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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2022: The Crisis of Centrism
DESCRIPTION:The stage is set well for Socialist Register No. 58 in the Preface by Greg Albo and Colin Leys:  [In the midst of the] “current multi-dimensional crisis\, the center-right consensus that was struck around the neoliberal policy regime has been steadily splintering\, with a phalanx of far right and neo-fascist groups inserting themselves into electoral politics and gaining prominence ‘in the streets’ (not least in motley demonstrations against pandemic measures of any kind\, from lockdowns to masking). The observation that capitalism is always characterized by just such economic and political polarizations has preoccupied – even haunted – socialist analysis from its very origins: in Marx’s and Engels’ memorable phrase of revolutionary optimism in The Communist Manifesto\, ‘the more or less open civil war\, raging within existing society\, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution\, and … lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat’. In the much picked-over chapter in Marx’s Capital on ‘The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation’\, the language is just as vibrant but now stark in its imagery: ‘The greater the social wealth\, the functioning capital\, the extent and energy of its growth\, and therefore also the greater the absolute mass of the proletariat and the productivity of its labor\, the greater is the industrial reserve army… Accumulation of wealth at one pole is\, therefore\, at the same time the accumulation of misery\, the torment of labor\, slavery\, ignorance\, brutalization at the opposite pole\, i.e. on the side of the class that produces its own product as capital.’ \nFeaturing \n\nGreg Albo An Introduction to The Crisis of Centrism\, Socialist Register 58\nWalden Bello At the Summit of Global Capitalism: the US and China\nSimon Mohun Portrait of Neoliberalism: Rise of the One Percent\nSamir Sonti The Crisis of US Labor\, Past and Present
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/sr-2022-first-session/
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2022 Launch in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:Speakers include Greg Albo\, Colin Leys\, Vishwas Satgar\, James Schneider and Bill Fletcher and discussants are Samantha Hargreaves and Awande Buthelezi.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/sr2022-south-africa/
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SUMMARY:58th Edition of Socialist Register
DESCRIPTION:The 58th annual volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge of exploring how the new polarizations relate to the contradictions that underlie them and how far ‘centrist’ politics can continue to contain them. Original essays examine the multiplication of antagonistic national\, racial\, generational\, and other identities in the context of growing economic inequality\, democratic decline\, and the shifting parameters of great power rivalry. Where\, how\, and by what means can the left move forward? \nEdited by Greg Albo\, Leo Panitch\, and Colin Leys. \n\nSIMON MOHUN: A contemporary portrait of neoliberalism: The rise of the one per cent\nWALDEN BELLO: At the summit of global capitalism: The US and China\nINGAR SOLTY: Market polarization means political polarization: Liberal democracy’s eroding centre\nBILL FLETCHER\, JR.: Trump and the danger of right-wing populism in the US\nMARCUS GILROY-WARE: What is wrong with social media? An anti-capitalist critique\nADOLPH REED JR.\, TOURÉ F. REED: The evolution of ‘race’ and racial justice under neoliberalism\nSAMIR SONTI: The crisis of US labour\, past and present\nSAM GINDIN: American workers and the left after Trump: Polarized options\nJAYATI GHOSH: Pandemic polarizations and the contradictions of Indian capitalism\nVISHWAS SATGAR: Epidemiological neoliberalism in South Africa\nILYA MATVEEV\, OLEG ZHURAVLEV: Loft offices and factory towns: Social sources of political polarization in Russia\nANA GARCIA\, VIRGINIA FONTES\, REJANE HOEVELER: The far right\, corporate power\, and social struggles in Brazil\nSAMIR GANDESHA: Identity crisis: The politics of false concreteness\nDAVID HARVEY: The double consciousness of capital\nJAMES SCHNEIDER INTERVIEWED BY HILARY WAINWRIGHT: Finding a way forward: Lessons from the Corbyn project in the UK\n\nPermanent online access to the current volume\, plus access to all previous volumes as long as a subscription remains current £25. PDF poster.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/58th-socialist-register/
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SUMMARY:Global Day for Climate Justice
DESCRIPTION:The Toronto Global Day of Action for Climate Justice is being organized by a coalition of environment and justice organizations and individuals in Toronto. It is timed to coincide with the COP26 (international climate summit) meetings in Glasgow\, Scotland\, and a worldwide network of actions. \nCall to Action\nJustice won’t be handed to us by world leaders or delivered by corporations. Only we can imagine and build the future that works for all of us. \nThe Issue\nWe are living through a period of multiple breaking points – from climate to Covid to racism. We know that these crises not only overlap\, but share the same cause. \nWhile no one can escape the impacts of these crises\, those who have done least to cause them suffer the most. Across the world\, the poorest people and communities of colour are too often those bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. From coastal villages in Norfolk whose sea-defences are eroding faster than ever\, to people living by the Niger Delta rivers blackened by oil spillage.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/global-day-climate-justice/
