The series of four political workshops under the frames of the "School for Politics and Critique 2015" are conceptual flow from the activities of the "School for Politics and Critique 2014" and they aim at enabling a space both for learning on strategies of enacting large coalitions and action within them, as well as to generate new theoretical knowledge on the political challenges of the current context. The School will provide a larger group of activists an opportunity to work with experienced political activists and theorists.

The increase in neoliberal policies on the one hand and the increase of the authoritarian practice of governments on the other, continuously produce social devastation, fear and political demobilization of social movements. The lack of strategies for outreach to different social groups by the social activists in order to forge a broad alliance of social actors which will enact strategies of action towards social justice, freedom and democracy, produce a fragmented space for change. We need to unite the progressive forces in action.

The lack of a more serious political confrontation to the current neoliberal consensus among the political factors requires the mobilization of a leftist discourse and wide social structures. There is a need to link sectors of labor with other citizen structures in order to organize a political resistance against the terrible social consequences in the areas of freedom, democracy and social justice. At the present moment a serious challenge towards the active political mobilization is the fear and disbelief of the wide popular masses on any political undertaking that would challenge the current governing mentality.

As a follow-up of the "School for Politics and Critique 2014" which was focused on increasing the skills and knowledge of activists in Macedonia, the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje is organizing four (three day) workshops with members of various activist and political groups from Macedonia.

Programme of the Second Workshop - Ohrid - 26 - 28 June 2015

26^th June 2015

10:00 - 11:00 ‒ Opening and introduction of the topics and participants of the School

11:00 - 13:00 ‒ LECTURE: Svetlana Slapšak - Suspicious Subversion. Revolutionary Ethics

15:00 - 17:00 ‒ WORKSHOP: Everyday Politics and the Ethics of Everyday Life. Coordinated by Igor Jovanovski

27^th June 2015

10:00 - 13:00 ‒ PANEL PRESENTATION/DISCUSSION: François Laruelle, Katerina Kolozova, Alex Peltier - What is to be Done With Marxism Today?

15:00 - 17:00 ‒ DISCUSSION/WORKSHOP: Ethics of Heretic Marxist Discourse. Moderated by Artan Sadiku

28^th June 2015

10:00 - 13:00 ‒ PRESENTATION/DISCUSSION: Anastas Vangeli - Social Movements and Political Parties

15:00 - 17:00 ‒ FINAL DISCUSSION: How the Theory Shapes the New Left Rhetoric. PODEMOS vs. the Macedonian Context and Experiences. Moderated by Artan Sadiku