The Left After the Crisis

A panel discussion held at Loyola University on April 3, 2014. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Tarek Shalaby (Revolutionary Socialists) Quentin Cyr (Quebec Student Strike) Glauk Tahiri (VETEVENDOSJE! movement) Respondent: Samir Gandesha Moderated by Nathan Smith Description From massive demonstrations by students in the UK and Canada, to square occupations and general strikes in Greece, to the reemergence of Left political currents in Kosovo in response to waves of privatization and austerity, responses to the economic downturn were international in character. [Read More]

Does Marxism Even Matter!?

A teach-in on Capital in History

A teach-in held on September 5, 2013 at Dalhousie University, led by Quentin Cyr. Audio Recording Part One Your browser does not support the audio element Part Two Your browser does not support the audio element Description In the mid-19th century, Marx and Engels observed, in the Communist Manifesto, that a “specter” was haunting Europe “ the specter of Communism. A century and a half later, it is Marxism itself that continues to haunt the Left, while capitalism remains. [Read More]