Take over the banks!
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Five years ago, the demand for the public ownership of the banks was the preserve of a small minority of socialists. Today it follows logically from the exposed venality of the banking system.
Marxism and theory of crises
Socialists and crises
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Recent capitalist history has thrown up sharper economic declines and higher levels of unemployment than the ones we are currently witnessing in Greece and Spain.
"Marx on capitalist crisis": start of a Sheffield AWL study course
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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
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Date:
4 October, 2008 - 16:00
Location:
Friends House, Mount St, Manchester
Marxist insights on crisis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.