Athens May 4-7 2006
Thursday 4/5/2006
Main Panels
18:00
Assault on democratic rights. Terrorist hysteria, Guantanamo, kidnappings, terrorist laws, black lists, white cells.
Participants
1. Naime Kara – TAYAD, Turkey
2. Kostoula Kandilioti – lawyer, Greece
3. Marina Meintani – journalist, Greece
4. Dan Enriquez – Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions, Philippines
5. Sandra Bakutz – journalist, Austria
6. Thodoros Koutsoumpos – journalist, Greece
7. Antonia Legaki – Committee for Constitutional Rights of Lawyers’ Association of Athens
8. Aliyah Brunner – ATIK, Turkey
9. Dimitris Belantis – lawyer, Greece
10. Kostas Avramidis – member of the Association Against State Terrorism, Greece
11. Bertell Olman – Professor of Political Sciences N.Y., USA
19:00
The imperialist reactionary character of the EU and the struggles of the peoples of Europe.
Participants
1. Yiannis Chatziantoniou – lawyer, Greece
2. Ilias Kamaretsos – CPG(m-l), Greece
3. Vassilis Minakakis – New Left Current, Greece
4. Yiannis Agelis – journalist, Workers’ Revolutionary Party, Greece
5. Charis Smirniotis – Committee against the European Constitution and the EU, Greece
6. Workers’ Antiimperialist Front – Greece
20:00
Urban movements and the radical left
Participants
Representatives of urban movements from Athens and Thessalonica
Workshops
16:00
FOR A TOTAL ANTICAPITALIST STRUGGLE IN EDUCATION
Participants
Representatives of students’ and teachers’ movements from Greece
18:00
WHAT AFTER THE PATRIARCHY? ISSUES OF SEXES IN THE CAPITALISM OF THE 21st CENTURY
Participants
1. D. Vergetis, psychoanalyst
2. K. Matsa, psychiatrist
Friday 5/5/2006
Main Panels
12:00
Assault on the educational and labour rights of youth. The French example and the resistance of the youth movement.
Participants
1. New Democratic Youth – Turkey
2. Militant Movement of students – Greece
3. Representatives of youth movements from Greece
4. Ferhat Ozdemir – Federation of Youth Associations (TSDF), Turkey
19:00
Capital’s assault, workers’ resistance and political perspective of the workers’ movement in Europe and in Greece.
Participants
1. ATIK – Turkey
2. Trade unionists – Greece
3. Tassoula Genidou – Class March, Greece
4. Nazmiye Kaya – Federation for Fundamental Rights, Turkey
5. Mimmo Mignano, Slai Cobas-Fiat Napoli.
20:30
Europe after the French March and the Italian election
Participants
1. Marco Ferando – Progetto Communista PB member of Rifondacione Communista, Italy
2. Etienne Penissat – SUD, France
3. Leonardo Mazzei – Campo Antiimperialista, Italy
4. Dimitris Kousiouris – member of Coordinating Committee of EHESS
5. Andreas Vogiatzoglou – CPG (m-l), Greece
6. Kostas Charitakis – New Left Current, Greece
7. Savas Michail – Workers’ Revolutionary Party, Greece
8. Representative of Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece
Workshops
15:00
The laws are abolished in the barricades
Participants
Raphaelle Malaurent – Coordinating Committee of the University of Sorbonne occupation, France
16:00
Education aligned and adapted to the demands of the capital’s assault.
Participants
1. Periklis Pavlidis – Professor at the University of Thessaloniki
2. Stelios Savaidis – Professor at the Technical University of Piraeus
3. Militant movement of students – Greece
4. Panos Chountis – Militant movement of teachers – Greece
5. Representatives of teachers’ unions
16:00
Russia, 15 years after the collapse
Panel by the Balkan Socialist Center Christian Rakovsky
Speakers:
1. Tatiana Filimonova
2. Iosif Abramson
3. Yevgenyi Koslov
4. Tamara Smirnova
5. Alexander Buzghalin
6. Hillel Ticktin
17:00
Racism and the discriminations against foreign workers and migrants. Migrants as part of the working class.
Participants
1. Chrissi Perperidou – Class March, Greece
2. Matis Santos – Cordillera People’s Democratic Front, Philippines
3. Osaren Igbinoba – Caravane migrants network, Germany
4. Stefanos Hatzisavas – CPG (m-l), Greece
5. Dimitris Tzoumas – representative of Migrans’ school “Odysseas”, Thessaloniki, Greece
6. Matina Aksiourgou – representative of Migrans’ school “Odysseas”, Thessaloniki, Greece
7. Sach Mumbarak – Afghan political refugee in Greece
8. Uran Sulaj- migrant worker in Larissa, Class March, Greece
9. Dimitris Kavouras – Left Reorganization, Greece
17:00
Greece – Turkey and the Cyprus issue. Quest of common resistance.
