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).
It’s the radical that is now the only thing truly practical. If we don’t raise our expectations, they will be lowered for us
Bringing together weak unions and weak social movements isnāt enough. We need a new kind of socialist party
Worker ownership and cooperatives will not succeed by competing on capitalismās terms
The struggle against overwork can unite workers and help rebuild the labor movement
In the face of these divisions and frustrations, what if anything might be done to revive and continue Syriza’s struggle against neoliberalism?
As against those on the international left so keen to put the boot in against the Syriza government with the charge that…
The tasks this sets for the Left is the longer term one of winning people over to rejecting capitalism even when it is, on its own terms, functioning āwellā
āEnlightenedā elites wonāt take kindly to undermining capitalismās institutions, so currying their favor is foolhardy
Union activists Bill Fletcher Jr. and Sam Ginden discuss the weakening of the labor movement and what needs to happen next
Jane McAlevey challenges the Left to stop lamenting its disappointments in the working class and address our own failures
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