Author: Sam Gindin
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Competition, Labour, and Solidarity
Doug Henwood interviews Sam Gindin. They talk about competition, labour, and solidarity. This is based on Sam’s review of the book, Persistent Inequalities: Wage Disparity Under Capitalist Competition by Howard … Watch video »
The Organizing Challenge and American Capitalism
The state of the American labour movement has, since the mid-1970s, been dispiriting. There have, of course, been moments of creative and inspiring resistance, but the predominant story has been … Keep reading »
A ‘Fatiguing Climb’: Capitalist Competition and Working-Class Formation
The working-class in capitalism is not a coherent class but a fragmented one – an amalgam of individuals trying to survive. It’ll take politics to change that. Keep reading »
Socialist Strategy and Cooperatives /w Sam Gindin
Sam Gindin shares his critique of cooperatives and his ideas about the broader challenges of building socialism. Sam Gindin served as research director of the Canadian region of the United … Watch video »
Making a Democratic Socialism for the 21st Century: Interview with Sam Gindin
Azadeh Reisdana interviews Sam Gindin on the recent growth of democratic socialism in developing countries and as an ideology which attracts a new younger generation of socialists. They also discuss the expansion of democratic socialism to not only a political theory but also as an economic application. Watch video »
Living Socialism Today: Remembering Leo Panitch
Standing outside a conference with a group of devotees, a famous political scientist brags that there’s only two people in the world he’s afraid of: his mother and Leo Panitch. … Keep reading »
The Socialist Legacy of Leo Panitch
On December 19, 2020, socialist intellectual and friend of the show Leo Panitch passed away from COVID-19. Today, we honor his legacy by speaking with his longtime friend and colleague Sam Gindin, a Canadian scholar and activist who co-authored The Socialist Challenge Today and other volumes with Panitch. Watch video »
Rebirth of Auto? Unifor and the Detroit Three
“HOME RUN!” was how an elated Jerry Dias, President of Unifor, summarized the mid-September outcome of the negotiations with Ford Motor Company, covering 6300 workers in Oakville and Windsor. Ford … Keep reading »
The Work Ahead, No Matter Who Wins /w Sam Gindin
Sanjiv Gupta interviews Sam Gindin. They talk about how to transform America whatever the outcome of the US election. They discuss socialist visions, Syriza, racial solidarity in the US, and the need for widespread socialist education. Watch video »
The Electric Car Comes to Oakville
A Closer Look at a Feel-Good Story Major auto bargaining has long been one of the most-hyped events in Canada’s labour calendar; historically rich in drama and closely watched for shifts … Keep reading »
Political Openings: Class Struggle During and After the Pandemic
For some on the left, the economic breakthrough brought on by the pandemic was the general consensus, not least among economists, for an astonishing increase in fiscal spending. Relative to … Keep reading »
Health Workers: From Praise to Protection
Crises sometimes bring out the best in society, and sometimes – or even at the same time – they clarify what is so darkly wrong within. In the particular case … Keep reading »