A Socialist Party Day School
Organised by Manchester Branch
Saturday 12 September, 1pm - 5pm
*The first person to spot the deliberate typo in the poster gains free admission to the day school.
The Socialist Party is holding a dayschool on the current crisis this Saturday 2 May at its offices at 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 (nearest tube: Clapham North).
Programme with approximate timings:-
10.30 Welcome visitors
11.00 First session with Brian Gardner - Capitalism and Economics
- Chair Richard Field
11.45 Discussion
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Second Session with Gwynn Thomas -- Capitalism, Resources & the Environment
- Chair Fraser Anderson
14.45 Discussion
15.45 Tea Break
16.15 Third Session with Simon Wigley - Capitalism and Society
- Chair Tristan Miller
17.00 Discussion
18.00 Close
There'll be a meeting on "Capitalism in Crisis" this Saturday 18th October 7.30 p.m. at the Socialist Party Head Office, 52 Clapham High St, London SW4 (nearest tube: Clapham North)
Capitalism in Crisis
With the banks refusing to lend to each other the flow and circulation of global capital is being disrupted on scale not seen since the depression of the 1930's. Share values have declined and major financial concerns are under pressure from the credit crunch. There have been massive bail-outs and buy-outs or state intervention and nationalisation in an effort to save the situation for capitalism. But whatever happens the short-term prospects for capitalism globally look bleak now that the consumer bubble fed by easy credit has finally burst.
The only course of action now open to the powers that be is to get us to tighten our belts till the economy starts picking up. How long this will take is anybody's guess for in the cutthroat world of competition the market determines who survives and who goes under. What is clear is that millions of workers will be unemployed. And consequently poverty will increase, health will deteriorate, homelessness will grow, deprivation and destitution will accelerate, crime will multiply and, in the so-called Third World, food riots become a regular occurrence.
This is nothing new because throughout the history of capitalism there is only one course of action available. In short - no profit no production. However, despite what the supporters of capitalism would have you believe there is one course of action available to the workers. The capitalist class won't even contemplate it because it means a future without profits, private and state ownership, borders, money and inequality. Find out more about the economic crisis we now face by coming to the meeting.
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