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SUMMARY:Poetry Night w/Giovanna Riccio and Alvin Wong
DESCRIPTION:Toronto’s most diverse and brave poetry reading and open mic series. \nAt Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity to happen: we actively invite it. \nFeatured poets: Giovanna Riccio and Alvin Wong\nHosts: Bänoo Zan and Terese Pierre \nGiovanna Riccio immigrated from Calabria\, Italy to Canada at the age of 6.  A graduate of the University of Toronto\, she majored in philosophy.  She is the author of Vittorio (Lyricalmyrical\, 2010)\, Strong Bread (Quattro Books\, 2011) and Plastic’s Republic (Guernica Editions\, 2019). Her poems have appeared in numerous national and international publications as well as various anthologies\, the most recent being Dis(s)ent\, Heartwood and A Filo Doppio\, (Donzelli Editore\, Rome). Translations of her work have been published in Italian\, Spanish\, French and Romanian.  She regularly participates in literary events  and has performed at Blue Met\, The Edinburgh Fringe and the University of Calabria Italian Diaspora Conference to name a few. \nAlvin Wong is the senior editor of Inspiritus Press. He has poems published in Half a Grapefruit Magazine and Temz Review along with a short story in Ricepaper magazine. He co-authoured a chapbook with Stanford Cheung\, We Could be Anything from Crevasse Press in Ibaraki\, Japan. \nJPG poster
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/poetry-night-w-giovanna-riccio-and-alvin-wong/
LOCATION:Tranzac Club\, 292 Brunswick Ave\, Toronto\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190919T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190919T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
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SUMMARY:The 1919 Winnipeg Strike
DESCRIPTION:The Story of Jewish Involvement in the 1919 Winnipeg Strike\, with Roz Usiskin and Harriet Zaidman. Leo Panitch of The Socialist Project will moderate. \n\nRoz Usiskin was the first president of the Jewish Heritage Society of Western Canada and a past president of UJPO-Winnipeg. Her father\, Joseph Wolodarsky\, was a strike participant. Usiskin published two books of her father’s letters that she translated from Yiddish. Her father had written “…someday\, the historian may look into my archives as a record of our history.”\nHarriet Zaidman is a UJPO-Winnipeg member and author of the novel\, “City on Strike\,” based on the events in 1919. Her family was greatly affected by the strike. Copies of this book will be available at the event. Zaidman is also author of two children’s books\, Daisy’s Biggest Success\, and Sherman and the Sheep Shape Contest.\nLeo Panitch is a professor of political science at York University and the co-editor of the Socialist Register. He is co-author\, with Sam Gindin\, of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire.\n\nPDF poster
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/the-1919-winnipeg-strike/
LOCATION:UJPO\, 585 Cranbrooke Avenue\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6A 2X9\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190514T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190514T230000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20190406T015236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190411T142047Z
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SUMMARY:General Strike: Cabaret 1919
DESCRIPTION:An exciting cabaret evening of theatre\, music and poetry on the centenary of the Winnipeg General Strike will celebrate its historical importance and enduring relevance to a diverse range of contemporary struggles. \nFEATURING \nRemembering the Winnipeg General an original play by Thomas McKechnie\, performed by Heather Marie Annis and Ximena Huizi\, directed by Erin Branderburg\, with original music composed by Kristine Schmitt. In the play\, the events of the 1919 strike are a springboard to examine the modern political moment. \nToronto 1919\, an original play written by Craig Heron and performed by the Toronto Workers History Project Theatre Group. This play returns to the exciting weeks of May 1919\, when Toronto workers organized a general strike in support of the eight hour day. \nMohammad Ali\, the socialist hip-hop artist\, performing ‘Solidarity Forever’ from his new album Labour of Love\, a hard-hitting selection of worker’s anthems. \nGeorge Elliot Clarke and Giovanna Riccio\, Canada’s celebrated revolutionary poets\, present powerful original works especially written for this occasion. \nThe Afro-Metis Nation\, a trio of Black and Indigenous musicians\, perform songs celebrating the melding of heritage and struggle. \n1919\, a short experimental fictional film directed by Noam Gonick about a group of gay men who frequent a Chinese bathhouse\, which just happens to be headquarters of the Winnipeg General Strike. \nHoney Novick\, a Toronto singer and songwriter – and the daughter of the last milkman in the city to do house deliveries with a horse and wagon – will make Joe Hill ‘alive as you and me’. \nMike Katz & Rick Pearson\, a popular Ontario guitar folk duo\, pay raucous musical tribute to Union Maids. \nZing! Zing! Zing! – the participatory singing choir of the United Jewish People’s Order – will bring down the house by leading the audience in a multilingual rendition of the Internationale. \n— \nProduced by the Cultural Committee of the Socialist Project and the Centre for Social Justice\, and co-presented by The Toronto Workers History Project and Mayworks 2019.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/general-strike-cabaret-1919/
LOCATION:Tranzac Club\, 292 Brunswick Ave\, Toronto\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190321T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190321T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20190225T214435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190316T202237Z
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SUMMARY:Uber-Capitalism: Platform Mobility/Mobilizing Workers
