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Published on Mar 11, 2017

Part 1 of this debate will be available immanently . When ready a link will be added here.
“The Responsibility of Intellectuals” is an essay by the American academic Noam Chomsky which was published as a special supplement by The New York Review of Books on the 23 February 1967. This video contains a live debate at UCL’s Cruciform Building Theatre 1 in central London UK.
Contributors include:
Noam Chomsky (live video link from Arizona, USA)
Jackie Walker (former Vice-Chair of Momentum) – ‘I don’t want no peace. A black activist’s perspective on the responsibility of intellectuals’
Kriszta Szendrői – ‘Value-system and Intensity: A tribute to the late Tanya Reinhart’
Milan Rai (author of Chomsky’s Politics) – ‘The propaganda model and the British nuclear weapons debate’
Chris Knight (author of Decoding Chomsky) – ‘Speaking truth to power from within the heart of the Empire’
Nicholas Allott – Chair of Debate. (Department of Phonetics and Linguistics ) Conference Chair
Craig Murray – Former UK Ambassador of Uzbekistan

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