The Workers and Punks’ University May Day School 2013 Transition, Austerity and Primitive Accumulation – Left Answers 26 April – 1 May, 2013 Ljubljana, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana http://www.dpu.si/en/the-workers-and-punks-university-may-day-school-2013/
Program with panels and lectures by Michael Perelman, Michael Lebowitz, David McNally, Andrew Kliman and many others: http://www.rosalux.rs/sr/artikl.php?id=230 Background information: Workers, punks and the euro crisis By Michael Roberts thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/workers-punks-and-the-euro-crisis/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaWHNaSRzmY&feature=youtu.be I’ve just got back from Slovenia, where I gave a lecture on the Euro crisis to the Institute of Labour Studies. The Institute was set up by a group of economics students who support a Marxist analysis. They are doing a great job in trying to develop Marxist economic theory by inviting leading Marxist scholars and writers to do lectures or participate in conferences. The Institute is really a spin-off from Slovenia’s unique Workers and Punks University, a sort of alternative university formed by radical young people to present an alternative to conventional educational institutions and dominant ideas that there is no alternative to the current society. [...] Mayday: Slovenia could be then next to follow suit After a decade of government corruption and toxic debts http://www.ansa.it/ansamed/en/news/sections/economics/2013/03/25/Cyprus-Slovenia-could-then-next-follow-suit_8456764.html (ANSAmed) - LJUBLJANA, MARCH 25 - Slovenia could be next in line for eurozone bailout, according to a recent banking report by the national anti-corruption commission. "Over the past decade, the top Slovenian banks have extended enormous sums of now-toxic credit, amounting to one fifth of national GDP, with decisions based on political and personal relationships in an atmosphere of structural political corruption," the report alleges. Slovenian banks, most of which are state-owned, have reportedly run up 7 billion euros in toxic debt, equal to 20% of their total loan portfolios, with major ratings agencies downgrading Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB) and Nova Kreditna Banka Maribor (NKBM) in past months. The newly elected center-left government, which took office last week, will have to decide whether or not to set up a bad bank to take on the toxic debt, recapitalize the detoxed banks, and then sell them off to the private sector. Slovenian banks in 2012 posted overall losses of 606 million euros, or 67 million euros more than in 2011. According to former Finance Minister Janez Sustercic, the country will probably "be forced to apply for international aid unless the bank restructuring plan goes through." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
