Leo Panitch

Leo Panitch
Leo Victor Panitch, (born May 3, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy at York University. Since 1985, he has served as co-editor of the Socialist Register, which describes itself as "an annual survey of movements and ideas from the standpoint of the independent new left". Panitch himself sees the Register as playing a major role in developing Marxism's conceptual framework for advancing a democratic, co-operative and egalitarian, socialist alternative to capitalist competition, exploitation and insecurity.
The 50th volume of the Socialist Register is dedicated to the theme of 'registering class' in the light of the spread and deepening of capitalist social relations around the globe. Today's economic...
Health care today is the object of struggle between commercial forces seeking to make it a field of capital accumulation, and popular forces fighting to keep it – or make it –a public service w...
Today the left faces new challenges from political forces amassing on the radical right. The 52nd volume of the Socialist Register presents a serious calibration and a careful political mapping of ...
The antagonism between liberalism and democratic processes is increasingly visible amidst the contradictions of capitalist globalization today. This is seen in authoritarian measures being adopted ...
Since 1964, The Socialist Register has brought together leading writers on the left to investigate aspects of a common theme. Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007 examines ...
This 51st annual Socialist Register completes the investigation of class formation and class strategies on a global scale begun with last year's volume. Deploying an understanding of class as an hi...
This new edition of Renewing Socialism adds an in-depth interview to seven key essays. The interview asks: What impact is American imperialism having on left strategies in various parts of...
Greg Albo, Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin
In this groundbreaking study of the financial meltdown, renowned radical political economists lay bare the roots of the crisis in the inner logic of capitalism itself. Objective and detailed, this ...
Global Capitalism and American Empire
This thoughtful reflection on capitalism, hegemony, and the United States addresses such questions as "What does imperialism mean today? How does the United States influence the rest of the world? ...
This volume of Socialist Register considers trajectories of radical politics in various regions in the face of neoliberal austerity and capitalist crises. It examines the processes at work in the r...

Mary E. John
Mary E. John teaches in the Women's Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Shereen Ratnagar
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Anne Frank
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Wandana Sonalkar
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Satyendra More
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Karl Marx
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Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
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Prakash Karat
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Richard W. Franke
Richard William Franke is an American anthropologist and ethnologist who has written extensively about Kerala.

शंकर दयाल तिवारी
शंकर दयाल तिवारी (1921-1989) जिंदगी भर कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी से जुड़े रहे। वे मार्क्स
G.V. Plekhanov
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918) was a Marxist revolutionary and theoretician.

Praveen Kumar Jha
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