Marxism brings together activists, radicals, rebels, students, unionists and revolutionaries from across the world for a weekend of debate and discussion of contemporary radical politics, history and theory.

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has been a socialist and refugee activist for the last 25 years. She fought to get refugees out of detention and get them permanent protection through protest and direct action. She has campaigned more recently for the release of the Park Hotel refugees.

Liz Walsh

Joel Geier has been active in the US socialist movement since the 1960s. He has written on many topics, including world crisis, Marxist economics, social movements, and the soldier's rebellion during the Vietnam War.

Joel Geier

Kevin Lin is a labour activist and researcher on China.

Kevin Lin

Jeffery Webber is a socialist writer and expert on Latin American politics. His writings on the region cover everything from class struggle and rebellions, to the impacts of imperialism, to debates on the Latin American left. Jeffery's latest book, The Impasse of the Latin American Left, co-written with Franck Gaudichaud and Massimo Modonesi, charts the rise and fall of the 'Pink Tide' governments, and their relationship to the right-wing revival taking place in Latin America today. He currently teaches in the Politics department at York University in Toronto. Jeffery will be speaking at the conference as part of the session on political polarisation and resistance in Latin America.

Jeffery Webber

Raquel Varela is an assistant professor with Habilitation at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is a historian and researcher. President of the Observatory for Living and Working Conditions. Coordinator of Social Data/Nova4Globe. Integrated researcher of the Research Group History, Territory and Communities CEF/UC/Polo FCSH. Collaborating Researcher at the Center for Global Studies at Universidade Aberta. Varela is a social historian and a researcher in global labour history. In 2020 she won the Prize of the Ibero-American Communication Association / University of Oviedo, Spain, for her contribution to global labour history and social movements. In 2020, she was distinguished with the first Simone Veil-Project Europe research grant, from the University of Munich. In 2021, she was a visiting researcher at the Institute of European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is an honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam). She has published several books, including 

A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution an

A People's History of Europe From World War I to Today

Raquel Varela

Cathy Lewis

Student socialist Anneke Demanuele delivering an inspiring pitch for why we need more socialists to get active today (Marxism 2021)

Tom Sullivan

Shovan Bhattarai

Declan Kerr

Viraj Dissanayake

Emma Dook

Emma Dynes

Omar Hassan is a socialist activist and the editor of the 

. He has played a prominent role in a wide variety of left-wing campaigns, including the movement against the far right, for refugee rights and the environment. He has written widely on the dynamics of global capitalism, including his latest editorial 'Toil and Trouble'.

Omar Hassan 

Sarah is a Melbourne socialist, agitator and regular contributor to the 

Sarah Garnham

Rick Kuhn is an Australian Marxist economist, political analyst and honorary associate professor at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is best known for his biography of the Marxist economist Henryk Grossman, for which he won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2007. Rick is the author of Labor’s Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class (with Tom Bramble), edited Class and Struggle in Australia and has written for International Socialist Review, Monthly Review,Counterpunch, The Canberra Times, New Matilda and Red Flag. He is a member of Jews Against the Occupation and Socialist Alternative and a life member of the National Tertiary Education Union.

Rick Kuhn

Corey is a member of Socialist Alternative's National Executive, and an editor of the newspaper 

Corey Oakley

Jerome Small is Socialist Alternative's industrial organiser. He has been a socialist and union activist in the telecommunications, clothing, clerical and construction industries for over 30 years, as well as playing a prominent role in climate, refugee and anti-uranium campaigns. 

Jerome Small

Tom Bramble is a long-term socialist activist, author and retired academic based in Queensland, Australia. He taught Industrial Relations at the University of Queensland for many years and has authored numerous books and articles on the Australian labour movement. His most recent book, with Mick Armstrong, is '“The Fight for Workers’ Power: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the 20th Century”.

Tom Bramble

Vashti is a socialist, member of the Socialist Alternative's National Executive. She is the author of the book 'The Story of Palestine' and is currently writing a PhD on Australian antifascism. Check out some of her other articles in the 

Vashti Fox

Sandra Bloodworth is a labour historian and socialist activist, based in Melbourne, Australia. She has been involved in radical politics since the 1970s, where she has played roles in the women's, Aboriginal, anti-uranium mining and trade union movements. She is a member of the National Executive of Socialist Alternative and has written on the Russian Revolution, the global financial crisis, women's struggles, working class resistance in the Middle East and Australian imperialism. 

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