Undermining Fortress
Europe
Saturday 19th opening forum • The political situation France (Alain Krivine of the LCR) • Why Europe as a central theme? (JCR speaker) • The Fourth International: the Europe we're fighting for Sunday 20: "Against the Europe of injustice, the Europe of resistance" • Maastricht EU: against young people • Fighting against unemployment • Student struggles in Portugal Workshops
Educational policies in Europe • cutting the working week • the struggle in Renault Belgium • Information, new technology and the reorganisation of the labour market • AIDS and health policies • "Pro-capitalist" changes in the Eastern European countries • Albania. Monday 21: Racism, fascism, moral order, no pasaran! • The far right and the new moral order • The Schengen agreement • The "sans-papiers" in France Workshops
Local government by the far right • Workshops Fascism in Germany. Germany • Far right in the student movement • Racism against gypsies • Drugs and repressive policies in Europe • Struggles of lesbians and gays. Tuesday 22: Women in the eye of the storm • Attacks on women's rights • Women and public life • Hearings for women's rights in France. Workshops
The right to choose • Women's rights in Poland since 1989 • Women in Algeria. • Sexual exploitation and capitalist crisis • Men and feminism • Cultural relativism and imperialism
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Wednesday 23
Workshops
May 1968, re-foundation of the Fourth
International (by Alain Krivine • Experiences of youth movement recomposition • mass consumption and the creation of new needs • Genetics, biotechnology and bio industries • The
"white crisis" in Belgium • Repression against Kurds in Germany.
Thursday 24: Do away with this society
• The crisis of capitalism - the need for revolution.
• Ecological crisis
• The society we want (Daniel Bensaïd)
Friday 25 : How to be a revolutionary?
• What type of organisation?
• Internationalism
Educational meetings
• Fascism, today and yesterday
• The Russian Revolution of October
1917. (Daniel Bensaïd)
• Exploitation of the Third World, the
African example
• Che Guevara. (Janette Habel)
• Current struggles in Latin America, particularly Chiapas
Women's assemblies
• Sexualities
• Violence against women
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