Below are just some of the international speakers at the forthcoming World At A Crossroads socialist conference, to be held this Easter at Sydney Girls High School. Visit http://www.worldatacrossroads.org for more information or to register...
Michael Lebowitz, Venezuela & Canada
* Centro Internacional Miranda, Caracas
* Renowned Marxist economist
* Director of the program "Transformative Practice and Human Development" at the Centro Internacional Miranda, Caracas, Venezuela
* Author of "Build it Now: 21st Century Socialism" and "Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class", winner of the Isaac Deutscher memorial prize (2004)
* Professor Emeritus of economics, Simon Fraser University, Canada
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Reihana Mohideen, Philippines
* Power of the Masses Party (PLM)
* Long-term activist in the women's and labour movements in the Philippines
* Vice chair, International Department, Power of the Masses Party (PLM)
* Chairperson of Transform Asia, a gender and labour institute in South East Asia
* Editor of "Socialist Dialogue", a bulletin which carries debates and discussions of the international socialist movement
* Formerly vice-chair for international affairs of the socialist labor centre, Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (Solidarity of Filipino Workers)
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Ian Angus, Canada
* Eco-Socialist Network
* One of the founders of the Ecosocialist International Network
* Editor of Climate and Capitalism and associate editor of Socialist Voice
* Director of the Socialist History Project
* Author of: "Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada"; "Food Crisis: World Hunger, Agribusiness&the Food Sovereignty Alternative"; "How to Avoid Action on Climate Change: The fine art of greenwash in Canadian politics"; and "Confronting the Climate Change Crisis".
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Luis Bilbao, Venezuela & Argentina
* Long time activist on the Latin American left
* Participant in the construction of the mass United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the formation of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)
* Founding editor of the Latin American wide monthly magazine "América XXI"
* Author of 16 books, most recently "Venezuela in Revolution: the Rebirth of Socialism"
* Marxist professor of Political Economy and International Politics at TEA, School of Journalism, Argentina
* Member of Union of Militants for Socialism, Argentina.
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Kavita Krishnan, India
* Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist), All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA)
* A long-time leader of India’s student movement, including as President of the All India Students' Association from 1999 to 2006
* Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) and an editor of the party’s magazine in English, Liberation
* National Secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA)
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Salim Vally, South Africa
* Spokesperson of the Palestine Solidarity Committee
* Leading activist in the Palestine solidarity campaign in South Africa where dock workers recently boycotted Israeli ships. The PSC is directly working with the Council of South African Trade Unions on further solidarity and boycott actions
* Social justice and anti-apatheid activist since high school where he was a regional executive member of the South African Students’ Movement (SASM) until its banning in 1977
* Former member of COSATU’s National Education Committee
* Lecturer and senior researcher at the Education Policy Unit and the School of Education at Wits University, Johannesburg
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M.Saraswathy, Malaysia
* Socialist Party of Malaysia
* A founding member and currently Deputy Chairperson of the Socialist Party of Malaysia, and Chairperson of the PSM's Jelapang branch
* A long-term organiser of plantation workers, urban settlers and women workers in Malaysia, and founder of the Textile Union at Imperial Garment
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Abelardo Curbelo, Cuba
* Cuban Communist Party
* Veteran of the Cuban revolution
* Central committee member of the Cuban Communist Party
* Currently Cuban ambassador to Australia
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Daphne Lawless, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
* Socialist Worker - New Zealand
* Central committee member of SW-NZ
* Editor of the journal "Unity"
* Editorial board of Workers Charter newspaper
* Co-founder of Campus Left at Victoria University 2004
* Foundation member of NewLabour Party in 1989
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Nelson Davila, Venezuela
* Venezuelan Charge D'Affaires in Australia
* Founding member of Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement (MBR-200), the revolutionary group formed inside the armed forces
* Member of the ideological commission of the Maisanto Command, the coordinating body for the mass campaign to defeat the opposition’s attempts to recall Chavez in the August 2004 referendum
* Former instructor for the Centres for Ideological Formation
* Currently head of Venezuela's diplomatic mission to Australia
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Roger Annis, Canada
* Socialist Voice
* Editor of "Socialist Voice"
* Aerospace worker and member of the International Association of Machinists in Vancouver, Canada
* A coordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Network
* Travelled to Haiti in August 2007 as part of a human rights investigative delegation
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Ammar Ali Jan, Pakistan
* Labour Party Pakistan
* Youth secretary, Labour Party Pakistan
* Member of various progressive student and youth groups in Lahore including National Student Federation and Progressive Youth Front.
* Previously involved in the Campus Anti-war Network at the University of Texas, Austin, USA.
* Regular contributor for the most widely circulated English magazine in Pakistan including the News International of Jang Goup, the largest chain of newspapers in Pakistan.
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Soubhi Iskander, Sudan
* Sudanese Communist Party
* Active in the Sudanese Human Rights Committee
* Editor of "The Flame", monthly Arabic insert in Green Left Weekly
* Socialist Alliance member
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Mericio Juvinal Dos Reis (Akara)
* Luta Hamutuk Institute
* Executive Director of the Luta Hamutuk Institute
* From 2002-2005 he was a researcher at La’o Hamutuk, The East Timor Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis.
* From 1999-2002, Mericio Akara was a Vice President of Timor Socialist Party, but he resigned from the position and from party membership in 2003.
* Prior to 1999, he spent 8 years in Jakarta-Indonesia as a student and as a pro independent activist.
