[Reader-list] talk with Peter Custers

[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..