International Speaker

Laura Miles

Laura Miles is a former lecturer and trade union activist in the British higher education workers’ union UCU, and a long-standing member of the Socialist Workers’ Party (Britain). She is currently a national executive committee member of the UCU, and has served as the secretary of the UCU Left, a coalition of socialists and leftists inside the union. She is also the first Trans woman ever to have been elected to a national executive committee of a British trade union. She is co-author of Transgender Oppression and Liberation (Chaekgalpi).

LGBT+ oppression and liberation

20 Jul (Fri) pm 3:50 - pm 5:40
[Closing plenary session] Sexual violence and capitalism

22 Jul (Sun) pm 4:30 - pm 6:20
Psychology and Marxism

22 Jul (Sun) am 10:00 - am 11:50
Is another education possible?

21 Jul (Sat) pm 3:50 - pm 5:40
[Opening plenary session] The struggle for real change

19 Jul (Thu) pm 7:00 - pm 8:50

＊ More than 50 activists and intellectuals will deliver speeches.

Kyung-nok Chun is a professional translator/interpreter who has translated Marxist literature throughout his political life. He has interpreted for international speakers at Marxism for ten years running.
Korean-to-English translation may be provided for select workshops. You can visit the registration booth each day for information on which sessions offer translation on that day. Please leave your name and number at the booth to get a translation receiver (You need to deposit your ID at the registration desk while you use the receiver.).

Themes

Table of Contents

The struggle for genuine change
Talks by international speaker
Imperialism and East Asian geopolitics
The Moon Jae-in government and Korean politics
Labor movement
Bicentennial of Karl Marx’s birth
Struggle against sexism
LGBT+
China
Modern Korean history and popular resistance
History of the international working class movement
What Marxism is … and is not
Where Workers’ Solidarity stands ? our basic principles
Meet the revolutionaries
Education
Psychology
Religion/Science/Refugee/Disaster

International Speaker

Laura Miles

LGBT+ oppression and liberation

[Closing plenary session] Sexual violence and capitalism

Psychology and Marxism

Is another education possible?

[Opening plenary session] The struggle for real change

Themes

The struggle for genuine change

[Opening plenary session] The struggle for real change

Talks by international speaker

LGBT+ oppression and liberation

Psychology and Marxism

[Closing plenary session] Sexual violence and capitalism

Is another education possible?

Imperialism and East Asian geopolitics

The future of the Korean peninsula after the Trump-Kim and Kim-Moon summits 21 Jul (Sat) am 10:00 - am 11:20

The history of the ‘North Korean nuclear threat’ 19 Jul (Thu) pm 4:30 - pm 5:50

[Theory of imperialism for beginners] Why do wars persist under capitalism? 19 Jul (Thu) pm 2:40 - pm 4:00

[Intermediate theory] Lenin and Bukharin’s theory of imperialism 20 Jul (Fri) pm 2:10 - pm 3:30

The theory of state capitalism ? why the former USSR and North Korea are the opposite of socialist 21 Jul (Sat) am 11:50 - pm 1:10

The origins and crisis of North Korea’s state capitalism 22 Jul (Sun) pm 12:00 - pm 1:20

North Korea since the end of the Cold War 22 Jul (Sun) pm 2:40 - pm 4:00

[Interview] Life as a defector from North Korea 19 Jul (Thu) pm 4:30 - pm 5:50

The US: a war-making state 19 Jul (Thu) pm 1:00 - pm 2:20

Marxism and nations/nationalism 20 Jul (Fri) pm 2:10 - pm 3:30

The Moon Jae-in government and Korean politics

One year under Moon Jae-in: what has changed? 21 Jul (Sat) pm 6:40 - pm 8:00

What happened the last time the Democrats were in power? 20 Jul (Fri) pm 2:10 - pm 3:30

Yoo Shi-min’s What is the State ? a Marxist critique 19 Jul (Thu) pm 1:00 - pm 2:20

Democracy and Marxism 19 Jul (Thu) pm 2:40 - pm 4:00

The united front: a guide for activists 22 Jul (Sun) pm 2:40 - pm 4:00

Labor movement

Class

What is class, and does it still matter? 7월19일(목) 오후 4:30 - 5:50 | 418기념관 소극장

The Korean working class ? its evolution and current shape 7월22일(일) 오후 2:40 - 4:00 | 문과대학(서관) 202호

Trade Union

Trade unions and the anti-capitalist left in the rank and file: historical experience and the here and now 7월21일(토) 오후 2:10 - 3:30 | 문과대학(서관) 202호

