XIVth INTERNATIONAL ROSA LUXEMBURG CONFERENCE

Saturday, 10th January 2008,
House URANIA, An der Urania 17, 10787 Berlin
Entrance from 10:00 a.m.
Between 10:00 and 10:45 a.m. film impressions of previous conferences.
Exhibition, book market and other items in the hall.


P r o g r a m

Lectures from 11:00 a.m.

Internationalism and countervailing power today

It started with the food crisis at the beginning of 2008. In the autumn you can already read: The number of hungry people rose to one billion people worldwide. Now the bursting of the bubble makes that the economies of industrialized countries are rolling, unemployment and poverty are rising in the metropolises again. The multitude of crises is the main character of the system - and its expiry. Internationally the answers are still multifarious, but you can hear an anti-capitalist tenor yet.

Contributions from:

• Klaus Gietinger, producer, writer, Cologne (Germany)
• Imad Samaha, l’Univerité Libanaise, member of the Politburo of the CP Lebanon
• Domenico Losurdo, philosopher, Italy
• Georgina Alfonso González, Deputy Head of the Cuban Institute of Philosophy
• Sara Flounder, International Action Center, USA
• Ahmath Dansokho, Secretary General of the Senegalese Party of Independence and Labor
• Mumia Abu-Jamal, journalist, political prisoner, USA

Moderation: Dr. Seltsam

Furthermore:

Lectures about the situation of political prisoners
Excerpts from the film "Cuban Dreams" and discussion with its producer
Hans-Peter Weymar
Lectures about anti-NATO activities: Wolfgang Richter (Society for the Protection
of Civil Rights and Human Dignity) about the European Peace Congress, the Youth Alliance and the state of preparations for the anti-NATO Summit
Choir of the Socialist leadership. Excerpt of the Berlin Grips Theatre from the current play "Rosa". Interview with Volker Ludwig (director of the theatre and author)
Parallel program from 01:30 p.m.

No Peace with NATO

60 years NATO = 40 years Cold War and nuclear threat, plus 20 years wars around the world and new Cold War. NATO must go. Therefore something has to be done in spring 2009.

Youth Meeting in preparation of the activities against the NATO's anniversary:

With representatives of youth associations (including the Socialist German Workers' Youth, Workers' Federation of Democratic Societies - Youth, Socialist-Democratic Students' Association, Antifascist Left Berlin, Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Action Berlin, Communist Youth Greece) and other international guests


Panel Discussion from 06:00 p.m.
European Union - the nice empire next door

The United States of Europe with a capitalist basis marks a reactionary project. There is no peace that emanates from European terrain: From the 27 members only Cyprus and Malta are currently not involved in war operations. EU means: cutback of democracy, destruction of social achievements of the labour movement, uncontrolled anti-communism. Why is this paradise for the big business so attractive for the German Left?


The European Union: militarization, degradation of democracy and social standards. How can an effective international resistance of left forces look like?

• Michael Kronawitter, antifa-activist
• Lothar Bisky, chairman of the European Left Party
• Stefanos Loukas, director and editor of Rizospastis, member of the
• Politburo of the Communist Party Greece
• Domenico Losurdo, philosopher, Italy

Moderation: Arnold Schölzel, chief editor “junge Welt”


Concerts from 08:00 p.m.
I was, I am, I will be

50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution,
90th Anniversary of the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht

No socialism without an own culture, no revolution without an own music

Songs accompany them. Songs are the memory of victory and defeat. Art and artistic activities become everyday life in the socialist society. 50 years Cuban Revolution implies five decades of new Cuban music. 90 years after the November revolution the songs of the labour movement can be regarded as newly discovered.


Vicente Feliu, prominent representative of the Nueva Trova Cubana, accompanied by José Andres Ordas Aguilera
EWO2, the small electronic World Orchestra (The four musicians around the German songwriter Bernd Köhler have rearranged traditional songs of the international labour movement on their current CD "avanti popolo". Over seven months they kept up in the list of Top Ten.


Party from 10:00 p.m.

• Cool Breeze (Afrocalypso from Berlin) & surprise guests


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Tickets:

Total (lectures, discussion, concert) 21,-- / reduced 15,-- euros
Conference (lectures, discussion) 13,-- / reduced 09,-- euros
Panel discussion 05,-- / reduced 04,-- euros
Concert 13,-- / reduced 09,-- euros


Languages of the conference: German, English, Spanish (simultaneous translation)


How to get there?

The House URANIA can be found in the middle of the City-West, at the extension of the famous boulevard “Kurfürstendamm”. Starting at the station “Zoologischer Garten” you will get there in some minutes; a footway of only 5 minutes from the metro stations “Wittenbergplatz” and “Nollendorfplatz”.

DB (German Railway) station “Zoologischer Garten“
Metro „Wittenbergplatz“, “Nollendorfplatz“
Suburban Railway “Zoologischer Garten”
Bus 100, 110, M19 et al.


Information

More information and ticket reservations at the organizing office of “junge Welt” by telephone: +49 (0)30/ 53 63 55 10. Internet: www.rosa-luxemburg-konferenz.de.