Politics Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 11:25:08 +1000 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk THE WAY FORWARD FOR S11: THE POLITICS OF GLOBALISATION AND THE GLOBALISATION OF POLITICS Workers' Liberty Public Meeting Melbourne Public Forum and Discussion Sunday 10 September - 4:00pm La Notte Caf� 140 Lygon St Carlton Profit-hungry international big business is hundreds of years old. In the last ten years or so, however, its development, proliferation and expansion has reached a new level, prompting large-scale reorganisation by the capitalists, and the emergence of a new anti-capitalist movement which - for the first time in radical politics - directly targets GLOBAL capital. At the same time as capital has become more global geographically, it has also become more global socially. In a process paralleling early capitalism's "enclosures" of the common land, more and more parts of life are subject to the rule of the capitalist market - buying, selling, contracting-out. To orient ourselves in the arguments, debates, and initiatives about taking the new movement forward, we need first to understand where we are. What is fundamentally and specifically new about global capital in the year 2000? What are the connections between the two ways capital has become more global, geographical and social? Is the world working class declining or expanding? Should we aim to stop or push back globalisation, or to construct a workers' globalisation in struggle against capitalist globalisation? Come and join a discussion looking at some of the background issues of economic and social theory behind the headlines. Martin Thomas, author of many articles on globalisation and the analysis of capitalist economics, will lead off the discussion. Website: http://www.workersliberty.org/australia e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] join our e-mail discussion list at www.egroups.com/list/workersliberty address: P.O. Box 313 Leichhardt NSW 2040 Melbourne 'phone: (03) 9387 7819 LL.VI -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
