Featuring… Live Music: Parallel Play Collective, whose music is a call to action and solidarity, drawing inspiration from the revolutionary struggles of the Filipino people Panel Discussion: Raw materials, goods, capital, and workers themselves are part of a network of global supply chains where each link is integral to the system of wealth distribution shaping … Keep reading »

Finally Got The News is a documentary that shows the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with the members of the movement, footage shot in the auto plants, and footage of leafleting and picketing actions, the film documents their efforts to build an … Keep reading »

Building upon more than a half century of sustained analysis of the evolving political economy of contemporary capitalism – and in particular the challenges it poses to the left – Socialist Register 2026, Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins puzzles through the rubble left behind after decades of rampant neoliberalism. What kind of world order … Keep reading »

Join us for the launch of Confronting the Resurgent Right. Scholars and activists take Canada’s 2022 “Freedom Convoy” as a recent manifestation of deep-rooted extremism and provide intersectional commentary on the resurgence of the political right, demonstrating how its ideology permeates and shapes the structures of our society. With evidence-based research, and careful analysis of … Keep reading »

214-230 Sherbourne has sat vacant for 18 years. This is a disgrace in a neighbourhood that desperately needs housing. Kingsett Capital, a multi-billion dollar private equity company, intends to build yet another luxury condo on the site. Social housing should be created on this land. To drive this home, right in the middle of the … Keep reading »

The Leo Panitch School is thrilled to host renowned historian and author, Bryan Palmer, for a celebration of his three volume history of Canada, Capitalism, and Colonialism!. This monumental work offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada’s past, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history are tied to the creation of a … Keep reading »

How and why did colonialism develop in the regions that became Canada? What role did capitalism play in the coming of colonialism? What effect did this have on indigenous peoples and in what was the role of anti-colonial struggle? What can the history of these and other resistance movements tell us about the possibility of … Keep reading »