FilmSocial Presents: Soylent Green
Eyesore Cinema 1176 Bloor Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaFilmSocial 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 … Keep reading »
Winter Social
East of Brunswick Pub and Kitchen 720 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, CanadaJoin friends and old, new and emerging comrades for some winter social and cheer!
Protest for Green Jobs in Oshawa
GM Oshawa Park Rd South and Malaga Rd, Oshawa, Ontario, CanadaWe Build it, We Own It: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations! Rally at outside the (soon to be former) GM Oshawa facility.
Book Launch: Socialist Register 2020: Beyond Market Dystopia, New Ways of Living
Lula Lounge 1585 Dundas St West, Toronto, ON, CanadaWe 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 … Keep reading »
RedNights presents: Socialist Feminist Cabaret 2020
The Supermarket 268 Augusta Avenue (Kensington Market), Toronto, CanadaJoin 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
Book launch: Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left
2020 has seen an amplified struggle against the right and capitalism generally. This volume suggests it is essential to rethink longstanding assumptions, jettison wishful thinking and dated ideas, and recover wisdom from the past. The authors of Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left put forward a range of approaches to help strategize the work that … Keep reading »
Pension fund capitalism and the campaign to “Make Revera Public”
We welcome you to join us for Pension fund capitalism and the campaign to “Make Revera Public,” a public talk by Kevin Skerrett, co-editor of The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism (Cornell University Press, 2018), Senior Research Officer assigned to pensions for CUPE, and a visiting professor at Carleton University’s Institute of Political Economy. The … Keep reading »
Book Launch: The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain
Join us on Tuesday November 10th for the launch of The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice From Gold Mountain (Talon Books, 2020), with editor and author David McIlwraith, as well as Judy Fong Bates and other guests. The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice From Gold Mountain is the only known first-person account from a … Keep reading »
Pension Fund Capitalism and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Canada: A Socialist Perspective
How did Long-Term Care – a vital component of the healthcare system – become so privatized, within a system that is so widely and proudly viewed as public? This talk will examine the class politics of pension fund investment into for-profit Long-Term Care as a disturbing example of the commodification of social reproduction.
UK Launch of The Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism
The UK launch of The Socialist Register 2021 with Grace Blakeley, Leo Panitch, Ursula Huws, John McDonnell and many more.