Audio: “Roots of the Economic Crisis” @ Historical Materialism 2010 in NYC

Posted: February 12th, 2010 | Author: Seth | Filed under: Events | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

On January 15th, Andrew Kliman gave a talk on the “Roots of the Economic Crisis: The Persistent Fall in Profitability & Debt Financing” at the 2010 Historical Materialism Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center in NYC. Kliman spoke on a panel with Fred Moseley and Simon Mohun entitled “Origins of the Current Crisis.” An audio recording of this panel is now available. Read the rest of this entry »


Audio: Nov. 4 Talk on Swedish “Socialism”

Posted: November 19th, 2009 | Author: Seth | Filed under: Events | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

On November 4th, 2009 the Marxist-Humanist Initiative and the New SPACE presented a talk by Daniel Ankarloo, “Swedish ‘Socialism’ – Not what it used to be, but then again it never was,” in NYC. An audio recording of this talk is now available online.

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Left Forum 2009: Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance

Posted: May 4th, 2009 | Author: Anne Jaclard | Filed under: Events | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

The National Organization for the Iraqi Freedom Struggles (on the web at NO-IFS) sponsored the panel “Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance” at this year’s Left Forum.

Houzan Mahmoud, International Representative of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), had been scheduled to speak but was unable to make the trip to NYC. We hope she will come later in the year. The talks at the panel were, in this order: Bill Weinberg on various civil society organizations and the need to solidarize with them; Anne Jaclard on the work OWFI has done and its significance for freedom movements; and Michael Zweig on the recent conference he attended in Iraq at which a number of labor unions formed a coalition.

Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance, Part 1
Building Solidarity with Iraq’s Civil Resistance, Part 2


Left Forum 2009: Concretizing Marx’s Alternative to Capitalism: A Marxist-Humanist Perspective

Posted: April 30th, 2009 | Author: A | Filed under: Alternatives to Capitalism, Events | Tags: , , , , , , , | No Comments »

The Marxist-Humanist Initiative, along with the New SPACE, sponsored the panel “Concretizing Marx’s Alternative to Capitalism: A Marxist-Humanist Perspective” at the 2009 Left Forum. Below is the audio from that panel’s presentations and along with the discussion that took place afterwards.

Concretizing Marx’s Alternative To Capitalism: A Marxist-Humanist Perspective

Chair: Ray McKay
Presenters:
Joshua Howard – “Commodity Fetishism and Today’s Economic Crisis.”
Seth G. Weiss – “Silicon Valley Socialism: A Critical Examination of Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick’s Conception of Post-capitalist Society.”
Anne Jaclard – “One System, Two Moments”
Discussant: Andrew Kliman