Perpsective on Revolutions post 1917

This week, as part of the Global Research News Hour's special summer series, we air two talks from the University of Manitoba Geopolitical Economy Research Group's 2017 Revolutions Conference. Writer, trade union activist, self-described socialist, and editor of the site newcoldwar.org speaks on some of the mis-conceptions about the Russian revolution that have served to divide the Left 100 years later. He brings up the need for new class alliances to address climate change, and the role of revolution in resisting imperialist domination. Economist and Co-director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group Alan Freeman speaks on the subject of Parties of Revolution, assessing the extent to which political parties create revolutions and the extent to which revolutions create political parties.