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The Left has decried the privatization of services like water and electricity. Is it enough to return them to public ownership and control? According to David A. McDonald, the goal should be more equitable, democratic, and non-marketized forms of public services. He considers the role that so-called remunicipalization can play in environmental and social justice efforts. Gregory Albo and Stephen Maher, eds. Socialist Register 2025: Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads Municipal Services Project (Image on main page courtesy of the Municipal Services Project.) The post Making Services Public appeared first on KPFA.

They fought to secure the vote for women. They used direct action, civil disobedience, and increasingly militant tactics to pursue their goals. Feyzi Ismail assesses the strategies and tactics of a group of British suffragettes with an eye toward building a more effective climate movement. Gregory Albo and Stephen Maher, eds. Socialist Register 2025: Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads The post Climate and Suffrage Struggles appeared first on KPFA.

Massive amounts of money are needed to address the multiple social and ecological crises besetting societies around the globe. According to Thomas Marois, the lion's share of that financing will need to come from public banks. But many public banking institutions, he argues, must be democratized and definancialized. Gregory Albo and Stephen Maher, eds. Socialist Register 2025: Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads Monthly Review Press, 2025 The Public Banking Project at McMaster University Thomas Marois, Public Banks: Decarbonisation, Definancialisation, and Democratisation Cambridge University Press, 2021 (Image on main page by Christian A. Schröder.) The post Public Banks appeared first on KPFA.

Reden wir über Carearbeit & Digitalisierung! Literatur: Carstensen, Tanja; Schaupp, Simon; Sevignani, Sebastian (Hrsg.) (2023): Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Eldred, Michael; Roth, Mike (1978): Guide to Marx's Capital. London: CSE Books, Appendix I: Family in Capital, in: https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/eldred-roth/ap-family.htm Gamisch, Marvin (2021): Digitaler Kapitalismus? Eine systemische Einordnung in Marx‘ Kritik der politischen Ökonomie. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag Huws, Ursula (2014): The underpinnings of Class in the digital age: Living, labour and value. In: Vol 50. Socialist Register 2014: Register Class Huws, Ursula (2015): Widersprüche der digitalen Ökonomie. Informationskapitalismus und Kybertariat, In: Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung, Nr. 103, S. 15 – 28 Huws, Ursula (2019a): Social Reproduction in Twenty-First Century Capitalism. In: Vol 56. Socialist Register 2019: Beyond Market Dystopia. New Ways of Living Huws, Ursula (2019b): Labour in Contemporary Capitalism (Dynamics of virtual Work). Hertfordshire: Springer Nature (E-Book) Huws, Ursula (2023): Soziale Reproduktion im Kapitalismus des 21. Jahrhundert. In: Carstensen, Tanja; Schaupp, Simon; Sevignani, Sebastian (Hrsg.) (2023): Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp: S. 43 – 66 Krüger, Stephan (2021): Produktive und unproduktive Arbeit. In: Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung, Nr. 125, S. 126 – 142 Marx-Engels-Werke Band 23 (MEW 23): Das Kapital. Erster Band Marx-Engels-Werke Band 24 (MEW 24): Das Kapital. Zweiter Band Marx-Engels-Werke Band 25 (MEW 25): Das Kapital. Dritter Band Marx-Engels-Werke Band 3 (MEW 3): Die deutsche Ideologie Marx-Engels-Werke Band 44 (MEW 44): Ökonomisches Manuskript 1861-63, Teil II Zu Peters Newsletter: https://2f91c69d.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAJqEcIOcEqe6jLv8FLZ0WkjSCf8BWXZ4-Oa9iem0HhMwr5eZnStzRFMhueyu2szgGKPPNJ3uWZGRqv7vsFV7mU6yzCVrUQMn7WzqGp9jeOGIzr79dNyjgsF7tZ3O1AYSo4nvXvxxTmI5mue69t3lWoWVXOKTjEU2P0OMH-ouk4IroENl1mwUXs8t8X3PgvFi_jnzGxE6 Wir sind 99 ZU EINS! Ein Podcast mit Kommentaren zu aktuellen Geschehnissen, sowie Analysen und Interviews zu den wichtigsten politischen Aufgaben unserer Zeit.#leftisbest #linksbringts #machsmitlinks Wir brauchen eure Hilfe! So könnt ihr uns unterstützen: 1. Bitte abonniert unseren Kanal und liked unsere Videos. 2. Teil unseren content auf social media und folgt uns auch auf Twitter, Instagram und FB 3. Wenn ihr Zugang zu unserer Discord-Community, sowie exklusive After-Show Episoden und Einladungen in unsere Livestreams bekommen wollt, dann unterstützt uns doch bitte auf Patreon: www.patreon.com/99zueins 4. Wir empfangen auch Spenden unter: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hostedbuttonid=NSABEZ5567QZE

