Samir Gandesha

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]

A panel held on April 5, 2014 at the Sixth Annual Platypus International Convention at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Chris Cutrone (Platypus) Samir Gandesha (Simon Fraser University) Nikos Malliaris (Lieux Communs) Dimitrios Roussopoulos (Transnational Institute of Social Ecology) Joseph Schwartz (Temple University) Description No coarser insult, no baser defamation, can be thrown against the workers than the remark, ‘Theoretical controversies are for the intellectuals’ [Read More]

A panel held at the Sixth Annual Platypus International Convention on Saturday, April 5 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Samir Gandesha (Simon Fraser University) Nikos Malliaris (Lieux Communs) Charis Papadopoulos (Kokkino-SYRIZA) Description We are the 99% —Occupy Wall Street (2011) The Left must define itself on the level of ideas, conceding that in many instances it will find itself in the minority [Read More]