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A Series Presented by the Marxist School of Theory and Struggle

“Without a revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement” -- V.I. Lenin, What Is To Be Done

Sats Jan 24, Jan 31, Feb 7 and Feb 14 3:00 pm - 4 classes on:

The Capitalist Economic Crisis and the Fight Back:

A Revolutionary Marxist View

Discussions led by Fred Goldstein, member of WWP National Committee and author of Low-Wage Capitalism, Colossus with Feet of Clay.

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Part I: The Nature and Causes of the Crisis – Sat., Jan. 24

• The financial crisis and capitalist overproduction
• Credit, working class debt, militarism and the crisis of the profit system
• Bail outs of the bosses and the permanent crisis of capitalism

Part II: Restructuring of World Capitalism and the Basis for Fight Back - Sat., Jan. 31

• Collapse of the USSR and 1.5 billion workers added to the exploitable global work force
• Imperialist globalization, immigration, and world-wide wage competition
• Marx on wages; Lenin on imperialism and the coming revival of the class struggle
• The impoverishment of the multinational working class and the labor leadership

Part III: Lessons from Struggle History as a Guide to Future Fight Back - Sat., Feb. 7

• 1930s: San Francisco general strike, Flint sit-down strike, Woolworth’s sit-down strike
• The Civil Rights movement, the national liberation struggles of the 1950s and 1960s
• 1980s and beyond: from Minnesota packinghouse workers to New York transit workers
• Significance of the Million Workers March Movement

Part IV: Class Consciousness and Class Struggle --Sat., Feb 14

• Building a class-wide, multinational labor/community/movement alliance for struggle
• The right to a job, to occupy and run a work place, to housing, to universal medical care
• Fighting racism, national oppression, immigrant bashing, sexism and lgbt oppression
• Breaking out of the capital-labor framework, key to victory

Course Readings

Part 1: The Nature and Causes of the Capitalist Crisis

Readings: Fred Goldstein, Low-Wage Capitalism

• About this book, pp. v – x (this reading is just to get an overview of the book)
• A Note on the current capitalist crisis and low wages, pp. xi – xiii.
• Postscript: the crisis within the crisis, pp. xv –xx.
• Global expansion cannot dispel crisis of overproduction, pp. 67 – 71.

Read it Online Here

Optional Readings:

• Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Chapter VI, The Buying and Selling of Labor Power http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch06.htm

Part II: Restructuring of World Capitalism and the Basis for Fight Back

Readings: Fred Goldstein, Low-Wage Capitalism

• Chapter I, Doubling of the global workforce, pp. 3 - 17.
• Chapter 5: Marxism and globalization, pp. 49 – 57.
  

Read it Online Here

Optional Readings:

• Low-Wage Capitalism Chapter 2: New global networks of exploitation pp. 19 – 26 (priority)
• Low-Wage Capitalism Chapters 3 and 4.

Read Low-Wage Capitalism Online Here

• Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, Chapter I
  

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm

• Karl Marx, Capital Vol. I Chapter XV, Machinery and Modern Industry, Section 7, Repulsion and Attraction of Working People by the Factory System
  

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm

• Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Chapter V The Division of the World Among Capitalist Associations
  

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch05.htm

• Chapter VII Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism
  

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch07.htm

• Chapter X The Place of Imperialism in History
  

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch10.htm

Part III: Lessons from Struggle History as a Guide to Future Fight Back

• Low-Wage Capitalism pp. 173 – 209 and 237 – 244

Read it Online Here

Part IV: Class Consciousness and Class Struggle

• Low-Wage Capitalism: pp. 216-234, pp. 245-278

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Further Readings:

• Sam Marcy, High Tech, Low Pay

Read it Online Here

All classes will take place at The Solidarity Center 55 West 17th St., 5th Flr., New York 10011, 212-627-2774

Low Wage Capitalism - Colossus with Feet of Clay

by Fred Goldstein

• Get it now!
• Read it Online
• Introduction - Capitalism Breeds War, Depression
  
• part 1
  
• part 2

Workers World Party National Conference
November 15-16 2008
127 E. 22nd St, Manhattan, NYC

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International Solidarity Messages

Workers World Party conference focuses on new situation The historic election of the first Black U.S. president, Barack Obama, and the deepening capitalist economic crisis have become the center of worldwide dialog and debate in the broad, progressive movement. Many are asking if these two unprecedented developments will lead to a revival of the class struggle inside the U.S., ultimately resulting in a socialist future....

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WORKERS WORLD PARTY

CONFERENCE

SAT•SUN • NOV 15•16

NEW YORK CITY

The New Situation in the U.S. and the World

• The Obama election
• Worst capitalist crisis since the 1930's
• The challenges facing the working class and the oppressed,
  socialists, revolutionaries here in the belly of the beast
  

SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
127 E. 22nd ST, NYC

Conference Schedule:

Saturday, Nov. 15

Sunday, Nov. 16

Topics will include:

• An assessment of the Obama presidency
• The deepening economic crisis—What is it and how can we fight back?
• Supporting the right to self-determination against imperialism in the Middle East, Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, Asia & inside the U.S.
• Pushing forward the class struggle=UNITY against racism, national oppression, immigrant bashing, women’s oppression and LGBT oppression
• Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) on organizing youth & students
• Why capitalism is the problem and Socialism is the solution

and much more

• Plenaries
• Discussion groups
• Strategy sessions
• Music/spoken word

Register online here.

