<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[the commune]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://thecommune.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[internationalcommunist]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://thecommune.wordpress.com/author/internationalcommunist/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[16th february forum: the storm in the world&nbsp;economy]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>The last winter has seen the biggest breakdown in the world financial system since the Great Depression, and the opening-up of what promises to be a deep and prolonged recession.</p>
<p>Banks have collapsed. Household names from Woolworths to Wedgwood have gone to the wall. The ideological dominance of the free-marketers and neoliberals has been swept away.</p>
<p>And yet few are challenging the real cause of the crisis &#8211; capitalism itself. The broadsheets write acres about Karl Marx, but in most Western countries the workers’ movement is not even fit to take a punch at the ruling class.</p>
<p>We will be discussing the composition of the global working class today, its relation<br />
to the economic crisis and the prospects of uprooting this system. Speakers:</p>
<p><strong>Kim Moody </strong>(leading figure in the American rank-and-file trade union publication<br />
<em>Labor Notes</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Andrew Fisher</strong> (Left Economics Advisory Panel)</p>
<p><strong>7pm, Monday 16th February, Lucas Arms, nr. King&#8217;s Cross, London</strong></p>
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