Category: Theory
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Greece: From Despair to Resistance
On Sunday 12 February 2012 the people of Greece, in demonstrations and street fights all over the country expressed in a massive, collective and heroic way their anger against the … Keep reading »
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Deutscher Prize Lecture 2011
London — 11 November 2011. History versus Theory:a Commentary on Marx’s Method of Capital The 2010 Deutscher Memorial Prize was awarded to David Harvey for his book The Enigma of … Watch video »
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Crisis as Capitalist Opportunity
Ursula Huws is, amongst other things, the director of the social and economic research consultancy Analytica. In conjunction with the most recent edition the Socialist Register – The Crisis and … Keep reading »
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Political Crisis in Italy and Greece: Marx on ‘Technical Government’
In recent years Karl Marx has again been featured in the world’s press because of his prescient insights into the cyclical and structural character of capitalist crises. Now there is … Keep reading »
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The Failure of Liberal Democracy
Gáspár Miklós Tamás interviewed by Matthew Brett while on a speaking tour of North America, September 2011. Watch video »
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Occupy Wall Street: Beyond the Rhetoric
One of the distinguishing features of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement is its apparent lack of central leadership. Not only does the movement seem leaderless; it does not appear … Keep reading »
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A Civil Society Strategy for Revitalizing the Left
What happened to the North American Left? Why is it that, even now, when capitalism seems so obviously unappealing, unsustainable and unfair, the Left cannot mount a more serious challenge … Keep reading »
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The Left’s Crisis
A common response of the left to the financial crisis that broke out in the USA in 2007-08 was often a kind of Michael Moore-type populist one: Why are you … Keep reading »
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Spain: The ‘Indignant’ and the Paris Commune
Perhaps it’s one of history’s surprises that the popular uprising surging through Spain today (and which is beginning to reverberate throughout the rest of Europe) was sparked on the 140th … Keep reading »
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Unionism, Austerity, and the Left
An interview with Sam Gindin Andony Melathopoulos (AM): Clearly these are not very good times for public sector unions, not only in Canada but worldwide. What characterizes the current situation? How … Keep reading »
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Rebuilding the Left in a Time of Crisis
Leo Panitch is a political economist and theorist based at York University, Toronto, and is co-editor of Socialist Register. His most recent book is In and Out of Crisis: The … Keep reading »
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Book Launch: Global Slump
Toronto — 20 January 2011. Introductions by Faria Kamal, Liam McNally and Syed Hussan: Jesook Song is an associate professor in Anthropology at the University of Toronto. John Clarke is … Watch video »