International Communist Seminar, Brussels, 2-4 May 2001

Preliminary program

The world socialist revolution in the conditions of imperialist globalisation   

  1. The objective evolution of the production forces, of the relations of production and exchange

1.1. The concentration of capital; privatisations; the export of capital; the development of the means of communication and transportation; trade liberalisation of and the development of world trade; the development and the internationalisation of the financial markets; the international organisation and planification of production within transnational corporations; etc.

1.2. The role of the international organisations in imperialist globalisation and in the intensification of imperialist domination

A. The international employers’ organisations;
B. The IMF, the World Bank
C. The WTO

2. The sharpening of all the contradictions of the imperialist world and the necessity of the world socialist revolution

    1. The analysis of the deepening of the various economic, political and social contradictions of the imperialist world, such as described in "Imperialism, supreme stage of capitalism" by Lenin
    2. The analysis of the new economic, political and social contradictions that have emerged during the last few decades
      The necessity of the socialist revolution at the world level and the contradictions in its realisation
3. The question of the struggle for national sovereignty, the defence of the national State and the practice of proletarian internationalism in the conditions of imperialist globalisation
    1. Globalisation and the intensification of imperialist domination in Africa, Asia and Latin America
      2. A. Globalisation and loss of national independence and of national sovereignty
      B. Globalisation and the breaking up, weakening and disintegration of the dominated States.
    2. The national States and the communist movement faced with the emerging supranational State of the European Union

4. Criticism of the political lines developed by the reformist, revisionist and Trotskyite forces in the struggle against globalisation

5. Experiences of popular struggles against globalisation

5.1. Mass struggles against WTO, the World Bank and the IMF

5.2. Experiences of the use of the Internet in the struggle against imperialist globalisation

5.3. Experiences of the working class in the struggles against transnational corporations  

The Secretariat of the 2001 Seminar is assured by the
Workers’ Party of Belgium,
International Department
Bd. M. Lemonnier 171, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel.: +32-2-50.40.139, +32-2-50.40.111
Fax: +32-2-50.40.141, +32-2-513.98.31
E-mail: ics[at]icsbrussels.org
Internet: http://www.wpb.be  

Parties or organisations that would like to participate in this Seminar are requested to turn to the Seminar Secretariat with the WPB at the above address.
Resolutions and reports of the past Seminars are to be found on the Internet Site of the WPB.      

October 2000