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Toronto — 11 June 2013.
Michalis Spourdalakis is a founding member of Syriza and currently serves on its policy planning committee. Professor of Political Science at Athens University and current chair of the Hellenic Political Science Association, he is also on the Secretariat of Nicos Poulantzas Institute, and a corresponding editor of the Socialist Register. He is the author of many books including The Rise of the Greek Socialist Party and Party of European Socialists: Prospects and Challenges. He is a frequent contributor on Greek politics for The Bullet, and his essay “Left Strategy in the Greek Cauldron: Explaining Syriza's Success” appears in The Socialist Register 2013. Further reading: The Bullet No. 643: “Syriza's Rise.”
Moderated by Leo Panitch.
Toronto — 4 May 2013.
Taking place at New York's Barnard College, the Ecosocialist Conference drew some two hundred activists around the slogan “System Change not Climate Change.” It was endorsed by numerous progressive organizations and individuals in the U.S. and Canada, and featured speakers from a wide spectrum of organizations and perspectives. This day-long conference (April 20th) included workshops on “Race, Gender, and Environmental Justice”; “Agriculture and Food: Sustainable or Profitable?”; “Fossil Fuel Divestment,” and many other topics. The conference aimed to build a more collaborative left that could serve as the radical wing of the green movement and advance a program for “fighting global warming and its chief cause, capitalism.”
Moderated by Greg Albo. Presentations by:
Organized by the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly. For more information on these themes, visit climateandcapitalism.com.
Toronto — 24 April 2013.
Dan Freeman-Maloy talks about the deterioration of Canadian Jewish politics and implications for leftist strategy. The talk also outlines the broader politics of Western Zionism and identifies the relationship between the Palestine question and the rise of budgetary authorities within communal leadership structures. This talk is a follow-up from his earlier April article “70 Years After Warsaw.”
Dan Freeman-Maloy is an activist and writer, currently pursuing a PhD in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter. A recent collection of his writing on Western imperial politics and Palestine (2012) is available in full online.
| LS # | Date | Title | ||
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| 117. | October 30, 2011 | Afghanistan: Ten Years of War and Resistance | ||
| Opening meeting of the Canadian Peace Alliance convention. Featuring: Judith Leblanc, Suraia Sahar and Derrick O'Keefe. Recorded in Toronto, 14 October 2011. | ||||
| 116. | October 16, 2011 | OccupyTO - day 1 | ||
| OccupyTO is a movement that will start on October 15th, 2011 that intends to show our solidarity with the Occupy Wall St. movement and stand in unity with the rest of the world to seek and work towards drastic changes to economic systems that are destroying our economy, social fiber, and environment. | ||||
| 115. | October 10, 2011 | The Failure of Liberal Democracy | ||
| Gaspar Miklos Tamas is one of Hungary's pre-eminent public intellectuals and social critics. Following a lecture (in Montreal) about the failures of liberal democracy as part of his North American speaking tour, he was interviewed by Matthew Brett. | ||||
| 114. | October 2, 2011 | Public Services, Good Jobs and the Ontario Election | ||
| Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and Prime Minister Stephen Harper are cutting, privatizing and contracting out vital public services. The McGuinty Liberals are giving corporations a $2.4-billion annual tax break while cutting jobs and services. And Tim Hudak's Tories plan to start cutting where Mike Harris left off. Labour and community activists discuss the Ontario provincial election, what our communities have at stake, and how we can make a difference. | ||||
| 113. | September 16, 2011 | Stop Ford's Cuts | ||
| The idea is simple: Torontonians meet in the park and lay out a People's Declaration - a clear set of demands to deliver to City Hall. Then we all show up at City Hall on September 26 and 27 to make sure that are these demands are met when council votes on the future of our city. | ||||
| 112. | July 31, 2011 | One World, One Revolution | ||
| New video on Greece and the European Union financial crisis, produced by RealDemocracy.gr. "Welcome to the civilization of fear. Where words have no meaning. It is us or them..." Recorded in Athens, Greece on 28 and 29 June 2011. | ||||
| 111. | July 10, 2011 | The Madison Moment: North American Public Sector Collective Bargaining | ||
| Over the last year or so there have been over 700 attacks in the United States upon public sector collective bargaining. This alarming trend is also finding root in Canada with the elimination of collective bargaining rights. Recorded in Toronto, 23 June 2011. | ||||
| 110. | July 9, 2011 | No TTC Fares on Smog and Heat Alert Days! | ||
| Activists demand action on 'No TTC Fares on Smog and Heat Alert Days'. Recorded in Toronto, 6 July 2011. | ||||
| 109. | July 3, 2011 | Meaning of Maghreb? | ||
| Participants: Slavoj Zizek, Mamdouh Habashi, Samir Amin, David Harvey, Zygmunt Bauman. Moderator: Srecko Horvat. Recorded in Zagreb, Croatia on 18 May 2011. | ||||
| 108. | June 26, 2011 | How Do We Build a Bigger Left? | ||
| With Monique Moisan - a leading member of Québec solidaire; Ritch Whyman; Sam Gindin. Recorded in Toronto, 28 May 2011 - part of the Marxism 2011 conference. | ||||
| 107. | June 19, 2011 | Stop Signs | Mugyenyi, Bianca and Yves Engler | |
| Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay with co-authors Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler. Opening remarks by Jordy Cummings and Rick Salutin. Recorded 12 May 2011 in Toronto. | ||||
| 106. | June 18, 2011 | New York State Is Not Broke | Coates, Andy | |
| Decades of growing income inequality combined with tax cuts for the wealthy and the corporations have needlessly set up the present state budget crises. | ||||
| 105. | June 12, 2011 | Radical Democracy and Popular Power | McNally, David | |
| Thinking About New Socialisms for the 21st Century - with David McNally who teaches Political Science at York University, Toronto and is a long-time activist in socialist and global justice movements. Recorded 5 March 2011, Ottawa. | ||||
| 104. | June 5, 2011 | Democracy and the Public University | Chomsky, Noam | |
| Rebecca Schein in Conversation with Noam Chomsky. Recorded at Carleton University, Ottawa on 8 April, 2011. | ||||
| 103. | May 29, 2011 | Building Solidarity from Palestine to South Africa | Barham, Amjad | |
| This speaking tour is an important opportunity for debate and discussion on the question of how we as trade unionists can stand in solidarity with Palestinians. | ||||
| 102. | May 22, 2011 | May Day 2011 | ||
| A militant celebration of International Workers' Day organized by May 1st Movement and No One Is Illegal-Toronto. Recorded 1 May 2011. | ||||
| 101. | May 15, 2011 | Universities in Crisis | James Turk | |
| What Are The Problems and What Faculty and Students Can Do. Recorded 4 March 2011, Ottawa. | ||||
| 100. | May 8, 2011 | Austerity, Security and Resistance | ||
| George Rigakos, Justin Paulson and Greg Albo discuss issues of austerity and who will pay and who will profit as the transition from rescue to recovery increasingly returns not just to neoliberalism, but a more authoritarian form at that. Recorded at Left Forum in New York City. | ||||
| 99. | April 17, 2011 | From Wisconsin to Toronto Workers Say Enough is Enough! | ||
| Frustrated with your job being referred to as 'gravy'? Angry to see that workers' hard-won gains are being eroded? Want to defend public services and good jobs for all? Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly forum recorded in Toronto, 8 April 2011. | ||||
| 98. | April 10, 2011 | Raise Welfare and Disability Rates, Restore the Special Diet! | ||
| Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and friends and allies marched through the streets of Toronto demanding a raise to the welfare and disability rates, and a restoration of the Special Diet! | ||||
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