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SUMMARY:World War I and  Imperialism Today ! - Alan Woods
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CONTACT:Arsalan Ghani
DESCRIPTION:The First World War was the culmination of the contradictions 
 of capitalism in working class slaughter on an industrial scale. out of th
 is war came revolutions across the globe\, including the Russian Revolutio
 n of 1917. Today\, a proxy war between the ailing US Imperialism on the on
 e hand\, and Russia on the other\, is being played out across the Middle E
 ast and the Ukraine. Are we on the brink of WWIII? 100 years after the Imp
 erialist Great Slaughter\, we discuss the prospects for Imperialism and th
 e tasks of the Marxists. \n\n\nAlan Woods is a world renowned Marxist theo
 retician\, economist \,  historian and a leading  member of International 
 Marxist Tendency.  He wrote a lot of books including ‘Lenin & Trotsky: W
 hat they really stood for’\, ‘Reason in Revolt’\,  ‘Bolshvism the 
 Road to Revolution’and ‘Reformism or Revolution’. He is the editor o
 f marxist.com . \n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Latimer Room \, Clare College
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