Launching the Socialist Register 2015
January 15, 2015
When: Thursday Jan 15th, 7:15pm (doors open at 6:30 — food and refreshments) Where: Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St West “Transforming Classes” with: * Sue Ferguson, David McNally, John McCullough and Adolph Reed * Moderated by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo Sponsored by Centre for Social Justice, Socialist Project, and The Socialist Register | Facebook […] Learn More
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate
January 11, 2015
When: Sunday, January 11th, 3pm Where: Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St, Toronto Discussion of Naomi Klein’s new book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate. The Lima Conference should have been a milestone that marked out how governments will take urgent action to tackle climate change and to support vulnerable people across the world to […] Learn More
Partners in Crime: The Mexican state, North American Capitalism, and the 43 Missing Students
December 12, 2014
When: Friday, December 12th, 7pm Where: Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St., Toronto The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement came with the promise of prosperity and jobs for all and the extension of human rights. These are, it needs hardly saying, promises unkept. On September 26th 2014, over 100 students from a rural […] Learn More
A Line in the Tar Sands
November 29, 2014
When: Saturday November 29th, 1pm Where: Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. , Toronto Join contributors, an editor, and Line 9 activists for a celebration of A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice. Tar sands “development” comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents — fighting a powerful international […] Learn More
Endless War? The Middle East and Canada’s New Militarism
November 27, 2014
Where: Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street, Toronto In 2003, the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq on false pretenses and left the country in ruins almost a decade later, creating the conditions for ISIL’s ascension in the region. Now the U.S. is spearheading a campaign to return to Iraq and enter Syria to fight off […] Learn More