About this Event
This webinar will bring together leading analysts of global politics to explore the unfolding geopolitical consequences of Zionism’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian people. Following on from the Ukraine crisis of recent years, the hypocrisy and blatant double standards of the major western powers have united the countries and peoples of the Global South to an unprecedented degree, and on both the diplomatic and mass popular level, rendering US imperialism and its Zionist shock troops increasingly isolated, as significant European powers at last recognise a Palestinian state, people from all walks of life mobilise, and young people in the imperialist heartlands start to be drawn into struggle in a way not seen since the Vietnam War. Together, the global majority are starting to drive changes unseen in a century. The webinar will examine such key topics as the relationship between the Palestinian people’s struggle and the overall multipolar process; the importance of Israel to the perpetuation of the US-led world order; and the potential for China and Russia to play a leading role in bringing about a lasting and just resolution to the Palestinian question.
Speakers
Faoud Bakr – Fouad Bakr is a member of the international criminal court bar association and the head of the legal department at Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).
Ramzy Baroud – Ramzy Baroud is an author, journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle.
Mohammad Marandi – Mohammad Marandi is a professor of North American Studies and teaches in the faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran.
Calla Walsh – Calla Walsh is Co-Chair of the National Network on Cuba and activist.
Camila Escalante – is the editor of Kawsachun News, a media outlet based in Bolivia, and also known for her correspondent work reporting around Latin America. She is a Latin American Correspondent for Press TV. She co-hosts Latin America Review, a new weekly program/podcast where you can hear interviews with Latin American and Caribbean leaders and analysts in English. Camila’s family are FMLN revolutionary former combatants. She has previously been based in Quito, Havana and Caracas. She is currently based in La Paz and reporting on campesino movements across the continent.
Bikrum Gill – Bikrum Singh Gill is a scholar of International Political Economy. He has long been involved in anti-war and anti-imperialist campaigns, and has most recently joined the International People’s Tribunal on US imperialism as a special rapporteur.
Lowkey – Lowkey is a British-Iraqi hip-hop artist, academic, political campaigner, and a MintPress video and podcast host. He is a patron of Stop The War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Racial Justice Network, and The Peace and Justice Project founded by Jeremy Corbyn.
Keith Bennett – Keith Bennett is a researcher and consultant on China’s international relations, co-editor of the Friends of Socialist China platform.
Radhika Desai (Moderator) – Radhika Desai is Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Canada, and Convenor of the International Manifesto Group.
Organizers
This webinar is jointly organized by the International Manifesto Group and Friends of Socialist China.
