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Leo Panitch

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Leo Panitch is editor of the Socialist Register and distinguished research professor at York University, Canada. He is co-author, with Sam Gindin, of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Verso)

August 2014

  • Brics

    double quotation markThe US still decides the future of capitalism, not the G20, and not the Brics nations

    Leo Panitch
  • Ed Miliband

    double quotation mark‘Responsible capitalism’ is nonsense – the left must offer a real alternative

    Leo Panitch

April 2014

  • Tony Benn pictured in 1979

    double quotation markReviving trade unionism won't be easy, but we need it to fight inequality

    Leo Panitch
    Leo Panitch: If unions are to once again battle runaway capitalism, they and the Labour party will require total transformation

January 2014

  • Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Greek left leaning party SYRIZA

    double quotation markEurope's left has seen how capitalism can bite back

    Leo Panitch
    Leo Panitch: Social democrats wrongly thought the reforms they won were won for good. In Greece, the lesson has been learned by Syriza

October 2013

  • Robert Rubin

    double quotation markThe US shutdown is the latest in this 'dysfunctional' relationship saga

    Leo Panitch
    Leo Panitch: The enduring conflict between Congress and the US treasury merely highlights the centrality of the dollar in the global economy – and the acceptance of an informal empire

July 2013

  • Train crash in Lac Megantic, Quebec, Canada

    double quotation markWhy are Canada's trains vulnerable? Good old capitalist cost-cutting

    Leo Panitch
    Leo Panitch: Canadian trains used to be run by five engineers each, now it's just one. Competition trumped safety, now lives have been lost

June 2013

  • People take part in an anti-austerity pr

    double quotation markEurope's leaders are not for turning on austerity

    Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
    Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin: Those calling for a 21st century Marshall plan do so in hope, as conditions are very different now to the end of WW2

January 2013

  • Tim Geithner

    double quotation markTim Geithner: a legacy of financial failure containment

    Leo Panitch
  • Paul Volcker

    double quotation markThe new American paradox: capital v labour

    Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
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