Contributors
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Koohan Paik-Mander
Koohan Paik-Mander is a Hawaii-based journalist and media educator. She is a board member of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, a member of the CODEPINK working group China Is Not Our Enemy, and an advisory committee member for the Global Just Transition project at Foreign Policy in Focus. She is the co-author of The Superferry Chronicles: Hawaii’s Uprising Against Militarism, Commercialism and the Desecration of the Earth. View all posts »
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Mike Palecek
Mike Palecek is the president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). View all posts »
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Iván Orosa Paleo
Iván Orosa Paleo researches social movements, local government and cultural industries. He is affiliated with the University of Groningen. View all posts »
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Palestine House
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Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott Initiative
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was launched in Ramallah in April 2004 by a group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals to join the growing international boycott movement. View all posts »
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Palestinian BDS National Committee
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society. It leads and supports the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Visit their website and follow @BDSmovement. View all posts »
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Palestinian Youth Movement
The Palestinian Youth Movement is a transnational, independent grassroots movement of young Palestinians and Arabs dedicated to the liberation of our homeland and people. We currently comprise of 14 chapters across North America and Europe. Follow PYM on Twitter at palyouthmvmt. View all posts »
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Palestinian-Canadian Academics and Artists Network
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Bryan Palmer
Bryan D. Palmer is the author of James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-1938 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2021), Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 (Chicago: Haymarket, 2014), co-author of Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History (Between The Lines, 2016), and a past editor of the journal, Labour/Le Travail. He is Professor Emeritus, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. View all posts »
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John Palmer
John Palmer is visiting practitioner fellow at Sussex University European Institute, former European editor of The Guardian and founder political director of the European Policy Centre in Brussels. View all posts »
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Leo Panitch
Leo Panitch (1945 - 2020) was emeritus professor of political science at York University, co-editor (with Greg Albo) of the Socialist Register and co-author (with Sam Gindin) of The Making of Global Capitalism (Verso). His new book, co-authored with Colin Leys, Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn (Verso). View all posts »
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Justin Panos
Justin Panos has worked as a researcher for CUPE Ontario and the Centre for Research on Work and Society at York University. Follow him on Twitter at @justinpanos. View all posts »
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Elena Papadopoulou
Elena Papadopoulou is an economist and Scientific Advisor to SYRIZA. View all posts »
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Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé is a historian, socialist activist, professor at the University of Exeter, and supporter of the Campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS). View all posts »
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Paris is Burning
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James Parisot
James Parisot currently (precariously) teaches at Drexel University in Philadelphia. This article is based on his forthcoming book, available for pre-order with Pluto Press, How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West. View all posts »
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Jean-Claude Parrot
Jean-Claude Parrot is a former National President of CUPW (1977-1992) and a former Executive Vice-President of the CLC (1992-2002). He was also a member of the governing body of the ILO (1993-2002). He has been retired since 2002. His book, My Union, My Life, was published in 2005. View all posts »
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Particles for Palestine
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Jamie Partridge
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Shiri Pasternak
Shiri Pasternak is a researcher and writer living in Toronto. View all posts »
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Prabhat Patnaik
Prabhat Patnaik taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, from 1974 until his retirement in 2010. He is the author of Re-envisioning Socialism (CUP, 2012). View all posts »
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William Paul
William Paul is editor of School Magazine website. View all posts »
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Dudley Paul
Dudley Paul is an editor of School Magazine. View all posts »
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Justin Paulson
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Rosa Pavanelli
Rosa Pavanelli is General Secretary of Public Services International (PSI) and chair of the Council of Global Unions. View all posts »
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Adriana Paz
Adriana Paz is a co-founder and organizer of
Justicia/Justice for Migrant Workers-B.C. (J4MW), a volunteer collective based in Toronto and Vancouver that strives to promote the rights of Mexican, Caribbean, and Guatemalan workers who annually participate in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). View all posts » -
Zoe PC
Zoe PC is a journalist with Peoples Dispatch and reports on people’s movements in Latin America. She is also associated with Congreso de los Pueblos in Colombia. View all posts »
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Tamara Pearson
Tamara Pearson is a writer and activist living in Merida, Venezuela. Her writings have appeared in venezuelanalysis.com. View all posts »
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Roy Pedersen
Roy Pedersen is President of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) in Oslo. View all posts »
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People’s Alliance Against Eviction
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Ivana Perić
Ivana Perić writes for Radnička Prava (Workers’ Rights) website, Zagreb, Croatia. View all posts »
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Patricia Perkins
Patricia Perkins teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto. View all posts »
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Yvan Perrier
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John Peters
John Peters is an associated professor and research fellow at the University of Montreal’s Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT). View all posts »
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Gordon Peters
Gordon Peters is a political activist and a supporter of the Ecosocialist Network. View all posts »
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Cynthia Peters
Cynthia Peters is a freelance writer, activist, and editor of The Change Agent, a social justice magazine for adult learners and adult educators. She writes about a wide range of topics including organizing, parenting, marketing, feminism, racism, and gender politics. View all posts »
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Jenny Peto
Jenny Peto is an activist with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid. She holds an MA in Sociology and Equity Studies from the University of Toronto. View all posts »
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Stewart Phillip
Stewart Phillip is Grand Chief of Okanagan Nation and president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs. View all posts »
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Leigh Phillips
Leigh Phillips is science writer at Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions and coauthor of The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Verso, 2019). Follow his tweets at @Leigh_Phillips. View all posts »
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Mario Pianta