In this episode, we discuss the contributions of political theorist Norman Geras to socialist debates about revolutionary ethics, movement democracy, and justice. He argues for a right to revolution, but that there's a difference between political and social revolution, and that this difference tells us something about which ends justify which means. Other topics include state theory, dual power, and the role that Marxism can play in social movements today.patreon.com/leftofphilosophyReferences:Norman Geras, “Our Morals: The Ethics of Revolution,” Socialist Register 25(1989): 185-211.Norman Geras, “Democracy and the Ends of Marxism,” New Left Review 1(203)(1994): 92-106.Norman Geras, “Human Nature and Progress,” New Left Review 1(213): 151-160.Music:“Vintage Memories” by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com“My Space” by Overu | https://get.slip.stream/KqmvAN

**To discuss this episode among friends, come to our listening party, Macro ‘n Chill, on Tuesday February 27th at 8pm ET/5pm PT. For the link go to our Events Calendar https://realprogressives.org/rp-events-calendar“But fortunately for us, human nature is precisely the capacity to be creative; to imagine a different way of living together and to bring that into being through our conscious and deliberate actions by working together, by fighting for a different world against the class power that is interested in perpetuating things as they are. And so we can, through acting on the world to transform the world, we also transform ourselves. That's a basic principle of Marxist theory and Marxist politics. By acting on the world to change the world, we simultaneously transform ourselves through the act of struggle, to the act of building collective solidarity, we become different and we also make the world different.”Steve invited Stephen Maher for this interview to talk about some of the basic lessons of Marxism. While you may not agree with everything you hear in this episode, certain fundamentals of capitalism are beyond refute.The discussion explores the relationship between capital and the working class, and the concept of class struggle as the key to understanding US history of the past century, especially the postwar period and the development of neoliberalism. To truly make sense of it all we must look at some fundamental truths about capital. It is very fluid and dynamic. Capital is capable of continuously evolving and restructuring. In doing so, our social conditions change as well.They also discuss the challenges and obstacles in achieving socialism, the history of anti-communist sentiment in the US, the importance of class struggle unionism, and the need for grassroots organizing and building solidarity within the working class.Stephen Maher is an Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland, and co-editor of The Socialist Register. He is the co-author of The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to BlackRock with Scott Aquanno, and the author of Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power.@SteveMaher18 on Twitter

The Meidner Plan was a transformative plan proposed by Swedish trade unions in the mid-1970s to gradually transfer ownership of mid-sized and large businesses to their workers, and subsequently to workers at large. Dru Jay is joined by Joe Guinan, the President at The Democracy Collaborative and co-author of The Case for Community Wealth Building and of People Get Ready! Preparing for a Corbyn Government. They discuss some of the historical context and some of the plans shortcomings. For more about the Meidner plan, read articles in The Peoples Policy Project, Jacobin, and The Socialist Register.

What has capitalism done to and with time? How does it regulate and discipline workers from the standpoint of time? And what would a principled struggle to take back time — to reappropriate it — look like? Engaging with the ideas of Marx, E. P. Thompson, and others, Bryan D. Palmer reflects on work, life, and capitalist temporality; he also stresses the importance of abolishing the wage system. (Encore presentation.) Leo Panitch and Greg Albo, eds., Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism Monthly Review Press, 2020 Bryan Palmer, James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38 Brill, 2021 (Image on main page by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.) The post Time Under Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.

