Annual South East Asia Socialism Conference

Global Crises, Global Uprisings – From Arab Spring Uprising to the Occupy Movements

Implications for the Socialist Movement in Asia

November 28, University of the Philippines (Diliman Campus), Quezon City

 

We are the world’s 99%, struggling against the elite – the greedy, profit-seeking 1%.  In the Philippines in the last decade the net worth of the five richest families has increased 72.5% to over $9 billion, while a worker on the minimum wage earned only around $2000 per year. The global upsurge of the 99%, from the Midde East, as people rise up against dictatorial regimes, to the mass movements in  Europe and the United States against capitalist greed – of  the bankers, the corporations and the capitalist states – have been described as “planting the seeds of world revolution”. Today, with the rottenness of the capitalist system exposed, more than ever, the socialist movement must find ways of grasping the opportunities to confidently put forward the socialist alternative to capitalisms crisis.  The Manila Socialism Conference – the fourth held in the Philippines – will bring together socialist activists from the Philippines and around the region to share experiences, lessons and ideas, to advance the struggle for socialism in this critical conjuncture.

                                                                                                          

Partido Lakas ng Masa! PLM would like to invite you and your organization to participate in the South East Asia Annual Regional Socialism Conference, to be held in Manila, on November 28 (2011), 9am to 5pm,  this year. Transform Asia is the sponsor of the conference. The conference is being organized by the Partido Lakas ng Masa.

 

The theme of the conference is “Global Crises, Global Uprisings – From the Arab Spring Uprisings to the Occupy Movements, Implications for the Socialist Movement in Asia”.

A featured International guest speaker at the conference, speaking on the Arab Uprisings, will be Adam Hanieh. Adam Hanieh is an activist and Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS), University of London, and on the editorial board of the Marxist journal, Historical Materialism.

Key topics for discussion include:

·          Struggles from the Arab Spring Uprisings to the Occupy Movements;

·         Eco-socialist Response to the Environmental Crisis;

·         Renewing Socialist Feminism.

 

A detailed conference program will be distributed shortly.

 

The conference is a discussion amongst socialist activists, primarily from parties in the Asian region. A regional socialism network has existed since 2005, with conferences organized in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. This is the fourth conference to be organized in the Philippines.

 

            If you are interested in participating in the conference, please register at the earliest possible opportunity, by simply replying to this email or by contacting Van on 0948 8476181 or at the PLM office.

 

 

 

 

Sonny Melencio 

 

Chairperson, Partido Lakas ng Masa, Philippines.