramsci

AI and education

[Interview] Life as a defector from North Korea

[Marxist methods] Dialectics

The May 1980 revolt of Gwangju against the Chun Doo-hwan dictatorship

The history of the ‘North Korean nuclear threat’

What is class, and does it still matter?

[Opening plenary session] The struggle for real change

• Laura Miles trade union activist in the British higher education workers’ union UCU, member of the Socialist Workers’ Party (Britain), Trans woman

Erich Fromm’s psychology

[Panel debate] Abortion ? women’s right to choose

[Panel debate] What is the character of Chinese society?

[Marxist classics] The Communist Manifesto

Revolution, not reform

Internationalism

[Marxist political economy] Exploitation and the labor theory of value

How the KCTU strike wave of 1996-97 put an end to 37 years of one-party state

The psyche of Koreans

What is Stalinism?

[Intermediate theory] Lenin and Bukharin’s theory of imperialism

Capitalism and disaster

[Marxist political economy] Why do crises happen?

Marxism and nations/nationalism

What happened the last time the Democrats were in power?

LGBT+ oppression and liberation

• Laura Miles trade union activist in the British higher education workers’ union UCU, member of the Socialist Workers’ Party (Britain), Trans woman

US-China tensions and protectionism today

How the June protests and July through September mass strikes in 1987 put an end to military rule

[Panel debate] Industry restructuring and labor’s alternative ? looking back at labor’s response in the earlier part of the year

Will the ‘4^th Industrial Revolution’ transform the future of work?

[Panel debate] Discrimination against immigrants in Korea: reality, resistance, and solidarity

[Panel debate] Solidarity wages? Fair wages? Wage policy in the age of recession and labor’s response

Critique of the protestant right

The future of the Korean peninsula after the Trump-Kim and Kim-Moon summits

Revolutionary Organization

Social democracy, basic theory for understanding The Justice Party

Was the Korean War of 1950-53 about freedom and democracy?

Why has the Income-led Growth initiative been stripped of any content?

The theory of state capitalism ? why the former USSR and North Korea are the opposite of socialist

Education and the Russian Revolution

Trade unions and the anti-capitalist left in the rank and file: historical experience and the here and now

The Russian Revolution of 1917

Feminism and the Moon Jae-in government

[50 years since 1968] 1968, a year that put the world under a spell

The candle light protests of October 2016 through April 2017 that ousted Park Geun-hye

Stalinist movements in Korea

[Panel debate] One year since the promise of zero irregular employment in the public sector ? the struggle ahead for achieving proper regularization

Is another education possible?

• Laura Miles trade union activist in the British higher education workers’ union UCU, member of the Socialist Workers’ Party (Britain), Trans woman

[50 years since 1968] The revolt of 1968 and the revolutionary left

The crisis of shipbuilding and resistance ? the fight inside Hyundai Heavy Industries since the election of a Democratic Faction leadership

A Samsung Electronic Service worker speaks out: our tears, our struggle, our victory

A Refugee’s Story by an Egyptian Asylum Seeker

[Panel debate] The life and struggle of women workers

One year under Moon Jae-in: what has changed?

Psychology and Marxism

• Laura Miles trade union activist in the British higher education workers’ union UCU, member of the Socialist Workers’ Party (Britain), Trans woman

[Panel debate] The fight to eradicate irregular employment from schools

Is trade union participation in management a step toward democratic corporate governance?

Lenin

[Panel debate] How to actually reduce working hours in the face of a loophole-ridden 52-hour workweek

Industrial accidents ? how capitalism destroys workers’ health

The origins and crisis of North Korea’s state capitalism

Assessment and prospects of the educator-workers’ movement from an anti-capitalist perspective

The candle light movement of 2008

The Korean working class ? its evolution and current shape

The state of women workers in Korea

North Korea since the end of the Cold War

Trotsky

[Marxist methods] Marx’s theory of alienation

The united front: a guide for activists

[Closing plenary session] Sexual violence and capitalism

• Laura Miles trade union activist in the British higher education workers’ union UCU, member of the Socialist Workers’ Party (Britain), Trans woman