SOCIALISM 2005
Build the LEFT ALTERNATIVE

July 1-4 * Chicago * Hyatt Regency O’Hare

www.socialismconference.org/

A WEEKEND of political debate, discussion and entertainment…

WHAT YOU’LL FIND AT SOCIALISM 2005

MORE THAN 100 MEETINGS on topics ranging from Marxist theory to the politics of sports.

BOOKFAIR, FILMS, entertainment...and dance parties.

JOIN with…

MIKE ALEWITZ
Labor Art Mural Project*

PETER CAMEJO
California Green Party, * independent candidate for vice-president, 2004

MONIQUE JEANNE DOLS and HADAS THEIR
Campus Antiwar Network*

SAM FARBER
Author, Before Stalinism and Revolution and Counterrevolution in Cuba

JOSHUA FRANK
Author, Left Out: How the Left Helped Reelect George Bush

LUCIANO GENRO
Party of Socialism and Liberty (Brazil)*

SHUJAA GRAHAM and PHYLLIS PRENTICE
On George Jackson and the Prisoners Rights Movement of the 1960s

ELAINE HAGOPIAN
Author, Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims

ERNESTO HERRERA
Editor, Correspondencia de Prensa*

MARLENE MARTIN
Campaign to End the Death Penalty*

CAMILO MEJÍA
The first Iraq veteran to refuse a second tour

AHMED SHAWKI
Editor, International Socialist Review

SHARON SMITH
Author, Women and Socialism

DAVE ZIRIN
Columnist, Edge of Sports, and
DAVID MEGGYESY
Former NFL linebacker

KEVIN ZEESE
Democracy Rising*

AND MANY MORE

*affiliations listed for identification purposes only.

WE LIVE in a time when billions are spent on an increasingly unpopular war while politicians plot to rob retirees and the disabled of their Social Security; when the Democratic Party talks more about finding "common ground" with conservatives than of opposing them; and when the media acts as a propaganda arm of the Pentagon and the U.S. government. Clearly, the need for an alternative on the left—an alternative that speaks to the millions of ordinary people who are fed up with war, attacks on workers and threats to our civil rights—is more pressing than ever. Building that alternative is up to us—and Socialism 2005 is a great place to start.

SOCIALISM 2005 provides a forum where activists from today’s fightbacks can come together to discuss how we can rebuild the left and win a world where ordinary people will decide the priorities of our society.

YOU’RE invited to take part in more than 100 discussions on the issues facing activists and the left today, the socialist tradition, political theory and much more—all aimed at arming a new generation with the ideas they need to change the world.

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2005

6pm—10pm. Registration at Hyatt Regency O’Hare, 9300 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue in Rosemont, Ill., near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport
8pm. Evening forums
9:30pm—midnight. Reception with cash bar

SATURDAY, JULY 2, 2005

9am—10am. Registration at Hyatt Regency O’Hare
10am—1pm. Meetings
1pm-2:30pm. Lunch
2:30—5:30pm. Meetings
7:30pm. Evening forums
9:30pm—1am. Party with cash bar

SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2005

9am—10am. Registration at Hyatt Regency O’Hare
10am—1pm. Meetings
1pm—2:30pm. Lunch
2:30—5:30pm. Meetings
7:30pm. Evening forums
9:30pm—1am. Party with cash bar

MONDAY, JULY 4, 2005

9am—10am. Registration at Hyatt Regency O’Hare
10am—1pm. Meetings
1pm—2:30pm. Lunch
2:30pm—3:30pm. Final rally

REGISTRATION

Registration Rates

Early registration (online only—by June 1) $75
Regular registration—whole conference $85
Weekend Rate—Saturday and Sunday only $60
Saturday only $35
Sunday only $35
Monday only $25
Single session $8

Online Registration

Visit www.socialismconference.org/register.html

To register by phone, or if you have questions about the registration process, call 773-583-8665.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Write: Socialism 2005, c/o ISR, P.O. Box 258082, Chicago, IL 60625

Call: 773-583-8665

E-mail:info (at) socialismconference.org

Sponsored by the CENTER FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND SOCIAL CHANGE, publisher of the International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books.

Co-sponsored by the INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION, publisher of Socialist Worker.