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"Marx on capitalist crisis": start of a Sheffield AWL study course

Submitted on 29 December, 2011 - 11:59

Date:

1 May, 2009 - 11:00 - 12:30

Location:

Meet in Starbucks, Eccleshall Road, Sheffield

Description:

Sheffield AWL will be holding a study course on Marx on Capitalist Crisis.

The first discussion will be on Friday 1 May, 9am-10.30am in Eccleshall Road Starbucks. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

Reading for the sessions to be found at http://www.workersliberty.org/crisisnotes.

More info: 07886 399 683.

Manchester and Merseyside AWL day school: crisis and workers' plan

Submitted on 29 December, 2011 - 11:58

Date:

4 October, 2008 - 16:00

Location:

Friends House, Mount St, Manchester

Marxist insights on crisis

Submitted on 14 November, 2011 - 22:42

Author:

Martin Thomas

A particularly interesting session at the Historical Materialism conference in London on 10-13 November 2011 heard four contributions on Marxist theories of crisis and the current crisis.

Lively conference debunks academic economics

Submitted on 14 November, 2010 - 22:21

Author:

Martin Thomas

Several hundred people attended the annual conference called by Historical Materialism magazine in London on 11-14 November 2010.

Antecedents and sequels of the crisis

Submitted on 9 November, 2010 - 10:54

This is a partial draft of an introduction to a collection of discussions with Marxist economists on the global capitalist crisis which opened i

Thousands turn out to debate revolution

Submitted on 27 April, 2010 - 18:11

Author:

Martin Thomas

Not only the scheduled lecture theatre, but also an overflow theatre connected by video link, were crammed full when David Harvey spoke at the London School of Economics on 26 April about his latest book, The Enigma of Capital, a book which analyses the current crisis and concludes with a call for "revolution" to "dispossess" the capitalist class.

Packed lecture hall for call to anti-capitalist revolution

Submitted on 26 April, 2010 - 22:26

Not only the scheduled lecture theatre, but also an overflow theatre connected by video link, were crammed full when David Harvey spoke at the London School of Economics on 26 April about his latest book, The Enigma of Capital, a book which concludes with a call for "revolution" to "dispossess" the capitalist class.

How economic crises shape politics

Submitted on 9 July, 2009 - 17:16

Author:

Leon Trotsky

The reciprocal relation between boom and crisis in economy and the development of revolution is of great interest to us not only from the point of theory but above all practically.

The thesis of "ruinous competition"

Submitted on 21 April, 2009 - 07:24

Author:

Martin Thomas

1 - Ruinous competition

An exchange on crises and the "Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall"

Submitted on 16 November, 2008 - 12:54

Author:

Phil Ferguson/ Martin Thomas

Criticism by Phil Ferguson of the notes Marx on capitalist crisis, and a response by Martin Thomas.

This is a very strange analysis.