Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy
Broadbent Institute
54 episodes
2 weeks ago
In the early 20th century, Montreal was a hotbed of radical thinking on working-class politics and Quebec’s place in Canada. Amidst working-class poverty and the upheaval around the First World War, Olivar Asselin emerged as one of Montreal's most famous journalists who advocated for Quebec's working poor. Named, in-part, after Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar, Asselin foray into the military was more misguided than his namesake's campaigns for liberation, but still establishe...
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In the early 20th century, Montreal was a hotbed of radical thinking on working-class politics and Quebec’s place in Canada. Amidst working-class poverty and the upheaval around the First World War, Olivar Asselin emerged as one of Montreal's most famous journalists who advocated for Quebec's working poor. Named, in-part, after Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar, Asselin foray into the military was more misguided than his namesake's campaigns for liberation, but still establishe...
Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy
1 hour 36 minutes
5 months ago
Neoliberalism's Failure and What the Left Must Do
2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecturer Grace Blakeley sits down with Luke Savage in Toronto, Canada, for a conversation on the failures of neoliberal capitalism, the age of individualism it has produced, and what the left must do if it is to win the working-class. Blakeley and Savage examine how the far-right have taken advantage of the gaps and inequities made under individualism and why organizing is needed to fight for working-class democratic power. Watch the full conversation on YouTube and...
Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy
In the early 20th century, Montreal was a hotbed of radical thinking on working-class politics and Quebec’s place in Canada. Amidst working-class poverty and the upheaval around the First World War, Olivar Asselin emerged as one of Montreal's most famous journalists who advocated for Quebec's working poor. Named, in-part, after Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar, Asselin foray into the military was more misguided than his namesake's campaigns for liberation, but still establishe...
