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SUMMARY:Organizing 101
DESCRIPTION:The IWW’s Organizer Training 101 (OT101) is a skill-based training that will teach you how to organize a union at your job\, take action and win better working conditions for you and your coworkers. \nLocation: Toronto\, Ontario\nDate: Saturday and Sunday\, May 23 – 24\nTime: 9am – 5pm  \nThe training consists of two 8 hour sessions. We’ll contact you closer to the date with location details. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. \nTo offset some of the costs associated with this training\, we encourage participants to pay a registration fee of $15. No worker will be turned away for financial hardship\, so please contact us if you can’t make this contribution. \nThe training is being held by the IWW\, the SP is happy to help promote it.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/organizing-101/
LOCATION:Ontario
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SUMMARY:Education Under Siege
DESCRIPTION:Ontario’s higher education sector is at a breaking point. From the systematic marketization of colleges and universities to the sustained attack on labour rights\, the provincial government’s strategy is clear: treat education as a commodity rather than a social good. \nJoin us for a political discussion as we analyze the Ford government’s maneuvers—including the devastating shift from OSAP grants to loans\, the manufactured “international student crisis\,” and the broader austerity agenda threatening social equality. \nWe will explore strategies for a labour and community-led response\, highlighting ongoing student and labour fightbacks and providing a direct opportunity for attendees to plug into the organizing work necessary to defend\, expand\, and decommodify our public institutions. \nThis event is open to all\, especially people who work or study at a college or university. The discussion is a part of the ongoing Higher Education Workers’ campaign of the Socialist Project. If you work at a higher education institution\, we’d love to get you involved in the campaign! \nThis event is being supported by the Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education as a part of its ongoing series of educational discussions on current labour and political struggles.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/education-under-siege/
LOCATION:Friends House\, 60 Lowther Avenue\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 1C7\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260527T190000
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SUMMARY:FilmSocial: Finally Got the News
DESCRIPTION:Finally Got The News is a documentary that shows the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with the members of the movement\, footage shot in the auto plants\, and footage of leafleting and picketing actions\, the film documents their efforts to build an independent black labor organization that will respond to worker’s problems\, such as the assembly line speed-up and inadequate wages faced by both black and white workers in the industry. \nThe film was directed by members of Newsreel\, a radical filmmaking collective formed in New York City in 1967. The filmmakers were drawn to Detroit after hearing about DRUM (Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement)\, a group of revolutionary workers in the main Dodge factory. DRUM had carried out successful strikes and inspired similar groups in other factories. DRUM eventually merged with other groups to form the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. \nWhat makes Finally Got The News distinctive is that it makes explicit the message that it will be the working class that will make and lead the revolution. It was also one of the few films that was made under the direct control of working class black people with the purpose of radicalizing other black workers.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/filmsocial-finally-got-the-news/
LOCATION:Eyesore Cinema\, 1176 Bloor Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6H1N1\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260528T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260528T193000
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2026
DESCRIPTION:Building upon more than a half century of sustained analysis of the evolving political economy of contemporary capitalism – and in particular the challenges it poses to the left – Socialist Register 2026\, Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins puzzles through the rubble left behind after decades of rampant neoliberalism. \n\nWhat kind of world order is now emerging?\nIs capitalism entering a terminal crisis\, or being violently reconstituted?\nHow is American empire being reshaped from Palestine to New York?\nAnd what possibilities remain for socialist politics in an age of ecological breakdown\, geopolitical fracture\, and resurgent authoritarianism?\n\nIbrahim Shikaki\, Costas Lapavitsas and Paul Heideman\, three contributors to this year’s Socialist Register volume\, will consider these and other question in conversation with co-editor Steve Maher and the new editor of Monthly Review Press\, Arun Kundnani. \nThursday May 28th\, 5:30pm at the People’s Forum\, New York. \nLate-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/socreg26/
LOCATION:Ontario
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Confronting the Resurgent Right
