Online discussions
Part One
The US march
towards global war
Tuesday 29th October 2024
7.00 pm (London/Dublin)
Zoom Platform
Speaker: Alan Freeman (economist & author)
Part Two
The decay of the
US Empire
Tuesday 14th January 2025
7.00 pm (London/Dublin)
Zoom platform
Speaker: Alan Freeman (economist & author)
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Summary
The claim that we are heading towards global war may sound alarmist but when we look at what is going on in the world it is difficult not to draw this conclusion. There is a major war in Europe; there is genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza; and tensions are rising in the Asia Pacific. All of these flashpoints have the potential to escalate to a state of general war in which nuclear weapons are deployed and tens of millions of people die.
This series of discussions
will seek to go beyond the immediate headlines to examine the fundamental
economic and political forces that are motivating the US led drive towards
global war. They will also focus on how the war drive can be resisted.
Speaker
Alan Freeman is co-director with Radhika Desai of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group, the author of The Benn heresy, co-Editor of the Geopolitical Economy Book series, Manchester University Press and co-editor of the Future of World Capitalism book series with Pluto Books, He is vice-president of the Association for Heterodox Economics (www.hetecon.net), a member of the World Association for Political Economy and a member of the International Manifesto group (https://internationalmanifesto.org/about/)