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THIS YEAR'S Socialist Youth Festival promises to be one of the highlights of the calendar. Young people from throughout Ireland, North & South, will attend the summer camp over the weekend of 18-20 July at Tanagh Outdoor Adventure, Co. Cavan, for a weekend of socialism and craic.

The past year has seen the largest ever anti-war movement on a global scale. 30 million people took to the streets in opposition to the imperialist war on Iraq. At the heart of this movement was the rebellion of the youth. International Socialist Resistance (ISR), the international socialist youth organisation to which Socialist Youth is affiliated, mobilised hundreds of thousands of school students throughout the world in walk-outs against the war. In Germany, ISR mobilised 100,000 school students which was a source of inspiration to the wider anti-war movement.

Friday night rally (8.30pm, followed by live music)

Introduction to the Weekend - Ashling Golden (SY Limerick) and Joe Higgins TD


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Saturday Choice of Discussions (10.30 - 12.30)

(1) Iraq in Chaos: What next for Bush’s ‘war on terror’? - Denis Halliday, Kevin Croke (SY Dublin) & Seamus O'Reilly (SY Belfast)

(2) Do We Live in a Drug Culture? A socialist view on drugs - Dr. Ciaran Mulholland (SP)

(3) Che Guevara: A revolutionary life - Joe Bent (SY Cork)

(4) Northern Ireland: How workers struggle can defeat sectarianism - Jim Barbour (FBU Chair), Carmel Gates (NIPSA President) & David Semple (SY Belfast)

Rally (7.30 - 9pm, followed by music and DJ)

Resisting War & Capitalism: Workers and Youth in Struggle - Lelia Massoudi (French socialist), Daniel Waldron (Youth Against the War) Tommy Fitzgerald (BATU activist) & Oisin Kelly (UCD Education Officer)


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Sunday Choice of Discussions (10.30 - 12.30)

(1) Anarchism or Marxism: Which road to socialism? - An Anarchist debates with Brian Cahill (SP)

(2) Our Environment in Crisis: Is there an alternative? - Helena Byrne (SY) & Patricia McKenna (Green MEP)

(3) Crisis in the Middle East: Is a Palestinian state possible? - Cillian Gillespie (SY) & Tadgh (SP)

(4) The Fight Against Womens Oppression Today - Olivia O'Neill (SY) & Cllr Ruth Coppinger (SP)

Rally (7.30 - 9pm)

A Socialist World is Necessary - Hannah Sell (author of Socialism in the 21st Century and National Organiser of the Socialist Party in England & Wales), Chris Henry (SY Coleraine) & Cllr. Clare Daly (SP)


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Monday Choices of Discussion (10 - 12pm)

(1) Police & the State: To serve or to rule? - Brendan Mulholland (SP) and a speaker from the Irish Council of Civil Liberties

(2) From the Clash to Rage Against the Machine: The politics of music - Damian Dempsey (musician) & Michael Okot (SY Belfast)

(3) Human Nature, Greed, Corruption… Is socialism possible? - Chris Loughlin (SY)

Closing Rally (12.15 - 1pm)

Building the socialist alternative - Matt Waine & Daniel Waldron