Keys to a present in crisis. Susan Watkins. Political Imbalances of the EU
Channel: Traficantes de Sueños
Date: 2014-12-30

Seminar: Keys to a present in crisis
Seminars in Madrid and Barcelona

On 17 and 18 December in Madrid (Intermediae, Slaughterhouse-Legazpi) and December 19 in Barcelona (UB-Montalegre), presented the Spanish edition of the New Lelft Review with part of its editorial board, Perry Anderson, Robert Brenner, Robin Blackburn and Susan Watkins along with three of his colleagues, Marco D'Eramo, Emmanuel Rodriguez and Carlos Prieto del Campo.

The NLR has been a reference to explaining the economic crisis and its impact on the planet's population. By joining the joint analysis with a long read cycle of great theoretical and historical depth, NLR has become a powerful guide intervention in uncertain times, essential to understand what is happening on a global scale and to build support effective political action at European, national and local levels.

The NLR is published bimonthly by the collaboration between the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, National Institute of Advanced Studies in Ecuador and Dealers of Dreams with open licenses, ie texts are accessible for everyone. As always, to make this possible, subscribers to make viable production are needed.

The seminars will address the political crisis in Europe and the crisis of capitalism as variables that explain the emergence of new spaces of politicization and new cycles of social mobilization. From this analysis, the possibilities of modifying the current tightening cycle of European capital and its relationship to existing forms of democracy are analyzed. The aim of these seminars is to describe the strategies and policies which may have a truly transformative impact on current global and regional historical juncture. Tensions between forms of public management organized around the nation-state and class power structures that operate purely logical transnational will also be explored. It is knowing what today is a policy that can change the forms of reproduction of capitalism and its improvement as socioeconomic system.

MADRID
Seminar "Invention of politics, crisis of capitalism and new political subjects in Europe"
17 and 18 December 18 to 21 in Intermediae, Matadero Madrid (Plaza Legazpi) / Free admission.
Wednesday December 17
19 hrs. Presentation: The New Left Review: Keys to a present crisis. Carlos Prieto del Campo (editor of the NLR in Spanish), Robin Blackburn (NLR) and Susan Watkins (editor of NLR)
20 hrs. First session of the seminar.
Robert Brenner (NLR & UCLA): The roots of the Great Recession 2007-2014
Robin Blackburn (NLR & Essex University): possible outputs are left of the crisis?
Thursday December 18
18 hrs. Second session.
Carlos Prieto del Campo (NLR & Foundation of Commons): Political Situation in Spain and Europe
Susan Watkins (editor of the NLR): Political imbalances EU
Marco D'Eramo (writer and journalist): Populismos
Perry Anderson (NLR & UCLA): anti-systemic movements
Emmanuel Rodriguez (ToS & FDLC): New political stakes in the Spanish situation

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BARCELONA
Introducing the NLR and Seminar "Keys to a troubled present; anti-systemic crisis of capitalism and political movements"
Friday December 19 at 18:30 hrs. in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Geography and History from the University of Barcelona, Montalegre Street, 6 / Free admission.

participants:
Carlos Prieto del Campo (NLR & Foundation of Commons): Political Situation in Spain and Europe
Robert Brenner (NLR & UCLA): The roots of the Great Recession 2007-2014
Robin Blackburn (NLR & Essex University): possible outputs are left of the crisis?
Susan Watkins (editor of the NLR): Political imbalances EU
Perry Anderson (NLR & UCLA): anti-systemic movements