The People vs The Bankers: Greece, austerity and the future of capitalism
Channel: Green Left
Date: 2012-09-07

The Global Financial Crisis was caused by the greed of gigantic unregulated financial institutions, yet ordinary people are being made to pay. In Greece, those least responsible suffer: p  ensions and wages slashed; education and health defunded; rights at work eroded. While the banks escape: propped-up, protected, more powerful than ever.

But the success of the anti-austerity Syriza, which came so close to capturing government in the recent Greek elections, and the courageous striking Spanish miners, remind us that there are plenty of Europeans keen to fight back.

Can they win? And how? What does this all mean for Australia? For the future of capitalism?

Public forum hosted by Left Unity, which includes the Communist Party of Australia, Resistance, the Socialist Alliance, Organise!, the Adelaide Anti-Capitalist Forum, current and former members of the Greens, and unaligned left-wing individuals.