States and Nations

Talk to the United National Antiwar Coalition webinar on ‘Where is the War in Ukraine Going, and What should be the Response of the Peace Movement?’

I was asked four questions by the ‘Thinkers Forum’, a China-based think tank originating in Guangcha. This post contains the questions, the slideshow that accompanies my presentation and a link [...]

Presentation to the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) on ‘Rethinking Economic Analysis: Perspective of Political Economy’, Shanghai International Studies University, China

This is the first organised presentation of my theses on Columbian myth system as the organising principle of the Collective West. It argues that there is a continuity in imperialism dating back [...]

My presentation to the 30th August 2021 ASSIST seminar organised by Mammo Muchie

A letter, which was not published by the Globe and Mail, questioning its Ukraine coverage in an article by Mark McKinnon in which condoned the shelling of the people of the Donetsk Republic by [...]

This unpublished article was written for discussion among the editors of [Canadian Dimension] and addressed the question ‘What can the left do to advance the cause of Human Rights [...]

Online presentation to a conference organised by Kocaeli University. This slideshow is a version of the more definitive talk given to Beijing Sports University.

The text below is the translation, into English, of questions posed to a number of economists, together with my responses, in an interview conducted by Ascanio Bernardeschi and published in the [...]

This is the English text of my chapter for the jointly authored book by Sergey Bodrunov, Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman. It deals with the role of the state in the management of creative labour [...]