3.15 Workshops
Refugees, land and dispossession
War and eco-destruction
Solidarity and resistance
4.30 – 5.30 Solidarity and the socialist perspective Speakers: Gilbert Achcar, Tikva Honig-Parnass, Ewa Jasiewicz and Roland Rance (Socialist Resistance)

About the speakers:
Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon and teaches political science at the University of Paris-VIII. His best-selling book The Clash of Barbarisms just came out in a second expanded edition. A book of his dialogues with Noam Chomsky on the Middle East, Perilous Power, is forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton and The 33-Day War on Lebanon with Michael Warschawski, will be published by Saqi Books.
Tikva Honig-Parnass is an Israeli Jew, whose family has lived in Palestine for several generations. She is a sociologist, an internationalist, a Marxist and an anti-Zionist who is formerly editor of the Jerusalembased magazines News From Within, The Other Front, and Between the Lines. An activist in anti-occupation and women.s protest movements, she is currently completing a book on labour Zionism and imperialism.
Ewa Jasiewicz is a writer, human rights activist and union organiser. She has worked and lived in occupied Palestine and Iraq supporting families, medical services and civil society organisations. She is a founder of Naftana, the UK support committee for the antioccupation, anti-dictatorship Iraqi oil workers union – the General Union of Oil Employees. She currently works at PLATFORM – a UK-based social and environmental justice organisation.

This forum will be a unique opportunity to examine:
The disastrous situation created by the invasion of Iraq which Bush’s “surge” will only make worse.
The results of the Israeli defeat in the Lebanon.
The ongoing struggle of the Palestinian people.
How the battles for water and oil have resulted in the carving up of the area.
The impact of climate change and ecological destruction.
Resistance to war and the occupation both in Iraq and across the globe.

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