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Obama Joins Club of the Super-Rich – Defends Global Capitalism in Lecture (1/2)
TheRealNews on Jul 29, 2018
Prof. Leo Panitch and Paul Jay discuss Obama’s Mandela lecture; Obama wants the impossible – a world where the super-rich give up “a little” and there is no massive inequality.
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The Radical Ferment of Winnipeg’s Jewish Socialist Politics – Leo Panitch on RAI (1/4)
TheRealNews on Mar 5, 2018
On Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Leo Panitch talks about the political culture of his family, shaped in Winnipeg’s radical Jewish community before and after World War Two; Labor Zionists, Social Democrats and Communists debated and organized within the Jewish working class movement – with host Paul Jay. Continue reading
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with Chris Hedges and Leo Panitch
teleSUR English on Sep 14, 2015
In this episode of Days of Revolt, host Chris Hedges continues his conversation on global neoliberalism with author and professor Leo Panitch. They name its beneficiaries, the global financial elite; as well as its victims particularly, the people of Greece. Together, they examine how to bring about revolutionary change in the face of imposed austerity and political suppression. teleSUR
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with Chris Hedges and Leo Panitch
teleSUR English on Sep 7, 2015
In this episode of Days of Revolt, host Chris Hedges sits down with author and professor Leo Panitch to examine the genesis of global imperialism and capitalism. The two discuss how both are upheld by economic and cultural forces, and debate the roles of ignorance, myth, and malintent in the perpetuation of systems of inequality. teleSUR
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LeftStreamed·Feb 9, 2013
Moderated by Leo Panitch. Presentations by Joan Sangster and Meg Luxton: “Feminism, co-optation and the problems of amnesia: a response to Nancy Fraser.” Recorded in Toronto 31 January 2013.
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Apr 30, 2012 by TheRealNews
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin: Occupiers and union activists should build class organizations that challenge for power.
with Chris Hedges
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August 10, 2011
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CapitalismCrisis on Aug 9, 2011 Continue reading
Austerity in Greece Meant to Break Workers’ Resistance
TheRealNews on Jun 14, 2011
Leo Panitch: Greece will default on its debt, banks want to make Greek people pay a heavy price
Panitch: Marx’s theories are seeing new light as the debate over bank nationalization continues
Leo Panitch: Marx was a realist; the real romantics think you can have capitalism without great crisis. Pt 1
Leo Panitch, economist and Professor at York University, talks to Paul Jay about the relevance of Marxist theories in studying today’s global economy. Panitch discusses the ideological crisis of the free market theory and notes that at this time “Marx would not be offering policy advice to governments about what is to be done in the face of this crisis; he would tell people to overcome their social isolation, form new collective organizations and identities, and make a social revolution.”
The roots and remedies of the financial crisis
Leo Panitch: It’s time to make banking a public utility Pt 4/5
At almost $1 trillion, and counting, the Wall Street bailout will cost taxpayers as much as the Iraq war. Barack Obama squandered the chance to lead with an alternative plan to the Wall Street bailout. Instead both Obama and McCain pushed for a plan that’s not only deeply unpopular but potentially as costly as a new Iraq war.
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