The Crisis in Europe: Depression Economics

International Workshop by transform! europe in Vienna

VIDEOS – PAPERS – PRESENTATIONS


Programme

Friday, 15 January 2010

 

Welcome and opening by Elisabeth Gauthier (transform! europe)

Joachim Bischoff (editor of the monthly review “Sozialismus”): Overaccumulation of capital: what does it mean for the understanding of the current crisis?

video

 

Bob Jessop (Lancaster University): The role of the state today: internationalization and the nation state

video

 

Miguel Portas (MEP, Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal): Europe in the world economic crisis: comeback of Keynesian politics or launching of a »financial coup d’état« (D. Harvey)?

video

 

Interventions by Euclides Tsakolotos (University of Athens), Jiri Malek (transform!Czech Republic), Javier Navascues (Spain), Marco Berlinguer (Italy) and General Debate

video

Saturday, 16 January 2010

 

Maria Karamessini (University Pantheion, Athens) “The Social Crisis in Europe: Politics of Precariousness or Shift to a New Social Model of Regulation” Interventions by Stephen Bouquin (University Amiens France), Lutz Brangsch (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Berlin) and others

video

 

 

“What Are the Lessons of the Crisis and how Can they Be Communicated?

Proposals and Projects of “the Left of the Left”

Introduction by Francis Wurtz (former president of GUE/NGL) and General Debate

video