David North, Joe Kishore

The Crisis of the World Capitalist System: The Perspectives and Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party 2008-2010

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The Socialist Equality Party was incomparable in its ability to predict and assess the global financial collapse of September 2008. In the three years following the collapse of the housing bubble, the SEP laid out its perspectives for the resurgence of working class struggle.

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This volume contains three reports delivered at distinct stages of what has developed into the most serious economic crisis of the capitalist system since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The first report, given by David North, was delivered to the membership of the Socialist Equality Party after the initial collapse of the US housing market bubble in 2007 and amidst signs of a looming financial meltdown. The second and third reports, jointly given by North and SEP National Secretary Joe Kishore are from 2009 and 2010, respectively. The second followed the financial crash of 2008, which wiped out trillions of dollars in assets, and the third was delivered after the onset of global recession in the year that followed. Together, the material contained in this volume provides a concise account of the historical origins of the present crisis and an examination of its political implications. North and Kishore analyze the response of the US government, first under President George W. Bush and then President Barack Obama. The authors explain how the policies of the ruling classes throughout the world have exacerbated the underlying contradictions of the world economy, and intensified social and national tensions.

David North has played a leading role in the international socialist movement for forty-five years, and is presently the chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (US). His many published works include The Heritage We Defend; The Crisis of American Democracy; In Defense of Leon Trotsky; The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century; The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left and A Quarter Century of War.

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