Critique Conference

  25 Feb 2012
10.00 am- 5.00 pm

London School of Economics

GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS: PASTS, PRESENT AND FUTURES

The last year has witnessed a deepening of the crisis, in the Eurozone in particular. There are, however, no countries outside the global crisis. Governments have moved on all fronts against the welfare of the majority of the population. TThe public sector, pensioners, women, those on welfare benefits and the unemployed youth are the worst affected and have begun to react . The Conference will discuss current and future forms of recation to the crisis.

Speakers: 

Hillel Ticktin: Marxism and the Crisis

Michael Cox: The Death of the West? World  Power after the Crisis

Savas: Greece and the Decline of Europe

Ben Backwell: Hugo Chavez, Oil and "Petro-Socialism - Prospects

Yassamine Mather: The Arab Spring

London School of Economics
 London