Joining us this week to discuss the socialist challenge today is Leo Panitch, author of many books and long-time editor of the Socialist Register. We begin by discuss the legitimacy crisis in UK politics brought on by the Brexit negotiations and then move to a conversations about the prospects of a Labour Party alternative in Britain that can face down the realities of austerity and neoliberal globalization. Finally, Leo assesses the SYRIZA failures and connects them to the dilemmas that will be faced by UK Labour.

Find Leo’s essay “In and Against the State” (co-authored with Sam Gindin) here: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/state-of-change/

The Socialist Challenge Today: SYRIZA, Sanders, Corbyn - https://www.ipgbook.com/the-socialist-challenge-today-products-9780850367409.php?page_id=21

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