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SUMMARY:EcoSocialist Alliance Challenges the G7
DESCRIPTION:Speakers from Green Left\, Left Unity\, ACR and WIN with others invited. This is discussion around the G7 meeting in Cornwall and how we as ecosocialists can present a real alternative. \nCanada\, France\, Germany\, Italy\, Japan\, the UK and the US) have a great part of the immense wealth of the richest countries in the world in 2021. This wealth is more than sufficient to provide for the needs for food\, water\, health\, housing and education of the global population. We face multiple interlinked and inseparable crises. Climate\, environment\, mass extinctions\, emergent infectious diseases and economic. Oligarchic ownership of industry and the transnational corporations are key contributors to environmental degradation and to emergent infectious diseases crises. They are inimical and a core barrier to the urgent measures needed to address the nested crises we face. \nThe world and its population need system change\, a just ecosocialist transition from the unsustainable chaos of neoliberal capitalism. The working class and the poor must not carry the cost.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/ecosocialist-alliance-challenges-g7/
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SUMMARY:No Life Like It:  A Tribute to the Revolutionary Activism of Ernie Tate
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a tribute to the life\, activism and legacy of Ernie Tate (1934-2021) \nWe warmly welcome you to join us for a tribute to the life\, activism and legacy of Ernie Tate.  \nErnie Tate believed capitalism is a cruel and unjust system that has to be changed.  Ernie was born in Belfast\, Northern Ireland in 1934 and emigrated to Canada in 1955. As a Marxist\, union activist and revolutionary\, Ernie spent his life working to achieve that in organizing against the war in Vietnam\, in union struggles at Toronto Hydro\, for protecting universal healthcare and living wages\, and much else. Ernie\, along with Tariq Ali\, was a leading organizer of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in Britain\, worked for Bertrand Russell’s International War Crimes Tribunal and was a founding member of the International Marxist Group in Britain.’ In 2014\, Ernie published a memoir of his life on the far left in Canada and Great Britain called Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 1960s. This two volume memoir is an important resource for anyone interested in a gritty account of mid-20th century revolutionary movements. It has been a source of information for the 2020-2021 Undercover Policing Inquiry hearings\, taking place in England\, in which the illegal and immoral activities of police agents in infiltrating the left have been laid bare. \nErnie died on February 5th this year. Please join us to reflect upon and celebrate Ernie’s life\, activism and legacy with many of his comrades and friends from around the world\, including: Tariq Ali and Phil Hearse (England)\, Richie Venton (Scotland)\, Barry Sheppard and Suzanne Weiss (USA)\, Pam Frache\, Judy Rebick\, Carolyn Egan\, Sam Gindin\, Bryan Palmer\, Rob Fairley\, and John Riddell (Canada)\, and Patrick Bond (South Africa). \nThe event will be online\, on ZOOM. Please register for your free ticket on Eventbrite. After you register on Eventbrite\, the link to the ZOOM room will be emailed to you a few times in advance of the event. \nHosted by Socialist Project\, Centre for Social Justice\, Spring\, Resistance\, Green Left Weekly\, Socialist Viewpoint
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/no-life-like-it-a-tribute-to-the-revolutionary-activism-of-ernie-tate/
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SUMMARY:Far From Over: Class Struggle and Union Organizing at Amazon
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and roundtable discussion on class struggle and union organizing at Amazon warehouses with Alessandro Delfanti and Amazon workers and organizers Ira and Fathia. \nA central political challenge for the Left today is to organize gig workers across the sectors of digital capitalism into unions. High-tech corporations such as Amazon\, Google\, Apple\, and Facebook have quickly become one of – if not the – most powerful sectors of contemporary capitalism\, and these and other companies have been equally creative and vicious in keeping their operations all but free of unions. The struggle to organize and unionize workers in “Big Tech” has recently become concentrated on Amazon\, the pivotal company in the new logistics of distribution and retail\, and now one of the largest employers on the planet\, next to Wal-Mart and US Department of Defense. Significant class struggles have emerged in response to the brutal conditions of work and labour in Amazon warehouses\, from Italy to Germany\, from Bessemer\, Alabama\, to Brampton\, Ontario. It was widely hoped that the pitched battle for union recognition at Bessemer would be a turning point in this struggle\, setting off a series of unions being formed elsewhere. If lessons are learned and new strategies taken up from the failed vote\, it still may be. If there is to be a renewal of the union movement and working-class politics in North America and beyond\, Amazon is surely at the centre of the firms of digital capitalism that must be conquered. \nPlease register for the event on Eventbrite\, and we will send you the link to the ZOOM room. \nThe event includes a 20-minute presentation on Amazon\, capitalism\, and class struggle by Alessandro\, and followed by a 