***socialist forums on October 23***

FREE MARKET FAILURE:
Where’s the bailout for the rest of us?

Pilsen Forum:

7pm Thursday, Oct. 23 @ Rudy Lozano Library (Loomis and 18th Street)

Featuring: LEE SUSTAR, journalist for Socialist Worker and SW Online and frequent author on the economic crisis

Logan Square Forum:

7pm Thursday, Oct. 23 @ Acme Art Works (2215 W. North)

Featuring: JOEL GEIER, associate editor of the International Socialist Review and frequent author on economic issues

About the forums:

For decades we’ve been told there wasn’t enough money for education, health care, to reduce poverty or meet people’s needs—and that only the “free market” could solve society’s problems.

But in the past weeks, hundreds of billions of dollars have been handed to Wall Street banks—because of the spectacular failures of that very “free market.”

The economic crisis now is increasing joblessness and deepening a global recession. While there are hundreds of billions for war and Wall Street, there is still no bailout for workers and the poor.

Come to these forums to discuss how the capitalist system itself is behind the growing economic crisis and how we could have a totally different economy—one democratically controlled by working people.

Sponsored by:

International Socialist Organization

For more information call 773-370-4575 or e-mail chicago_socialists (at) yahoo.com.

www.chicagosocialists.org

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Mark your calendar for the 2008 MIDWEST SOCIALIST CONFERENCE!!!

“Building a Revolutionary Alternative”

November 15-16 * Chicago * DePaul University (Munroe Hall)
Registration begins at 9am on Saturday

***join us for the 2008 Midwest Socialist Conference, to discuss in a period of crisis and change the urgent question of “building a revolutionary alternative.” Join activists from the front lines of today’s struggles, along with authors and journalists from around the Midwest—to debate and discuss building an alternative to a world of crisis, racism and war.

***featured speakers include***

CAMILO MEJIA * Iraq War resister, author of “Road From ar Ramadi,” and board member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (*for id only)

DAVID WHITEHOUSE * reviews editor for the International Socialist Review

DONNA SMITH * victim of the U.S. health care system featured in Michael Moore’s documentary “Sicko” and national coordinator of American Patients United (*for id only)

ELIZABETH SCHULTE * journalist for Socialist Worker and socialistworker.org

JOE ALLEN * frequent contributor to counterpunch.org, socialistworker.org and author of “Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost”

JORGE MUJICA * organizer with the March 10 Movement for immigrant rights in Chicago (*for id only)

KEEANGA TAYLOR * frequent contributor to counterpunch.org, socialistworker.org and the International Socialist Review on issues of race and class

LEE SUSTAR * labor editor for Socialist Worker and socialistworker.org and frequent writer on the growing economic crisis

MARLENE MARTIN * National Organizer of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty (*for id only)

MARTIN SMITH * activist with Iraq Veterans Against the War (*for id only)

NICOLE COLSON * journalist for Socialist Worker and socialistworker.org

ORLANDO SEPULVEDA * activist with the March 10 Movement for immigrant rights in Chicago (*for id only)

PAUL D’AMATO * managing editor of the International Socialist Review, columnist for Socialist Worker, author of “The Meaning of Marxism”

ROSI CARRASCO * immigrant rights activist in Chicago

SHARON SMITH * columnist for Socialist Worker and author of “Women and Socialism” and “Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the U.S.”

VANESSA BECK * victim of the U.S. health care system and activist with the Chicago Single-Payer Action Network (CSPAN) (*for id only)

AND OTHERS * speaking on today’s struggles, crises, socialist theory and the history of radical movements

***sessions and workshops include***

* Capitalism in Crisis: Building the Revolutionary Alternative

* Why Capitalism Doesn't Work: The Marxist Theory of Economic Crisis

* From New Deal to Raw Deal: Keynesianism to Neoliberalism

* Harvest of Empire: Globalization and Immigration

* From Boom to Bust: The Economic Crisis Today

* Is a Revolution Possible in the U.S.?

* After the Elections: The Democratic Party and War

* What's next in the Struggle for Immigrant Rights?

* Afghanistan: The Right War?

* Lock 'em up and Throw Away the Key: Capitalism: Crime and Punishment

* Radical Black Workers Struggles of the 1960s

* Environment in Crisis: Can the Planet Be Saved?

* Capitalism and Sexuality

* How Can We Organize to Fight Back? The Politics of Mass Protest and Direct Action

* Marxism versus Anarchism

* The Women's Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s

* Lenin and Buhkarin on the Theory of Imperialism

* The Fight for Single-Payer Health Care (Patients and Health Care Workers Speak Out)

* Why Do We Need a Revolutionary Party?

* From Unemployed Councils to Factory Occupations: The Class Rebellion of the 1930s

* Introduction to the International Socialist Organization (ISO)

* World Revolution: The First Five Years of the Communist International

* The Russian Revolution: When Workers Ran Society

* Rosa Luxemburg's The Mass Strike

* The Myth of Lenin's Elitism

***conference schedule***

Saturday

9-10am Registration

10-11am Opening Plenary

11:30-1pm Workshops

1-2pm Lunch

2-3:30pm Workshops

4-5:30pm Workshops

5:30-7:30pm Dinner

7:30-9pm Evening Plenary

Sunday "Socialist School"

11am-1pm Workshops

***registration***

Registration is on a sliding scale (low income: $10).

***for more information contact your local branch of the International Socialist Organization, call 773-370-4575 or e-mail contact (at) internationalsocialist.org

www.internationalsocialist.org/
socialistworker.org/