Inflation and class
Talk to a webinar organised by the Economic Society of Paraguay on ‘Inflation and the crisis of Capital’. English text, Spanish text (without graphics) and slideshow
The Ignominious Birth, Disastrous Life, Questionable Future and Desirable Death of the Lima Group
Presentation to a policy forum of the Green Party of Canada in support of a resolution for Canada to withdraw from the Lima Group and dissolve it. Includes key background documentation including [...]
What is to be Done? Closing plenary speech to the 14th annual conference of the World Association for Political Economy
The third conference of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) was held in Winnipeg in the anniversary year of the Winnipeg General Strike. It was also the 14th annual conference of the [...]
Class, State and Nation. Opening Plenary speech and presentation at the 14th annual conference of the World Association for Political Economy, Winnipeg, 19th july 2019
The third conference of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) was held in Winnipeg in the anniversary year of the Winnipeg General Strike. It was also the 14th annual conference of the [...]
Venezuela and the Setbacks of the Latin American left: What does it all Mean? Alan Freeman interviews Steve Ellner
This interview between Alan Freeman and Steve Ellner, an American scholar who has taught economic history and political science at the Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela, since 1977, appeared in [...]
Regional and Local Social and Economic Development Alternatives: conference in Irkutsk
In September 2018 Sergey Levchenko, the left-wing governor of the region of Irkutsk, organised a conference on Regional and local development, with the assistance of Boris Kakarlitsky. We [...]
The Uncomfortable Question of Class
‘The Uncomfortable Question of Class’. Presented to the conference of the Political Science Association Marxism Specialist Group, Manchester, September 2016. This presaged my later [...]
Calgary Conference of the Humanities: GERG panels on Ukraine and Russia
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG), together with the editors of New Cold War (NCW), organised three panels for the Society for Socialist Studies (SSS). The first was on ‘Russia, [...]
On the Rehabilitation of Communism
‘On the Rehabilitation of Communism’. Text submitted to the Joint conference on Neotraditionalism and Archaisation of Political Space in the Center and Periphery of the World-System: Causes and [...]
The 2015 UK Election – articles in the Winnipeg Free Press
Two articles by Radhika and myself on Cameron’s failed gamble, and the surge in the support for the Scottish National Party
