Whose crisis: Capital, state and labour today

Leo Panitch is Canada Research Chair for Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University. He has been editor of The Socialist Register for 25 years and has written extensively on globalisation and theories of the capitalist state and imperialism. His most recent book, with Sam Gindin, The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire, is the product of more than a decade of research, and demonstrates the intimate relationship between modern global capitalism and the American state. In the Lord Dalhousie Room.