On this special holiday episode, SPS brings to you reports from protests in the USA, Germany and Austria. We include shotgun interviews with participants and reflections by our members. In the first segment, our West Coast members interview the academic workers part of the strikes at the University of California. They ask the strikers at the LA and Santa Barbara campuses about their participation in the strike and their views on the relationship between this labor struggle and the long-term vision for the Left. On the second segment, our members Marius, Lisa and Andreas went to several university occupations organized by “End fossil: Occupy!” –– a climate justice movement with the goal to put an end to the fossil fuel economy. Students occupied lecture halls in different cities for several weeks to draw attention to their demands and to initiate negotiations with their respective university administrations. Links: (1) On December 15th, 2022 the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a public forum in New York City called "Labor and the Left." This conversation was hosted in the immediate wake of the 2022 strike at The New School for Social Research. Recording: https://youtu.be/f7o1XKt2mpc (2) "The Concept of the Left and Right" a Platypus panel. Edited transcript printed in Platypus Review 68 (July 2014) https://platypus1917.org/2014/07/04/concept-left-right/ (3) G.M. Tamás, "Telling the truth about class" in Vol. 42: Socialist Register 2006: Telling the Truth, https://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/tamasgm_tellingthetruthaboutclass.pdf (4) "End Fossil: Occupy!" website  https://endfossil.de

On "techno-feudalism". In the Bungacast Reading Club for patrons, we've been discussing various works on "neo-feudalism" - a thesis that tries to explain capitalist stagnation and inequality by arguing that we are moving beyond capitalism – toward something worse.  In this free episode, we discuss one of the most thoroughgoing critiques of this thesis: Evgeny Morozov's "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason".  Why has this thesis becomes so popular today, across the political spectrum? What is the economic and political logic of feudalism, and how do current trends supposedly indicate a resurgence of these logics? Why have Marxists, who draw such a clear line between feudalism and capitalism, believe that politically-driven expropriation is replacing exploitation?  And how do Big Tech companies make money - purely through rent, or do they produce commodities?  To join the Reading Club, sign up for $10 at patreon.com/bungacast  Readings:  Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason, Evegeny Morozov, New Left Review The 'New' Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession, David Harvey, Socialist Register (pdf) Escalating Plunder, Robert Brenner, New Left Review

Will chats to Professor Vivek Chibber about his latest book, The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn. Why, despite the powerful antagonism capitalism generates between bosses and workers, is it so resilient? Why did class disappear as an analytical category for the international left? Can the left rebuild class consciousness through organizing, or are the multiple crises the world faces too insurmountable, and the obstacles to organizing too great? Vivek Chibber is a Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital and Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India. He is a contributor to the Socialist Register, American Journal of Sociology, Boston Review, the New Left Review and Jacobin. He is also the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy.

Touré Reed and Adolph Reed discuss their new article in Socialist Register, how the project of racial justice became unmoored from political economy in the postwar era, and how this disconnect continues to shape our understandings of race and inequality today.The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from December 7, 2021 with Jen Pan and Ariella Thornhill hosting.Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=JACOBINYTMusic provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkeyPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This month we discuss GM Tamas' essay "Telling the Truth About Class" published in the Socialist Register. Is Tamas' division between Marxist and Rousseauian socialism useful? Does it help us to understand the Left today? And is Tamas right that "authentic proletarian revolution... has never occurred in its anti-capitalist purity anywhere"?   Reading Clubs are for patrons $10+, sign up at patreon.com/bungacast   Additional readings: Why the left must abandon the myth of British decline, David Edgerton, New Statesman Ellen Meiksins Wood on the Nairn-Anderson thesis and the Bourgeois paradigm, Verso Books blog

With the raging culture war and debates around Critical Race Theory we will discuss how Postmodern theory became a dominant force in academia that derailed materialist analysis of social and political phenomena. In this episode we will investigate the origins of postmodern thought and its consequences for today's politics.   About Vivek: Vivek Chibber is a professor of sociology at New York University. He is the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy. Articles:   "Making Sense of Postcolonial theory: a response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 27:3, 617-624, DOI:10.1080/09557571.2014.943593 [Download/read: ResponsetoSpivak.pdf, 79.76 kB]   "Subaltern Studies Revisited - a Response to Partha Chatterjee [Longer version]," Economic and Political Weekly, March 1, 2014. [Download/read: SubalternStudiedRevisited.pdf, 224.12 kB]   "Capitalism, Class, and Universalism: Escaping the Cul-de-sac of Postcolonial Theory," The Socialist Register, 2014. [Download/read: Capitalism, Class.pdf, 76.88kB]   "Organized Interests, Development Strategies, and Social Policies", R. Nagaraj ed., Growth, Inequality, and Social Policy in India, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. [Download/read: Organized_interests.pdf, 1,802kb] Books:   Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital Verso, 2013.   Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India Princeton University Press, 2003.   Watch Kenzo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx4zh3sVbbbEuexW6LXCQXg   Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/nSTpCvIoRgw   Medium: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/kill-the-poor-f9d8c10bc33d   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com   Get the music from the show here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/album/coronavirus-sessions

