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Toronto — 4 May 2013.
Taking place at New York's Barnard College, the Ecosocialist Conference drew some two hundred activists around the slogan “System Change not Climate Change.” It was endorsed by numerous progressive organizations and individuals in the U.S. and Canada, and featured speakers from a wide spectrum of organizations and perspectives. This day-long conference (April 20th) included workshops on “Race, Gender, and Environmental Justice”; “Agriculture and Food: Sustainable or Profitable?”; “Fossil Fuel Divestment,” and many other topics. The conference aimed to build a more collaborative left that could serve as the radical wing of the green movement and advance a program for “fighting global warming and its chief cause, capitalism.”
Moderated by Greg Albo. Presentations by:
Organized by the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly. For more information on these themes, visit climateandcapitalism.com.
Toronto — 24 April 2013.
Dan Freeman-Maloy talks about the deterioration of Canadian Jewish politics and implications for leftist strategy. The talk also outlines the broader politics of Western Zionism and identifies the relationship between the Palestine question and the rise of budgetary authorities within communal leadership structures. This talk is a follow-up from his earlier April article “70 Years After Warsaw.”
Dan Freeman-Maloy is an activist and writer, currently pursuing a PhD in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter. A recent collection of his writing on Western imperial politics and Palestine (2012) is available in full online.
Ottawa — 27 April 2013.
The panelists discuss the history and scope of the austerity agenda, its effects on the environment, indigenous peoples and working people the world over. Who and what is driving this agenda and how do we conceive of a fight back strategy that might begin to challenge the current hegemony of corporate power.
A Solidarity Against Austerity (Ottawa) Discussion and Workshop.
| LS # | Date | Title | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176. | May 19, 2013 | Reportback from Ecosocialism Conference 2013 | ||
| Taking place at New York's Barnard College, the Ecosocialist Conference drew some two hundred activists around the slogan "System Change not Climate Change." It was endorsed by numerous progressive organizations and individuals in the U.S. and Canada, and featured speakers from a wide spectrum of organizations and perspectives. Introduced by Abbie Bakan and John Riddell. Moderated by Greg Albo. Recorded in Toronto, 4 May 2013. | ||||
| 175. | May 12, 2013 | After the Canadian Jewish Congress | Freeman-Maloy, Dan | |
| Dan Freeman-Maloy talks about the deterioration of Canadian Jewish politics and implications for leftist strategy. It also outlines the broader politics of Western Zionism and identifies the relationship between the Palestine question and the rise of budgetary authorities within communal leadership structures. | ||||
| 174. | May 11, 2013 | Fighting Austerity | ||
| The panelists discuss the history and scope of the austerity agenda, its effects on the environment, indigenous peoples and working people the world over. Who and what is driving this agenda and how do we conceive of a fight back strategy that might begin to challenge the current hegemony of corporate power. | ||||
| 173. | May 5, 2013 | The Problem of Labour Imperialism | ||
| A forum with Kim Scipes and Marion Pollack to discuss the issues and challenges in building international labour solidarity. Moderated by Farid C. Partovi. Recorded in Toronto, 21 April 2013. | ||||
| 172. | May 4, 2013 | May Day 2013: Solidarity City | ||
| Solidarity City is a unified struggle for: Respect for Indigenous Sovereignty, Status for All, an End to Imperialism and Environmental Destruction, an End to Austerity and Attacks on the Poor and Working-Class, continued resistance against Patriarchy, Racism, Ableism and Homophobia and Transphobia. The march ended with a rally in support of the striking workers at Porter FBO. Recorded in Toronto, 1 May 2013. | ||||
| 171. | April 28, 2013 | Book Launch: Continental Crucible | ||
| The crucible of North American neoliberal transformation is heating up, but its outcome is far from clear. Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pan-continental and a class struggle perspective. This book also illustrates the ways in which the capitalist classes in Canada, Mexico and the United States used free trade agreements to consolidate their agendas and organize themselves continentally. | ||||
| 170. | April 14, 2013 | No Tar Sands in Toronto! Stop Line 9 | Bowman, Sabrina; Ron Plain; Ian Angus | |
| Moderated by Bryan Dale and Emma Cane. Presentations by three activists talking about the struggle against tar sands pipeline: Sabrina Bowman, Ron Plain and Ian Angus. Recorded in Toronto, 7 April 2013. | ||||
| 169. | March 31, 2013 | Queerly Political: Activism, Feminism, Marxism and Queer Politics | Black, Johannah May and Alan Sears | |
