Thought folk might be interested in the following conference organised by
the Conference of Socialist Economists
Dave Featherstone
> Everyone welcome to an international conference on
> GLOBAL CAPITAL AND GLOBAL STRUGGLES:
> STRATEGIES, ALLIANCES, ALTERNATIVES
>
> 10am-6pm Saturday-Sunday 1st-2nd July 2000
> University of London Union (ULU), Malet St, London WC1
>
> New networks of struggles are posing a serious threat to neoliberal
> globalization.
> Their slogans include, 'No issue is single', 'Let our resistance be as
> transnational as capital', and 'No new round -- WTO turnaround'.
> This conference aims to involve intellectuals and activists in debate on
> global capital's strategies today, as well as counter-strategies and
> alternatives.
>
> 10am Sat.1 July plenary: Globalizing Anti-Capitalist Struggles
> John Holloway, 'Changing the world without taking power'
> Andy Mathers & Graham Taylor, 'Europe-wide struggles against
> neoliberalism'
> Stuart Rosewarne, 'Migrant workers, citizenship and labour markets'
> Silvia Federici, 'New forms of anti-capitalist internationalism'
> Hugo Radice, 'Globalization, labour and socialist renewal'
>
> Workshop topics include:
> State, Capital and Globalization; Labour Internationalism; Work, Struggle
> and Globalization; Privatization of the Public Sector; Struggles and
> Alliances; Strategies of Finance Capital; Alternatives to 'Free' Trade;
> Environmental Governance.
>
> Registration starts at 9.30am Saturday 1st July.
> Fees: £60 institutionally-funded, £15 high-waged, £10 low-waged, £5
> unwaged.
>
> Sponsored by the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE)
> All details -- programme, abstracts, papers, accommodation info --
> will be provided on the CSE webpage, www.gn.apc.org/cse
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