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Confronting the Resurgent Right. Scholars and activists take Canada’s 2022 “Freedom Convoy” as a recent manifestation of deep-rooted extremism and provide intersectional commentary on the resurgence of the political right\, demonstrating how its ideology permeates and shapes the structures of our society. \nWith evidence-based research\, and careful analysis of the genesis and methods of the right\, contributors to this volume model pathways of resistance and charge us with our most urgent collective tasks: finding ways to work together\, building coalitions in civil society\, and exposing and countering the regressive forces that spew hate. \nThe evening features a panel discussion about the book’s themes with the editor\, Miriam Edelson\, and contributors Peter Smith\, Tim McCaskell\, Judy Rebick and John Cartwright followed by Q&A.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/booklaunch-confronting-resurgent-right/
LOCATION:Tranzac Club\, 292 Brunswick Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2M7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Open Up 214-230 Sherbourne
DESCRIPTION:214-230 Sherbourne has sat vacant for 18 years. This is a disgrace in a neighbourhood that desperately needs housing. Kingsett Capital\, a multi-billion dollar private equity company\, intends to build yet another luxury condo on the site. \nSocial housing should be created on this land. To drive this home\, right in the middle of the FIFA World Cup\, 230 Fightback is going to march to 214-230 Sherbourne to use the site as a place where local people can gather and watch the match between Qatar and Switzerland at 3.00 PM. \nPlease come out on the day and join us. \nMeet in Allan Gardens (Carlton & Sherbourne) Saturday June 13th at 1pm (Community Lunch Provided) \n230fightback | Reclaim the Game
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/open-214-230-sherbourne/
LOCATION:Ontario
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SUMMARY:Colonialism\, Capitalism\, and Canada
DESCRIPTION:The Leo Panitch School is thrilled to host renowned historian and author\, Bryan Palmer\, for a celebration of his three volume history of Canada\, Capitalism\, and Colonialism!. \nThis monumental work offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada’s past\, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history are tied to the creation of a richly endowed\, wealthy but very unequal first world country. \nCost: Pay what you can\nHow: Registration required \nThe evening will feature remarks from Bryan Palmer\, as well as a panel of celebrated activists\, organizers\, and academics. \nFeel free to bring cash as discounted copies of the books as well as other reading material and merch will be available for purchase! \nFeaturing…\nBryan D. Palmer is the author of Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 (Chicago: Haymarket\, 2014)\, co-author of Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History (Between The Lines\, 2016)\, and a past editor of the journal\, Labour/Le Travail. He is Professor Emeritus\, Trent University\, Peterborough\, Ontario.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/colonialism-capitalism-canada/
LOCATION:College United Church\, 502 Bathurst St\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260621T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260712T170000
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SUMMARY:A Crash Course on Colonialism\, Capitalism\, and the History of Canada
DESCRIPTION:How and why did colonialism develop in the regions that became Canada? What role did capitalism play in the coming of colonialism? What effect did this have on indigenous peoples and in what was the role of anti-colonial struggle?  \nWhat can the history of these and other resistance movements tell us about the possibility of a better future? How did class struggles that challenged capitalism develop? What was their relationship to indigenous opposition to colonialism? \nIn this introductory course\, we will be engaging critically with these and many other aspects of colonialism and Canadian history. The history of colonialism and modern injustice against indigenous people is rightly a motivating issue for many. The structures and systems that led to such monumental injustices must be understood\, especially by those who believe that a fundamentally better world is possible. So\, too\, it is crucial to understand the exploitation and oppression endured by working people as Canada became an advanced capitalist nation state.  \nAll are warmly invited to join us for this special 4-part series\, led by renowned historian\, author\, and professor\, Bryan Palmer. The course will be largely based on Palmer’s recent three volume series examining colonialism\, capitalism\, and the legacy of Canada’s past. For an overview of the series\, please see this excellent interview with Palmer conducted by Adam King of the Maple.  \nEach session will feature a lecture\, followed by discussion and group exercises. No previous knowledge of the subject or formal education required! \nWhen: Sunday afternoons at 2pm: June 21\, June 28\, July 5\, and July 12.\nWhere: Downtown Toronto – Venue to be shared with registrants\nCost: Free – $10/session donation suggested\nHow: Registration required
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/course-colonialism-capitalism/
LOCATION:Ontario
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