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Global Capital, Global Struggles - CSE Conference





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.

Questions for debate include
?  Why is global capital liberalizing trade, production and finance?
?  How do social movements build alliances at the local and global level?
?  What strategies could build on their strengths and overcome their limitations?
?  What alternative models of international economy are being promoted?

Plenary talks
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' 

Workshops
Workshop talks and discussions include a diverse range of issues and struggles, e.g. ideologies of social movements, global-local dynamics, community politics, GM seeds, privatization of public services, environmental governance, New Labour's Knowledge Economy, financial liberalization, labour exploitation, trade unions, immigrant workers, EMU, Third World debt crunch.

Registration 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



CSE 2000 Registration Form

The registration form is also available on the webpage, www.gn.apc.org/cse
It can be sent by post with a cheque, payable to 'CSE'.
Or it can be sent by email with credit card details.
Registration fees:
£60 institutionally-funded, £15 high-waged, £10 low-waged, £5 unwaged.
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Dr Alfredo Saad Filho
South Bank University Business School
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London SE1 0AA
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