We have a duty to change our mode of thinking - David Harvey and the animated crisis of Capitalism

Back last night from the Green Left Summer Camp in Cambridge which was really enjoyable and productive, good to meet GL comrades from all around the county and to welcome a visitor from Grune Linke (Green Left) in Germany, Moritz, with whom I hope to meet up again in London before he returns to Germany. Lots of workshops and discussions, mainly centred this year on the internal workings of the Green Party but also examining issues such as campaigns in the months ahead and a session on 'Working with the Left'.

One of the things we will be doing on this last question is giving some financial support to Convention of the Left in Manchester on September 24th to 25th as one of the organising bodies and I will be speaking on the panel on international issues at the Convention on the evening of September 24th. We also discussed regional organisation of Green Left around the country and outside "the London Village" and the Summer Camp saw the inaugural meeting of Green Left in the Eastern region. We also discussed the need to have good radical candidates standing for all internal posts in the party at conference and especially for the Executive and the committees.

One of our main campaigns, in which we are already involved, is the Can't Pay, Won't Pay international campaign against cuts and myself and Romayne Phoenix are already attending the weekly organising committee meetings of this campaign. The campaign is about to issue a public statement signed by many leading people on the UK Left, as well as trade unionists and people active in the world of the arts. We are also looking to organise a major international conference in London on November 27th as well as a smaller event and demonstration on September 29th to coincide with the Spanish general strike and the European TUC's call for a Day of Action against the cuts across Europe.

Here is the Marxist geographer Professor David Harvey's animated version of the Crisis of Capitalism, based on a recent lecture he gave in London to the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Says it all really.