Iran: Sanctions and Neoliberalism
This panel will explore struggles within Iran over how to respond to the mass suffering caused by Western sanctions. This event has been rescheduled to take place on Wednesday 11 October [...]
On Friday 15 September 2023, the International Manifesto Group will host book symposium for Radhika Desai’s latest book, Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy. The author will discuss the book with a panel of commentators including Jayati Ghosh, Martin Jacques, Michael Hudson and more!
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In the face of Western sanctions, there has been battle within Iranian leadership between the representatives of the entrenched pro-West neo-liberal capitalist class and the supporters of an east-oriented “resistance economy. ”
In this program, we will explore different aspects of this ongoing battle in Iran and the possible paths that a “resistance economy” should take.
Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar to discuss how the war hawks’ drive to expand NATO into Asia to contain China may destroy the Western military alliance.
As the contradictions of capitalism mount and the challenge to imperialism represented by China, Russia and the majority of the world that continues cooperation with them gains momentum, dominant views of the world order are also challenged. Seeking to expose the ideological basis of the resulting debates, the speakers in this webinar will clarify how the primary contradiction today is between a US-led Western imperialism and the projects of anti-imperialist sovereign reclamation it aims to contain.
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The war over Ukraine has shaken up the world order. Among the parts of the world most impacted is Central and Eastern Europe. This panel discusses the impact of the War on Central and Eastern European economies, their trade, debt and financial relations.
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) is an influential policy research institute, conducting high quality research and analysis dealing with nations and their relation to the world economy. It will critically analyze, and propose, policy alternatives for managing the interaction of national economies and states to promote human development and mutual benefit in today’s multipolar world.
The Geopolitical Economy Research Education Trust (GERET) will conduct high quality research into, and analysis of national economies, their relation to the world economy and the political management of both. Intended to be an influential research and educational trust, it will critically analyse policy alternatives for managing the interaction of national economies and states and to promote human development and mutual benefit in today’s multipolar world.
The International Manifesto Group began discussing the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of the world order and its national and regional components at the beginning of the pandemic. The core of our analysis is our Manifesto, ‘Through Pluripolarity to Socialism’, and we believe engagement with its themes to develop them further is important for further left advance.
New Cold War was founded in 2014 to provide factual and insightful analysis, backed by accurate news and information, about the proliferating national and class conflicts changing our world, which the established media were either misreporting, or failing to cover. A new journalism is flowering, evident in the welcome multiplicity of alternative sources and sites and in the rising quality of independent reportage and analysis.
