Update: Sept. 7, 2021 The launch for ‘Through Pluripolarity to Socialism: A Manifesto‘ took place September 5, 2021 over Zoom and YouTube live. The Manifesto is an important political initiative which, in view of the multiple crises facing us and the urgency of political action, has been taken following several months of discussion by the …
The Third World Cultural Forum, together with its Second Sub-Forum on Chinese Culture, was held in Weihai on May 29–30, 2021, co-sponsored by the Division of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the Office of Theoretical Research and Construction Project for Marxism (CASS), the Center for Economic and Social Development (CASS), the …
A discussion with award-winning documentarian, Anand Patwardhan on the state of cultural resistance in India. The discussion was moderated by Dipti Gupta, filmmaker and professor at Dawson College in Montreal. The discussion was filmed January 24, 2021. Click here to watch the discussion. Anand Patwardhan is known for his socio-political and human rights-oriented documentary films. His notable films …
The Chris Freeman Centenary Lecture Series – Innovation Systems-101 – is an online lecture series that will take place over Zoom. The series will be starting January 7 and ending April 1 of 2021, with lectures at 2:00-3:00pm GMT. The target audience is budding researchers, grad-students and inter-disciplinarians who aspire to use the analytical frame of Innovation …
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 pandemic has revived for reforming our broken economies, two have dominated. One is the idea of universal basic income and the other is Modern Monetary …
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 Cold War. About this Event SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Medea Benjamin (Co-founder, CODEPINK) Wang Wen (Executive Dean, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China) Qiao …
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 Negri, and Zizek (among others) is a 21st century avatar of the Proudhonism that was a perennial obstacle to developing a broad opposition to capital during the 19th and …
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 14th Forum of the World Association for Political Economy entitled Class, State and Nation in the 21st Century, held in Winnipeg July 19-21, 2019. Videography …
By María Páez Victor, MA, Ph.D. Venezuelan–Canadian sociologist, winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award in Political Economy for the 21st Century, Keynote speech at 14th Forum of the World Association of Political Economy (WAPE), Winnipeg, 20 July 2019 Amidst the cacophony of misinformation about Venezuela there are three key questions that need answers: 1) What …
Originally printed on October 5, 2018 at Classic 107 With the municipal election only weeks away, we thought we’d delve into the role arts and culture plays in civic politics. Alan Freeman is a cultural economist. He was the principal economists with the Greater London Authority for 10 years, and, up until just recently he …