This week, in a special episode of A World to Win, we remember the brilliant Marxist thinker, writer and public intellectual Leo Panitch. Grace talks to Max Shanly, Labour Party activist and long-time friend of Leo, and Sam Gindin, former director of research for the Canadian Auto Workers’ Union and Leo’s collaborator, including on his magnum opus The Making of Global Capitalism. Several of Leo Panitch’s books and many of his essays are available for free through the Socialist Register. He was also a member of Tribune‘s advisory board – read his writings for us and our obituary for him here. Remember that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, in a special episode of A World to Win, we remember the brilliant Marxist thinker, writer and public intellectual Leo Panitch. Grace talks to Max Shanly, Labour Party activist and long-time friend of Leo, and Sam Gindin, former director of research for the Canadian Auto Workers’ Union and Leo’s collaborator, including on his magnum opus The Making of Global Capitalism. Several of Leo Panitch’s books and many of his essays are available for free through the Socialist Register. He was also a member of Tribune‘s advisory board – read his writings for us and our obituary for him here. Remember that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, in a special episode of A World to Win, we remember the brilliant Marxist thinker, activist and public intellectual Leo Panitch. Grace talks to Max Shanly, socialist strategist and organiser and long time friend of Leo's, and Sam Gindin, former director of research for the Canadian Auto Workers Union and Leo's long time collaborator, including on his magnum opus The Making of Global Capitalism. Several of Leo's books - including the Making of Global Capitalism and Searching for Socialism - are available on the Verso website, and many of his essays are available for free through the Socialist Register website: https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv

Steve Maher, assistant editor of The Socialist Register, joins us to talk about the life, work, and legacy of Leo Panitch. Check out the updated version of The Socialist Challenge Today, which was co-authored by Maher, as well as Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1473-the-socialist-challenge-today *** Support this project by becoming a patron: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits ***

I am utterly gutted by the recent passing of Leo Panitch, who was the editor of The Socialist Register and a mentor to so many people like me, so I did what odd-ball podcast hosts do and I turned to the mic to get out my feelings about his legacy and what he meant to me. After a 25-minute eulogy, I replay a B-Side chat that I did with Leo back in 2017. I tricked him into talking about his life by asking him questions about people who were near and dear to him, like Ralph Miliband, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn, and so on. Rest well, Leo. And may the rest of us re-engage with his work and legacy. *** Support this socialist media project by becoming a patron today: HTTP://www.patreon.com/deadpundits ***

Gindin calls on us to transform America whatever the outcome of the U.S. election. We discuss socialist visions, Syriza, racial solidarity in the U.S., and the need for widespread socialist education. Sam Gindin has served as director of research for the Canadian Auto Workers union from 1974 to 2000, and Visiting Packer Chair in the political science department at York University. With co-author Leo Panitch, who appears on an earlier episode of this podcast, he has written extensively about the U.S. state’s role in globalizing neoliberalism. Most recently, he co-authored The Socialist Challenge Today: Syriza, Corbyn and Sanders. He is also a contributing editor of the Socialist Register.

Leo Panitch died recently of covid complications. A few months ago we discussed two issues which Panitch studied and wrote about for decades. First, whether the pandemic has fundamentally altered the geopolitical balance between the U.S. and other great powers, specifically China. And second, how socialists in the U.S. should approach the November elections. Panitch connected the two issues with his usual depth and historical rigor, qualities not always evident in the left discourse on these questions. He will be deeply missed. Leo Panitch was Professor Emeritus of Politics at York University in Toronto. He was co-editor of the Socialist Register and author of several books, most recently Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn, co-authored with Colin Leys and published by Verso. Bernie Sanders' speech at DNC 2020 Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, "Trumping the Empire," Socialist Register 2019. Leo Panitch, "Class theory for our time," Catalyst 2020.

