Join us on Wednesday, October 28, for a first of its kind session of CUPE School, with multiple guests sharing their experience, vision, and action in higher-education organizing as both students and workers face funding crises, OSAP cuts, tuition increases, and employers who refuse to pay their workers a dignified wage. You will hear from … Keep reading »

Our first Speaker Series event, Learning from the Prairie School, features Barb Byers, with commentary from Donna Smith. The Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) at York University in Toronto, Canada, in partnership with the SSHRC-funded Re-Imagining Workers’ Education in the 21st Century project, is launching a new virtual Speaker Series on workers’ education. The broader … Keep reading »

Since its inception, Canadian healthcare has provided the vast majority of Canadians with medical services free at the point of care and provided by both public and private actors. However, this system has long faced compounding challenges, including: cost-containment, chronic health human resource shortages, prolonged wait times and the rise of “hallway medicine,” and systemic … Keep reading »

Unions and social movements today are operating under incredibly dire circumstances. There is great economic uncertainty and we confront the worsening impact of climate change as well as a global situation marked by the growing threat of conflict and war. When workers strike or communities under attack take to the streets, it seems that victories … Keep reading »

Please join us for the launch of the soft-cover version of John Riddell's Lenin's Comintern Revisited (Haymarket Books), and discuss lessons from the period of the Communist International for today's movements and struggles. The Communist International (or ‘Comintern’) was launched in 1919 to promote worldwide extension of the 1917 workers’ and peasants’ revolution in Russia. … Keep reading »

Join authors Matt McManus in conversation with Luke Savage for an Author Social. Liberalism and socialism have long been understood as mortal enemies, but both developed out of the Enlightenment and are committed to the importance of reason, freedom, and flourishing for all. In What is Liberal Socialism? McManus makes the case for retrieving a … Keep reading »

Celebrating Dissent: 60 Years of Socialist Study As scholars, activists, and community members on the left, we tend – rightly – to observe and organize against the destructive operations of capital, bourgeois/colonial states, and other forms of domination. Yet, while there remains much to struggle against, we can see what historic struggles have produced: an … Keep reading »