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The argument for a turn inward begins with the reality that all organizing is ultimately local or domestic
Sam Gindin spent most of his working life (1974-2000) as the research director of and then Assistant to the President of the Canadian Auto Workers. He then led a seminar on Social Justice and Political activism at York (which was also open to community activists). He is currently writing a book with Leo Panitch on the making of global capitalism and active in community-labour education and organizing through the Socialist Project (a group desperately trying to keep socialist ideas alive).
The argument for a turn inward begins with the reality that all organizing is ultimately local or domestic
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