A recording from the 7th of April 2020, from the series "The Left Reflects on the Global Pandemic” by transform! Europe There is deeper lesson to be learnt from the pandemic: Even where money was spent on public care systems, it was spent in the spirit of marketisation. As such, the problem becomes not one of spending. Rather, it becomes a problem of the introduction and fostering of competition. In the very first edition of our new podcast series with Transform! Europe, we are proud to present insights by Leo Panitch. In his conversation with Kate Hudson, he goes on to explain further lessons for the left that became evident during the pandemic. Such as, that our basic needs must be provided by a democratic public sector, that Amazon workers, for example, who proved to be so essential during this period, need to be public employees. Our main struggle will have to be that, of meeting people’s basic needs far beyond the Keynesian welfare state, through the provision of public services, through taking key industries, including finance, into the public sector and making them public utilities. And we must do this in a way that democratizes these institutions in the process. On the role of the European Union, Panitch reminds us that the EU is a capitalist project, rooted in the goal of free movement of capital. And the EU is a project in crisis. A crisis rooted in the lack of solidarity and the discipline imposed by some member states over others. Panitch speaks to the need to fight the far right and rising xenophobia, to re-establish the left and working-class institutions, trade unions, mass parties, and the new parties that were formed around the attempt to rebuild the working class of the 21st century. He makes a case for a new type of internationalism, capable of coordination with regards to capital movement and which speaks to taxation. He proposes nothing less, than a new democratic and ecological mode of economic planning. Leo Panitch is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. He is the Co-editor of the Socialist Register whose annual volumes he has edited for past 35 years. He is Co-author, together with Sam Gindin, of the award-winning book The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire, a remarkable piece of the political economy of contemporary global capitalism. The Ιnterview is conducted by Kate Hudson. She is the General secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the UK. She is also managing editor of the journal Transform UK, and is a national officer of Left Unity, a member party of the European Left. The conversaion is moderated by Angelina Giannopoulou, a Political scientist and facilitator for Transform! Europe, in the programme “Strategic Perspectives of the Radical Left and European Integration”. The Mosaik-Blog is delighted to collaborate on this podcast with transform! Europe, a network of 34 European organizations in 22 countries, active in the fields of political education and critical scientific analysis. The network is the recognized political foundation of the Party of the European Left. After the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the series "The Left Reflects on the Global Pandemic" was launched, in which various befriended intellectuals were asked to share their reflections, assessments and proposals regarding the crisis. Over the next six weeks, all editions of this series will appear here on Mosaik-Podcast.

Gáspár Miklós Tamás is the former director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Science, and currently holds a visiting professorship at the Central European University in Vienna and Budapest. He is the author of Kommunismus nach 1989 (Mandelbaum 2015), “On Post-Fascism” (2000, Boston Review) and “Telling the truth about class” (2006, Socialist Register), among many others, and writes regularly for numerous journals and newspapers. Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency (Oxford 2012), co-author of The Meaning of Partisanship (Oxford 2016) and co-editor of Kant and Colonialism (Oxford 2014) as well as Migration in Political Theory (Oxford 2016). She writes regularly for the New Statesman, Guardian, Independent, and more. The idea of citizenship has always maintained a delicate balance between its universalist aspirations and its restricted reality. The recent crisis of global capitalism and the rise of virulent nationalisms have put this balance to the test. Ethnic redefinitions in Eastern Europe (and recently, India) and projects of citizenship-for-sale for those who can afford it, further bruise the concept. To make sense of these dynamics requires rethinking the very framework in which citizenship exists: the nation-state. Ever since the 2008 outbreak of the crisis, the national question has forcefully reasserted itself, not only among the usual suspects of the right, but within the left as well. By framing the nation-state as a shield against global capital, significant parts of the left continue to base their political programs on the exclusion of a significant part of the working class: refugees, migrants, stateless. By doing so, they essentially abandon the class question itself. When the left speaks of the working class but it actually means the German, English or French or whatever national working class, then it is not talking about class at all: class and nation, that is maybe the lesson of the 20. Century, do not go together. In the context of the sharpening features of the capitalist crisis, of which the climate catastrophe is the most visible example, a discussion of the questions of citizenship, migration, nationalism and the state remains of utmost importance.

