ORIENTATION WEEK FORUM
Tuesday March 9, 1pm
Room to be confirmed
Organised by the Latrobe University Cuba-Venezuela Solidarity Club & supported by Direct Action

The world appears to be on the brink of ecological and social disaster. On current trends, by the year 2050 the world will need 50% more energy. Already food insecurity affects half of humanity and a quarter of the world live below the $1.25 a day global poverty line. At the same time a very small few enjoy wealth and leisure unimaginable to the rest. Only 0.13% of the world control 25% of global assets.

Capitalism doesn't work. There is an alternative.

In Latin America people are in rebellion. A new 21st Century Socialism, led by the revolution in Venezuelan, is under construction. The people of Venezuela are beginning to build a society based on solidarity and democracy - where people decide on social and economic priorities and the national economy is under community rather than corporate control.

Revolutions are possible. We can make the planet livable for everyone but we need to fight for it - we need to get involved in struggles to resist the destruction of our environment and our communities and we need to campaign for socialist solutions.

Venezuela and Cuba are leading this struggle for socialism in the 21st Century. A  struggle exemplified by the figure of Che Guevara, who continues to inspire those who fight for democracy and social justice in Latin America and worldwide.

Today - in the world we live in - surely the sanest choice is, like Che, to be a revolutionary socialist activist and internationalist.

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth. Che Guevara