Syriza, Podemos, Left Bloc, and the Left: A European Revolutionary Politics?

The theme for the 2105 Left Forum was: No Justice, No Peace: Confronting the Crises of Capitalism and Democracy.

The opening plenary focused on anti-austerity politics, alliances, and national and international political potentials and challenges emerging in Europe and impacting the world; revolutionary dimensions of these developments – in the context of a mass-based political, economic, cultural, ecological, race, gender, and class struggle-illuminating politics – of electoral, left, and social movement organizing.

Opening plenary moderated by Laura Flanders.

• Leo Panitch is editor of the Socialist Register and distinguished research professor at York University, Canada. He is co-author, with Sam Gindin, of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Verso).

Complete video from the Left Forum available at livestream.com. Recorded in New York, 29 May 2015.