Past Events

*** CANCELLED *** Join us for an evening with six of Canada’s most promising young political playwrights. Sadie Berlin, Yolanda Bonnell, Natasha Greenblatt, Daniel Sarah Karasik, Thomas McKechnie, and Darrah Teitel read from their newest work in a performance and discussion framework addressing how their work embraces socialist priorities and how we can embrace them. Timely radical entertainment and conversation. Doors open at 6pm (seating first come, first serve)

*** Cancelled *** We warmly welcome you to join us for the Toronto book launch of Jane McAlevey's new and widely acclaimed A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (HarperCollins, 2020). Jane McAlevey, the iconic American labour organizer, educator, author, political commentator and strategist, gives a rousing and electrifying call to arms and shows us why we must strengthen and defend the only force capable of fighting back against social injustice and the alarming right-wing shift in…

Join us for a leap year night of live music and video! With: Lillian Allen The Rise Up Feminist Jazz Band Honey Novick in tribute to Sophie Tucker Songs of Chilean resistance with Ernesto J. Espinoza, Oriana Barbato, & Pablo Gutiérrez Catherine Phillips Kate Kitchen Thirza Cuthand’s "Woman Dress" Complete lists of RedNights events

A RedTalk with Dr. Clyde Barrow, a leading Marxist state theorist and Professor & Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. A month after Donald Trump took office as 45th President of the United States, his chief political strategist Stephen K. Bannon declared that “the new administration is in an unending battle for deconstruction of the administrative state.” While many commentators have seen the Trump administration’s actions as unhinged, erratic, unpredictable, and…

Slap Shot, the 1977 cult-classic comedy staring Paul Newman, follows a minor-league hockey team struggling to stay afloat in a declining factory town. After the closing of the steel mill, laying off 10,000 workers, the Charlestown Chiefs have to resort to an excessively violent style of play to draw crowds and keep the team from folding. Behind its comedic – and sometimes vulgar – facade, is an interesting exploration of class, violence, sport, and masculinity. Join us at Eyesore cinema for…

We warmly welcome you to join us for the Toronto book launch of Socialist Register 2020 – Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living (edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo). Connecting with and going beyond classical socialist themes, this volume of the Socialist Register combines analysis of the severe contradictions of neoliberal capitalism with plans for new strategic, programmatic, manifesto-oriented directions for alternative ways of living. Fourteen original essays locate such utopian visions and struggles in the dystopian present. Doors open for…

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…