Critique Conference: Imperialism & War

Friday 11 April 11.45am - 5.30pm & Saturday 12 April 10.00am - 5.00 pm

Thai Theatre, New Academic Building,

London School of Economics, WC2A 3LJ

Timetable

Friday

11:45-13:30

• Bob Brenner : "The Causes of the Current Crisis - Finance and the Real Economy" & Hillel Ticktin: "The Political and Economic importance of War in maintaining capitalism"

14:00 - 17:30

• Guglielmo Carchedi & Michael Roberts: "The falling rate of profit as the determining cause of crises"

Saturday

10:00 - 12:15

• Mick Cox: "Rethinking the origins of WWI", Mike Macnair: "Die Glocke or the inversion of theory: from anti-imperialism to pro-Germanism"

13:00 - 14:45

• Alex Marshall: "Lenin's theory of imperialism" & Suzi Weissman: "Stalin spent the interwar period obsessing about Trotsky and his followers: the story of his master spy, Marc Zborowski"

15:00 - 17:00

• Savas Matzas: 1914 - " The Dawn of an Epoch of Wars and Revolutions", Yassamine Mather: "The First World War and the end of the Ottoman Empire"

For more information email: yassamine.mather@glasgow.ac.uk