Category: Theory
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Launching the Socialist Register 2015: Transforming Classes
This 51st annual Socialist Register completes the investigation of class formation and class strategies on a global scale begun with last year’s volume. Deploying an understanding of class as an … Watch video »
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When History Knocks
To raise the environmental crisis in Canada is to simultaneously highlight the notorious Alberta Tar Sands, the fastest growing polluter in Canada. But the Tar Sands are more than an environmental issue. This crisis-in-motion is inseparable from other fundamental issues at the core of Canadian society: indigenous land claims, Canada’s integration to the American empire and its oil-hungry military leviathan, a focus on resource extraction as a core of Canada’s economic development and a set of contested values about ‘the good life.’ Keep reading »
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Left Strategies for the 21st Century
Ljubljana, Slovenia — 10 November 2014. Learning from the failures of Communism and Social Democracy Leo Panitch was invited by the Slovenian Inštitut za delavske študije (Institute for Labour Studies) to … Watch video »
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Class 101: Workers, Middle Class, and the 1%
Toronto — July 2014. A discussion between John Sharkey and Jordy Cummings about class… what is class, manual vs intellectual labour, what is exploitation, and how does it relate to … Watch video »
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How Can We Change the World, If We Can’t Change Ourselves?
The Challenges Facing the Anti-Capitalist Left in Europe The anti-capitalist Left in Europe is in crisis. From the crisis of the International Socialist Tendency, to the political implosion of the New … Keep reading »
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SOS Alternatives to Capitalism
A discussion with Richard Swift Montreal Serai had the opportunity to discuss SOS: Alternatives to Capitalism – a handy, slim compendium of vital, essential thoughts and discussions on the concept of … Keep reading »
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National Liberation and Bolshevism Reexamined
A View from the Borderlands A view from the Czarist empire’s borderlands obliges us to rethink many long-held assumptions about the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, as well as the development … Keep reading »
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New Paths Require a New Culture on the Left
Speech given by Marta Harnecker on August 15, 2014, accepting the 2013 Liberator’s Prize for Critical Thought, awarded for her book, A World to Build: New Paths Toward Twenty-First Century … Keep reading »
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Responding to Capitalist Global Disaster: 1914 and Today
On June 28th, one hundred years ago, a Bosnian nationalist assassinated the crown prince of Austria-Hungary, setting in motion a chain of events that led a month later to the … Keep reading »
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Austerity Against Democracy: An Authoritarian Phase of Neoliberalism?
From its very beginnings, the new doctrine of neoliberalism was quite consciously set in opposition to socialism as an alternate economic and democratic order to capitalism and as an unyielding … Keep reading »
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False Hopes or Political Strategy?
There are two points of common agreement amongst almost all sections of the Left. We are in the midst of a fundamental turning point in the earth’s environment from climate … Keep reading »
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Unmaking Global Capitalism
Nine Things to Know About Organizing in the Belly of the Beast When Karl Marx famously declared that while the “philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point … Keep reading »