Branch planning meeting: Toronto
Workers' Action Centre, Suite 202 720 Spadina Avenue, Suite 202, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoin us for a branch planning meeting in Toronto. Agenda: Climate justice activity Decent work activity
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Chile: Is Revolution Possible?
Workers' Action Centre, Suite 202 720 Spadina Avenue, Suite 202, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaWhat started off as a protest against a transit fare hike last October soon exploded into a mass movement demanding nothing short of a reckoning...
COVID-19: A Socialist Response
As COVID-19 spreads rapidly around the world, outpacing our capacity for testing, let alone treatment, it highlights the weakness of the capitalist system in the...
Toronto book club: Indigenous sovereignty, ecosocialism & social change
Workers' Action Centre, Suite 202 720 Spadina Avenue, Suite 202, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoin us to discuss some articles. All welcome, read what you can but it will be worth it whether you can read all of it...
Webinar: COVID 19 & capitalism: Rights not repression
Already, there has been unprecedented state intervention to stablize the economic system as the impact of COVID-19 continues to unfold. Many progressively-minded people - and...
Online reading group: The economy, the pandemic and the state
Join us for an on-line reading group on the economy, the pandemic and state responses. We are facing an unprecedented economic crisis in the midst...
The Healthcare Crisis: Why workers’ rights are key to confronting the pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues many are asking how do we flatten the curve and fight the virus? Instead of empowering people to self-isolate at...
Reading group: Capitalism, the State & Socialist Strategy
Join us for an online discussion on capitalism, the state and socialist strategy. What is the capitalist state? How does it function? And what does...
How do we build tenant power during a pandemic?
The economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions to lose their jobs or see their hours of work reduced. Workers are struggling...
Vancouver Reading Group: What do we do after Bernie?
Expectations for Bernie Sanders were sky high only a few weeks ago. These expectations were dashed as the Democratic Party establishment lined up behind Joe...
COVID, Crime & Capitalism – Webinar
COVID-19 has opened up basic questions on how society organizes food, shelter, work and health, It has also shown all the ways migrants, BIPOC, poor...
Online reading group: Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution
Born in Poland in 1871, Rosa Luxemburg became a rabble rousing activist. Eventually, she ended up in Germany as one of the leading revolutionaries in...
Vancouver Reading Group: Revolution in the 21st Century
Many around the world have seen the 21st century as a time of struggle, change, and revolution. People all over are fighting back against austerity...
Covid 19: Who will pay for the crisis?
As the global crisis unfolds, the capitalist class is scrambling to restart the economy and resume the business of profit-making. And as the economy is opened...
Online Reading Group: Basic Income and Socialist Strategy
Should the Left support a demand for a Universal Basic Income (UBI)? This simple question has provoked a fervent and confusing debate. In the midst...
West Coast Reading Group: Racism, Oppression, and Revolution
As dozens of American cities rise in rebellion against murderous and racist police forces, calls for defunding or even abolishing the police are becoming louder....
Online reading group: Abolish the police
The murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers has unleashed a wave of anger. Protests across the country and beyond (thousands marched for #justiceforRegis in...
West Coast Reading Group: Who do the Police Serve and Protect?
The movement against police brutality and racism are continuing to grow in the US, Canada, and the world. There is an ever increasing push on...
Online Reading Group: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest...
Online Reading Group: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – PT. 2
Join us for an online reading group of this very substantial read. We are reading this book in sections. This is our second meeting to...
