January 2020
Book Launch: On This Patch of Grass
Join us for a discussion of On This Patch of Grass: City Parks and Occupied Land (Fernwood Press, 2019), with author Matt Hern, and respondent Cheryl Teelucksingh (Ryerson University) and Andrea Bastien (Indigenous Climate Action and the Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle) Description Parks are importantly fertile places to talk about land. Whether its big national parks, provincial campgrounds, isolated conservation areas, destination parks, or humble urban patches of grass, we tend to speak of parks as unqualified goods. People think…
Find out more »December 2019
Protest for Green Jobs in Oshawa
We Build it, We Own It: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations! Rally at outside the (soon to be former) GM Oshawa facility.
Find out more »Winter Social
Join friends and old, new and emerging comrades for some winter social and cheer!
Find out more »The British Election and Political Crisis: Corbyn versus Johnson
Having recently returned from canvassing in the British election in Yorkshire and London (and after earlier attending the Labour Party Conference and speaking at The World Transformed, Momentum and UnIte the Union events), Leo Panitch will address the strategic orientations, pitfalls and dilemmas faced by the Jeremy Corbyn leadership of the Labour Party in attempting to dislodge the Conservative Party government led by Boris Johnson. Britain goes to the polls on December 12, bringing the political crisis over Brexit to…
Find out more »Toronto Airport Workers’ Council
Pearson Airport Workers Organize to Confront Neoliberalism Contract flipping, dangerous work, tens of thousands working for over 400 companies in a highly competitive environment. The Toronto Airport Workers' Council is at the frontlines of the struggle. Meet and learn from key organizers about how TAWC is transforming the lives of workers at Pearson and inspiring similar workers' organizations for grassroots empowerment. Pearson International Airport is Canada's largest workplace with over 50,000 workers on the front lines of neoliberalism's globalization of…
Find out more »November 2019
FilmSocial Presents: Soylent Green
FilmSocial screens the dystopian cult classic Soylent Green. Saturday, November 30th @ 7:30pm at Eyesore Cinema (1176 Bloor, back room). Soylent Green (1973) brings us to New York in the year 2022. Rising global temperatures combined with food and water shortages only serve to exacerbate capitalism's pathological excess. Charlton Heston stars in this classic sci-fi/police procedural where the characters must navigate a world marked by deep class division, corporate control over valuable resources, police corruption, and the overall monetization of fear…
Find out more »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 »Sister Writes: The Work Issue
Sister Writes: The Work Issue is a participatory research creation project that illuminates the hidden experiences of women working in Toronto's services industries. From hotel staff to restaurant servers, nannies to retail workers, women in Toronto's service industry perform essential work. But their experiences -- and the challenges they face due to the devaluation of women's labour -- often go unspoken. We wanted to change that. Over the past year, Sister Writes mounted free creative writing workshops in downtown Toronto, where women worked with professional authors…
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 »The British Political Crisis: Johnson Versus Corbyn
Having recently returned from the Labour Party Conference (and speaking there at The World Transformed, Momentum and Unite the Union events), followed by his first hand observations of working class support for Brexit in the former mining communities of Yorkshire, Leo Panitch will address the strategic orientations, pitfalls and dilemmas of the left under Jeremy Corbyn leadership as the political crisis over Brexit in the UK comes to a head. Leo Panitch is emeritus professor of Political Science at York University and…
Find out more »The Election
In 2015, a group of theatre artists signed up to the Canadian Federal Election as volunteers for three major political parties and documented their interactions. Exploring the realities of Indigenous, Settler and Newcomer experiences with the political process, The Election sparks urgent dialogue just as Canadians take another swing at the ballot box. With a live vocal score, this play asks: Do we have a voice and does that voice count? Tickets at www.passemuraille.ca.
Find out more »Oshawa: A History of Local 222
This exhibition presents the photo series Oshawa: A History of Local 222 (1982-83), a comprehensive body of work that traces the history of the autoworkers union in Oshawa from its formation in 1937 through to the mid-1980s.
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