General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Radhika Desai’s Marxist lens illuminates the path to a post-capitalist future
ROGER McKENZIE explores how the political economist’s work on geopolitical economics and involvement with the International Manifesto Group offer crucial insights into global power shifts as US hegemony fades
Radhika Desai
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ECONOMICS has sometimes been described as “the dismal science.” These people have clearly never had the pleasure of listening to Professor Radhika Desai.
To be precise Desai is a political economist — the discipline that she told me also more accurately describes the work of Karl Marx.
Desai, to be even more precise, puts forward geopolitical economics as part of a Marxist framework for developing a better understanding of how the international relations of capitalism integrate politics, history, class and nation.
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