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This panel explores what it means to be anti-imperialist, examining imperialism as a global system with military, economic, and cultural dimensions.
Speakers will trace its historical roots, ongoing manifestations, and Britain’s entanglement within it. The discussion will highlight U.S. imperial tactics including trade agreements, sanctions, debt, coups, interventions, and cultural hegemony in order to build deeper understanding across geographical contexts.
Helen Yaffe is a Professor of Latin American Political Economy at the University of Glasgow, specialising in Latin American and Cuban development. Since 1995, she has spent time living and researching in Cuba. She is the author of Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World (Yale, 2020).
Ashraf is a political analyst, popular educator, and an organiser with the Palestinian Youth Movement
Jack is a member of Workers for a Free Palestine and an organiser in the trade union and Cuba Solidarity movements. He is a PhD candidate in Political Theory where he studies democratic frameworks in anti-imperialist movements in Latin America.
Norwyn Crame is the Vice Chairperson of Anakbayan UK. Anakbayan UK is an overseas chapter of Anakbayan; a comprehensive national democratic mass organisation for Filipino Youth. Their aim is to organise Filipino youth from all sectors and build the overseas movement in support of a Philippines that is free from US imperialism.
Juan is an Amsterdam-based researcher working on international relations and trade for the Transnational Institute (TNI)
