Latin America: a Continent in Revolt

Saturday 24 June
10.30 till 6
University of London Union, Malet St, near Euston

Timetable

10.30 Registration

11 am 1st Plenary: Latin America Today: New Struggles, New Challenges.

2pm 2nd Plenary: Learning from History: the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions, the Chilean experience.

4pm 3rd Plenary: Strategic Questions: permanent revolution; democracy and the role of the state; the relation between parties and social movements.

6pm Finish

6.05 Beer

There will be time for discussion from the floor in each plenary

Our speakers:

Celia Hart is the daughter of two historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Armando Hart and the late Haydée Santamaria. A physicist, writer and member of the Cuban Communist Party, she describes herself as a “freelance Trotskyist”. She has published many articles on Trotsky and on the Permanent Revolution.

Michael Löwy was born in Brazil and is Research Director in Sociology at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) in Paris. His many books include: The Marxism of Che Guevara; Marxism and Liberation Theology; Fatherland or Mother Earth? and The War of Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America.

For articles by these writers, visit http://www.internationalvewpoint.org

Send 10 pounds (waged)/ 2 pounds (unwaged/student) to:

Socialist Resistance
PO Box 1109
London N4 2UU

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