What is Leo Panitch?
[[File:TWT 2018 - Leo Panitch (43113266570) (cropped).jpg|200px|thumb|Leo Panitch in 2018.]] '''Leo Victor Panitch''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC}} (3 May 1945 – 19 December 2020) was a Canadian philosopher, editor and political scientist. He was a professor at [[York University]]. Starting in 1985, he was co-editor of the ''[[Socialist Register]]''. Panitch was born in [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]]. He was a supporter of [[Marxism]]. Panitch died on 19 December 2020 at a hospital in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] from [[pneumonia]] caused by [[COVID-19]] and [[multiple myeloma]], aged 75.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lethabo |title=Research Professor Leo Panitch Has Passed Away |url=https://www.latestnewssouthafrica.com/2020/12/20/leo-panitch-has-passed-away/ |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=Latest News South Africa |date=20 December 2020 |archive-date=20 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201220131510/https://www.latestnewssouthafrica.com/2020/12/20/leo-panitch-has-passed-away/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Works== * ''The Socialist Challenge Today'' (co-authored with Sam Gindin), Merlin Press: 2018 * ''The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire'' (co-authored with Sam Gindin), Verso: 2012 * ''In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives'' (co-authored with Greg Albo and Sam Gindin), PM Press: 2010 * ''Renewing Socialism: Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination'', Merlin Press: 2008 * ''From Consent to Coercion: The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms'' (co-authored with Donald Swartz), University of Toronto Press: 2003 * ''The End of Parliamentary Socialism: From New Left to New Labour'' (2nd edition) (co-authored with Colin Leys), Verso: 2001 * ''Working Class Politics in Crisis: Essays on Labour and the State'', Verso: 1986 * ''The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power'', University of Toronto Press: 1977 ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Panitch, Leo}} [[Category:1945 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[