60-minute roundtable discussion with Alessandro\, Ira and Fathia. Moderated by Jessica Ireland and Paul Gray. \n– \nAlessandro Delfanti teaches at the Institute of Communication\, Culture\, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon (Pluto Press). \nIra lives in Queens\, the best borough of the best city in the world with his partner and three cats. Ira has worked at an Amazon delivery station for over a year and a half is a cofounder of Amazonians United NYC and is a communist who believes that the working class should call the shots. \nFathia has been an Amazon worker in Maryland for 6 months and is in the process of forming an organizing committee with her coworkers to organize around issues in their workplace. She is a queer woman of color with a background in worker and student organizing. She is committed to building worker solidarity across identities and borders and taking our power back from the greedy bosses who seem to think it’s theirs.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/not-over-yet-class-struggle-and-union-organizing-at-amazon/
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SUMMARY:George Elliott Clarke Presents 5 Poets Breaking into Songs
DESCRIPTION:A night with poetry\, music and songs by 5 poets\, 4 composers and 2 singers with former Canadian Poet Laureate and wide audience! \nCo-hosts George Elliott Clarke and Ms. Yang Wang\, of the East and West Learning Connections\, will be pleased to bring you 5 fine poets: \n\nAyesha Chatterjee\nGiovanna Riccio\nLisa Richter\nAndrea Thompson\nAnna Yin\n\nAll of whom will recite poetry and then have a song or songs performed by singers and a pianist: They are poets become songwriters! \nRegister for zoom link. JPG poster.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/george-elliott-clarke-presents-5-poets/
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SUMMARY:Life After the Pandemic /w Christoph Hermann
DESCRIPTION:From Production for Profit to Provision for Need \nPerhaps the greatest flaw revealed by the Covid-19 crisis is capitalism’s addiction to profit. The main goal of capitalist production is the maximization of profit; the satisfaction of needs is only a by-product in the endless process of accumulation. This means that the economy cannot simply pause during a lockdown and continue when the pandemic is under control. The insecurity of future profits instantly pushed the economy into an existential crisis. As a result\, the crisis was not characterized by a lack of urgently needed supply\, as one may expect during a period of large-scale economic inactivity. \nWhile the coronavirus challenged the very foundations of the profit-driven economy\, the lockdown provided the environment with a much-needed break. The pausing of industrial production together with the restriction of transportation\, including international air travel\, significantly reduced carbon dioxide emissions and other pollution. As a result\, residents of smog-plagued cities such as New Delhi could suddenly see the sky. The crisis has shown that a focus on essential needs can provide breathing space for the global ecosystem. However\, at the same time the crisis also sounded the death knell to all attempts to solve the ecological crisis through profit-based incentives. The dramatic fall in oil prices caused by the decline in economic activities will undermine the shift to less damaging energy sources. \nIn sum\, what in a needs-based economy would be a formidable healthcare challenge and\, perhaps\, a major disruption of social life\, but not a crisis of social reproduction\, at least not as long as there is sufficient supply\, turned in the profit-driven economy of capitalism into an existential threat. The anxiety about falling profits could only be calmed by flooding investors\, businesses\, and credit institutions with massive amounts of money. As a result\, the US government will record the highest debt in its history. While debt is essential in a profit-driven economy\, it is pointless in a needs-based economy. When the goal is that everybody receives what she/he needs\, there is no need to go into debt. In this presentation Christoph will present some ideas for a needs-based economy. \nChristoph Hermann is a Lecturer in History at University of California\, Berkeley. \nJPG poster
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/life-after-the-pandemic/
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SUMMARY:The Big Tech Monopolies and the State /w Grace Blakeley
DESCRIPTION:As the effects of the coronavirus pandemic swept through the global economy\, the average observer could have been forgiven for missing a critical piece of news: by May 2020\, the combined market capitalization of the four largest US tech companies reached one fifth of the entire S&P 500. Four companies – Microsoft\, Apple\, Amazon and Facebook – now account for 20 per cent of the combined value of the 500 largest US corporations – an unparalleled level of market concentration. Forty years ago\, these corporate entities were either just beyond being plucky start-ups\, or did not even exist. Monopolistic tendencies are not limited to the tech sector. In 1975\, the largest 100 US companies accounted for nearly half of the earnings of all publicly listed companies; by 2015\, their share reached 84 per cent. \nCapitalist corporations appear monopolistic when they are able to access the investment needed to gain total market dominance – and as the 21st Century has progressed\, this has proven easier than ever\, especially in big tech. The tech companies emerged in a world of falling profits and associated rising volatility in financial markets – both of which facilitated their access to investment. Many of these companies were initially either unprofitable or loss making\, as they had not yet developed to a sufficient size to exploit the network effects that would provide the foundation for their monopoly-like power. As a result\, they required significant amounts of upfront investment to maintain their operations and to scale up to reach a position of market dominance that would allow them to turn a profit. \nGrace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune and author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialization. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to pay and would like to attend the event\, please write to info@marxedproject.org. \nPart of the Socialist Register series: Beyond Digital Capitalism.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/big-tech-monopolies/
