The World Crisis - and beyond

Conference on alternatives and transformation paths to overcome the regime of crisis-capitalism

28 October 2009
Dot Keet
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The multiple crises of the capitalist world economy give the left the unique opportunity to discuss and promote ideas of transformative steps and social alternatives. Which conditions for a post-capitalist world do already exist and what are our responses to this development?

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Conference reader coorganised by TNI and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation with contributions and inputs by TNI fellows Hilary Wainwright, Dot Keet, Susan George and Walden Bello.

October 2009
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
170 pages
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About the authors

Dot Keet

Dot Keet is a South African academic and activist involved in many national, African and international networks resisting corporate "free trade" agreements.  She is an active member of the national South African Trade Strategy Group (TSG) and the Southern African Peoples Solidarity Network (SAPSN), the key coordinator of the Southern African Social Forum (SASF); as well as the continent-wide Africa Trade Network (ATN); and the international Our World is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network.

Recent publications from Alternative Regionalisms

Crisis and alternatives

In the long term we have to transcend capitalism as it cannot ensure a decent livelihood for all nor is it compatible with preserving necessary ecological balances. In the short-term we must start out with basic social democratic demands.

Occupy the left or ignore it?

Why the traditional Left needs to understand, be willing to be challenged, and fully embrace the Occupy and Indignado movements.

Financial Governance Beyond the Crisis

Dr. Pedro Paez talks about the creation of a new financial architecture in Latin America, based on principles of redistribution, environmental sustainability and social cohesion rather than market principles that dominated the old architecture.

The impact of free trade on the financial crisis … and vice versa

Behind the currency wars and the worsening global economic crisis lies a largely unquestioned free trade model that both contributed to the crisis and, without radical reform, is a major obstacle to overcoming it.