PERMANENT REVOLUTION 2023
A Day of Political Discussion and Debate
Hosted by Workers Power and the League for the Fifth International
9 DECEMBER
CONWAY HALL
LONDON WC1R 4RL
Sessions:
Facing crises caused by environmental catastrophe, economic meltdown and wars, the working class has fought back with the biggest wave of strikes in decades and now a mass movement against Israeli genocide in Gaza.
All of these crises have capitalism and imperialism at their root. How can we replace these international systems?
In this session we discuss why only the international working class - the only class not tied to private ownership and the profit system - can found a new society armed with a socialist programme.
- The Road to Workers Power
Starting from today’s struggles, how can we bring the vanguard militants from the many partial battles into a common revolutionary organisation – a party? What will such a revolutionary party look like today?
What can we learn from Lenin and Trotsky on this issue and what needs updating? How can we transform the unions and make them take up issues that affect the whole working class? How can we combine the tasks of theoretical clarification and working class struggle?
In this session we discuss the concept of a transitional programme, linking immediate issues to the struggle for working class power, and what kind of fighting party we need.
Capitalism is an international system, spreading across the word: productive forces, finance, trade – and of course the international working class. Yet the profit system divides the world into rival powers, waging economic and military wars with one another.
How can we make a reality of the the historic slogan: ‘Workers of all Countries Unite’? What can we learn from the four previous Marxist Internationals?
Today the Gaza crisis is a living opportunity to build international links and bring help to the Palestinians. How can revolutionaries help the workers of Palestine and the surrounding countries to come to the head of the national liberation struggle, armed with the programme of permanent revolution?