Author: Sam Gindin

• The Toronto Municipal Strike: Who Do We Get Mad At?

  Public sector strikes are frustrating to both the public and the strikers. The public is upset with losing daily services they have come to depend on, while the strikers are … Keep reading »

  Labour  •  July 24, 2009  •  Sam Gindin and Steven Burdick
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  Lessons from the Humbling of General Motors

  Of all 20th century industries, it was the auto sector that best captured the sway of capitalism and the rise of American dominance. The assembly line showed off capitalism’s remarkable … Keep reading »

  Economy, USA  •  June 26, 2009  •  Sam Gindin
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  The Auto Crisis: Placing Our Own Alternative on the Table

  Deep economic crises violently interrupt daily lives and force more radical responses onto the public agenda. In the case of the North American auto industry however, that radicalism has been … Keep reading »

  Economy  •  April 9, 2009  •  Sam Gindin

• From Global Finance to the Nationalization of the Banks

  Eight Theses on the Economic Crisis 1. The current economic crisis has to be understood in terms of the historical dynamics and contradictions of capitalist finance in the second half of … Keep reading »

  Economy  •  February 25, 2009  •  Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
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  The Financial Crisis: a Socialist Perspective

  Montreal, February 21, 2009. A strategy with short and medium term demands, geared to fostering the relation of forces necessary to move beyond capital. Presentation by Sam Gindin. Introduction by … Watch video »

  Economy  •  February 20, 2009  •  Sam Gindin

• Saving the Detroit Three, Finishing Off the UAW: Learning From the Auto Crisis

  At the end of 1979, President Carter offered loan guarantees to Chrysler to prevent the company’s imminent bankruptcy. The loans were conditional on wage concessions of some 10% and the … Keep reading »

  Labour  •  December 31, 2008  •  Sam Gindin

• Grasping the Financial Crisis

  Toronto, November 26, 2008. With Sam Gindin, Leo Panitch, Eric Cazdyn, Kanishka Goonewardena: MP3 audio Sam Gindin is Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, and has … Watch video »

  Economy  •  December 9, 2008  •  Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch

• Beyond Wage Cuts, Beyond the Bailout

  The global crisis quickly engulfing us threatens to become the worst since the Great Depression, and this means that past ways of doing things need to be fundamentally rethought. But … Keep reading »

  Economy, Labour  •  November 26, 2008  •  Sam Gindin

• The Financial Crisis: Notes on Alternatives

  Over the last quarter century, the left in most of the developed world has been marginalized as a social force. The ‘culture of possibilities’ for left alternatives has correspondingly narrowed. … Keep reading »

  Economy  •  November 24, 2008  •  Sam Gindin

• The Current Crisis: A Socialist Perspective

  ‘They say they won’t intervene. But they will.’ This is how Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary, responded to Paul O’Neill, the first Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush, who … Keep reading »

  Economy  •  September 30, 2008  •  Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin

• Democracy: Too Important to Leave to the Members?

  Earlier this summer, it looked like the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union was about to experience something truly unusual in its history – a contested campaign for national president. The … Keep reading »

  Labour  •  July 14, 2008  •  Sam Gindin

• Perspectives on the U.S. Financial Crisis

  It is time to take stock. The centrality of the American economy to the capitalist world – which now literally does encompass the whole world – has spread the financial … Keep reading »

  Economy  •  July 7, 2008  •  Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch