London: Events at Bookmarks

SPRING AUTHOR EVENTS AT BOOKMARKS

The Imperial Controversy: Challenging the Empire Apologists

Andrew Murray (Chair of Stop the War Coalition)
Tuesday 20 April 6.30pm, Free
Andrew Murray meticulously uncovers the intimate links between the war
on terror and the history of empire, between colonialism and Nazism,
between the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq and Britain's bloody
imperial record - and shows why the cheerleaders for today's western
military interventions now want to rehabilitate it. (Seumas Milne)

My Father Was a Freedom Fighter

Ramzy Baroud
Friday 23 April, 6.30pm, Free

Ramzy Baroud's new book provides a deeply personal account of his
family's experiences, across three generations, of the theft and
occupation of Palestine by the Israeli state. The book places Baroud's
experiences within the context of the broader political events of the
conflict, in such a stark and moving way that this account evokes an
understanding of what it is to be a Palestinian in a Gazan refugee camp.

The Enigma of Capital: And the Crisis of Capitalism/Companion to Capital

David Harvey
Tuesday 27 April, 6.30pm, Free

Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed.
The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be
stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its
power. It will have to be dispossessed. David Harvey is the world’s
most cited academic geographer and his course on Marx’s Capital has
been downloaded by well over 250,000 people since mid-2008.

Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists

Danny Dorling
Monday 10 May , 6.30pm, Free

"Beliefs which serve privilege, elitism and inequality, infect our
minds like computer viruses. But now Dorling provides the brain-
cleaning software we need to begin creating a happier society. "
Richard Wilkinson author of "The Spirit Level"

Night of the Golden Butterfly

Tariq Ali
Wed 12 May, 7.30pm, £4/£2 concessions

Political campaigner, novelist and historian Tariq Ali will be talking
about the fifth and concluding book in the Islam Quintet.
Bloomsbury Church, 235 Shaftesbury Ave, WC2H 8EP, 2 mins from Bookmarks

Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World

Alex Callinicos
Tuesday 18 May , 6.30pm, Free

The crisis of 2007–9 is an event of historic importance that has
affected economy, society and politics. Callinicos analyses its causes
within the broader development of capitalism in recent decades.
Particularly relevant is his stress on ‘financialisation’ as well as
the implications he draws regarding the balance of imperial power
across the world.




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