A talk on 'Capitalist Decline, Financial Crisis & Revolutionary Prospects' with Hillel Ticktin

The Whitechapel Centre, 85 Myrdle St, London, E1. Nearest tube: Whitechapel

From one of the bellies of financial capitalism reaches us David Graeber's analysis of the current crisis, a look at the recent past of our movement and the lack of organised resistance to capitalism.

We seem to have reached an impasse. Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. Organized resistance appears scattered and incoherent; the global justice movement a shadow of its former self. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist: for the simple reason that it’s impossible to maintain an engine of perpetual growth forever on a finite planet. Faced with the prospect, the knee-jerk reaction -- even of “progressives” -- is, often, fear, to cling to capitalism because they simply can’t imagine an alternative that wouldn’t be even worse.

The old buddhist center,waterloo area. call 0798 445 5391

The London & Brighton (squatted pub), Asylum Rd, Peckham, SE15 - beside Queen's Rd. Peckham Station

Click here for map

latest london events and future as well - for the next week.

THE LIBRARY HOUSE.
52 KNATCHBULL ROAD (behind library, junction with Burton rd)
SE5 9QY
CAMBERWELL

Since Clarion events bought the Dsei arms fair, that delightful cornucopia of torture equipment and corporate cash flow, The Space Hijackers have been keen to help their marketing team inform the existing customer base of the new shopping opportunites this expansion will yield. 

This time we took our Arms Fair marketing team to the Spirit Of Christmas Fair ...

outside the French Tourist Board, 300 High Holborn, London - this Friday Nov 14th 1-2pm

a public meeting organised by Women Against Fundamentalism

Tuesday 25 November 2008 at 6.30pm in the House of Commons

Visit our website for more details: http://womenagainstfundamentalism.org.uk

The London Guantánamo Campaign witnessed the dawning of a new era as America voted by holding a candlelight vigil outside the US Embassy in Mayfair. Around 35 people attended. New president Barack Obama has pledged to close Guantánamo Bay and we aim to hold him to that!

Meeting every Tuesday at 7.30pm at the Moth Club, Valette Street, Hackney, E9,behind Mare Street opposite the Town Hall.

Meeting every Tuesday at 7.30pm at the Moth Club, Valette Street, Hackney, E9,behind Mare Street opposite the Town Hall.

Bloomsbury Suite, ULU, Malet St, London WC1E 7HY

The Foundry

86-88 Gt Eastern Street

EC2

(Old Street tube: exit 3)

some pics from london halloween critical mass.

Hundreds of protestors at Canary Whark Halloween protest

Australia House, Strand, WC2B 4LA

nearest tubes Temple and Covent Garden

No Police, going to places I have never seen the mass go to before, the look of
joy from people looking down from their balcony's and the halloweeners we
passed on foot, the fancy dress and a really good happy feeling in general.
Big thanks to the Paramedic who led us back and gave directions from the
cemetry, Highgate?.
And the corking was spot on, well done guys.

Opposite the US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London W1A 1AE

(nearest tube: Bond Street/Marble Arch)

About 200 people gathered tonight at Canary Wharf to celebrate the demise of capitalism.

Q&A Cafe, 19:00 @ "The Morgue" 122 Dalstone Lane, London

Ground Floor, T & G (Transport and General Workers Union), Transport House, 128 Theobald's Road, Holborn, WC1X 8TN.

Ground Floor, T & G (Transport and General Workers Union), Transport House, 128 Theobald's Road, Holborn, WC1X 8TN.

Ground Floor, T & G (Transport and General Workers Union), Transport House, 128 Theobald's Road, Holborn, WC1X 8TN.

Ground Floor, T & G (Transport and General Workers Union), Transport House, 128 Theobald's Road, Holborn, WC1X 8TN.

Committee Room 11 of the House of Commons

Autumn, the leaves turning golden, the Anarchist Bookfair. Stepney in East London, Saturday 18 October 2008.

usurpa and offline for the bookfair ...

Roma in Italy are suffering ethnic cleansing. Protesters held a lunchtime vigil at the Italian Embassy in London on Thursday 17 October, 2008. Report and Pictures by Peter Marshall, images (C) 2008, Peter Marshall

Wednesday 15th October, 07:30hrs. Activists arrive at the New York Stock Exchange on Cousin Lane, London. It's been nearly 2 years since an early morning demonstration took place there. A few minutes after their arrival, staff realised they were there and rushed to close the shutters. The activists were only just handing out leaflets and holding placards. There wasn't even a megaphone in sight. Remaining at the site for an hour and a half they received a fantastic response from the public and workers of NYSE with many asking what they could do about the situation and a nice variation on the usual, boring "get a job!" - "go back to bed".