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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 | ||
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| 156. | January 20, 2013 | Free Palestine: Reportback from the World Social Forum | ||
| In the aftermath of apartheid Israel's most recent attack on the people of Gaza, over 3000 delegates travelled to Porto Alegre, Brazil to participate in the World Social Forum - Free Palestine. From November 28 to December 1, 2012 this historic gathering brought together Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists from more than 35 countries to discuss, educate, strategize, mobilize and expand networks across organizations and global campaigns. A popular theme of the forum was building joint strategies for advancing the Palestinian-led movement for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). | ||||
| 155. | December 23, 2012 | Book Launch: Monsters of the Market | McNally, David | |
| A night to celebrate the launch (in paperback) of David McNally's Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism and the book's receipt of the 2012 Deutscher Prize. With MCs Faria Kamal and Alan Sears, remarks from Himani Bannerji and a reading by the author. Recorded 4 December 2012 in Toronto. | ||||
| 154. | December 9, 2012 | The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State | Wahl, Asbjørn | |
| In an age of government imposed austerity, and after 30 years of neoliberal restructuring, the future of the welfare state looks increasingly uncertain. Asbjørn Wahl offers an accessible analysis of the situation across Europe, identifies the most important challenges and presents practical proposals for combating the assault on welfare. Recorded 15 Nov 2012 in Toronto. | ||||
| 153. | December 2, 2012 | Tar Sands Come to Ontario - No Line 9! | ||
| What is Line 9? Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline could be pumping corrosive and toxic tar sands across Ontario soon. Line 9 cuts through Toronto, north of Finch. Tar sands in Line 9 would menace natural environments, violate Native land rights, and threaten our communities across the province. And exploitation of Canada's tar sands escalates climate change, posing a deadly threat to all the world's peoples. Presentations by Wes Elliott, Vanessa Gray, Aaron Detlor, Art Sterritt, and Maude Barlow. | ||||
| 152. | November 25, 2012 | The Concept of 'Fairness': Possibilities, Limits, Possibilities | Lebowitz, Michael | |
| Critical Social Research Collaborative (CSRC) -- the Fourth Annual Conference in Critical Social Research: Faultlines of Revolution! Keynote address by Michael A. Lebowitz: The Concept of "Fairness": Possibilities, Limits, Possibilities. The talk draws on Lebowitz's latest book, The Contradictions of "Real Socialism". | ||||
| 151. | October 21, 2012 | Occupy Socialism | Schmidt, Ingo | |
| Alternatives to Economic Inequality, Imperialist War and Ecological Destruction. Ingo Schmidt is an economist, a writer, and a labour educator. He is the Coordinator of the Labour Studies Program at Athabasca University. Recorded 29 September 2012 in Vancouver. | ||||
| 150. | September 23, 2012 | Social Democracy After the Cold War | Evans, Bryan and Leo Panitch | |
| Offering a comparative look at social democratic experience since the Cold War, the volume examines countries where social democracy has long been an influential political force, while also considering the history of the NDP, the social democratic tradition in the United States, and the emergence of New Left parties in Germany and the province of Quebec. | ||||
| 149. | September 16, 2012 | Funeral for Collective Bargaining Rights | ||
| Devastated by a far-reaching anti-worker Bill 115: Putting Students First Act (it was passed Sept. 11), rank and file education workers convened a funeral for collective bargaining rights on the lawn of Queen's Park. The solemn ceremony comes after education workers spent weeks trying to stop the legislation by lobbying Members of Provincial Parliament, rallying at Queen's Park, and addressing the public through the media. | ||||
| 148. | August 19, 2012 | Contested Futures: Tar Sands and Environmental Justice | ||
| Presentations by Raul Burbano and Bryan Dale reporting back from Rio+20 and the People's Summit in Brazil. Plus other reports on front-line resistance in Ontario. Recorded 30 July in Toronto. | ||||
| 147. | July 22, 2012 | Lessons From Quebec | ||
| Student Activists from Quebec visit Ryerson Student Centre, Toronto, Ontario. Recorded 19 July 2012. | ||||
| 146. | July 15, 2012 | Book Launch: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada | ||
| Co-editors Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage launched their new book, Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, in Toronto. Recorded 17 June 2012. | ||||
| 145. | July 8, 2012 | QuAIA at Pride 2012 | ||
| Marching with Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) at the annual Pride Parade in Toronto, 1 July 2012. Chants heard along the parade route: Whose Pride? Our Pride! Queers Against apartheid!; Our only course of action? Boycott Divestment Sanctions!... | ||||
| 144. | June 24, 2012 | The Challenges of the Greek Left After the Election | Panitch, Leo | |
| After two years of anti-austerity street battles, Greece is in the midst of a highly polarized electoral battle. Syriza, the Coalition of the Radical Left, gained 10% over their previous election result. But the direction and programme of Syriza is far from settled, and containing many contradiction and tensions. The crisis in Greece and Europe is far from settled, and will enter a new phase. Leo Panitch having just returned from a week in Greece where he met many senior officials in Syriza, and also of the radical left coalition Antarsya, speaking at one of their congresses. | ||||
| 143. | June 3, 2012 | Public Health Care in Ontario Under Attack | ||
| OHC Town Hall presentations on the effect of recent Ontario Government Budget on Health Care and social services. Recorded 26 May 2012 in Ottawa, Ontario. | ||||
| 142. | June 3, 2012 | Lessons of the Comintern Experience | ||
| Presentations by: Helen Scott, John Riddell and Lars T. Lih. Recorded at the Historical Materialism Conference at York University, Toronto, 11-13 May 2012. | ||||
| 141. | May 27, 2012 | Marxism and Feminism: Revisiting and Extending the Dialogue | ||
| Presentations by Sandra Rein, Johanna Brenner, Adrienne Roberts and Abigail Bakan. Recorded at the Historical Materialism Conference at York University, Toronto, 11-13 May 2012. | ||||
| 140. | May 19, 2012 | Solidarity Against Austerity | ||
| Part of the May Day events in Ottawa - a teach-in on austerity and building a fightback with Greg Albo, Janet Fraser, Clayton Thomas-Muller and Jack Bogart from ACORN. Recorded May 1, 2012 in Ottawa. | ||||
| 139. | May 13, 2012 | The Crisis and the Left | ||
| Launch of the 2012 Socialist Register - The Crisis and the Left: Where Does Occupy Lead Now? with Frances Fox Piven, David McNally and co-editors of the Register Greg Albo and Leo Panitch. Recorded 6 May 2012 in Toronto. | ||||
| 138. | May 6, 2012 | A Triumph of Failed Ideas | Lehndorff, Steffen | |
| Steffen Lehndorff speaks about the book, A Triumph of Failed Ideas: European models of capitalism in the crisis. The current crisis in Europe is being labelled, in mainstream media and politics, as a 'public debt crisis.' The present book draws a markedly different picture. What is happening now is rooted, in a variety of different ways, in the destabilization of national models of capitalism due to the predominance of neoliberalism since the demise of the post-war 'golden age.' | ||||
| 137. | April 29, 2012 | Public Finance, Pensions and P3s | Sanger, Toby; Joel Harden; Heather Whiteside | |
| With presentations by Toby Sanger (Canadian Union of Public Employees); Joel Harden (Labour College of Canada) and Heather Whiteside (Simon Fraser University). Recorded 23 March 2012, Ryerson University, Toronto. | ||||
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