28 February - 4 March 2006
Durban, South Africa

THE CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY,
HAROLD WOLPE MEMORIAL TRUST,
OPEN SOCIETY INITIATIVE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA,
ROSA LUXEMBURG FOUNDATION, AND
CAPITALISM NATURE SOCIALISM JOURNAL PRESENT

A COLLOQUIUM ON
ECONOMY, SOCIETY AND NATURE

With tributes to Harold Wolpe and Guy Mhone, and the Rosa Luxemburg
Educational Seminar 2006

and book launches of new works by Dennis Brutus (Poetry and Protest) and
Console Tleane (The New Trek)

University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Howard College Auditorium

In cooperation with partners, CCS will be opening thematic research projects
on 'Economic Justice' in 2006. We will launch this theme by reviewing some
of the finest traditions of South African, regional and international
political-economic theory and contemporary analysis, and invite you to join
us.
We are mainly concerned with market-nonmarket interactions and new forms
of 'primitive accumulation'. The notion of a supposed 'dual economy' in
South Africa is being debated at the highest political/policy levels. The
time is opportune to consider whether formal markets and the informal
economy plus other aspects of society and nature are divorced or
interconnected. Under these conditions, does the fight against exploitation,
racism, sexism and ecological destruction require fighting the market
itself? If so, how?
Three scholar-activists - Harold Wolpe in South Africa, Guy Mhone in
Southern Africa and Rosa Luxemburg in Europe - developed consistent
arguments about the way markets systematically exploit 'nonmarket'
opportunities: in other modes of production, in society (especially women's
unpaid labour) and in the natural environment. At three scales of analysis,
we will review their legacies and assess whether current and future
political-economic scenarios require new insights.
Social scientists will be addressing the problems associated with market
exploitation of nonmarket spheres (society and nature) from 28 February
through 2 March, in an event open to the public. From 2-4 March, activists
from across KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and the region are especially
invited to help move from analysis to praxis, with open discussions and
strategy debates in the framework of the Rosa Luxemburg Political Education
Seminar.

(PROGRAMME BELOW SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

28 February:
South Africa - Dedication to Harold Wolpe

9AM: Opening and Introduction
Anne-Marie Wolpe (Wolpe Trust)
Legacies of 'articulation of modes of production'
Michael Perelman (CalState): 'Articulation' from feudalism to
neoliberalism
Ari Sitas (UKZN): SA social analysis after Wolpe

11:15AM: PANEL 1 - South African urban-rural, race, gender and labour
markets
Caroline Skinner and Imraan Valodia (UKZN): Gender and informal/formal
relations
Renato Palmi (UKZN): Women in the informal sector
Sthembiso Bhengu (UKZN): TBA
Richard Pithouse (UKZN): Urban movements

11:15AM: PANEL 2 - South Africa's new 'developmental state'
Isobel Frye (Naledi): Dual economy
Nina Hunter (UKZN): Community caregiving
Hein Marais (ind.): The political economy of AIDS
Langa Zita (UKZN): TBA

2PM: PANEL 1 - South African urban-rural,race, gender and labour markets
Fani Ncapayi (UKZN): TBA
Heli Guy (UKZN): TBA
Lubna Nadvi (UKZN): Race, ethnicity and labour reproduction
Richard Ballard (UKZN): Urban social movements

2PM: PANEL 2 - South Africa's new 'developmental state'
Charles Meth (UKZN): Post-apartheid poverty/inequality
Bill Freund (UKZN): The developmental state
Patrick Bond (UKZN): Debating social democracy and neoliberalism

4PM: Capitalism, racism, sexism in SA poli-econ theory - a round table
discussion
Martin Legassick (UWC)
Vishnu Padayachee (UKZN)
Ashwin Desai (UKZN)
David Hemson (HSRC)

6-9 PM: Evening Event (including drinks and dinner)
Booklaunches at Ike's Books, 48a Florida Road
The CCS Wolpe Lectures (edited by Amanda Alexander, CCS)
Dennis Brutus biography: Poetry and Protest (UKZN Press, Haymarket Press)
Tribute by Vonani wa ka Bila (Timbila)

1 March:
Southern Africa and Africa - Dedication to Guy Mhone

9AM: Opening and Introduction
Legacies of 'enclavity'
Adebayo Olukoshi (Codesria): TBA

11:15AM: Regional labour markets and labour reproduction
Lloyd Sachikonye (UZ): On labour
Horacio Zandamela (Wits): TBA
Richard Kamidza (Accord): TBA

2PM: Regional economies: Is South Africa sub-imperialist?
Tandeka Nkiwane (Univ of Pretoria): TBA
Simba Manyanya (CEJSA): Threats to Zimbabwe
Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (Uganda): TBA
David Moore (UKZN): TBA

4PM: Southern African and African resistance
Mohau Pheko (Genta)
MP Giyose (Jubilee SA)
Horman Chitonge (UKZN)
George Dor (CEJSA)

5:30-9PM Evening Event (including drinks and snacks in MTB Courtyard)
Booklaunch: The New Trek (Console Tleane)
Personal Tributes to Guy Mhone and Jose Negroa: Mhone family, Omano
Edigheji and Tawanda Mutasah (Osisa)

2 March:
Global - Dedication to Rosa Luxemburg

9AM: Legacies of 'imperialism'
Jeff Guy (UKZN): Luxemburg and KZN
Nicola Bullard (Focus on the Global South): Imperialism, militarism and
reclaiming the commons
Joel Kovel (Bard): Ecofeminism versus imperialism
Helene Bank (Iglis): Rethinking imperialism

11:15AM: Primitive accumulation
Massimo De Angelis (Univ of East London): TBA
Ahmed Veriava, (UKZN): TBA
Prishani Naidoo (UKZN): TBA
David Whitehouse (ISR): China

2PM: Imperialism and new commodity forms
Elmar Altvater (Free Univ): TBA
Gill Hart (Berkeley): Accumulation by dispossession

4PM: Contesting commodification
Achal Prabalha, Access (India) : Information
Jane Duncan (FXI) : Media
Trusha Reddy, Rehana Dada (UKZN): Privatisation of the air

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Annual Rosa Luxemburg Educational Seminar
The Rosa Luxemburg Educational Seminar 2006 will focus on the accumulation
of capital and resistance. It is devoted to airing political-economic ideas,
strategies, tactics and debates amongst social, labour and environmental
activists from KZN province, SA and the region. Speakers will include Jimi
Adesina, Elmar Altvater, Ulrich Duchrow, Lenny Gentle, Ntwala Mwalima and
Greg Ruiters.

2 March
5:30PM
»The Accumulation of Capital« by Rosa Luxemburg in Historical Perspective
Arndt Hopfmann (RLF-Regional Office)
Dinner Reception

3 March
Accumulation of Capital in National, Regional and Global Perspective
9:00AM-4:30PM
Evening Event (including drinks and dinner)
Screening of the movie »Rosa Luxemburg« by M. von Trotta (English
subtitles)

4 March
Popular Resistance to the Accumulation of Capital
9:00AM -1:30PM

(Note: Due to the Centre for Civil Society's strong support for
worker/student strike action at UKZN, delays in colloquium planning are
anticipated; your cooperation is appreciated.)