Online Forum on Panitch and Gindin’s Making of Global Capitalism

Online forum discussion on the http://www.newleftproject.org on Leo Panitich and Sam Gindin’s The Making of Global Capitalism.

http://www.newleftproject.org/.

Today: Pantich and Gindin intro
Tuesday: Green
Wednesday: de Graaff & van Apeldoorn
Thursday: Therborn
Friday: Jessop
Saturday: Pantich and Gindin response

Manchester conference: The European Crisis, Alternative Reponses

Reblogged from Communism:

THE EUROPEAN CRISIS:
ALTERNATIVE RESPONSES
A Jean Monnet international day conference
University of Manchester, Friday 28th June 2013, 9.45am - 4.45pm
Arthur Lewis Building, G.030/031

The financial crisis of European states and of the Eurozone has been met, on the national and transnational levels, with the demand for ‘austerity’, a political project which is partially shared across the political spectrum from centre-right to centre-left.

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Next TPWG, Leeds Met, May 24th 2-4

Next TPWG

Theodoros Papadopoulos (Bath University) and Antonios Roumpakis (York University).
The meta-regulation of European industrial relations: Power shifts, institutional dynamics and the emergence of regulatory competition among EU Member States

Leeds Metropolitan University
Rose Bowl 207, 24th May 14.00-16.00.

April 26th meeting in Manchester 2-4: What is Thatcherism?

Due to family circumstances Greig’s unable to present on Spain.

However, as an alternative given recent ‘events’ we’ve organised another afternon similar to the York  workshop on the Euro crisis, but on Thatcher(ism). No papers, and things will be relatively informal. 3 speakers and plenty of time fro Q&A.

Room 3.211 University Place, 2-4, building 37 on the campus map (the large tin can on Oxford Road).

Hugo Radice (Leeds) ‘Thatcherism and Globalisation’.
Alex Nunn (Leeds Met) ‘Thatcher’s welfare legacy’.
Chris Rogers (York) ‘Thatcherism, Capital, and the British State’.

All welcome. Feel free to forward details.

April 26th Manchester – Greig Charnock (Manchester) The Limits to Capital in Spain.

Next meeting:
Greig Charnock (Manchester) The Limits to Capital in Spain. April 26th 2pm-4pm.

TPWG workshop: Europe and the Politics of Debt

The next TPWG meeting will be Friday March 1st 2013 in York, D/O56 starting at 3.15pm.
Europe and the Politics of Debt.

Panel Papers:

• Hugo Radice (School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds) ‘Enforcing Austerity across Europe’. Radice Enforcing austerity across Europe the SD Jan 2013 v1a
• Huw Macartney (Politics, University of Manchester) ‘The Paradox of Integration? European Democracy and the Debt Crisis’. Macartney – The Paradox of Integration
• Werner Bonefeld (Department of Politics, University of York) ‘On the State of Money and Law: European Integration and Ordoliberal Ideas’. Bonefeld-CSEdoc

Next Trans-Pennine meeting – Leeds February 1st

Details of the next trans-Pennnine. Paper to follow.

University of Leeds, Beech Grove House seminar room, 2-4, Feb 1st.
Dr Hannah Cross (Manchester) Capitalism, the state and labour migration: global patterns and historical processes.