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SUMMARY:Take the Plant\, Save the Planet:  Workers and Communities in the Struggle for Economic Conversion
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion of the politics of plant conversion for an ecologically sustainable future. \nThe current pandemic crisis has dramatically exposed the need for a massive shift of new resources into the caring sector and the production of medical equipment to meet social needs. But even before the fallout for workers in many sectors from the ecological disruptions already being felt from global warming had already indicated the need for a comprehensive approach to industrial conversion. Several sectors immediately stand out in demanding an approach that goes well beyond a ‘just transition’ in moving workers from one job to another. There is a need for a more radical reworking of these sectors – transportation\, military arms and fossil fuels\, with the factories\, facilities and workers steadily re-deployed to alternate socially responsible production. Ecological strategies focusing on conversion will be particularly promising in terms of their potential to actively engage working people by offering them a response to economic restructuring that emphasizes retaining our productive capacity. We need to think through the way unions\, labour councils and communities can take the lead in campaigns for forming workplace conversion committees and regional technology and environmental hubs. We need to insist\, as workers and as communities\, that productive assets should not be abandoned at the will of the corporations\, or simply accept what is being produced now no matter how destructive the good being produced. \n\nFrancesca Hannan is an active member of We Are Oshawa\, Green Jobs Oshawa\, and the Durham Food Policy Council. She has been involved in climate justice activism with Toronto-based groups\, and her professional background is in environmental policy and law.\nStephen Buhler is an organizer with Climate Justice Edmonton and a full-time journeyman machinist currently working in the oil and gas sector.\nSimon Black teaches in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University and is an organizer with Labour Against the Arms Trade.\n\nThe event will be on ZOOM: please click here to join the meeting. \nSpread the word on Facebook
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/take-the-plant-save-the-planet-workers-and-communities-in-the-struggle-for-economic-conversion/
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SUMMARY:Socialists on Social Media Platforms and Imagine Platform Socialism
DESCRIPTION:Communicating within and Against Digital Capitalism\nBertolt Brecht\, in the 1932 essay ‘The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication’\, made a ‘positive suggestion’ to transform radio into a dialogical medium for many-to-many communications. ‘Radio is one-sided when it should be two’ said Brecht. Brecht saw the state as the only entity capable of remaking radio in this way\, but because radio’s ‘proper application’ might make it a ‘revolutionary’ medium\, Brecht concluded the bourgeois state would have ‘no interest in sponsoring such exercises’. \nBrecht’s ‘positive suggestion’ for a many-to-many communications system seems to have come to fruition with the internet\, and more recently\, with the spread of social media platforms such as Facebook\, Twitter and YouTube. Socialists around the world are now using these platforms to produce\, distribute\, exhibit\, and consume socialist media and cultural works\, and they are openly building events\, movements\, and organizations within digital capitalism\, to go beyond it. That said\, the internet and social media platforms are surrounded by all kinds of deterministic\, optimistic\, and pessimistic rhetorics that cloud a clear view of what they give to and take from socialist communicators\, especially as compared to the twentieth century’s mass media industries\, whose state and corporate owners tended to filter out and vilify socialist ideas. \nTanner Mirrlees is Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University \nImagine Platform Socialism\nInvestigations have demonstrated the ways that the operations of the algorithmic processes that select and sort information for users of YouTube\, Facebook\, and Twitter not only distribute such malicious content\, but also amplify its effects. In order to hold the attention of users\, platforms tend to recommend increasingly controversial and sensationalist suggestions\, leading users quickly into rabbit holes of conspiracy theories and extremist views that undermine attempts at informed and reasoned debate. Other studies showed that Google’s search engine was capable of exhibiting serious racist bias\, and that the platforms’ attempts to limit access to hate speech and misinformation were of limited