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9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Welcoming by Swiss hosts MLGS and ATIK as well as the Consultative Committee of the United Front;

Reception by idea provider Peter Nowak (free journalist and council communist) and initiator Gabi Fechtner (MLPD)

1. Danger of a World War: Red Alert!? (10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)

1) Frank Hammer, USA (veteran of the UAW trade union, activist for environmental protection and jobs for decades, now active in the anti-Trump movement No kings in USA)

2) Dietmar Breme, Germany (until end of 2021 long-time member of the German Communist Party, internationalist, antifascist and peace fighter for decades)

3) Irtefaa al-Qubati, Yemen (Organization for Humanitarian Development, contact from COP 28, trade unionist and activist against war, women's oppression and environmental destruction)

4) Ruben Tzanoff, Spain (Socialismo y Libertad and International Socialist League, emphasizing cooperation against war and fascism)

5) Gabi Fechtner, Germany (party chairwoman of the MLPD, 1st woman worker to lead a revolutionary working-class party in Germany)

6) European Coordination of the ICOR: "Lenin's writing 'Socialism and War' - highly topical”

Lunch break (12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.)

2. Fascism and preparation for war hand in hand (1:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.)

1.) Guanqi Qiang, China (veteran of the socialist movement in China, fundamental critic of the current system and its government, Communist Party of China M-L-M)

2.) Andreas Buderus, Germany (trade union grassroots initiative "Say NO! Trade unionists against war, militarism and truce". Social worker and mediator, member of ver.di, activist in the trade union work against racism and war for 40 years)

3.) Professor Dhruba Mukherjeh, India (professor of science, member of “Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)”, activist in the struggle for the anti-capitalist socialist revolution in India)

4.) Renate Dillmann, Germany (journalist/lecturer, focus areas threat of world war and media war-mongering through bogeymen)

5.) Jovino Nunez, Dominican Republic (agricultural expert and work among peasants, revolutionary and Marxist-Leninist, ICOR Coordinator America)

6.) Professor Nako Stefanov, Bulgaria (professor of philosophy, former leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party, critic of the war course)

Coffee break (3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.)

3. How do we strengthen the worldwide movement against fascism and war? (4:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.)

1.) ATIK, Europe (transnational organization of migrant workers from Turkey, active against fascism and war not only in Turkey)

2.) Baghdad Fatafta, Palestine (lawyer, human rights activist, particularly active against genocide and the oppression of women)

3.) Roberto Luzzi, Italy (TIR (Revolutionary Internationalist Tendency), co-organizer of the anti-imperialist peace conference in Naples in June 2025, long-time activist and leading member of the grassroots trade union SI Cobas)

4.) Oleg*, Russia (internationalist and peace activist – *name changed)

5.) Selma Schacht, Austria (co-chair of the "Comintern" faction of the trade union/chamber of women workers, works council member)

6.) ZORA, Germany (organization of young women for women's rights, solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle)

7.) Silke Treusch, Switzerland (active trade union organizer, activist in the women's, peace and anti-fascist movement in Switzerland, also host)

Resolution and conclusion (7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.)

Dinner and cultural festival (8:00 p.m.)

The event will be hybrid, i.e., in person and with online streaming.

Deadline for registration for in-person participation or the Sunday program: 15 August, 2025

Participation fee: €30 and, if possible, a contribution to the potluck buffet

Volunteer simultaneous interpreting in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic

Anyone interested is welcome to join the guided tour “In Lenin's footsteps through Zurich” on Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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