The Possibilities of Left Government in Europe /w Panagiotis Sotiris

Is it possible to have a left government in Europe, today or is any attempt toward it going to fail: will political parties capitulate and end up implementing neoliberal policies? How is it possible to actually initiate a process of profound social transformation in an anticapitalist direction? Is it possible to combine government with forms of counter-power or even dual power from below? Is it possible to resist the systemic violence induced by capitalist globalisation and financial, monetary and institutional configurations such as those of the Eurozone? What role can political organisations play in such a perspective? These are some of the crucial open strategic questions that the Left is facing today and which need to be discussed in a manner that is both theoretically rigorous but also politically pertinent.

Panagiotis Sotiris has worked as a journalist and editor in Athens, Greece and has taught at various Greek Universities. From October 2025 he will be teaching Social and Political Philosophy as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology of the University of the Aegean in Mytilene. He is an editorial board member of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. His book Hegemony, Strategy, Organisation. Reading Gramsci Today is forthcoming with Brill in the Historical Materialism Book Series.

0:00 Introductions by Panagiotis Peter Milonas
2:06 Chaired by Kanishka Goonewardena
5:17 Panagiotis Sotiris
1:09:55 Q and A

Recorded 24 September 2025 in Toronto.