Discussion: THE "NEW NORMAL" OF SOCIAL CRISIS: WHAT'S SO NEW ABOUT IT?

03/09/2011 11:00am - 03/09/2011 1:00pm

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2011 from 11 - 1 pm
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland (between Alcatraz Ave & 66th Street)
(510) 595-7417

This year, as we head into the year 2012 in the midst of the worst worldwide economic and political crises since the Great Depression of the 1930s, we want to discuss in this month's reading and discussion group...

How do communists describe the economic debacle experienced by the working classes of the world, including our own?

What do communists know about the underlying causes of the crises which we are experiencing?

What have communists learned from the experiences of the past 2 years or more of fighting back?

Above all: can any of this mess be truly resolved under capitalism?

Recommended readings:

Joel Wendland, Race, gender and structural inequalities in the great recession and the recovery

Art Perlo, Crisis as the new normal. The economic situation today

Pat Barile, There's no recovery without job recovery

Access articles online or call NPML at 510-595-7417 and arrange to pick up hard copies.