More people around the world are questioning the logic of a system that puts corporate profits ahead of everything else -- including the very survival of the planet.
Achieving meaningful reforms under capitalism is increasingly difficult. And sometimes the sheer magnitude of the problems facing the world can make us feel small, isolated and beyond the capacity to make a difference.
This time last year, the effects of the Arab Spring had already inspired millions of people around the world to think about the possibility of revolution - and the role that they themselves could play in creating a better world.
While political pundits and right-wing leaders argued that the revolutions would never last (and that they had no connection to what was going on over here), activists had other ideas.
Occupy shines light on capitalism's inequality
Free screening of "Marx Reloaded" documentary with discussant SAM GINDIN, former Research Director of the CAW and co-author of The Making of Global Capitalism.
The Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Toronto presents a public forum on:
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and "Resistance": The problematic forms of "anticapitalism" today
A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today. Panelists: Baolinh Dang (Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee- Revolutionary Students Movement), Cam Hardy (Platypus) and Jim Stanford (Canadian Auto Workers).
Kim Jackson will present: Gentrification in the Junction: erasure, displacements and the marketization of space past and present
Local organizations often deploy historical narratives to sell their neighbourhood to potential home buyers and business owners in an effort to reinforce gentrification processes. Taking the Junction as a case study, this research looks at historical continuities between colonization, as primitive accumulation, and gentrification as ongoing primitive accumulation strategies to continue the marketization of space. The increased marketization of both space and sociality rifts the community into those who participate and are therefore valorized, and those who do not and are therefore excluded, made vulnerable and considered expendable.
This ain't Oprah's Book Club, comrade.
Book clubs dedicated to the works of Karl Marx, Fredrick Engels and Marxism started springing up all over the world a few years ago, and now Winnipeg has its very own. Each week, the discussion is invigorating as the group tackles another facet of Marxist thought.
Electronic versions of many Marxist texts are available here.
Marxist Day School: presentations and discussions about revolutionary politics:
Session 1:
Karl Marx Was Right: The World Economic Crisis--Profits Rise, Millions Starve
Session 2:
South Africa Eyewitness: Permanent Revolution vs. Class Collaboration
Contact the TL/SYC for readings
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