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Leo Panitch
Leo Victor Panitch (BA Manitoba; MA & PhD London School of Economics; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada) is the Senior Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University. For the past 25 years he has been the co-editor of the internationally renowned annual volume, The Socialist Register. He is currently completing a major book with Sam Gindin entitled The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire, which will be published by Verso in 2012.
Professor Panitch's other books are:
In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives;
American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance ;
Renewing Socialism: Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination ;
From Consent to Coercion: The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms;
The End of Parliamentary Socialism: From New Left to New Labour;
Working Class Politics in Crisis;
Social Democracy and Industrial Militancy;
The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power.
Professor Panitch was for many years a regular on CBC television's Face Off and CBC Radio's Commentary, and is currently a regular on The Real News. In its April/May 2009 issue, Foreign Policy magazine featured his essay on 'Thoroughly Modern Marx' on its front cover.
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