Saturday and Sunday 19-20 April

Redfern Community Centre, Sydney

Venue
Redfern Community Centre Sydney

Timetable
Full schedule of sessions here

Tickets
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About Keep Left 2025

Capitalism is unleashing a barrage of destruction across the globe. Far-right President Donald Trump sits in the White House. Israel’s Western-backed genocide in Gaza has exposed the barbarism of the system. Imperialist tensions between the U.S. and China continue to escalate and the bloodbath in Ukraine grinds on. Governments are imposing austerity alongside the rise of the far right and a climate crisis worsening by the year.

Anthony Albanese has displayed an absolute commitment to running this sick system. He has continued to arm Israel as it commits genocide, expanded fossil fuels, attacked the CFMEU construction union, vilified migrants and ruled for the rich as the cost of living crisis bites. All this has only served to embolden Peter Dutton in the lead up to the Federal election.

We won’t get the change we need at the ballot box. But struggles around the globe show that resistance is possible. In Gaza the Palestinian resistance remains unbroken and world-wide protests for Palestine have seen millions fight their governments’ complicity. Mass protests and strikes in South Korea stopped a military coup.

Join us at Keep Left, a two-day festival of socialist ideas hosted by Solidarity, to discuss the global turmoil, resistance and strategies for revolution.

Speakers

Stephen Gapps

Dr Stephen Gapps is a historian with research interests in early colonial Sydney and the Frontier Wars. He is author of The Sydney Wars and Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance. He will speak on the Frontier Wars and his new book Uprising—War in the Colony of NSW 1838-1844.

Rock Haocas

Rock is the co-ordinator of external affairs of the USTKE (Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers) from Kanaky-New Caledonia and will speak about workers, unions and the struggle against French colonialism in a session on Imperialism and resistance in the Pacific.

Veronica Koman

Veronica is an Indonesian human rights lawyer and West Papua advocate. She will be speaking on a panel on Imperialism and resistance in the Pacific.

Karina Lester

Karina is a Yankunytjatjara woman and a second-generation survivor of British nuclear tests at Emu Fields. She will speak about her family and community’s role in the anti-nuclear movement.

Ahmed Abadla

Ahmed is a Palestinian from Gaza, co-founder of Palestine Justice Movement Sydney and creator of the Red Inverted Triangle podcast. He will speak on Palestine: strategies for liberation.

Clare Fester

Clare is a socialist based in Los Angeles and a member of Marx21. She will speak on Donald Trump's assault on migrants, trans people and workers and the crisis in US politics.

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