Leo Panitch

York University

Leo Panitch was a Distinguished Research Professor, renowned political economist, Marxist theorist and editor of the Socialist Register. He received a B.A. (Hons.) from the University of Manitoba in 1967 and a M.Sc.(Hons.) and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1968 and 1974, respectively. He was a Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor at Carleton University between 1972 and 1984. He was a Professor of Political Science at York University since 1984. He was the Chair of the Department of Political Science at York from 1988-1994. He was the General Co-editor of State and Economic Life series, U. of T. Press, from 1979 to 1995 and is the Co-founder and a Board Member of Studies in Political Economy. He was also the author of numerous articles and books dealing with political science including The End of Parliamentary Socialism (1997). He was a member of the Movement for an Independent and Socialist Canada, 1973-1975, the Ottawa Committee for Labour Action, 1975-1984, the Canadian Political Science Association, the Committee of Socialist Studies, the Marxist Institute and the Royal Society of Canada. He was an ardent supporter of the Socialist Project.

The Socialist Register 2022
New Polarizations, Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism
Edited by Greg Albo, Leo Panitch and Colin Leys December 2021
The word “polarization” is on the lips of every commentator today, from mainstream journalists to the left, but the significance of this widely recognized phenomenon needs far more scrutiny than it has had.
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The Socialist Register 2021
Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living
Edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo December 2020
Essays that explore new ways of living with technological change
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The Socialist Challenge Today - New Expanded Edition
Syriza, Corbyn, Sanders
By Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin With Stephen Maher March 2020
In what direction should the left move in the 21st century?
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The Socialist Register 2020
Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living
Edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo November 2019
How can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment?
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The Socialist Register 2019
The World Turned Upside Down?
Edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo December 2018
The latest edition of the Socialist Register explores a range of pressing issues and asks what we can expect from the recent social and political changes occurring across the globe.
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The Socialist Register 2018
Rethinking Democracy
Edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo November 2017
This volume seeks a re-appraisal of actually existing liberal democracy today, but its main goal to help lay the foundations for new visions and practices in the development of socialist democracy. Amidst the contradictions of neoliberal capitalism today, the responsibility to sort out the relationship between socialism and democracy has never been greater.
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The Socialist Register 2017
Rethinking Revolution
Edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo December 2016
What is the meaning of revolution in the twenty-first century?
One hundred years ago, the events of October 1917 inspired socialists and oppressed peoples around the world, and it became an inevitable point of reference for twentieth-century politics. Today the Left needs to both come to terms with this legacy and to transcend it through a critical reappraisal of its broad effects — those positive and negative — on political, intellectual and cultural life.
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The Socialist Register 2016
The Politics of the Right
Edited by Greg Albo and Leo Panitch November 2015
The fifty-second edition in the highly popular Socialist Register series focuses on the political forces and parties of the Right, seeking to shed light on their social base, organizational strength and range and influence on mainstream parties and opinions.
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The Socialist Register 2015
Transforming Classes
By Leo Panitch and Greg Albo November 2014
The latest installment of this longstanding classic publication features works by many of today’s most progressive political theorists. Transforming Classes tackles examines the ways in which class is being transformed in the Global South, the organization of workers in the workplace and community and the myriad forces shaping and reshaping the lives of workers today.
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The Socialist Register 2014
Registering Class
Edited by Greg Albo, Vivek Chibber and Leo Panitch October 2013
The fiftieth volume of the Socialist Register is dedicated to the theme of “registering class,” in light of the spread and deepening of capitalist social relations around the globe. Today’s economic crisis has been deployed to extend the class struggle from above while many resistances have been explicitly cast in terms of class struggles from below.
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