Globalization of Production
IMF issues grim forecasts for 2009
By Patrick O'Connor, April 24, 2009
The International Monetary Fund’s updated World Economic Outlook, released Wednesday, predicts world economic growth of negative 1.3 percent this year, marking “by far the deepest global recession...
WTO forecasts huge drop in global trade
By Peter Symonds, March 28, 2009
In a report released this week, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has predicted a decline in global trade this year of 9 percent by volume—the largest since World War II.
IMF director warns of war
By Joe Kishore, March 25, 2009
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned Monday that the “dire” economic crisis poses the danger of social unrest and war.
IMF report: World economy to shrink 1 percent this year
By Andre Damon, March 20, 2009
The IMF published a chilling set of statistics Thursday, cutting its estimate for world economic growth this year and revealing that the world economy contracted at the sharpest rate on postwar record...
ISSE meetings in Australia
Marxism and the world economic crisis
February 26, 2009
The International Students for Social Equality in Australia are holding meetings at universities in Sydney, Melbourne and Newcastle during March to present a Marxist analysis of the world economic cri...
Nick Beams opening report to SEP summer school
The crash of 2008 and its revolutionary implications
Part 4
By Nick Beams, February 7, 2009
“What flows from our assessment of the origins of the present situation is that nothing less than an international socialist revolution can overcome the crisis of the capitalist mode of production a...
Nick Beams answers letters on Keynesianism
By Nick Beams, January 8, 2009
Nick Beams replies to correspondence on Keynesianism, the Great Depression and the global crisis of capitalism.
The crash of 2008 and the prospects for 2009
January 2, 2009
2008 was the year when the supposedly impossible happened: The world capitalist system underwent a financial breakdown which now threatens to repeat, or even eclipse, that which began in 1929.
A lecture by Nick Beams
The World Economic Crisis: A Marxist Analysis—Part 4
By Nick Beams, December 23, 2008
The following is Part 4 of a lecture delivered by Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) and a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist We...
A lecture by Nick Beams
The World Economic Crisis: A Marxist Analysis—Part 3
By Nick Beams, December 22, 2008
Published today is the third part of a lecture delivered by Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) and a member of the International Editorial Board of the World So...
Lecture by Nick Beams
The World Economic Crisis: A Marxist Analysis
Part 2
By Nick Beams, December 20, 2008
The following is the second part of a lecture delivered by Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) and a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Soc...
A lecture by Nick Beams
The World Economic Crisis: A Marxist Analysis
Part 1
By Nick Beams, December 19, 2008
The following is the first part of a lecture delivered by Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) and a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Soci...
