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).
Deep economic crises violently interrupt daily lives and force more radical responses onto the public agenda. In the case of the North…
At the end of 1979, President Carter offered loan guarantees to Chrysler to prevent the company’s imminent bankruptcy. The loans were conditional…
Over the last quarter century, the left in most of the developed world has been marginalized as a social force. The ‘culture…
In the face of a deteriorating economic climate and concerns about the ‘investment competitiveness’ of Canadian plants, the CAW leadership made a…
In the neoconservative Canada of the late 1990s, the labour movement needs to become more militant, less accommodating to the demands…
In 1978, then United Auto Worker (UAW) President Douglas Fraser, frustrated with corporate America’s new aggressiveness, accused U.S. business of waging a…
There’s something happeningWhat it is ain’t exactly clearBuffalo Springfield, 1966 Are we in the midst of a momentous turn in world politics?…
In the early 80s, the implications of neoliberalism were quickly revealed as the auto majors reversed four decades of steady growth in…
For many of us, it’s hard to get excited about another review of NAFTA’s economic successes or failures. It’s not that such…
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