effectiveness. \nAt the same time\, the monopolistic digital platforms are undeniably of great use to activists working for a more democratic world\, including socialists. The events that triggered US President Trump’s demands for stricter platform regulation were part of a mobilization of dissent that came to be known by its Twitter hashtag\, ‘Black Lives Matter’\, and numerous other examples could be found of activists raising awareness in ways that would not be possible with mass media. Social media empowers individuals to participate in the distribution of their own ideas\, although this empowerment is limited by the mediation of the flow of information by the owners of the platforms in ways that can have direct effects on how mobilizations are informed. \nThis makes it all the more necessary to explore the contradictions between our expectations of social media and the reality of its use\, and determine if there are ways to avoid the harms done to democracy while preserving the benefits. The purpose of this presentation is to inquire whether and how social media could be organized more democratically\, so that they allow our expressive capacities to be developed freely and not under conditions determined by capital. \nDerek Hrynyshyn teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at York University in Toronto\, Ontario. \nPDF poster
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SUMMARY:Remembering Leo Panitch
DESCRIPTION:Global Left\, Marxism and Democratic Socialism\nSpeakers: \n\nSam Gindin\, Ingar Solty\, Ana Garcia\, Patrick Bond\, Dinga Sikwebu\, and Vishwas Satgar.\n\nLeo Panitch was a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University\, a renowned political economist\, Marxist theorist and editor of the Socialist Register since 1985. He is the author of numerous articles and books including The End of Parliamentary Socialism\, Working Class Politics in Crisis\, and Renewing Socialism. \nOrganized by Co-operative and Policy Alternative Centre\, Johannesburg\, South Africa.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/remembering-leo-panitch/
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 21: Beyond Digital Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday February 10th for the launch of Socialist Register 21: Beyond Digital Capitalism (Fernwood Press\, 2020)\, with presentations by Greg Albo\, Sam Gindin\, Bryan Palmer\, Joan Sangster\, Stephen Maher\, Pat Armstrong\, Hugh Armstrong\, Tanner Mirrlees\, and Derek Hrynyshyn. \nIn memory of Leo Panitch\, 1945-2020. \nAs digital technology became integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades of the 21st century\, it not only refashioned our ways of communicating but of working and consuming\, indeed ways of living. The Covid-19 pandemic revealed not only the lack of investment\, planning and preparation that underlay the scandalous slowness of the responses by states around the world\, but also grotesque class and racial inequalities as it coursed its way through the population and the owners of high-tech corporations were enriched by tens of billions of dollars. Rejecting both technological determinism and facile ‘cyber-utopian’ thinking\, the 57th annual volume of the Socialist Register addresses how to imagine\, struggle for\, and plan for\, new democratic socialist ways of living after the pandemic. \nFor a 20% discount\, purchase your copy of the volume from York University’s bookstore with this link. \nThe event will be on ZOOM: please get your free Eventbrite ticket by clicking here to register. \nCheck out the Facebook page for the event here. \nTickets available Friday January 15\, 12pm.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/socialist-register-21-beyond-digital-capitalism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210125T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210125T160000
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SUMMARY:A Tribute to Leo Panitch\, 1945-2020
DESCRIPTION:Progressives lost one of our leading lights last month. Leo Panitch died December 19 in a Toronto hospital where he was being treated for cancer. His prognosis was good\, however he contacted Covid-19 and died in a few days from a fulminating pneumonia. He is sorely missed on both sides of the Atlantic. A man with an amazing generosity of spirit\, he was a pillar of the international left. \nThe Center for Global Justice pays tribute to Leo Panitch by rebroadcasting a webinar he did with us in July on “Capitalism\, Socialism and the Pandemic.” We are joined in this tribute by Leo’s friend and collaborator Greg Albo and Dennis Pilon\, a colleague at York\, and former student of Leo. \nFor more than a quarter of a century\, Leo Panitch was editor of one of the most important journals of Marxist thought in the world: the Socialist Register. This yearbook\, in which Leo wrote significant essays\, was on the cutting edge of Left thought. For him\, the only way out of capitalism was by building on social democracy. Born to a Winnipeg working class family\, he held firmly to the centrality of the working class if the socialist project was to have any future. Nevertheless he was deeply aware of the conservatizing trend within social-democratic parties\, the increasing distance from the working class\, and the impending disaster from the managerial takeover. His last book Searching for Socialism: The project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn was written with Colin Leys.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/tribute-to-leo-panitch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201128T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201128T123000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20201125T170734Z
