John Bellamy Foster: Understanding the capitalist economic crisis

Understanding the Capitalist Economic Crisis. Film produced by Jill Hickson and John Reynolds.

At the October 2011 Climate Change Social Change Conference held in Melbourne, John Bellamy Foster, Marxist academic, Monthly Review editor and author on economics and ecology, spoke about the causes and consequences of the deepening capitalist economic crisis.

The conference was sponsored by the Office of Environmental Programs, Melbourne University, and organised and co-sponsored by Green Left Weekly, Resistance and the Socialist Alliance. Other co-sponsors included Friends of the Earth (Melbourne), the Labor Party Pakistan and Sydney University Political Economy Society.