| How can we build a united movement that respects difference and autonomy, and also advances common struggles against oppression and exploitation? What are the linkages, and tensions, between feminism and queer politics? And how can we understand women's liberation in the context of other movements against oppression? Presentations by Johannah May Black Alan Sears. Recorded in Toronto, 23 March 2013. | ||||
| 168. | March 24, 2013 | Amir Khadir: Quebec and Quebec Solidaire | Khadir, Amir | |
| Amir Khadir, member of the Quebec National Assembly (Mercier) and former co-leader of Québec Solidaire gave the 2013 Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture: Quebec and Quebec Solidaire: Linking Sovereignty, Equality and anti-Neoliberalism. Recorded in Toronto 18 March, 2013. | ||||
| 167. | March 17, 2013 | Book Launch: Boom, Bust and Crisis | ||
| Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada -- edited by John Peters. Part of the Labour in Canada Series, published by Fernwood. Recorded in Toronto, 27 February 2013. | ||||
| 166. | March 10, 2013 | Unity, Democracy, Militancy: New Trade Union Initiative in India | Mody, Gautam | |
| Gautam Mody is Secretary of the New Trade Union Initiative, a trade union centre in India founded in 2002. NTUI proclaims itself as independent from political parties and it's slogan is 'Unity, Democracy, Militancy'. Its core constituent is the National Centre for Labour, a trade union of informal sector workers. | ||||
| 165. | March 9, 2013 | Austerity and Ontario's Universities | ||
| The contributors challenge the neoliberal mantra that there is no alternative but austerity to deal with the economic crisis and government deficits; in fact, austerity is shown to be counterproductive to the ostensible aim of fiscal prudence... not to mention the significant harm it does to our valued public services in general, and universities in particular. Recorded in Ottawa, 29 January 2013. | ||||
| 164. | March 3, 2013 | Class Struggles in Crisis: From Walmart to the State | ||
| A panel discussion introduced and moderated by Socialist Register co-editor Greg Albo. Presentations by Arun Gupta, Kevin Doogan, Jane Hardy and Charles Post. Recorded in Toronto, 22 February 2013. | ||||
| 163. | February 24, 2013 | Abortion Rights: Access and Barriers | Johnstone, Rachael | |
| Analysis of abortion rights at the federal and provincial levels, with a focus on New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec. Recorded in Toronto, 9 February 2013 as part of the GTWA anti-capitalism and feminism series. | ||||
| 162. | February 18, 2013 | Canada and the Palestine Question | Freeman-Maloy, Dan | |
| Dan Freeman-Maloy speaking at York University, February 7 2013. The talk situates Canadian policy within the context of Anglo-American imperialism on Palestine, reviews some of the mythology concerning Canada's 'liberal internationalist' past, and describes the basic development of Canadian Zionism, from the ethnic cleansing of 1948 to the war on terror. | ||||
| 161. | February 17, 2013 | Book Launch: Toward the United Front | Riddell, John; David McNally, Greg Albo, Suzanne Weiss and Paul Kellogg | |
| Book launch of Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922. The full congress record is now available for the first time in English and in paperback. Editor and translator John Riddell reflects on the lessons of translating the rich conversations and debates that shaped a generation of revolutionaries, and the implications for activists in current conditions of global capitalism. | ||||
| 160. | February 10, 2013 | Launching the Socialist Register 2013 | ||
| Chaired by Leo Panitch. Panel discussion with book contributors: Joan Sangster, Meg Luxton, Sam Gindin, Stephen Hellman, John Saul and Greg Albo. Recorded January 31, in Toronto. | ||||
| 159. | February 3, 2013 | Beyond Toronto's Transit Crisis | ||
| How can our campaign contribute to Toronto's transit movement and help transform the city? How could our demand for free and accessible public transit promote environmental justice and sustainability, housing, jobs and social equality? How can we move forward the GTWA Free and Accessible Transit Campaign? Recorded 20 January 2013 in Toronto. | ||||
| 158. | February 2, 2013 | Aftermath of the Port Said Massacre: Ultras Strike Back | Mustafa, Ali | |
| On February 1, 2012, 74 people were killed and over 1,000 more injured in a stadium riot following a football match between rival clubs Al-Masry and Al-Ahly in Port Said, Egypt. Al-Ahly fans, also known as 'Ultras,' directly blamed the Ministry of Interior for orchestrating the violence. Ensuing clashes in downtown Cairo between protesters and security forces lasted five days, leading to at least another dozen people killed in the aftermath. | ||||
| 157. | January 27, 2013 | Anti-Capitalism and Feminism | Luxton, Meg and Shahrzad Mojab | |
| Presentations by Meg Luxton - "Socialist Feminism in Canada: A Brief History"; Shahrzad Mojab - "Marxist Feminism: Keywords and Key Concepts." Recorded 12 January 2013 in Toronto. | ||||
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