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SUMMARY:UK Launch of The Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:As digital technology became integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades of the 21st century\, it not only refashioned our ways of communicating but of working and consuming\, indeed ways of living. Even as the COVID-19 pandemic revealed not only the lack of investment\, planning and preparation that underlay the scandalous slowness of the responses by states around the world\, but also grotesque class and racial inequalities as it coursed its way through the population\, the owners of high-tech corporations were enriched by tens of billions of dollars. Rejecting both technological determinism and facile ‘cyber-utopian’ thinking\, the 57th annual volume of the Socialist Register addresses how to imagine\, struggle for\, and plan for\, new democratic socialist ways of living after the pandemic. \nPanelists: \n\nIntroductions: Hilary Wainwright (@hilarypepper) and Leo Panitch\n\nUK essay contributors: \n\nGrace Blakeley (@graceblakeley) ‘The big tech monopolies and the state’\nUrsula Huws (@Ursulahuws) ‘Reaping the whirlwind: Digitalization\, restructuring & mobilization in the Covid crisis’\nMatthew Cole (@matthewacole) & Charles Umney (@CharlesUmney) ‘The political economy of datafication and work’\nBenjamin Selwyn ‘Community restaurants: Decommodifying food as socialist strategy’\nMassimiliano Mollona ‘Working class cinema in the age of digital capitalism’\n\nDiscussants: \n\nMarzena Zukowska (@MarzenaZukowska)\, Red Pepper and Radical Communicators Network\nJohn McDonnell (@johnmcdonnellMP)\, Labour MP\, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 2015-2020
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/uk-launch-sr-2021/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T155444
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UID:13134-1605726000-1605733200@socialistproject.ca
SUMMARY:Pension Fund Capitalism and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Canada: A Socialist Perspective
DESCRIPTION:The devastating social and economic impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Canada have been felt widely. But the key statistic of the death rate has been heavily concentrated: over 80% of the deaths from COVID-19 have taken place in Long-Term Care of various types. \nHow 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? \nThis 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. \nKevin Skerrett is currently serving as a Fall 2020 Visiting Professor at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. He was a co-editor of the Cornell University Press volume The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism (2018). He is on leave from his work as a Senior Research Officer assigned to pensions at CUPE\, the Canadian Union of Public Employees. \nStephanie Ross\, Director\, School of Labour Studies\, McMaster University\, is chairing the seminar. The talk will be followed by a Q&A period.  \nRegister on zoom. \nOrganizer: Institute of Political Economy\, MA in Political Economy and Diploma in Work and Labour.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/pension-fund-capitalism-and-covid19/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201004T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201004T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T155444
CREATED:20200929T203311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200930T141132Z
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SUMMARY:Pension fund capitalism and the campaign to “Make Revera Public”
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe COVID-19 pandemic has exposed some of the damage wreaked by neoliberalism to a harsh new light. The erosion of workers’ rights to basic safety and livable wages\, the particular exploitation of women\, racialized and migrant workers in our health care system\, and the destructive effects of for-profit corporate management of long-term care\, have all combined to make a serious public health crisis into something far more deadly than it should have been. In this context\, there is an especially bitter irony in the fact that one of the largest profiteers to benefit from these trends\, the corporate long-term care company Revera\, is 100% owned by the pension fund that manages the investment of federal government employee pensions (known as PSP).  However\, as awareness of this ownership relation became public amidst the spiking death rates in Revera managed homes in May\, the president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) issued a public call for the ownership of Revera to be “transferred into public hands”.  Since that time\, a growing number of public health advocates and trade unions have launched campaigns to transform all of the for-profit operations in the country’s long-term care system into properly funded and publicly managed facilities. Under a democratically accountable and public system\, we could ensure that the workers are compensated in line with the importance and value of the care work they perform\, and the residents can live their lives with dignity. \nJoin us for a discussion of these vital campaigns\, and the positive opportunities that the COVID-19 pandemic may have opened up. Also\, to learn more about the Ontario Health Coalition’s Day of Action\, click here. \nThis is a free public event on ZOOM. click here to access ZOOM room at 1:25pm). \nBio: Kevin Skerrett is a Senior Research Officer assigned to pensions for CUPE\, currently on a leave and teaching at Carleton University’s Institute of Political Economy. He was a co-editor of the Cornell University Press volume The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism (2018)\, and the author of numerous articles\, including this\, this and this in The Bullet online magazine.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/pension-fund-capitalism-and-the-campaign-to-make-revera-public/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200813T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200813T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200811T193111Z
