Andony Melathopoulos

Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element English Description The politics of anti-austerity remained relatively muted in Canada until the massive Quebec student strike in 2012. While the symbol of the red square seemed to imply solidarity among the strikers, it was frequently unclear what the goals of this movement was beyond protesting tuition fee hikes. For some the strike was about resisting neo-liberalism and the “modèle québécois”, the system of labour legislation, educational reform and public welfare that emerged from the 1960s Quiet Revolution. [Read More]

A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today held on Thursday, 19 January 2012 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Eric Anatolik (Occupy NS) Jacques Beaudoin (Parti communiste revolutionnaire - Revolutionary Communist Party, Canada) Howard Epstein (New Democratic Party MLA Halifax Chebucto) Max Haiven (Edu-Factory, Historical and Critical Studies NSCAD) [Read More]

Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description In the mid-19th century, Marx and Engels famously observed in the Communist Manifesto that a specter was haunting Europe: the specter of Communism. 160 years later, it is Marxism itself that haunts us. In the 21st century, it seems that the Left abandoned Marxism as a path to freedom. But Marx critically intervened in his own moment and emboldened leftists to challenge society; is the Left not tasked with this today? [Read More]