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[lokesh at sarai.net]

> Dear Friends,
>
> MARX CLUB Cordially invites all of you for a talk on
> 'War,Militarisation And Capitalism In Our Times' with Peter Custers
> on Wednesday,1st of August, 2 p.m. at University Centre,(above
> spic-macay canteen) Arts Faculty.
>
> with regards,
> Naveen
>
>
>
> about the speaker
>
> Peter Custers is a campaigner-theoretician , who has been politically
> engaged from the beginning of the 1970s. He gained firsthand
> experience in peasant organising while working as a journalist in
> Bangladesh during the country's post-independence period, and has
> subsequently broadened his scope of work through an equally active
> engagement with peace and anti-militarist struggles in the
> Netherlands during the decade of the 1980s.
> Even while embarking on theoretical research from the 1980s onwards,
> Custers over the last 20 years has continued his engagements in a
> variety of social struggles and international campaigns, both in
> South Asia and in Western Europe....
>
> Through extensive historical and theoretical research carried out
> since the late 1980s, Custers has constructed a theory on militarism,
> which addresses the different levels of accumulation, from the
> 'microscopic' to the global level, and which notably comprises
> several fields not theorized before, such as nuclear production and
> the exports of arms and armament systems...
>
> Custers' theoretical work, moreover, is not only relevant for an
> understanding of militarism, but also aims at contributing towards
> theorising environmental problems...
>
> from his own website..