The advance of socialist forces has, historically, featured an alliance between small but critical groups of intellectuals and the masses of workers. Today, however, even as the class of intellectuals, or the educated, has expanded to become a veritable ‘Professional Managerial Class’, that alliance appears to have broken. Why is this? What is the resulting set of political alliances of the educated? What are the consequences?
The International Manifesto Group presents
In recent years, we have been witnessing the emergence of a born-again fascism, including its most virulent variety, Nazism. How did fascism originate, and how did it survive after 1945? What are the similarities and differences with inter-war fascism? What are the implications for left strategy and action? These are the issues to be discussed by this panel.
The International Manifesto Group presents
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.
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!
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.
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.
