{"id":1064,"date":"2011-03-15T11:20:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T11:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nearpodcast.org\/pcast\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2011-03-15T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T11:20:27","slug":"the-irish-economy-a-leftwing-perspective-from-leo-panitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"The Irish Economy &#8211; A leftwing perspective from Leo Panitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Tsunami that hit the Irish economy, an analysis of the causes and consequences from a Marxist perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Leo Panitch is the author of many books and articles and is a  Distinguished Research Professor at York University. He speaks with  Pirooz Dameshmandi for Global Solidarity and explains why the net effect  of so-called austerity programmes is to create the bankers\u2019 Europe \u2013  predicted by opponents of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>He is critical of much of the democratic left for a lack of  ambition, which has been more debilitating than its lack of capacity in  the current global economic crisis.  He outlines to Pirooz the kinds of  immediate demands for radical reforms as well as longer term socialist  strategic orientation that is needed today.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Panitch\">WikiPanitch<\/a> <\/dt>\n<dd>\n<\/dd>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishleftreview.org\/2010\/11\/30\/leo-panitch-interview-ireland-bankers-europe\/\">Irish Left Review<\/a> <\/dt>\n<dd>\n<\/dd>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marxists.org\/archive\/miliband\/biog\/panitch.htm\">Tribute to Ralph Miliband<\/a> <\/dt>\n<dd>\n<\/dd>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistproject.ca\/bullet\/bullet080.html\">Socialist project<\/a> <\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1112\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/podcast\/audio\/podcast-2011-03-13-45938.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1112','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/podcast\/audio\/podcast-2011-03-13-45938.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/podcast\/audio\/podcast-2011-03-13-45938.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=1064-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/podcast\/audio\/podcast-2011-03-13-45938.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"podcast-2011-03-13-45938.mp3\">Download<\/a> ()<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Tsunami that hit the Irish economy, an analysis of the causes and consequences from a Marxist perspective. Leo Panitch is the author of many books and articles and is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University. He speaks with Pirooz Dameshmandi for Global Solidarity and explains why the net effect of so-called austerity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1113\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/podcast\/audio\/podcast-2011-03-13-45938.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1113','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/podcast\/audio\/podcast-2011-03-13-45938.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/podcast\/audio\/podcast-2011-03-13-45938.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=1064-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/podcast\/audio\/podcast-2011-03-13-45938.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"podcast-2011-03-13-45938.mp3\">Download<\/a> ()<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2432],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pirooz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}