Speaker - Michael Roberts author of The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism.The major capitalist economies seem now to be recovering fast from the catastrophic slump into which they were plunged by the COVID pandemic. Will this revival continue? Or is it just a short-term bounce back, as businesses re-open and vaccinations roll out? Meanwhile the countries of Latin … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2021
Disability – a socialist perspective
One billion people around the world live with some form of disability, making up around 15% of the global population. The total number is rising fast, due both to chronic health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and mental illness, and to wars, civil wars and environmental catastrophes – all manifestations in different ways of the devastating crisis of capitalism, which together … [Read more...]
France: The Deepening Crisis
Since 2016 (the year of the massive movement against the employment laws of Francois Holland’s minister of employment, El Khomry), there has been no let-up in the struggle. There has been furious resistance by the workers against attempts by the Holland and Macron governments to push ahead with neo-liberal reforms, destroying living standards and employment rights.After a lull at the start of … [Read more...]
CHALLENGE THE G7!
FOSSIL FUELS MUST STAY IN THE GROUND! DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES! AN ECO-SOCIALIST LEFT FRONT MEETING: 9TH JUNE AT 7 PM BST. As the G7 meets in the UK, you are invited to a meeting at 7pm on June 9th 2021 to discuss how eco-socialists from different organisations and traditions can challenge G7 on issues from the vaccine to fossil fuels, climate crisis, … [Read more...]