Leo Panitch (1945-2020), Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. Photo courtesy of Socialist Register. Sanjiv Gupta interviewed Leo Panitch in early September 2020. They discussed two issues which Panitch…
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a rally in Birmingham, December 5, 2019 (Flickr). The vilification of the leader of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, as an…
For those of us long enough in the tooth to recall what it was like ‘way back when’, there is sometimes a distinct whiff of something like the old sectarianism…
Photo by Olaf Kosinsky The position of Syriza is unenviable. It has taken power in a country in the grips of economic depression, riven by oligarchic networks and, for now,…
As we enter the eighth year of the long-lingering global economic crisis, it is sobering indeed that it is only in Greece that a political party putting forward a clear,…
This piece was originally published in The Guardian. There are two things you need to know about Tony Benn. The first is that he always saw his primary role, as…
The fireball in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, flashed around the world last week as a very hot news item. Thirty-five people are now confirmed to have been killed, with 15 more still…
The fireball in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, flashed around the world last week as a very hot news item. Thirty-five people are now confirmed to have been killed, with 15 more still…