Welcome to Casualties of History, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. We’ll be working our way through EP Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class. In this first episode, Alex and Gabe introduce themselves and cover the book’s preface, as well as outline the context in which it was written. Who was Thompson, and what was he aiming to do in writing this book? Who was he arguing with, and why?Reference is made to secondary literature:Perry Anderson, “Origins of the Present Crisis,” New Left Review 1, no. 23 (Jan-Feb 1964).EP Thompson, “The Peculiarities of the English,” Socialist Register (1965). Thompson, “Time, Work Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism,” Past & Present no. 38 (Dec 1967).Frederick Cooper, “Work, class and empire: An African historian's retrospective on E. P. Thompson,” Social History 20, no. 2 (1995).Geoff Eley, A Crooked Line (University of Michigan, 2006).Madeleine Davis, “Reappraising British socialist humanism,” Journal of Political Ideologies 18, no. 1 (2013). Davis, “Edward Thompson's Ethics and Activism 1956–1963: Reflections on the Political Formation of The Making of the English Working Class,” Contemporary British History 28, no. 4 (2014).

This week's Global Research News Hour commemorates the centenary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, by exploring the overall impact of that event on successive generations of labour and social activists. Our first guest, Leo Panitch speaks to the context and historic significance of the 1919 Strike. In the second half hour, a round table speaks to the legacy of the strike and its meaning for today's solidarity actions and struggles. Professor Panitch is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy at York University, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at York University, and co-editor with Sam Gindin of The Socialist Register. Julie Guard is Professor of Labour Studies and History at the University of Manitoba. John Clarke is a long time organizer with the Toronto-based Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Harold Dyck a long time anti-poverty and welfare advocate based in Winnipeg.

Joining us this week to discuss the socialist challenge today is Leo Panitch, author of many books and long-time editor of the Socialist Register. We begin by discuss the legitimacy crisis in UK politics brought on by the Brexit negotiations and then move to a conversations about the prospects of a Labour Party alternative in Britain that can face down the realities of austerity and neoliberal globalization. Finally, Leo assesses the SYRIZA failures and connects them to the dilemmas that will be faced by UK Labour. Find Leo’s essay “In and Against the State” (co-authored with Sam Gindin) here: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/state-of-change/ The Socialist Challenge Today: SYRIZA, Sanders, Corbyn - https://www.ipgbook.com/the-socialist-challenge-today-products-9780850367409.php?page_id=21 *** Join the Dead Pundits Society today for access to our B-Sides, The Weekly Roundup, and the DPS Book Club, which will be featuring Panitch and Gindin’s The Socialist Challenge Today at: www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** --------------------- Twitter: @deadpundits Soundcloud: @deadpundits Facebook: facebook.com/deadpunditssociety 
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Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 outrage-driven social media news circus and gets to heart of issues, trying to find the substance behind the headlines. This week, Jamieson is joined by James Foley co-author of 'Yes: The radical case for independence' and the article 'In Fear of Populism: Referendums and Neoliberal Democracy' in the journal Socialist Register, to discuss referendums, populism and anti-populism as Britain and Europe are gripped by political crisis. They discuss: - 1:28 What does the Scottish independence referendum era tell us about the nature of referendums, populism and political changes in recent years? - 12:52 How did the Elite/populist dynamic establish itself in the Scottish referendum campaign, and why has this model re-appeared in subsequent referendums and elections? - 26:41 How the Scottish independence referendum outcome taught the Tory leadership the wrong lessons and led them on to losing the EU referendum. - 37:35 The Guardian's special week of coverage on 'populism' would imply that nothing has been understood about the current political situation in the 'centre' of politics.

In this episode, we read "Health, Health Care, and Capitalism" by Colin Leys, published in the Socialist Register, Vol 46, in 2010. Found on pages 7-23 of this PDF: https://bit.ly/2n6UjCz Some topics we cover: Grimes + Musk :(, the individualization of illness, the intersection of wealth and fame, Abdel Omran's theory of the epidemiological transition, and how the profit model makes our medicine and health care worse. This episode was recorded in May 2018.

