Boris Kagarlitsky and the challenges of the left today Online conference
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Ever defiant in the face of repression and a five-year jail term, Boris Kagarlitsky, Russia’s best-known socialist thinker, has just published his latest book, The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left.
This special online conference in Kagarlitsky’s honour will address the double aspect of his contribution: his wide-ranging analysis of the left’s dilemmas in the face of multiple global crises and the advance of the far right; and his resistance — together with other persecuted anti-war activists in the Russian Federation — to the authoritarianism of the regime of Vladimir Putin.
Conference schedule
Note on format: Each session will run for 90 minutes, made up of a 10-minute introduction by the moderator, 20-minute presentations by the speakers and 20 minutes discussion. The main time given is Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada), while the times in paratheses are, respectively, Central European Time, Indian Standard Time and Australian Eastern Standard Time.
INTRODUCTION
09:15 – 09:30 EDT | 15:15 -15:30 CET | 18:45 -19:00 IST | 23:15 - 23:30 AEST
Trevor Ngwane (South African socialist activist and author) and Fred Fuentes (editor, Links, International Journal of Socialist Renewal) present the Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign and the aims of the conference.
OPENING ADDRESS
09:30 – 10:00 EDT | 15:30 -16:00 CET | 19:00 -19:30 IST | 23:30 - 00:00 AEST
Speaker: Nancy Fraser
THE LONG RETREAT (presentation and discussion)
10:00 – 11:45 EDT | 16:00 -17:45 CET | 19:30 - 21:15 IST | 00:00 - 01:45 AEST
Moderator: David Castle (Pluto Press)
Speakers: Bill Fletcher and Alex Callinicos
BREAK 11:45 – 12:00 EDT | 17:45 -18:00 CET | 21:15 - 21:30 IST | 01:45 - 02:00 AEST
THE SITUATION FOR THE LEFT IN RUSSIA TODAY
12:00 – 13:30 EDT | 18:00 -19:30 CET | 21:30 - 23:00 IST | 02:00 - 03:30 AEST
Moderator: Grusha Gilayeva
Speakers: Greg Yudin, Ilya Budraitskis and a representative of Feminist Anti-War Resistance
PRESENTATION OF THE DANIEL SINGER PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE AWARD
13:30 – 13:40 EDT | 19:30 -19:40 CET | 23:00 - 23:10 IST | 03:30 - 03:40 AEST
Suzi Weissman and Ksenia Kagarlitskaya
BREAK 13:40 – 14:30 EDT | 19:40 - 20:30 CET | 23:10 - 00:00 IST |03:40 - 04:30 AEST
IMPERIALISM(S) TODAY
14:30 – 16:00 EDT | 20:30 - 22:00 CET | 00:00 - 01:30 IST | 04:30 - 06:00 AEST
Moderator: Adam Novak
Speakers: Robert Brenner, Ilya Matveev and Hanna Perekhoda
BREAK: 16:00 – 16:15 EDT | 22:00 - 22:15 CET | 01:30 - 01:45 IST | 06:00 - 06:15 AEST
REPRESSION AND THE THREAT TO INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM, RUSSIA AND BEYOND
16:15 – 18:00 EDT | 22:15 - 24:00 CET | 01:45 - 03:30 IST | 06:15 - 08:00 AEST
Moderator: Fiona Dove (TNI)
Speakers: Patrick Bond, a representative of Memorial and Pavel Kudyudin
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