With Professor Yash Tandon. Everything, from land and water to health and human rights, is intimately linked to the issue of ‘free trade’. But Professor Tandon, author of the recently published Trade is War, asserts that in fact free trade is far from benign. Rather, it is deeply Eurocentric to think that because trade enriches the West it also works for the rest of the world. Instead, for the vast majority of people, and especially for the poorer regions of the globe, free trade not only hinders development – it causes relentless waves of violence and impoverishment, and continues to serve as a weapon for plunder and exploitation.
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6.45pm (doors open 6.30).