Duration   
4 modules and classes over 8 weeks  

Mode    
Moodle and Zoom

Descriptor    

This course introduces students to how capitalist crisis generates imperialism, the crises of the 1930s, the financial crash and Covid, and why imperialism leads to attacks on democracy. 

Topics covered     

1.    Imperialism then and now
2.    The 1930s – A crisis of a new type
3.    More recent crises
4.    Imperialism and Democracy – An Impossible combination?