PEACE ACTIVISTS UNCOVER THE TRUTH OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE BUSINESS IN THE WORLD

Equips readers with the information they need to resist the lies that feed humanity’s urge to commit suicide. Read it!’ – Yanis Varoufakis

Housmans are very excited to welcome the legendary ANDREW FEINSTEIN and VIJAY PRASHAD to the shop discuss a vital new text from Pluto Press: Monstrous Anger of the Guns: How the Global Arms Trade is Ruining the World and What We Can Do About It, co-edited by Andrew, Rhona Michie, Paul Rogers and Jeremy Corbyn

We are seeing injustices caused by war and occupation unfold in real-time via social media, and we are speaking out in our millions against these horrors. Yet, from Gaza to Ukraine, the bombs continue to fall. We must understand why this is happening if we are to end it.

Monstrous Anger of the Guns lays bare the dark and deceitful world of the global arms trade, which, often funded in our name, is a business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives. Leading activists and campaigners connect the dots, showing how notions of citizenship, democracy and trust in governments are misguided, and how we can fight back by building mass movements, using direct action and legal justice to end the flow of weapons and the environmental and human devastation they bring.

OUR SPEAKERS

Andrew Feinstein is the Executive Director of Shadow World Investigations. Andrew resigned as an African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa in 2001, in protest at the government’s refusal to investigate corruption in a $10 billion arms deal. His first book, After the Party, reveals the impact of this deal. He also wrote the critically-acclaimed book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, and worked on an award-winning feature documentary, Shadow World. Andrew appears regularly in a range of global media, has contributed chapters on arms trade issues for a number of volumes, and was named amongst the 100 most influential people in the world working in armed violence reduction by Action On Armed Violence. He serves on the Advisory Boards of The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa, Lighthouse Reports, Declassified UK, and Demilitarise Education.

Vijay Prashad (PhD) is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His latest book On Cuba (New Press, 2024) was written with Noam Chomsky. He is Executive Director of The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter. He is also the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi) and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has appeared in two films – Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).

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Doors Open at 7pm, Event Starts 7:30

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