UID:15011-1597345200-1597352400@socialistproject.ca
SUMMARY:Book launch: Challenging the Right\, Augmenting the Left
DESCRIPTION: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 awaits the left in the 2020s. \nWorking within five major thematic areas\, the contributors examine how to engage working class people in anti-capitalist struggles\, oppose ethno-nationalism\, build power inside and outside the state apparatus\, find new strategies of environmental resistance\, and promote solidarity and ecological responsibility. This book provides suggestions for working with popular disaffection by taking the left’s history of refusals and defeats as a starting point for next steps in the struggle against capitalism and the far right\, rather than as the basis for more conflict or defeatism.  \nBrief presentations will be delivered by Niko Block\, Gary Kinsman\, Elise Thorburn\, Sabrina Fernandes\, David Ravensbergen\, and Robert Latham.  \nFollow this link to join the event: ryerson.zoom.us
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/book-launch-challenging-the-right-augmenting-the-left/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200229T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200229T153000
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SUMMARY:RedNights presents: Socialist Feminist Cabaret 2020
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a leap year night of live music and video! \nWith: \nLillian Allen \nThe Rise Up Feminist Jazz Band \nHoney Novick in tribute to Sophie Tucker \nSongs of Chilean resistance with Ernesto J. Espinoza\, Oriana Barbato\, & Pablo Gutiérrez \nCatherine Phillips \nKate Kitchen \nThirza Cuthand’s “Woman Dress” \nComplete lists of RedNights events
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/rednights-presents-socialist-feminist-cabaret-2020/
LOCATION:The Supermarket\, 268 Augusta Avenue (Kensington Market)\, Toronto\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200122T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200122T220000
DTSTAMP:20260408T155444
CREATED:20191209T233132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T210417Z
UID:16811-1579721400-1579730400@socialistproject.ca
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Socialist Register 2020: Beyond Market Dystopia\, New Ways of Living
DESCRIPTION:We 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). \nConnecting 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 strategic\, programmatic\, manifesto-oriented directions for alternative ways of living. Fourteen original essays locate such utopian visions and struggles in the dystopian present. \nDoors open for food and drink at 6:30pm\, and presentations begin at 7:30pm\, with: \nAmy Bartholomew: Beyond the ‘barbed-wire labyrinth’: migrant spaces of radical democracy \nMichelle Chen: A new world of workers: confronting the gig economy \nStephen Maher and Sam Gindin: Class politics\, socialist policies\, capitalist constraints \nChaired by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo. \n— \n*** Please note that dinner reservations guarantee seating\, so book early and enjoy the show while exploring Lula’s delicious tropical fusion dinner and cocktail menus as well as their wine and beer offerings.\nVisit: calendar.lula.ca or call 416-588-0307 to reserve.\n+++ \nThe Socialist Register has been the intellectual lodestar for the international left since 1964. \n—Mike Davis \nI know the Register very well and have found it extremely stimulating\, often invaluable. \n—Noam Chomsky
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/book-launch-socialist-register-2020-beyond-market-dystopia-new-ways-of-living/
LOCATION:Lula Lounge\, 1585 Dundas St West\, Toronto\, ON\, M6K 1T9\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191218T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191218T133000
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CREATED:20191212T210418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T193716Z
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SUMMARY:Protest for Green Jobs in Oshawa
DESCRIPTION:We Build it\, We Own It: Stand With Communities\, Not Corporations! \nWe’re excited to announce that on December 18 we will be holding an event outside the (soon to be former) GM Oshawa facility. We’re going to show GM and the Government that Oshawa needs publicly owned electric vehicle production\, NOT profit driven plant closures. But we need supporters of good\, unionized green jobs like you to do it! \nFor all those interested in joining us on Wednesday\, please let us know ASAP by contacting us at greenjobsto@gmail.com \nIf you are coming from Toronto and need a ride\, or if you can provide a ride\, please let us know. We will do our very best to ensure everyone who would like to attend has the ability to. \nLooking forward to seeing many of you on Wednesday. \nTake the plant\, save the planet! \nFor those traveling from Toronto\, here’s a link with instructions from Union Station. From Union Station take the 9:03 Lakeshore East train to Oshawa GO Station. From Oshawa GO take the Durham Transit 403 but to Malaga Road at Park Road South or take a taxi to the intersection of Malaga and Park Road South.
