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Can We Learn from the Indus Peoples’?
Talk this Thursday for those interested in Anthropology.
The next talk in our Michael Hudson series takes place on Friday (10th April).
With Grace Blakeley, they will discuss Global Capitalism, and Empire.
Architecture of Loneliness
Creative Conversations 5th May 6-7pm
This talk introduces David Graeber's concept of poetic vs. bureaucratic technologies through the lens of spatial organization.
https://www.ticketsource.com/cccibathspa/architecture-of-loneliness/2026-05-05/18:00/t-vxxdnrp
Livestream on Friday.
Discussing with Michael Hudson, Ann Pettifor and Francoise Verges the future of the world economy.
If people spend most of their money on Rent or paying Debts, then they won't have much money for food, for pubs, clothes, to go to concerts etc.....
Even if you believe in Capitalism, surely you must admit that the current system is not working.
There is a Class Warfare taking place - by the Finance Sector.
It is the Finance Sector against everybody else.
Prof Michael Hudson explains...
In Central London, you have some of the most expensive properties in the world, alongside many people sleeping in tents.
This helps to understand what Yanis Varoufakis means by Techno-Feudalism.
Agree or disagree, we need to be discussing Universal Basic Income.
It is too important of a subject just to scroll past.
Prof Steve Keen and Prof Michael Hudson will give a talk about the Global Crisis.
Streamed on our Youtube Channel.
Friday, 27th March.
Imagine people could make up their own minds about what it was that they would pursue.
Next in our colonial history series: Michael Hudson and Françoise Vergès on decolonial feminism and imperial collapse reshaping sovereignty, resources, and daily life worldwide. Thurs, March 26, https://davidgraeber.institute/colonial-histories/
"Capitalism does not contain an inherent
tendency to civilise itself. Left to its own
devices, it can be expected to create
rates of return on investment so much
higher than overall rates of economic
growth that the only possible result will
be to transfer more and more wealth into
the hands of a hereditary elite of
investors, to the comparative
impoverishment of everybody else."
- David Graeber
Thursday Livestream
With Grace Blakeley and Ann Pettifor.
About Wall Street and how it is gambling with people and the planet.
"Imagining a world with no bullshit jobs"
https://davidgraeber.org/interviews/imagining-a-world-with-no-bullshit-jobs/
Livestream event on Thursday, March 12th.
Ann Pettifor and Grace Blakeley in conversation: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet.
We need to stop measuring the economy by how wealthy the top 1% are doing or by how much the stock market has increased.
Instead we need to start measuring a country’s success by its standard of living, its access to healthcare/education and its the levels of homelessness/poverty.
“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
- Murray Bookchin
The actor, Edward Norton, calls for a General Strike!
"What they are doing in Minnesota with the strike needs to expand. We should be talking about a national General and Economic Strike."