We're currently in between Season 1 and Season 2, so we've decided to take the opportunity to reproduce the "State Theory and Socialist Strategy Series" from 2017 in a more linear and coherent fashion. Old and new listeners, alike, will benefit from this presentation that will unfold over the next week, which develops a critical analysis of the relationship between the capitalist state and socialist strategy. Joining me this week to talk about corporations and the capitalist state is Steve Maher. Steve is a PhD Candidate at York University and Assistant Editor of the Socialist Register. We discuss the history of American capitalism and the transformations in the corporate structure. This is not merely an academic exercise — these transformations have tremendous impacts on the terrain of struggle for progressives and socialists, alike. Check out some of Steve’s relevant writings here: -“G.E.’s Switch,” www.jacobinmag.com/2017/07/ge-imme…ssion-investors

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We're currently in between Season 1 and Season 2, so we've decided to take the opportunity to reproduce the "State Theory and Socialist Strategy Series" from 2017 in a more linear and coherent fashion. Old and new listeners, alike, will benefit from this presentation that will unfold over the next week, which develops a critical analysis of the relationship between the capitalist state and socialist strategy. Ep. 2 features a discussion from early fall of 2017 on the surge of the UK Labour Party and the pitfalls that they'll face while governing a capitalist state from the left. Joining me this week to talk about the pitfalls of social democracy and the Labour Party’s bid to transform the UK state is Leo Panitch. Leo has been the editor of the Socialist Register for over 35 years, and is the author of many books. We reflect on the role of socialist forces in the capitalist state, the failures of SYRIZA in Greece, and just what kind of force is necessary to usher in socialism for regular-ass people. Check out some of Leo’s books here: -Socialist Register, 2017: Rethinking Revolution (co-edited w/ Greg Albo): monthlyreview.org/product/socialist_register_2017/ -The Making of Global Capitalism (co-authored w/ Sam Gindin): www.amazon.com/Making-Global-Cap…can/dp/1781681368 ***Members of the Dead Pundit Society will have access to. B-side with Leo where we discuss the meaning of being a socialist intellectual and his life on the left. To get access to this subscriber-only content and more, head over to www.patreon.com/deadpundits and subscribe at $5/month today*** ------------------------- Twitter: @deadpundits Soundcloud: @deadpundits Facebook: www.facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Patreon: www.patreon.com/deadpundits

Joining me this week to talk about corporations and the capitalist state is Steve Maher. Steve is a PhD Candidate at York University and Assistant Editor of the Socialist Register. We discuss the history of American capitalism and the transformations in the corporate structure. This is not merely an academic exercise — these transformations have tremendous impacts on the terrain of struggle for progressives and socialists, alike. Check out some of Steve’s relevant writings here: -“G.E.’s Switch,” https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/07/ge-immelt-ceo-finance-capital-new-deal-great-recession-investors

***Head over to patreon.com/deadpundits to listen to this week’s B-Side with Steve Maher. We talk about the contemporary implications of the corporate structure for political organizing. Subscribe at $5/month or higher and get access today*** ————————— Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/deadpundits iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Twitter: @deadpundits Facebook: www.facebook.com/deadpunditssociety Patreon: www.patreon.com/deadpundits

Joining me this week to talk about the pitfalls of social democracy and the Labour Party’s bid to transform the UK state is Leo Panitch. Leo has been the editor of the Socialist Register for over 35 years, and is the author of many books. We reflect on the role of socialist forces in the capitalist state, the failures of SYRIZA in Greece, and just what kind of force is necessary to usher in socialism for regular-ass people. Check out some of Leo’s books here: -Socialist Register, 2017: Rethinking Revolution (co-edited w/ Greg Albo): https://monthlyreview.org/product/socialist_register_2017/ -The Making of Global Capitalism (co-authored w/ Sam Gindin): https://www.amazon.com/Making-Global-Capitalism-Political-American/dp/1781681368


 ***Members of the Dead Pundit Society will have access to. B-side with Leo where we discuss the meaning of being a socialist intellectual and his life on the left. To get access to this subscriber-only content and more, head over to www.patreon.com/deadpundits and subscribe at $5/month today*** —————————— Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/deadpundits iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Twitter: @deadpundits Facebook: www.facebook.com/deadpunditssociety Patreon: www.patreon.com/deadpundits