[Marxism] CCS Wolpe Lecture, Alex Callinicos on global capitalism, Thursday 18 June, 5-7pm

[Patrick Bond]

The Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 
presents another monthly Wolpe Lecture:

Topic: 'Economic Crisis and Prospects for Social Revolution'
Speaker: Alex Callinicos, Kings College, Univ of London
Respondent: Trevor Ngwane, CCS
Date: Thursday, 18 June 2009
Time: 5-7pm
Venue: Howard College Theatre, UKZN Howard College Campus
SKYPECAST (details below)

A Zimbabwean educated at Oxford and presently Professor at King’s 
College, University of London, Callinicos has authored more than two 
dozen major books, including Southern Africa after Soweto, Southern 
Africa after Zimbabwe, South Africa between reform and revolution, 
Between apartheid and capitalism – and, more recently, Social theory, 
Equality, Against the Third Way, An anti-capitalist manifesto, New 
mandarins of American power, and The resources of critique. A leader of 
the Socialist Workers Party, he is one of the world’s most 
highly-regarded left intellectuals, and a formidable (comradely) critic 
of social movement politics.

Trevor Ngwane - co-star of the film Two Trevors go to Washington (about 
the rise of the global justice movement in 2000) - will be the 
respondent. On leave as secretary of the Soweto Electricity Crisis 
Committee, Ngwane is completing his masters degree at CCS, and recently 
presented at a conference in Korea on Marxism and the 
Alter-Globalisation Movement.

(Thanks to the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Harold Wolpe Trust for support.)

THIS EVENT WILL BE SKYPECAST; PLEASE CONTACT PATRICK BOND AT 
pbond at mail.ngo.za OR ON SKYPE AT patricksouthafrica TO PARTICIPATE 
BEFORE 4PM SA TIME ON THURSDAY, 18 JUNE.