DESCRIPTION:After launching almost a decade ago\, the transportation network corporations Uber and Lyft rapidly expanded their operations into cities around the world\, disrupting taxi unions\, degrading labour rights and diminishing public transit ridership. While “uber-capitalism” was incubated in the USA\, the global system’s technological-core\, ride-hailing corporations are emerging around the world\, and workers from New York City to Jakarta are organizing to challenge their deleterious social effects. \nIn this session of The Capitalism Workshop\, Bronwyn Frey examines some of the worker organizational strategies emerging within Indonesia’s vast informal transportation sector\, where precarity is longstanding and perhaps less exceptional than in the West. Frey highlights how motorcycle taxi (ojek) drivers in the city of Bandung are collectively responding to the precarious platform labour regime of Go-Jek\, a major Indonesian ride-hailing firm. Although highly antagonistic towards each other\, ojek pangkalan (older-style informal-sector drivers) and HDBR (a grassroots app-based driver association) use similar organizational strategies to establish claims to their working lives and challenge Go-Jek. Informality in Indonesia thus offers forms of social security in a platform labour context that add to Euro-American mobilization repertoires such as policy change and platform cooperativism. By examining informal organization repertoires among app-based and older-style ojek drivers\, this session contributes to knowledge about capitalism by considering how precarity is produced\, experienced\, and challenged.  Herman Rosenfeld (TTC Riders\, Free Transit Toronto) will then discuss how municipal struggles for bigger and better public transit might be one way of contesting uber-capitalism.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/uber-capitalism-platform-mobility-mobilizing-workers/
LOCATION:Ontario
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190204T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190204T220000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20190107T174327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190109T023029Z
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SUMMARY:The World Turned Upside Down: Launching SR 2019
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Socialist Register 2019: The World Turned Upside Down. \nFeaturing presentations by Nicole Aschoff (“American’s tipping point? Between Trumpism and a new left”)\, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin (“Trumping the Empire)\, and Colin Leys (“Corbyn and Brexit Britain: Is there a way forward for the left?”). \nModerated by Greg Albo. \nSR 2019 poses two overarching questions for the new period opened by the Trump election and the continued growth of right-wing nationalisms. Is there an unwinding of neoliberal globalization taking place\, or will globalization continue to deepen\, but still deny the free cross-border movement of labor? Would such an unwinding entail an overall shift in power and accumulation to specific regions of the Global South that might overturn the current world order and foster the disintegration of the varied regional blocs that have formed? \nSponsored by: York University Book Store\, Brunswick Books\, Socialist Project\, Centre for Social Justice and Socialist Register. \nfacebook.com/events/2007698415973523 \neventbrite.ca \nDinner is available and reservations guarantee seating: lula.ca \nSR Subscriptions available at: socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/about/subscriptions.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/the-world-turned-upside-down-launching-sr-2019/
LOCATION:Lula Lounge\, 1585 Dundas St West\, Toronto\, ON\, M6K 1T9\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190129T220000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20190102T151512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190125T092322Z
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SUMMARY:FilmSocial: Sorry to Bother You
DESCRIPTION:Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You was one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2018. Through a brilliant mix of satire\, drama\, and humour\, Riley is able to capture the horror\, absurdity\, and contradictions of life within contemporary capitalism. Exploring themes of exploitation\, racism\, alienation\, and the strained relationship between activism\, art\, popular culture\, and profound social change\, Riley effectively captures the tensions\, paradoxes\, and necessities of the modern political landscape. Following the film there will be a short presentation and discussion on some of the important political questions raised by the film. \nDownload PDF poster.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/filmsocial-sorry-to-bother-you/
LOCATION:Eyesore Cinema\, 1176 Bloor Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6H1N1\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20181212T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20181212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20181126T020411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181126T213706Z
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SUMMARY:Action Keele: Outreach Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join the fight for transit justice! Action Keele will be holding an organizing meeting on Dec 12. All welcome. For more information\, contact: actionkeele@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/action-keele-outreach-meeting/
LOCATION:Downsview Public Library\, 2793 Keele Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M3M 2G3\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20181209T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20181209T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20181128T041403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T041610Z
UID:15217-1544373000-1544387400@socialistproject.ca
SUMMARY:Non-Denominational Holiday Social
DESCRIPTION:Join the SP and friends for some holiday cheer!
