A talk with Radhika Desai, Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba, and discussants Yasin Kaya in Toronto and Gary Porter in Victoria, B.C. Among the many ideas the …
What is to be done? A Manifesto for Politics amid the Pandemic and Beyond
This is a a seven-part, multi-week series of commentary on the COVID-19 crisis for Canadian Dimension by Radhika Desai, Professor of Political Studies and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba. Read the most recent instalment, “The fate of capitalism hangs in the balance of international power,” here.
In this international meeting convened by No Cold War, leading analysts from China, the US, Britain, India, Venezuela, Canada and Brazil come together to discuss how to counter the New …
In this talk, co-hosted by the Marxist Education Project and the Geopolitical Economy Research Group, Radhika Desai argues that the new communism of the commons propounded by Badiou, Hardt and …
An old drug may treat the new coronavirus By Colin Gillespie For those concerned about the new coronavirus—these days who isn’t?—good news may be just around the corner. Here’s what …
In the 20th Century, Guatemala has been defined by a series of military dictatorships punctuated by attempts at social, agrarian and political reform. 2020 Brown Bag Lecture Series The Guatemala …
Much has changed over the last three decades since George H. W. Bush’s call for a so-called “New World Order”. US leadership in the post–Cold War era has not only …
Since October 2006, the Brown Bag is a luncheon seminar series held on designated Fridays during the regular sessions from 12:00 pm – 12:55 pm in the Mauro Institute Boardroom, …
The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike was followed with great interest by people around the world, says Dr. Bryan Palmer, Professor Emeritus at Trent University. Professor Palmer was speaking at the …