TSSA Safety Inspector’s Rally
Ministry of Labour 400 University, Toronto, OntarioJoin OPSEU at information pickets and rallies across Ontario to demand a fair deal for TSSA Safety Inspectors! What: TSSA Safety Inspector's Rally When: Monday, October 3 @ 12:00 Noon Where: 400 University Ave – In front of the Ministry of Labour building Speakers at the rally include Carolyn Egan, President, Steelworkers’ Toronto Area Council, … Keep reading »
Democratic Socialism and Civilizational Crisis Conference (Vancouver)
The conference will consider what role democratic socialism could have in addressing our current situation. Environmental crisis, climate emergency, pandemics, neofascism, unjust and destabilizing inequalities, and the escalating threat of nuclear war pose existential challenges to global civilization. It seems clear that that the gaps between party politics, social movements and intellectual life have widened, … Keep reading »
History, Theory and Politics: On Uno Kozo’s Theory of Crisis
519 Kaneff Tower, York University Toronto, Ontario, CanadaOur lives are now besieged by all crises, from inflation, incoming recession, and deadly migration from the Global South to the advance of the far-right and apocalyptic climate disaster. In what ways capital, industrial or financial, is at the heart of these variegated crises? Which is the weakest link to be broken to put an … Keep reading »
Hospital Emergency Town Hall Meetings in Ontario
All across Ontario people have banded together for a century or more to build up our local public hospitals. Many have volunteered, fundraised and donated from their pay cheques because these are vital services for our communities. The Ford government’s plan would dismantle our local public hospitals, taking the profitable services out to for-profit corporations, robbing them … Keep reading »
Reinventing Work with Mike Yates
The Socialist Project is proud to present Reinventing Work, a launch event for Work, Work, Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle, the insightful new book by Mike Yates. Please join us for this special online event, featuring a presentation from Mike on the book’s perspective and its relevance to today's moment, as well as opportunities … Keep reading »
Book Launch: Worlds at Stake
Queen Books 914 Queen St E, TorontoJoin Fernwood Publishing and Queen Books for the launch of Worlds At Stake by Aaron Saad, in conversation with Lana Goldberg. This venue is wheelchair accessible. Light refreshments will be served and masks are strongly encouraged. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Aaron Saad is a writer and professor focusing on the politics of climate justice and the … Keep reading »
Peace Initiatives
Demonstrations, conferences, grassroots activities and other organized by peace organizations in Europe to stop the war and build the peace. Across Europe, 24 - 26 February, 2023.
Carceral Food Systems Summit
Bridging Food Justice and Prisoner Justice A two-day gathering bringing people together to connect and learn the ways in which food and carceral systems interconnect. On March 31st and April 1st, Carceral Food Systems is hosting a gathering to bring together individuals and organizations working within food justice and prisoner justice contexts and spaces. We … Keep reading »
Resurgence of the Mexican Labour Movement
519 Kaneff Tower, York University Toronto, Ontario, CanadaOver the past year, thousands of workers in factories across Mexico producing goods for multinational corporations from GM to 3M, have joined or formed independent unions, displacing the old pro-employer “protection contract” unions. These struggles have emerged in the context of important changes to Mexican labour law and mechanisms in the new CUSMA/T-MEC/USMCA that penalize … Keep reading »
FilmSocial Presents: BACURAU
Eyesore Cinema 1176 Bloor Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada“Bacurau, a settlement in rural Brazil, is shaken by its matriarch’s death. But something strange is happening, the water supply has been cut off, and the village has disappeared from satellite maps completely. Under threat from an unknown enemy, Bacurau braces itself for a brutal fight for survival.” The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education … Keep reading »