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/non-denominational-holiday-social/
LOCATION:Pauper’s Pub\, 539 Bloor Street West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20181206T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20181206T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20181126T020232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181126T213612Z
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SUMMARY:Action Keele: Meeting and Public Canvass
DESCRIPTION:Join the fight for transit justice! Action Keele will be holding an organizing meeting on the afternoon Dec 6\, before heading out to talk to 41 riders. All welcome. For more information\, contact: actionkeele@gmail.com \n3:15-5:15 (Meeting)  \n6:00-7:30 (Canvass)
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/action-keele-meeting-and-public-canvass/
LOCATION:Downsview Public Library\, 2793 Keele Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M3M 2G3\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20181201T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20181201T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20181112T151646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181121T024210Z
UID:15128-1543674600-1543681800@socialistproject.ca
SUMMARY:Action Keele Campaign Launch
DESCRIPTION:After months of talking with 41 bus riders about their concerns and issues\, we are ready to officially launch the Action Keele Bus Riders campaign! \nJoin us Saturday\, December 1 from 2:30 – 4:30 at the Downsview Library for a discussion with Action Keele organizers\, community members\, and labour union and social movement allies. Come together to fight back against austerity and win improved public transit for working people\, and enjoy pizza and fun! \nThe overwhelming community support for our petition for a #41 bus every ten minutes is very encouraging. Let’s keep up the momentum to meet our goal of gathering 1\,000 signatures by the time we plan to deliver the petition to Mayor John Tory and the City Council on February 1! \nPoster
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/action-keele-campaign-launch/
LOCATION:Downsview Public Library\, 2793 Keele Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M3M 2G3\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180919T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180919T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20180909T131812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180910T175424Z
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SUMMARY:What's Left\, Toronto? Radical Alternatives for the City Election
DESCRIPTION:As the Doug Ford Conservatives unpack their agenda\, towns and cities across Ontario are getting ready for the October municipal elections. In Toronto\, much of the early public debate leading up to the elections has been narrow and dominated by the Tories’ Bill 5\, which proposes to cut in half the number of wards for Council elections. Debates about specific City issues have been limited\, pitting a few right-populist voices from the Conservative Party against liberal and progressive voices from the Liberal or New Democratic Party. Ford’s shadow looms over every discussion and risks constraining debate about the mildest reforms even further. \nThis public forum seeks to keep alive more expansive political horizons about possible futures for Toronto. Organizers from various social movements will come together to discuss a range of issues – from migrant solidarity and economic justice to jobs\, housing\, transit\, the environment\, and the nature of electoral politics. They will bring ambitious and radical perspectives that engage with but go beyond the policy planks gaining the most attention in the corporate media. \nSpeakers: \n\nAlia Karim\, student organizer\, Fight for $15 and Fairness\nDavid Kidd\, longtime community and labour activist\nStefan Kipfer\, York University\, Free Transit Toronto\nMercedes Lee\, No One Is Illegal – Toronto\nJames Nugent\, Faculty of Environment\, University of Waterloo\nTaraneh Zarin\, Free Transit Toronto\n\nPDF poster | Facebook event \nSponsors: Centre for Social Justice\, Free Transit Toronto\, Socialist Project.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/whats-left-toronto-radical-alternatives-for-the-city-election/
LOCATION:Friends House\, 60 Lowther Avenue\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 1C7\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180505T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180505T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20180325T191424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180404T184617Z
UID:13790-1525546800-1525554000@socialistproject.ca
SUMMARY:Liter-Ally: Poetry Towards Left Renewal
DESCRIPTION:Liter-ally: Poetry Towards Renewal brings together Toronto-based poets to address the opportunity and challenge of Left renewal. How are poets rethinking politics on the left? What role might poetry play in left politics today? Poetry as art. Poetry as thought. Poetry as resistance. Join us for an evening of readings and spoken word performances by a former poet laureate\, a hip hop artist and more. \nFeatured poets: George Elliott Clarke – Giovanna Riccio – Honey Novick  – Jennifer Alicia  – Khalid Esmail  – Yavar Khan Qadri  – Mohommad Ali \nFacebook Event Page \nLiter-Ally \n \n 
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/liter-ally-poetry-towards-left-renewal/
LOCATION:A Different Booklist\, 777 Bathurst St\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1Z5\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180501T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180501T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20180325T190929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180325T203249Z
