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The crisis of the global economy
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 - 00:56
Vasily Koltashov (Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow) An endless series of Experts have recycled their opinions in Credit Crisis Anniversary-Festschriften over the last few weeks, but this one from the Moscow Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (www.igso.ru) actually has a historical perspective stretching beyond the calendar year. Good account of consumer credit gigantism as short-term supplement to 30 years of falling real wages in the 'old' industrial world, and of high commodity prices as effect rather than cause of inflation (i.e. more money 'created' than commodities produced). subject: Credit | Debt | Economics | Energy Resources | Finance & Trade | Financial Crisis | Globalisation | History | Immigration | Liquidity | Markets | Money | Neoliberal | Oil | Politics | State | War
Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey - video lectures
Submitted by finn on Saturday, 2 August, 2008 - 20:48
A reading of Karl Marx's Capital, Volume I in 13 video lectures by David Harvey: http://davidharvey.org/ David Harvey has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I for nearly 40 years, and his lectures are now available online. subject: Class | Communism | Economics | Education | History | Literature | Marxist | Politics | Streaming | Video | Workshops
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Submitted by unterschreber on Saturday, 28 June, 2008 - 15:08
unterschreber Finally Got the News Saturday, June 28, 8pm, £0 The Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton St, Elephant & Castle, London SE17 Rare screening of documentary (dir. Steward Bird, Rene Lichtman, Peter Gessner) on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, from wildcat movement to formidable independent workers organization, inside and outside the auto factories of insurgent turn-of-the-'70s Detroit. subject: Books | Class | Film | History | Insurgency | Labour Struggles | N. America | Race | Social Movements | Strategy
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Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 - 20:50
Michael Hudson Short article from Bahrain weekly 'The Gulf' in which the author of 'Super Imperialism' and 'Global Fracture' makes what is hardly the 'modest proposal' he pretends it is, and perhaps also gives a clue as to what he thought he was doing as 'economic adviser' to Denis Kucinich's presidential run. Hudson proposes that an unspecified bloc of 'Middle Eastern' state-capital should try to settle the dollar-standard blackmail once and for all by offering to buy the US out of the military infrastructure (i.e. subject: Credit | Debt | Economics | Energy Resources | Fictitious Capital | Finance & Trade | Financial Crisis | Globalisation | History | Liquidity | Middle East | Money | Oil | State | Strategy | War
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Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 - 16:17
Private Eye Private Eye looks back at the birth of PFI and makes a not-so-surprising discovery. A reader alerts the Eye to a 1940s history of Benito Mussolini, uncovered by a US think tank, and makes an unkind comparison with Gordon Brown's current favourite policy.
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Submitted by Ret Marut on Friday, 18 April, 2008 - 21:28
Ret Marut Further detailed coverage from Libcom (http://libcom.org) of the class struggle that continues to rage in Bangladesh, focusing here on how the global 'food crisis' works concretely in this case. The effect of farming techniques imposed during Asia's 'Green Revolution' is addressed, although this needs to be put related to the world trade 'diplomacy' which since WW2 has made 'developing' countries dependent on food imports (see M. subject: Agriculture | Class | Economics | Financial Crisis | History | Markets
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Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 18 April, 2008 - 20:43
Loren Goldner / SaNoShin In-depth to say the least (it's 55 pages if you print it out) interview with marxist writer/activist and recent Mute collabor Loren Goldner by the South Korean SaNoShin group, covering the 20th century history of class struggle and present developments/future prospects. The Situation of Left Communism Today: Loren Goldner subject: Asia | Class | Communism | Fictitious Capital | History | Labour Struggles | Marxist | Nationalism
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 6 March, 2008 - 14:52
Michael Hampton 'Walkabout' a poem submitted by Michael Hampton would have fitted excellently with the collection of verse published as part of our recent issue on credit, debt and financial crisis. As a late arrival it joins the site here and as part of our Ongoing accumulation of fiscal verse Walkabout
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Submitted by anthony on Wednesday, 30 January, 2008 - 12:35
Anette Baldauf In the course of his life, Victor Gruen completed major urban interventions in the US and Western Europe that fundamentally altered the course of western urban development. Anette Baldauf describes how Gruen’s fame rests mostly on the insertion of commercial machines into the decentred US suburbs. These so-called ‘shopping towns’ were supposed to strengthen civic life and structure the amorphous, mono-functional agglomerations of suburban sprawl.
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 31 December, 2007 - 15:46
Mute Events THREE TALKS BY LOREN GOLDNER New York-based Marxist Loren Goldner is giving a series of talks in London this month, hosted by Mute magazine [http://metamute.org] subject: Credit | Debt | Events | Fictitious Capital | Finance & Trade | Financial Crisis | History | Literature
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Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 21 December, 2007 - 22:30
Robert Shrimsley A Peter Linebaugh piece on the Magna Carta auction appeared on Counterpunch a few days ago (http://www.counterpunch.org/linebaugh12152007.html). A columnist in yesterday's FT promptly answered the historian's question, "Yet can liberty be bought or sold?"... The news that David Rubenstein, co-founder of the private equity firm Carlyle, has bought a rare copy of the Magna Carta raises some concerns for the future. subject: History | Law | Private Equity
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Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 19 December, 2007 - 23:30
James Heartfield Brief historicization (from www.spiked-online.com) of the latest inter-governmental eco-policy deal, looking into the way certain branches of capital established the 'Green' agenda long before its discovery by counter-culture and adoption by mainstream moralism. The ideology of Scarcity is perpetual, but it took on this distinct institutional form during the late 20th century Supply Side ascendancy. Incidentally the implicit contradiction between an 'eco-imperialist' drive to keep the 'underdeveloped' world that way (as a 'non-capitalist' source of loot) and industrial capi subject:
Science | Business | Climate Change | Conferences | Economics | Energy Resources | Environment | Events | Finance & Trade | Globalisation | History | Markets | Strategy
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Submitted by unterschreber on Thursday, 16 August, 2007 - 02:32
Angela Mitropoulos This extract from an unfinished text by Angela Mitropoulos, posted on archive : s0metim3s (http://archive.blogsome.com/2007/08/07/indigenous-land/#comments), gives part of the historical background (which some European readers may have overlooked) to the current military-medical invasion of Aboriginal land in Australia's Northern Territory. Most importantly, the text explains the concrete connection between intervention in the name of 'health' and 'ed subject: Australasia | Class | Energy Resources | Government | History | Law | Mapping | Money | Multiculturalism | New Enclosures | Occupations | Policy | Politics | Precarity | Race | State | Surveillance
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Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 11 May, 2007 - 01:27
John Foster From Variant (http://www.variant.randomstate.org/28texts/poverty28.html), a concise account of the mediations through which political and financial macro-policy produces, for example, 'cold-death' in Scottish housing estates. Which amounts to a case study of non-replacement of resources -- or 'looting' -- in action. subject: Economics | Energy Resources | Europe | Finance & Trade | History | Markets | Money | Neoliberal | New Enclosures | Oil | State
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Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 4 May, 2007 - 00:28
Henry C K Liu A pertinent reminder that the so-called 'housing bubble' isn't just a matter of subprime foreclosures and repossessions: the buyers of the 'financial products' through which mortgage debt is abstracted and redivided at the outer limits of algorithmic calculation are none other than private pension funds, so that capital's 'no alternative' answer to the pseudo-problem of the 'demographic bomb' may yet manage to create a real 'pensions crisis' where none need have existed Why the subprime bust will spread By Henry C K Liu subject: Banking | Business | Chaos | Fictitious Capital | Financial Crisis | Government | History | Money | Neoliberal | Policy | Precarity | Psychology
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