Is trade union participation in management a step toward democratic corporate governance? 7월22일(일) 오전 10:00 - 11:20 | 문과대학(서관) 215호

‘4th Industrial Revolution’ and Jobs

Will the ‘4th Industrial Revolution’ transform the future of work? 7월20일(금) 오후 6:40 - 8:00 | 우당교양관 605호

Irregular Employment

[Panel debate] One year since the promise of zero irregular employment in the public sector ? the struggle ahead for achieving proper regularization 7월21일(토) 오후 3:50 - 6:00 | 문과대학(서관) 202호

A Samsung Electronic Service worker speaks out: our tears, our struggle, our victory 7월21일(토) 오후 6:40 - 8:00 | 문과대학(서관) 215호

[Panel debate] The fight to eradicate irregular employment from schools 7월22일(일) 오전 10:00 - 11:30 | 문과대학(서관) 132호

Wage, Working Hours, Working Conditions

[Panel debate] Solidarity wages? Fair wages? Wage policy in the age of recession and labor’s response 7월21일(토) 오전 10:00 - 11:40 | 문과대학(서관) 132호

[Panel debate] How to actually reduce working hours in the face of a loophole-ridden 52-hour workweek 7월22일(일) 오후 12:00 - 1:20 | 문과대학(서관) 215호

Why has the Income-led Growth initiative been stripped of any content? 7월21일(토) 오전 11:50 - 오후 1:10 | 문과대학(서관) 215호

Industrial accidents ? how capitalism destroys workers’ health 7월22일(일) 오후 12:00 - 1:20 | 문과대학(서관) 307호

Industry Restructuring

[Panel debate] Industry restructuring and labor’s alternative ? looking back at labor’s response in the earlier part of the year 7월20일(금) 오후 6:40 - 8:10 | 문과대학(서관) 132호

The crisis of shipbuilding and resistance ? the fight inside Hyundai Heavy Industries since the election of a Democratic Faction leadership 7월21일(토) 오후 3:50 - 5:10 | 문과대학(서관) 215호

Women Workers

[Panel debate] The life and struggle of women workers 7월21일(토) 오후 6:40 - 8:20 | 문과대학(서관) 202호

Migration

[Panel debate] Discrimination against immigrants in Korea: reality, resistance, and solidarity 7월20일(금) 오후 6:40 - 8:20 | 문과대학(서관) 215호

Education Workers

[Panel debate] The fight to eradicate irregular employment from schools 7월22일(일) 오전 10:00 - 11:30 | 문과대학(서관) 132호

Assessment and prospects of the educator-workers’ movement from an anti-capitalist perspective 7월22일(일) 오후 12:00 - 1:20 | 문과대학(서관) 317호

Bicentennial of Karl Marx’s birth

[Marxist classics] The Communist Manifesto 20 Jul (Fri) am 11:40 - pm 1:00

[Marxist methods] Marx’s theory of alienation 22 Jul (Sun) pm 2:40 - pm 4:00

[Marxist methods] Dialectics 19 Jul (Thu) pm 4:30 - pm 5:50

[Marxist method] historical materialism 19 Jul (Thu) pm 2:40 - pm 4:00

[Marxist political economy] Exploitation and the labor theory of value 20 Jul (Fri) am 11:40 - pm 1:00

[Marxist political economy] Why do crises happen? 20 Jul (Fri) pm 2:10 - pm 3:30

Marxism and women’s liberation 19 Jul (Thu) pm 1:00 - pm 2:20

Struggle against sexism

Feminism and the Moon Jae-in government 21 Jul (Sat) pm 2:10 - pm 3:30

[Panel debate] The life and struggle of women workers 21 Jul (Sat) pm 6:40 - pm 8:20

The state of women workers in Korea 22 Jul (Sun) pm 2:40 - pm 4:00

[Panel debate] Abortion ? women’s right to choose 20 Jul (Fri) am 10:00 - am 11:20

Marxism and women’s liberation 19 Jul (Thu) pm 1:00 - pm 2:20

[Closing plenary session] Sexual violence and capitalism

LGBT+

LGBT+ oppression and liberation

China

The workers’ revolution in China 1925-27 19 Jul (Thu) pm 1:00 - pm 2:20

[Panel debate] What is the character of Chinese society? 20 Jul (Fri) am 10:00 - am 11:30

‘4^th Industrial Revolution’ and Jobs

Will the ‘4^th Industrial Revolution’ transform the future of work? 7월20일(금) 오후 6:40 - 8:00 | 우당교양관 605호