This video from Iceland says about itself:
Massive demonstation in Reykjavik on October 18,2008 outside the parliament demanding the resignation of the chief director of the Central Bank of Iceland and ex-PM David Oddsson. 2,000 gathered to protest in a population of 320,000.
More on the crisis in Iceland: here.
The economic crisis continues.
Global economic crisis hits Japanese banks, exporters: here.
France: Sarkozy intends to partly nationalise “strategically important” companies: here.
German economics expert compares bank managers to persecuted Jews: here. … What a chutzpah, considering German bankers’ history of propping up the Hitler regime. By Ulrich Rippert:
The pre-print of these remarks last weekend had already evoked fierce criticism. The Central Council of Jews in Germany expressed its indignation, and Stephan Kramer, the group’s general secretary, called on Sinn to withdraw his comments “unconditionally, as fast as possible, and apologise.” The comparison was “infuriating, absurd, and absolutely out of place, a defamation of the victims,” Kramer said.
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John Bellamy Foster: `Capitalism has reached its limits’
October 26, 2008 — Six months ago the United States was already deep in
a financial crisis — the roots of which were explained in `The
Financialization of Capital and the Crisis’ (Monthly Review, April
2008). Yet, the conditions now are several orders of magnitude worse and
are affecting the entire world.
We are clearly in the midst of one of the great crises in the history of
capitalism. More than a mere financial panic, what is taking place is a
major devaluation of capital of still undetermined dimensions. Marx
explained that capital was invariably over-extended in a boom and that
in the crisis that followed a part of that capital was devalued,
enabling the rest to return to profitability and to the process of
accumulation and expansion.
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South African Communist Party on capitalist economic crisis,
right-wing split in the ANC
Speech to the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) 8th
national congress by Blade Nzimande, South African Communist Party
(SACP) general secretary
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Fictitious capital and real compacts
By Anitra Nelson
October 15, 2008 — Radical Notes — Perhaps we need a Marxian to sort
out the world’s financial woes. The insights of Karl Marx on capitalist
crises, especially speculation and financial crises, were sophisticated
for his time. Indeed, this nineteenth century communist revolutionary
called financial assets and loans ‘fictitious capital’ or ‘imaginary
wealth’ as distinct from ‘real capital’ — industrial or productive
capital — such as factories and commodity stocks.
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The global economic crisis: An historic opportunity for
transformation
An initial response from individuals, social movements and
non-governmental organisations in support of a transitional program for
radical economic transformation.
Beijing, October 15, 2008 — Taking advantage of the opportunity of so
many people from movements gathering in Beijing during the Asia-Europe
People’s Forum, the Transnational Institute and Focus on the Global
South convened informal nightly meetings between October 13 and 15,
2008. We took stock of the meaning of the unfolding global economic
crisis and the opportunity it presents for us to put into the public
domain some of the inspiring and feasible alternatives many of us have
been working on for decades. This statement represents the collective
outcome of our Beijing nights. We, the initial signatories, mean this to
be a contribution towards efforts to formulate proposals around which
our movements can organise as the basis for a radically different kind
of political and economic order.
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