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1 Article by:
Sam Gindin
Sam Gindin spent most of his working life as research director for the Canadian Autoworkers (now unifor) and is the co-author, with Leo Panitch, of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire and The Socialist Challenge: Syriza, Sanders, and Corbyn.
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