Category: Economy
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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The Financial Crisis and American Power
An Interview with Leo Panitch What is your assessment of the relationship between this serious financial crisis emerging foremost in the U.S. and American power and economic decline? I don’t think … Keep reading »
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Why the U.S. Stimulus Package is Bound to Fail
Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates … Keep reading »
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Understanding the Financial Crisis
Toronto, January 30, 2009 The financial crisis that has ripped across the world market over the last year has been remarkable in the chaos it has unleashed – and continues … Watch video »
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Facing the Economic Crisis
The main news these days is the global economic crisis, an event ascribed by economists and most pundits alike to a “financial” meltdown caused by the irresponsibility of mainly, but … Keep reading »
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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 »
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Economic Crisis and the Poor: Probable Impacts, Prospects for Resistance
Now that the crisis of the financial markets has become a crisis of the ‘real’ economy, it is obvious that those who already face poverty (or live on the edge … Keep reading »
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From the Global Crisis to Canada’s Crisis
The political crisis that has suddenly erupted in Canada adds yet another dimension to the seemingly unending shockwaves set in motion by the global financial crisis. The sheer political escapism … Keep reading »
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Financial Crisis and Ecological Amnesia
As OECD governments and political parties rush to pour billions of dollars into the generation of more credit to stimulate more consumption, no one seems to be pointing out that … Keep reading »
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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 »