Call 212-627-2994 www.workers.org www.workersworld.net

The U.S. presidential election—A NEW POLITICAL SITUATION
Rife with potential for working class solidarity and workers’ struggle
by Larry Holmes

Workers World Videos on Capitalist Meltdown

Socialist Guide to Economic Crisis

• What will YOU do about the worst capitalist crisis since the 1930s? - Uniting & fighting back is no longer a choice; it’s a matter of survival by Larry Holmes
• Why capitalism can’t meet human needs - Socialism is the Answer by Fred Goldstein
• El capitalismo no puede colmar las necesidades humanas - El Socialismo es la respuesta por Fred Goldstein
• Who’s to blame for the foreclosure epidemic? - The people or the bosses? by Sharon Black
• $700 billion could fund people’s needs by Monica Moorehead
• The ups & downs of the stock market by Gary Wilson
• Bail Out the People!

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Capitalist Economic Crisis

• Financial Collapse Spreads Worldwide - Fight for food, fuel, housing challenges capitalism by Jaimeson Champion
• Economic crisis: It isn’t just greed by Stephen Millies
• ‘Fall of the House of Capital?’ by Mumia Abu-Jamal from Death Row
• Handout to the rich ignites people’s anger - Fight for a workers’ program to save jobs, homes! by Fred Goldstein
• $1,000,000,000,000? United mass action can STOP giveaway to Wall Street bankers by Fred Goldstein
• Dádiva a los ricos enciende la ira del pueblo -- ¡Luchemos por un programa obrero para salvar empleos y viviendas! por Fred Goldstein
• As Capitalist Crisis Deepens - The workers’ fightback is coming by Larry Holmes
• CAPITALIST MELTDOWN - Workers, oppressed to pay billions to bail out Wall Street by Fred Goldstein
• Gov’t gives away billions to big mortgage bankers by Jaimeson Champion
• Workers, Banks and the Credit Crisis by Fred Goldstein
• Lansing, Mich., protest: ‘Moratorium now! No evictions!’ by Bryan G. Pfeifer
• Michigan activists demand moratorium on foreclosures by Kris Hamel
• Labor, community coalition fights foreclosures in California by John Parker
• Foreclosures provoke coast-to-coast fightback by Gerry Scoppettuolo
• Women hit utility shutoffs, foreclosures By Phebe Eckfeldt

Low Wage Capitalism - Colossus with Feet of Clay

by Fred Goldstein

• Get it now!
• Read it Online
• Introduction - Capitalism Breeds War, Depression
  
• part 1
  
• part 2

Obama, McKinney, and the Elections

• McCain-Palin racism ‘playing with fire’ - Rep. John Lewis is right by Fred Goldstein
• Obama's Speech in Denver by Larry Holmes
• Obama—Un análisis por Larry Holmes
• During election and beyond - A call for Black unity, action by Black Left Unity Network
• Black and blues at the DNC by U-Savior
• Biden and Palen Workers World Editorial
• Biden y Palen Editorial Mundo Obrero
• Why Workers World is Endorsing Cynthia McKinney for President Workers World Editorial
• At Detroit's Labor Day - Cynthia McKinney Speaks on War and Racism By Abayomi Azikiwe

NO! to Imperialist War!

• Sanctions, diplomacy, missiles - U.S. takes aim at Iran’s sovereignty by Sara Flounders
• Pentagon ramps up threats on Iran - Anti-war forces call Sept 27 Day of Action By Dustin Langley
• U.S.-NATO’s war in Georgia: Who wins,who loses? by Sara Flounders
• La guerra de la OTAN-EEUU en Georgia: ¿Quién gana, quién pierde? por Sara Flounders

Fighting for Socialism and the Environment

• A study in contrasts - Who’s developing more wind power—U.S. or China? by Deirdre Griswold
• Hurricanes, Cuba and U.S. imperialism Workers World Editorial

F.I.S.T. - Fight Imperialism, Stand Together - Youth Fight for Socialism

• Despite heavy police violence - No peace for war-makers at RNC by Peter Gilbert - speaker at the opening rally on behalf of FIST and the Troops Out Now Coalition, arrested during the protests
• No democracy in Denver - Cops attack protesters at DNC by LeiLani Dowell
• Gustav and New Orleans: Again, gov’t focus is on repression by Larry Hales
• Another New Orleans outrage - Judge drops charges on Katrina killer cops by LeiLani Dowell
• North Carolina People’s Assembly generates plan of action by Dante Strobino

Reports from Workers World Party National Conference
November 17-18 2007, NYC

Workers World Party National Conference
November 17-18 2007, NYC

Highlights of Conference Reports

Podcats of Conference Talks and Panels

International Solidarity Messages

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