CAPITAL, EMPIRE AND REVOLUTION — Socialist Resistance

As part of the preparation for the London European Social Forum, the

journals HISTORICAL MATERIALISM and SOCIALIST REGISTER, as well as the ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE COMMITTEE invite you to a two-day conference on 'CAPITAL, EMPIRE AND REVOLUTION' on Saturday 9 October - Sunday 10 October 2004, at Birkbeck College, London (Malet Street, Russell Square and Goodge Street Underground Stations).

CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND CRISIS IN THE SOUTH

PATRICK BOND, 'Necessary and Contradictory features of Subimperialism:

The Case of South Africa'

PAUL MATTICK JNR., 'Explaining the Asian Crisis: Theory and Observation

in the Critique of Political Economy'

DOUG STOKES, 'America's Other War: Terrorising Colombia'

CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND CRISIS IN THE NORTH

ALEX CALLINICOS, 'Building a New Left: The Politics of Resisting

ELMAR ALTVATER, 'The Capitalist Social Formation, the Fossil Energy

Regime, and Conflicts about Oil Supply'

RICHARD WALKER, 'The Boom and the Bombshell: The New Economy and the

ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE LECTURES

NEIL DAVIDSON, 'How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions ?'

BENNO TESCHKE, 'Bourgeois Revolution, State-Formation and the Problem

MOISHE POSTONE, 'History and Helplessness: Toward a Critique of

ANDRES PIQUERAS, 'The Social Structure of Accumulation, the

Accumulation Model and its Closing under Mature Capitalism'

RAY KIELY, 'US Imperialism and Global Capitalism'

DENILE CONVERSI, 'Cultural Blowback: The USA in the Politics of

SUMIT SARKAR, 'Marxist Approaches to Hindutva'

09.30-11.00 Plenary session: CAPITAL AND VALUE

CHRISTOPHER J. ARTHUR, 'The Idea of Capital'

PATRICK MURRAY, 'Capital : The Mismeasure of Wealth'

MICHAEL HEINRICH, 'Ambivalences in Marx's Critique of Political Economy

as Obstacles for the Analysis of Contemporary Capitalism'

'Third-World Capitalism and the Developmentalist State in Comparative

A Symposium on Vivek Chibber's Locked in Place: State-Building and Late

GEORGE COMNINEL, 'The Feudal Foundations of Modern Europe'

JOSEPH FRACCHIA, 'Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics: The

Corporeal Foundations of Marx's Critique of Capitalism'

DAVID MCNALLY, 'Commodity Fetishism and the Labouring Body: Dialectical

Reversals in "One of Marx's Least Understood Jokes"'

THE CONTRADICTIONS OF US IMPERIALISM TODAY, launching Socialist