Joining us this week to discuss the socialist challenge today is Leo Panitch, author of many books and long-time editor of the Socialist Register. We begin by discuss the legitimacy crisis in UK politics brought on by the Brexit negotiations and then move to a conversations about the prospects of a Labour Party alternative in Britain that can face down the realities of austerity and neoliberal globalization. Finally, Leo assesses the SYRIZA failures and connects them to the dilemmas that will be faced by UK Labour. 

Find Leo’s essay “In and Against the State” (co-authored with Sam Gindin) here: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/state-of-change/

The Socialist Challenge Today: SYRIZA, Sanders, Corbyn - https://www.ipgbook.com/the-socialist-challenge-today-products-9780850367409.php?page_id=21

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Ep. 80: Corbyn, SYRIZA, Sanders and Beyond w/ Leo Panitch

Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski explain why Walmart and other giant multinational corporations prove the feasibility of large-scale, centrally planned economies, and how the left could use the technology and infrastructure of capital to transform a global economy in service of equality and security for all people.

Michal and Leigh are authors of "The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism" from Verso.

Lessons in socialist economic planning, from Walmart.

January 22, 2020: Former MLA and Alberta Liberal Party leader Dr. David Swann calls for a citizen tax strike as Alberta's oil and gas producers owe $173 million to rural municipalities. Regan Boychuk of the Alberta Liabilities Disclosure Project proposes taking on industry to clean up industry's unfunded environmental liabilities. 
Follow Regan @RKBtoo and Dr. Swann @davidswann, and check out the Alberta Liabilities Disclosure Project at aldpcoalition.com.

NEWSFLASH: Tax Strike! Calls for Resistance as Kenney Lets Oil & Gas off the Hook

Fresh from the birthplace of the CCF! Commentary and analysis on local and provincial politics from a left perspective.
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NEWSFLASH: Tax Strike! Calls for Resistance as Kenney Lets Oil & Gas off the Hook

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