Mario Pianta is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Urbino and a member of the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He is among the founders of the civil society campaign ‘Sbilanciamoci!’ on economic alternatives (www.sbilanciamoci.info). View all posts »
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Andy Piascik
Bridgeport native Andy Piascik is a long-time activist and award-winning author whose most recent book is the novel In Motion. View all posts »
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Kamilla Pietrzyk
Kamilla Pietrzyk is a transit activist. View all posts »
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Kelly Pike
Kelly Pike is Assistant Professor of Industrial Relations at the School of Human Resources Management at York University. View all posts »
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Dennis Pilon
Dennis Pilon is an Associate Professor, Department of Politics, York University, Toronto. View all posts »
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Camila Piñeiro Harnecker
Camila Piñeiro Harnecker is a professor, researcher and consultant at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy, University of Havana. View all posts »
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Simon Pirani
Simon Pirani is author of Burning Up: a Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption, published by Pluto Press. View all posts »
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Dionysia Pitsili-Chatzi
Dionysia Pitsili-Chatzi is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, working on social justice issues in mathematics education. She has been a member of SYRIZA since 2011. View all posts »
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Shelagh Pizey-Allen
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Planka
Planka.nu is a network of Swedish groups that work for free public transport. Apart from engaging in public debate, direct action, and guerrilla media, the network administers the “P-kassa,” a solidarity fund covering fines for people commonly known as fare-dodgers, although they are more aptly described as passengers in public transport engaged in an anti-fare strike. In 2008 Planka.nu started the international site www.FareFreePublicTransport.com, a meeting point for activists working for a free public transport. View all posts »
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Dieter Plehwe
Dieter Plehwe is Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Civil Society Research, WZB, Berlin Social Science Center and Privatdozent (Private Lecturer) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kassel, Germany. View all posts »
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James Plested
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Justin Podur
Justin Podur is Associate Professor at York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies and a writing fellow at Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is the author of Haiti's New Dictatorship (Pluto, Between the Lines, and Palgrave-Macmillan 2012), and the novel Siegebreakers. His writings can be found at podur.org. View all posts »
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Robert Pollin
Robert Pollin is Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His recent work includes the books Greening the Global Economy and Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal (co-authored with Noam Chomsky), as well as green transformation programs for nine US states – New York, Washington, Colorado, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and California. View all posts »
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Kim Pollock
Kim Pollock is an independent scholar and retired union researcher and political activist. He is involved with the Canadian Society for Socialist Studies and is currently engaged in research on the US political situation, particularly Trump, Trumpism and Trump’s petty-bourgeois political and electoral base. He lives in New Westminster, BC. View all posts »
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C. J. Polychroniou
C.J. Polychroniou is a political scientist/political economist, author, and journalist who has taught and worked in numerous universities and research centers in Europe and the United States, and is a regular contributor to Truthout (US) as well as a member of Truthout’s Public Intellectual Project. His latest book is Economics and the Left: Interviews with Progressive Economists (2021). View all posts »
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Nicolas Pons-Vignon
Nicolas Pons-Vignon is an economist at the University of Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand. View all posts »
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Mimmo Porcaro
Mimmo Porcaro is an independent researcher and a member of the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista and of the cultural associations Punto Rosso and Alternative Europa. His work focuses on problems of the political form of class and emancipatory movements. View all posts »
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Ann Porter
Ann Porter teaches feminism and political economy at York University. View all posts »
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Garry Potter
Garry Potter is a film maker and Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has made a number of educational films, which are available for purchase at socialtheoryfilms.com. He is also author of the book Dystopia, as well as The Bet: Truth in Science, Literature and Everyday Knowledges and The Philosophy of Social Science: New Perspectives. View all posts »
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Poverty Free Thunder Bay
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Lucia Pradella
Lucia Pradella co-edited (with Thomas Marois) Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis. View all posts »
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Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is author of Red Star Over the Third World (LeftWord, 2017) and the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books. His latest books are Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism and (with Noam Chomsky) The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of US Power. View all posts »
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International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada is the national affiliate of IPPNW and a member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). We are committed to education and research about the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons, militarism and climate change. View all posts »
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John Price with Noam Chomsky
John Price is Professor Emeritus (History) at the University of Victoria, author of Orienting Canada: Race, Empire and the Transpacific, and active with Canada-China Focus.
Noam Chomsky is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His most recent book is Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet. View all posts »
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Nathan Prier
Nathan Prier has organized as an ally in migrant justice and indigenous solidarity movements in Toronto, and is a student, researcher and teaching assistant at York University. View all posts »
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Jason Prince
Jason Prince is a Montreal based urban planner. He blogs at jasonprince.ca. View all posts »
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Catarina Principe
Catarina Principe is a member of the socialist student group Die Linke.SDS and supporter of the Marx21 current. View all posts »
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Progressive International
Progressive International unites, organises, and mobilises progressive forces behind a shared vision of a world transformed. Follow them at @progintl. View all posts »
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Dimitris Psarras
Dimitris Psarras is the author of the Black Book of Golden Dawn. View all posts »
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Pugwash
Pugwash seeks a world free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. Through our long-standing tradition of ‘dialogue across divides’ that also earned us the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995, Pugwash aims to develop and support the use of scientific, evidence-based policymaking, focusing on areas where nuclear and WMD risks are present. View all posts »
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Sean Purdy
Sean Purdy, Professor Doutor II, Departamento de História, Universidade de São Paulo. View all posts »
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Prabir Purkayastha
Prabir Purkayastha is the founding editor of Newsclick.in, a digital media platform. He is an activist for science and the Free Software movement. View all posts »