Internationally respected linguist and analyst Noam Chomsky and well-known socialist Bill Fletcher, Jr. will be discussing the roots of Russian aggression in Ukraine, the background to the conflict, the US role, and how the Left can respond. This will be live-streamed on YouTube. Organized by Liberation Road, and endorsed by 15 other organizations. PDF poster.

David Harvey: The Double Consciousness of Capital Ilya Matveev, and Oleg Zhuravlev: Social Sources of Political Polariztion in Russia Virgina Fontes, Ana Garcia, and Rejane Hoeveler: The Far Right, Corporate Power, Social Struggle in Brazil DAVID HARVEY is Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the City University of New York. ILYA MATVEEV teaches politics … Keep reading »

VISHWAS SATGUR: Epidemiological Neoliberalism in South Africa In this presentation, Vishwas Satgar sets out the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa as an example of polarized access to medical services shamelessly piled on top of acute polarizations of income and employment and ecological vandalism. But the ANC government’s neoliberal pandemic response, “has also unleashed a cycle … Keep reading »

The Right, Social Movements, and the Ontario Election Democracy in Ontario? Only the naïve and those standing to gain from the political spoils are refusing to concede that electoral democracy is rotten to its core in Ontario. Since the 1990s, the neoliberal policy regime of ‘free markets’, low taxes, cuts to social provisioning, and more … Keep reading »

Join 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 »

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 »

Our 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 »

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 »

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 »