Financial Chaos and the Crisis of Neoliberalism

A workshop on understanding the credit crisis and its implications for wages, pensions, American power and Left alternatives

Toronto — 26 October 2008.

Coordinators:

• Greg Albo, community activist, Socialist Project and Professor of Political Economy, York University
• Adam Hanieh, CAIA and Political Science, McMaster University
• Tom Marois, Latin American Solidarity Activist and Development Studies, Queen’s University

• Workshop 1: Marxian Views of Financial Capital and Credit (77 mins)
• Workshop 2: Capitalism, Neoliberalism and the Current Crises of Wall Street and Bay Street (78 mins)
• Workshop 3: Bank Bailouts or Socialist Alternatives? (34 mins)

Sponsored by Socialist Project and Centre For Social Justice.

More resources on the net:

• Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey
• Kapitalism101 by brendanmcooney
• Turbulence: Financial Capital and the Credit Crisis with Greg Albo