In collaboration with the Writers’ Union of Canada, East and West Learning Connections are thrilled to have three Italian-Canadian writers as guest speakers to discuss their stories of immigration. Woven into their stories will be the personal, social, historical, and political factors that influence how an Italian immigrant may “become” Canadian and what “being Canadian” … Keep reading »
The Toronto Global Day of Action for Climate Justice is being organized by a coalition of environment and justice organizations and individuals in Toronto. It is timed to coincide with the COP26 (international climate summit) meetings in Glasgow, Scotland, and a worldwide network of actions. Call to Action Justice won’t be handed to us by … Keep reading »
Topic: Northern Peoples' Coalition: Building Community Power Time: Nov 29, 2021 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting at zoom.us. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. How labour and community are uniting together to fight for clean drinking water, internet, housing, … Keep reading »
In this new Organizing for Power series, we look at successful organizing drives and, in conversation with the workers and organizers who led them, get to the heart of what made these campaigns work. In this pilot episode, we meet with workers from the Charité and Vivantes hospital systems in Berlin, Germany, who recently won … Keep reading »
The 58th annual volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge of exploring how the new polarizations relate to the contradictions that underlie them and how far ‘centrist’ politics can continue to contain them. Original essays examine the multiplication of antagonistic national, racial, generational, and other identities in the context of growing economic inequality, … Keep reading »
The Northern Peoples’ Coalition will be hosting three skills-based webinars sessions. A webinar series focused on reclaiming power through labour organizing. Each session will start at 6pm Eastern time and last for 90 minutes. Feb 7: Keep it Public: Why privatization and opening up Ontario for business failed the North? March 7: Northern Ontario: Clean … Keep reading »
Speakers include Greg Albo, Colin Leys, Vishwas Satgar, James Schneider and Bill Fletcher and discussants are Samantha Hargreaves and Awande Buthelezi.
A coalition of progressive Toronto organizations is holding a non-confrontational rally and march on: Sunday, February 20, beginning at 1 pm at Toronto City Hall. A far-right led group has taken over and manipulated the anxieties and concerns of some Canadians to create a deeply troubling situation in our city and our country.
Opening session of the Winter/Spring panels of authors who have presented essays in the current Socialist Register, No. 58.
Join Monthly Review Press and the Socialist Register together with Walden Bello, Jayati Ghosh, and Vishwas Satgar, as they discuss their contributions to New Polarizations, Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism — the final volume of the Socialist Register to have been shaped by the late Leo Panitch. Walden Bello’s crucial perspective on the subject … Keep reading »