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/protest-for-green-jobs-in-oshawa/
LOCATION:GM Oshawa\, Park Rd South and Malaga Rd\, Oshawa\, Ontario\, L1J 4K1\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191208T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191208T190000
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CREATED:20191126T032306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191126T032829Z
UID:16751-1575822600-1575831600@socialistproject.ca
SUMMARY:Winter Social
DESCRIPTION:Join friends and old\, new and emerging comrades for some winter social and cheer! \n 
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/winter-social/
LOCATION:East of Brunswick Pub and Kitchen\, 720 Spadina Avenue\, Toronto\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191130T230000
DTSTAMP:20260408T155444
CREATED:20191030T215606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191104T141323Z
UID:16640-1575140400-1575154800@socialistproject.ca
SUMMARY:FilmSocial Presents: Soylent Green
DESCRIPTION:FilmSocial screens the dystopian cult classic Soylent Green. Saturday\, November 30th @ 7:30pm at Eyesore Cinema (1176 Bloor\, back room). \nSoylent 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 where the characters must navigate a world marked by deep class division\, corporate control over valuable resources\, police corruption\, and the overall monetization of fear and misery. Sound familiar? The screening follows the next Global Climate Strike event. Stay after the film for a discussion of the themes of the film in light of socialist responses to climate change. \nPDF poster
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/filmsocial-presents-soylent-green/
LOCATION:Eyesore Cinema\, 1176 Bloor Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6H1N1\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190930T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190930T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T155444
CREATED:20190912T191701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190929T175813Z
UID:16424-1569870000-1569877200@socialistproject.ca
SUMMARY:Take the Plant\, Save the Planet: Creating Good Jobs\, Making Sustainable Products\, Challenging Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:GM’s bosses are closing the auto plant in Oshawa but workers want to repurpose it to create good jobs and produce green and sustainable energy products. Join us for a discussion with Linda McQuaig (author and journalist)\, James Hutt (LEAP)\, Rebecca Keetch (autoworker\, Green Jobs Oshawa) and Fred Hahn (CUPE Ontario). Show solidarity with Green Jobs Oshawa\, make public ownership of the Oshawa plant an election issue. \n– \nGM Oshawa was once the home of the largest auto facility on the continent. GM no longer wants it\, aside from a small project that might at most\, provide 300 jobs. But workers do\, and they have plans for it. The Oshawa plant could create many more good\, sustainable jobs\, by converting the facility into a manufacturing hub for electric vehicles and other sustainable energy products. This requires that governments step in\, and have democratic public ownership replace corporate ownership and make products that challenge climate change. To make this possible we need to show solidarity with Green Jobs Oshawa\, the worker-led movement leading this campaign. We need to build a worker-green alliance grounded in concrete struggles\, making the idea of Just Transition\, something real. In the upcoming federal election\, we need to push politicians and their parties beyond platitudes about climate change and green jobs. Here is a concrete opportunity to really do something about it. This requires placing\, to the extent we can\, a radical transformation of economic structures and power\, led by workers\, on the public agenda. \nTell us you will attend and help spread the word #GreenJobsOshawa: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2411270225607689/ \nSponsored by Centre for Social Justice\, Socialist Project\, Green Jobs Oshawa\, and The LEAP \n \n 
URL:https://socialistproject.ca/event/good-jobs-making-sustainable-products/
LOCATION:Steelworkers Hall\, 25 Cecil\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5T 1N1\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190924T210000
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CREATED:20190913T180928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190913T182651Z
UID:16434-1569351600-1569358800@socialistproject.ca
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
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T202105Z
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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:20260408T155444
CREATED:20190406T015236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190411T142047Z
UID:15862-1557860400-1557874800@socialistproject.ca
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
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CREATED:20190225T214435Z
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190204T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190204T220000
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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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