BY FEDERICO FUENTES
MELBOURNE — The Democratic Socialist Party and Friends of the Earth have initiated a second "Global Action" conference to discuss corporate globalisation and the movement against it as a follow-up to the very successful conference they jointly organised in August.
The conference will seek to provide space for the main discussions and debates occurring within the new anti-capitalist movement in Australia, in particular those which have arisen since the S11 protests.
Scheduled plenary sessions will address whether to "fix or nix" multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation, "can we move beyond summit-hopping?" and alternatives to corporate globalisation.
Workshops are planned to cover a diverse range of topics, incluidng feminism and the anti-corporate movement, state violence, developments in Asia and environmental issues.
The second Global Action conference is being more broadly organised than the first. So far other groups to endorse the conference include the M1 Alliance, Socialist Worker and Socialist Alternative.
The conference will be held at the Union Theatre, on the ground floor of Union Hall, at Melbourne University on March 31, beginning at 9.30am.
For more information or if you would like to endorse and get involved in organising the conference, call Sarah Peart on (03) 9639 8622.