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Assessing an Obama Presidency

Posted by Matthew Brett on November 25th 2008 at 11:56pm

The Left in the US and around the world is celebrating the end of the Bush Presidency. We also celebrate the election of an African-American to the Presidency of what remains a deeply racist country. And what person on the Left does not want ‘change’?

But this all raises many further questions about Obama’s Presidency, elected alongside a more strongly Democratic Congress.

What will their responses be to American militarism and interventions across the Middle East and Asia, and to the Wall Street crisis and bailout? What are the implications for the Left in the US and in Canada? Three of Canada’s leading labour activists and critics of American society address these and other issues.

part 1: Herman Rosenfeld, CAW Retiree, and Labour Studies, McMaster University

part 2: Ajamu Nangwaya, CUPE labour activist and educator

part 3: Abbie Bakan, Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University

http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/AssessingObama.html

Matthew Brett

Matthew Brett is the Canadian Dimension weblog manager. The views expressed on this blog do not necessarily represent his own. Read more by Matthew Brett.

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