September 2019
Poetry Night w/Giovanna Riccio and Alvin Wong
Toronto’s most diverse and brave poetry reading and open mic series. Featured poets are Giovanna Riccio and Alvin Wong.
Find out more »Beyond NAFTA and CUSMA. Democracy Not Corporatocracy
The Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) falls short of any real alternative, rather it follows a long line of neoliberal liberal trade agreements that have little to do with trade and everything to do with facilitating profit generation for multinational corporations.
Find out more »The Use and Abuse of Identity in Public Life
We welcome you to attend a special session of SP RedTalks with Samir Gandesha! The question of identity has become urgent for activism in the West though the issue has been important in many other parts of the world as well in a variety of forms. Political Identities form in opposition to oppression (or, reactively, as perceived victimization) and demand recognition, rights, and equity (or aggressively promote their denial). They also divide, become separated in privilege, get co-opted, and…
Find out more »Take the Plant, Save the Planet: Creating Good Jobs, Making Sustainable Products, Challenging Climate Change
Make Public Ownership of the Oshawa Plant an Election Issue. Support Green Jobs Oshawa.
Find out more »October 2019
Change and Continuity – Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium
The Global Labour Speaker Series is pleased to host the book launch of Change and Continuity – Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium. With Dr. Mark Thomas, Dr. Leah Vosko, Dr. Carlo Fanelli, and Olena Lyubchenko.
Find out more »November 2019
Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism
Join us for the Toronto book launch for Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen, James Steinhoff's Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism (Pluto, 2019). An exploration of the relationship between Marxist theory and Artificial Intelligence! Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have anticipated. Contemporary machine-learning AI allows machines to increasingly approach human capacities for…
Find out more »February 2020
Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada
Join us for the Toronto book launch for Barry Eidlin's Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018) . The comprehensive and systematic assessment ever of explanations for US union decline! The most comprehensive and systematic assessment ever of explanations for US union decline! Presentation by and Q&A with author. Why are unions weaker in the US than in Canada, two otherwise similar countries? This difference has shaped politics, policy, and levels of inequality.…
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