March 2019
Uber-Capitalism: Platform Mobility/Mobilizing Workers
After launching almost a decade ago, the transportation network corporations Uber and Lyft rapidly expanded their operations into cities around the world, disrupting taxi unions, degrading labour rights and diminishing public transit ridership. In this session of The Capitalism Workshop, Bronwyn Frey examines some of the worker organizational strategies emerging within Indonesia’s vast informal transportation sector.
Find out more »From Neo-Liberalism to Neo-Fascism? Reaction across the Americas from Bolsonaro to Trump
Join us for a discussion with a panel of leading international analysts associated with the Socialist Register: Ana Saggario Garcia, Ray Kiely, and Ruth Felder.
Find out more »April 2019
Book launch: The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’ Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
Join us for the Toronto book launch for Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski’s The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’ Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Verso, 2019). Discussants Pam Frache and Sam Gindin.
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