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Workers' Control Conference
University of Technology, Sydney
10th-12th October

Hi all,

This is an invitation to register for the "Workers' Control
Conference", which will be held from the 10th to 12th
October, 2003.

The conference will be a dynamic weekend of talks,
discussion and workshops on past experiences of workers
control and the current strategies of militant unionism.

http://www.jura.org.au/workerscontrol/

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Keynote speakers confirmed to date include:
* Michael Crosby (Co-director, ACTU Organising Centre)
* Joan Doyle (newly elected Secretary, Victorian Postal
Union)
* Martin Kingham (Victorian State Secretary, Construction
Division of the CFMEU)
* Humphrey McQueen (Author, historian)
* Paul True (Special Projects Officer, CFMEU. Speaking on
the NSW Builders' Labourers Federation and the Green Bans.
Author of "Tales of the BLF - Rolling the Right!")
* Hall Greenland (Author of 'Red Hot: The Life and Times
of Nick Origlass').

Topics to be covered by plenaries and workshops include:
* Reforming the Union Movement Today
* The Organising Model: Successes and Limitations
* The NSW Builders Labourers Federation and the Green Bans
* The Ability of Militants within Unions to Achieve
Change.
* The Possibilities and Limitations of Direct Action Today
* The Harco Work-in
* The Experience of the Melbourne Tram Workers
* Unorthodox Leninism: Gramsci and Workers' Control
* The Student-Worker Uprising in France in May 1968.
* The Workers' Revolt Against Stalinism in Hungary in 1956
* The Australian Experience of Workers' Self-Management
* The Social Responsibility of Trade Unions: the 1938 Port
Kembla Pig-iron dispute and the NSW Builders Labourers
Federation Green Bans.
* The Opera House Work-In
* Revolutionary Reforms and Andre Gorz.
* Creating a Workplace Newsletter
* Workers' Self-Management and the Upsurge of the 1960s
and 70s
* Workers' Control in Australia in the 1960s and 70s:
successes and failures
* The idea of self-management in Marxist revolutionary
theory.
* Workers' Self-Management and the Allende Government in
Chile 1970-3

AGENDA AND MORE INFO
To view a complete agenda for the conference visit the
conference website:

http://www.jura.org.au/workerscontrol/

REGISTRATION
We strongly encourage people to register before the
conference so that we can properly predict numbers for
seating, printing and catering. You can register by:

email workerscontrol@jura.org.au
Phone: 02 9572 9089
Or on our website at:
http://www.jura.org.au/workerscontrol/register.html

PLEASE include your name, phone number, email address and a
postal address. No money is needed - you can pay on the
day.

SUBMITING WORKSHOPS
If you would like to present a workshop please contact the
conference organisers by 25th September, 2003. Workshop
topics should be in the spirit of the conference. In your
submission, please include a title and a 50 word overview of
the workshop. Due to limited space and time, we may not be
able to accept all workshops. Please email
workerscontrol@jura.org.au

We are interested in workshops on any relevant topics, but
in particular would be interested in both practical
workshops on recent experiences of union organising in
various industries, and historical workshops on the
experiences of militant union movements.

PUBLICITY AND MEDIA
We would greatly appreciate any assistance with publicising
the conference. If you contact us, we can post you copies
of the agenda and posters. If you have access to your own
photocopying you can download PDFs of the material from our
website at:

http://www.jura.org.au/workerscontrol/promo.html

Please don't be shy about asking us for posters and
leaflets - we have thousands of them.

If you can assist by getting an advertisement or article in
your union newsletter or email list, that would be
excellent. If you need any statements or an article, please
contact us.

GET INVOLVED. INVITE YOUR FRIENDS.
The Workers' Control Conference is open to all genuine
participants. Please forward this email to people you think
might be interested, submit a workshop, register early, and
join us on the 10th, 11th and 12th for a dynamic weekend of
debate and discussion.

In Solidarity,

Nick Harrigan
For the Workers' Control Conference Organising Committee.

Phone: 02 9572 9089
Email: workerscontrol@jura.org.au
Mail: PO Box N32 Petersham North NSW 2049
Web: http://www.jura.org.au/workerscontrol/

CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORS
The Workers' Control Conference is an initiative of members
of Jura Books, the Centre for Radical Workplace and Union
Democracy and the Research Initiative on International
Activism at University of Technology, Sydney.