MEETINGS INCLUDE:
12noon
Reclaiming the Media
This year will hopefully be remembered as the year when Rupert Murdoch got his just desserts. 25 years after the Battle of Wapping, the UK's biggest scandal-rag, the News of the World, became a scandal itself and was shut down. But Murdoch isn't the only problem in the world of the media, only a handful of corporations own virtually all of it. All run to make huge profits and have been cutting staff and quality for years. Time to reclaim the media and build new economic models .
Donnacha DeLong, NUJ President, leads a discussion about how we might do it.

1.30pm
The Advent of Capital Expansion in China
A Case Study of Foxconn Production and the Impacts on its Workers
In 2010, 18 young workers attempted suicide at Foxconn Technology Group’s Chinese premises, attracting worldwide attention. Pun Ngai will use the Foxconn example to demonstrate the start of rapid capital expansion in China and its impacts on the lives of Chinese workers. She will also look at the role of the state that facilitates Foxconn’s expansion as a form of monopoly capital. Foxconn is an important example of this phenomenon due to its speed and scale of capital accumulation in all regions of China which is incomparable to present enterprises. This new form of capital generates a global factory regime and a distinctive managerial mode that further leads to workers suffering from work pressure, anxieties and desperation at an unprecedented level.
Pun Ngai is a lecturer at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and author of "Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace. "

3pm
Four days that shook the world
Insurrection or a minor disturbance?
The riots in August started in Tottenham, north London after the murder of Mark Duggan yet another black man killed by the police. Yet again, like with Jean Charles de Menezes, Ian Tomlingson, Harry Stanley, and countless others the police lied to cover up their killing. Mark’s death may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back. But it wasn’t the main cause for the riots and looting throughout London and other parts of the country for nearly a week. A discussion about why the riots took place, the aftermath and where we go from here.
Speakers include Darcus Howe and Tony Wood from the Tottenham Defence Campaign. Organised by: London Anarchist Bookfair Collective

4.30pm
Is Capitalism destroying itself? And can we replace it?
'Karl Marx got it right, capitalism can destroy itself.'- Nouriel Roubini (IMF and US Treasury adviser).
'The [economic] icebergs are the worst in the lifetime of anyone now living.' - Kenneth Clarke.
'People have lost faith in the free-market, Western democratic order.' - Charles Moore (Thatcher's biographer and Telegraph editor).
Our rulers are worried. Austerity is not reviving the economy. Instead, it has led to protests and riots that are likely to intensify. How did we get here and what are the prospects for anti-capitalist revolution?

A debate with: Selma James (Wages for Housework Campaign; Chris Knight (Radical Anthropology Group); Hillel Ticktin ('Critique, a Journal of Socialist Theory')