Participants
1. Dimitris Babilis – CPG (m-l), Greece
2. Christos Bistis – Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece
3. PARTIZAN – Turkey
4. Yusuf Alkim – Socialist Party of Cyprus
5. Andreas Fridas – Chairman of the Association “Free Morfu”, Cyprus
6. Themos Stoforopoulos – Former Ambassador, Cyprus
7. Sungur Savran – Workers’ Struggle (Isci Mucadelesi), Turkey
8. Ozgur Sevgi Goral – EHP, Turkey
9. New Left Current – Greece
10. Workers’ Revolutionary Party – Greece
18:3Ο
“Rigas was right”. The struggle of the Balkan peoples for unity and socialism
Panel by the Balkan Socialist Center Christian Rakovsky
Main speaker
Mihri Belli – Turkey
Participants
1. Sungur Savran – Workers’ Struggle (Isci Mucadelesi), Turkey
2. Savas Michail – Workers’ Revolutionary Party, Greece
3. Ana Bazac – Marxist Nucleus, Romania
4. Iosif Abramson – RPK, Russia
5. Ozgur Sevgi Goral – EHP, Turkey
Saturday 6/5/2006
Main Panels
10:00
Dismissals, unemployment, flexible working relations, workers’ resistance
Participants
1. Kostas Bekiaris – Class March, Greece
2. Trade unionists – Greece
11:00
Iraqi resistance in the front line of the antiimperialist struggle.
Participants
1. Awni Ebrahim Saleh Al Kalemji – Iraqi Patriotic Alliance
2. Nada Al Rubaiee – Writer, Iraqi Patriotic Alliance
3. Nori Al-Îœuradi – Cadre – Iraqi Communist Party
4. Ahmed Κareem- Iraqi Patriotic Communist Movement
5. Sammi Ala’a – Free Iraq Committee, Denmark
6. Leonardo Mazzei – Free Iraq Committee, Italy
7. Suzan Zengin – ILPS Turkish Section
8. Dimitris Pavlidis – CPG (m-l), Greece
9. Leo Gabriel – journalist, Austria
13:00
Imperialist war. Peoples’ resistance and solidarity in the Balkans and the Middle East.
Participants
1. Arman Riazi – ILPS secretary, Iran
2. Saba Rahi – The Iranian People’s Fadaee Guerillas (IPFG)
3. Hisham Bustani – Coordinator -Resistant Arab People’s Alliance , Pan-Arab
4. ILPS -Turkish Section
5. Fathi Khdirat – Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaingn, Palestine
6. YES BYL – Israel
7. Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
8. EHP – Turkey
9. Workers’ Struggle (Isci Mucadelesi) – Turkey
10. Marxist Nucleus – Romania
11. Dimitri Tsalos – Campo Antiimperialista, Germany
12. Federation for Fundamental Rights – Turkey
13. Nikos Papavasiliou – CPG (m-l) – Greece
14. Workers’ Revolutionary Party – Greece
15. Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece
16. Antiwar Intarnationalist Movement – Greece
Workshops
11:00
Uprisings in Latin America and the left.
Participants
1. CEBRASPO – Brazil
2. CNC – Equador
3. PCN – Colombia
4. Representative from Venezuela
5. Wilhelm Langthaler – Campo Antiimperialista, Austria
6. Dimitris Manos – CPG(m-l), Greece
12:00
Capitalism and Crisis
Participants
1. Hillel Tictin – Professor at the University of Glascow
2. Yiannis Agelis – journalist, Workers’ Revolutionary Party, Greece
20:ΟΟ
Assault against the poor peasants and the struggle against the genetically modified products
Participants
1. Yndhriri Singh – BKU, India
2. Representatives of movements against genetically modified products, peasants’ and ecological organizations
3. Yiannis Chartzoulakis – Agriculturalist
20:00
Presentation of ILPS and the movement against US overseas military bases.
Participants
1. Manolis Arkolakis – Vice chairman of ILPS, Greece
2. Arman Riazi – Secretary of ILPS, Iran
3. ILPS Turkish Section
4. ILPS Philippines Section
5. Nektarios Kokolantonakis – Committee against bases and dependence, Chania Greece
6. Aleksis Fitsilis – Antiwar Antiimperialist Committee of Karditsa, Greece
7. Stathis Asvestopoulos – Antiwar Antiimperialist Committee of Ksanthi, Greece
8. Christos Kalintzoglou – member of the Committee against the NATO port of Peramos, Kavala, Greece
16:00
Demonstration
Massive participation in the anti-imperialist, anti-American, anti-EU demonstration
Sunday 7/5/2006
Main Panel
10:00
The left in the 21st century. The revolutionary and socialist perspective.
Participants
1. Agelos Chagios – New Left Current, Greece
2. Vassilis Samaras – CPG (m-l), Greece
3. Savas Michail – Workers’ Revolutionary Party, Greece
4. Christos Bistis – Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece
5. Dan Enriquez – Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions, Philippines
6. PARTIZAN – Turkey
7. Ingrid Baltzerzen, vice chairperson of the AKP (Workers’ Communist Party of Norway)
8. Franco Grizolia – Progetto Communista, Rifondacione Communista, Italy
9. Eyup Bas – Front for Liberties and Rights (HOC), Turkey
10. Thanassis Tsirigotis – ML-CPG, Greece
