Monthly Archives: March 2010

Organizing for the anti-capitalist transition

David Harvey City University of New York    The current crisis originated in steps taken to resolve the crisis of the 1970s. The political forces that coalesced and mobilized behind these measures had a distinctive class character, and clothed themselves
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  • Volume 3, Number 1 (2010)

A Cacophony of Crises Systematic Failure and Reasserting People’s Rights

Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt Aalborg University   A  cacophony  of  crises  challenges  neoliberalism and marks a fundamental reversal in capitalism itself. This  is  a  systemic  failure  of  the  capitalist mode  of production  to  renovate  and  renew  itself  through  a multiplicity of
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  • Volume 3, Number 1 (2010)

The 2007 – 2009 Financial Crisis: Narrating and Politicising a Calamity

Noel Castree Manchester University The  events  triggered  by  defaults  on  ‘sub-prime’ mortgages  have  been  widely  described  as  constituting  a  ‘crisis’. But  a  crisis of what  exactly? Several different  explanations  of  the  20 month  drama  that unfolded from summer 2007 have
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  • Volume 3, Number 1 (2010)