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SUMMARY:Drawing the Left: Exhibit Opening
DESCRIPTION:Drawing the Left exhibit opening and reception\, featuring cartoons by and discussion with Union Art Service (UAS) collective members. \nThe Drawing the Left exhibit highlights cartoonists of the Union Art Service (UAS) collective. UAS was founded by Cy Morris and Mike Constable shortly after the 1976 General Strike against Pierre Trudeau’s contract busting Wage Controls. The Wage Control act marks the birth of a neoliberal agenda that saw all the major news media like the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail dump their labour reporters. The unions responded by encouraging their locals to publish news letters to get the story out. And that is where our labour cartoons came in. The art in this show was chosen by the artists. \nFeatured artists: Mike Zaharuk  –  John Williams  –  Ruth Tait  – Alma Roussy – Jim Kempkes  – Jerry Lee Miller – Mike Constable – Seth Scriver \nFacebook Event page \nSP Event page
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/drawing-the-left-exhibit-opening/
LOCATION:A Different Booklist\, 777 Bathurst St\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1Z5\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180329T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180329T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20180304T164249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180308T151919Z
UID:13471-1522350000-1522357200@socialistproject.ca
SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Skerrett (Research Officer for the Canadian Union of Public Employees) and Chris Roberts (National Director of Social and Economic Policy for the Canadian Labour of Congress) discuss the significance of their edited book\, The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism (Cornell University Press\, 2018). Heather Whiteside and Janice Folk-Dawson speak to the issues the book raises for the trade union and working class movements today. \nKevin Skerrett is a Research Officer for the Canadian Union of Public Employees. \nChris Roberts is the National Director of Social and Economic Policy for the Canadian Labour Congress. \nHeather Whiteside is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the author of About Canada: Public-Private Partnerships. \nJanice Folk-Dawson the president of the trades and custodial CUPE Local 1334 at University of Guelph\, the president of the Guelph and District Labour Council and sits on the OFL Executive Board. \nChaired and introduced by Greg Albo\, Centre for Social Justice and Associate professor of Political Science at York University. \nBook description: it is often hoped and assumed that union stewardship of pension investments will produce tangible and enduring benefits for workers and their communities while minimizing the negative effects of what are now global and intensely competitive capital markets. At the core of this book is a desire to question the proposition that workers and their organizations can exert meaningful control over pension funds in the context of current financial markets. Contributing authors review the recent experience of pension “austerity” by comparing the situations of Canada\, the US\, the UK and Australia. The concluding chapter argues that the central implication of this recent history is an urgent need for a re-orientation of trade union and working class movements to a demand for adequate\, universal pension provision that is no longer embedded in financial markets. \nPDF poster
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/book-launch-contradictions-pension-fund-capitalism/
LOCATION:Steelworkers Hall\, 25 Cecil\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5T 1N1\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180308T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180308T220000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20180217T162333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220909T190750Z
UID:13229-1520535600-1520546400@socialistproject.ca
SUMMARY:9 to 5: an International Women's Day Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Grab a seat and pour yourself a cup of ambition for our special International Women’s Day screening of 9 to 5! Join Dolly Parton\, Jane Fonda\, and Lilly Tomlin in making boss-napping great again in this comedy classic about women office workers at the dawn of the ’80s. The themes of sexism and work taken up by the film are as relevant as ever\, particularly in light of the#metoo movement and the growing attention to sexual harassment and violence in the workplace. Stay after the screening for a brief discussion of feminism\, labour\, and what we can do to bring about meaningful change. \n 
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/9-5-international-womens-day-celebration/
LOCATION:Eyesore Cinema\, 1176 Bloor Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6H1N1\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180203T230000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20180118T032041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180118T033006Z
UID:12607-1517684400-1517698800@socialistproject.ca
SUMMARY:Social / Website Launch
DESCRIPTION:The Socialist Project is throwing a social to celebrate the launch of its beautiful new website and the shiny new OCAP pamphlet Basic Income In The Neoliberal Age. \nPlease come out to Dooney’s on Saturday February 3rd\, have fun\, and bring anyone who likes to talk politics and have a good time!
