SOCIALISM 2004: Ideas to Change the World
June 17-20th; Chicago, Illinois
www.socialismconference.org

WHAT YOU'LL FIND AT SOCIALISM 2004
MORE THAN 100 MEETINGS on topics ranging from Marxist theory to the politics of Hollywood Westerns. BOOKFAIRS, FILMS,
entertainment and parties with live music.

WHY THIS CONFERENCE MATTERS:
This year, Democrats and Republicans will tell you that everything depends on who sits in the White House. But the most important issues for working people--whether we're sent overseas to fight in wars for empire or whether we can have a decent standard of living--aren't on the ballot. So we face a choice. To accept that we can't do better than what Washington is willing to offer. Or to fight for a real change from
below--in our workplaces, in our schools and in our communities.

Socialism 2004 provides a forum where activists from today's struggles can come together to discuss how to win a socialist world where ordinary people will decide the priorities of our society.

More than 100 discussions on today's struggles, the socialist tradition, political theory and much more are aimed at arming a new generation of fighters with the ideas they need to change the world.

You're invited to debate, discuss and decide how to change the world at Socialism 2004!

SPEAKERS INCLUDE

John PILGER – award winning journalist and filmmaker; author New Rulers of the Word

Rania MASRI - director of the Southern Peace Research and Education Center

Dennis BRUTUS – global justice activist; ‘poet
laureate’ of 1980s South African Anti-Apartheid
Movement

Jeffrey ST.CLAIR – Editor Counterpunch

Gerald COLBY – President National Writers Union

Lou PLUMMER – Military Families Speak Out

Achin VANAIK – Co-author South Asia on a Short Fuse

Mike ALEWITZ – Director Labor Art and Mural Project

Robert FATTON – Author, ‘Haiti’s PredatoryRepublic’

Monique MATTHEWS – sister of Ryan Matthews; innocent man on Louisiana’s Death Row

Ahmed SHAWKI – editor International Socialist Review

Mike DAVIS – author City of Quartz, new book Planet of Slums

Mike MARQUSEE – member British Stop the War Coalition; author Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the 1960s

Tikva HONIG-PARNASS – Israeli activist; co-editor
Between the Lines

Patrick BOND - author of Against Global Apartheid: South Africa Meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance.

Max ELBAUM – former member of Students for a
Democratic Society in the 1960s; author Revolution in the Air

Sharon SMITH – columnist Socialist Worker Newspaper

Howie HAWKINS – Green Party USA National Committee

Marlene MARTIN – Director Campaign to End the Death Penalty

Call 202/667-0049 or e-mail iso_district-AT-yahoo.com to sign up or for more information on travel and housing from the DC-Metro Area.
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SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2004
6pm-10pm. Registration at Holiday Inn Chicago O'Hare
International, 5440 North River Road St. in Rosemont,
Ill., near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport
8pm. Evening forums
9:30pm-midnight. Reception with cash bar

FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2004
9am-10am. Registration at Holiday Inn Chicago O'Hare
International
10am-1pm. Meetings
1pm-2:30pm. Lunch
2:30-5:30pm. Meetings
7:30pm. Evening forums
9:30pm-1am. Party with cash bar

SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 2004
9am-10am. Registration at Holiday Inn Chicago O'Hare
International
10am-1pm. Meetings
1pm-2:30pm. Lunch
2:30-5:30pm. Meetings
7:30pm. Evening forums
9:30pm-1am. Party with cash bar

SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2004
9am-10am. Registration at Holiday Inn Chicago O'Hare
International
10am-1pm. Meetings
1pm-2:30pm. Lunch
2:30pm-3:30pm. Final rally

Call 202/667-0049 or e-mail iso_district-AT-yahoo.com for
more information

www.socialismconference.org