Sam Gindin

A panel event on held on Tuesday, 28 January 2014, at Hart House, University of Toronto. Sponsored by the Hart House Social Justice Committee. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists  L. Susan Brown - Author of Does Work Really Work Dave Bush - Rankandfile.ca Neil Fischer - Internationalist Perspective Sam Gindin - Greater Toronto Worker’s Assembly, coauthor of The Making of Global Capitalism [Read More]

A panel held on April 6 2013, at the 2013 Platypus International Convention at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Steven Ashby (University of Illinois Chicago) Sam Gindin(Socialist Project) Andreas Karitzis (SYRIZA) Description The emergence of modernity was accompanied by the emergence of labour, its discontents, and the expression of these discontents. From the late 18th century to the present, these expressions have assumed many and often opposing forms, and these in turn have been absorbed by many and often opposing interpretations. [Read More]

The closing plenary of the 2013 Platypus International Convention, held from April 5–7, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcripted in Platypus Review #58 Panelists Aaron Benanav (Endnotes) Stephen Eric Bronner (Rutgers University) Sam Gindin (Socialist Project) Roger Rashi (Québec solidaire) Richard Rubin (Platypus) Description “Program” and “Utopia” have for well over a century now sat in uneasy tension within the politics of the Left, in tension both with each other and with themselves. [Read More]

A teach-in with Sam Gindin, Packer Chair in Social Justice, York University, held in Toronto on November 29, 2010. Video Recording Video courtesy of Left Streamed Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcript in Platypus Review #35 Description Austerity measures stemming from the global financial crisis threaten to undermine public sector unions and the services they provide. The unions, however, have failed to politicize the crisis along class lines, and by extension, to the Left. [Read More]