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/feb3-social-website-launch/
LOCATION:Dooney’s\, 866 Bloor St W\, Toronto\, ON\, M6G 1M5\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170920T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170920T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
CREATED:20171031T020414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171031T020414Z
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SUMMARY:The Capitalism Workshop: Rethinking Contemporary Anti-Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Uneven and combined development remains crucial for understanding the continued widening and deepening of capitalism. However\, the nature of the heterogeneous and uneven development of contemporary capitalism\, especially since the 1970s\, makes problematic the characterization of capitalist totality\, as a coherent stage and as a singular\, albeit uneven\, combination. This complicates the successful pursuit of anti-capitalism\, which now requires varied but interrelated responses at all scales and involving a range of approaches\, from local community activism and non-capitalist alternatives to mass Leninist-inspired parties and an international socialist movement. Thus\, a far more uneven anti-capitalism is appropriate; and a single\, overarching anti-capitalist process such as Permanent Revolution may not be the only or way forward. This is not an argument for a post-Marxist horizontal heterogeneity; but rather an exploration of the reasons and possibilities for a dialectical anti-capitalism\, where beneficial encounters occur across the arc of anti-capitalism\, within which proletariat mobilization remains a central component. Such confluence offers one starting point for contending with the perennial duality of reform and revolution\, manifest today in the either/or of an anti-capitalism of total revolution and an agonistic\, fractional post-Marxist politics working to reduce oppression and hardship within capitalism. \nRobert Latham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University. His research includes political economy\, critical theory\, the politics of new media\, and trans-national politics. Latham recently co-organized the “Augmenting the Left” symposium and his most recent book is The Politics of Evasion: A Post-Globalization Dialogue Along the Edge of the State. \nRSVP to attend: thecapitalismworkshop@gmail.com \nthecapitalismworkshop.com
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/capitalism-workshop-rethinking-contemporary-anti-capitalism/
LOCATION:Ontario
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170527T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170527T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T121307
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SUMMARY:Art vs Alt: How We Challenge the Right
DESCRIPTION:Art vs Alt is a day of conversations and a platform for presentations of work by concerned artists\, a day to come together to work out how to collectively confront the dramatic rise of the right.\nThe conference is open to anyone interested in the culture and politics of the left. Discussions and plenaries on subjects chosen by participants will be held throughout the day. Artists are also invited to give a 3-minute presentation of their work during four half-hour segments scheduled throughout the afternoon. Come and participate in the presentations and the conversation. \nOrganized by Cultural Committee of the Socialist Project | www.eventbrite.ca | www.evensi.ca | PDF poster
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/art-vs-alt-challenge-right/
LOCATION:Steelworkers Hall\, 25 Cecil\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5T 1N1\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170323T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170323T220000
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CREATED:20171031T023810Z
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SUMMARY:FilmSocial: Poverty and the Welfare State\, Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:Ken Loach’s award winning newest film I\, Daniel Blake (2016)\, brilliantly exposes the discipline\, humiliation and frustration which people who rely on welfare benefits are subjected to in contemporary Britain. To coincide with its Toronto release\, we are showing Cathy Come Home (1966)\, Loach’s first great film on this subject\, made exactly 50 years earlier. \nCathy Come Home is the story of Cathy\, a working class woman who loses her home\, husband and her child as result of an inflexible British welfare state. Ken Loach’s hard hitting realist drama takes on the social problems of poverty and homelessness in mid-sixties London. At the time of its launch\, one critic described the film as “an ice-pick in the brain of all who saw it.” \nHalf a century on\, poverty and homelessness persist in cities all over the world. These problems are acute in Toronto\, the “inequality capital of Canada.” Campaigns against regressive government policies that adversely affect the working poor and homeless are urgent and growing. \nWhat does Cathy Come Home tell us about capitalism\, poverty and the welfare state\, back then\, and now? \nDiscussant: John Clarke\, from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/filmsocial-poverty-welfare-state-now/
LOCATION:Ontario
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