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Life in the Toronto Branch of the League for Socialist Action, 1961-1977 – video 93 minutes – “LET’S RENT A TRAIN!” is an unprecedented historical film about the rise and fall of a militant revolutionary group that profoundly altered Canada’s political landscape. During the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, several hundred highly disciplined activists led Canada’s antiwar movement against the U.S. invasion of Vietnam, and exposed Ottawa’s financial and diplomatic complicity with the Pentagon. The League for Socialist Action (LSA), also played a key role in winning the…

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Resolution – 6 May 2024 Believing that the worsening situation in Gaza and the urgency of taking measures to achieve lasting peace, places a responsibility on all academic institutions to respond to this ongoing crisis. Senate therefore resolved to: Support the call for an immediate ceasefire and the free flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza, unhindered by the Israeli Defence Force and Israeli civilians. Demand the return of captured civilians and political prisoners who have not been found guilty of any gross human rights violations by impartial courts of law…

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On the 5th of May, Karl Henry Marx was born at TRIR in RHINE province (GERMAN). He is PRUSSIA-GERMAN Philosopher, Sociologist, Economist, Writer, Poet, Political Journalist, Linguist, Public Figure, Historien. The most famous works are the MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY (1848 in co-authorship with Friedrich Engels) and ‘CAPITAL’ criticism of Political Economy (1867-1883). Marx’s Political and Philosophical though had a huge impact on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history. Marx proved that human society at each stage is developing as a result of class struggle caused by contradictions in…

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Argentina Towards the 6th International Ecosocialist Meeting 2 May by Maria Elena Saludas On 9, 10 and 11 May 2024, the 6th International Ecosocialist Meeting and the 1st Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Meeting will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.. What is ecosocialism and what does it advocate? Our aim is to put the (vast) theoretical and political ecosocialist trajectory of the North and South into dialogue. Ecosocialism is a political doctrine that emerged during the transition from the 20th to the 21st century and articulates the fundamental ideas…

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With authors Scott Aquanno and Steve Maher. Moderated by Lenart Nici. Recorded in Toronto, 27 April, 2024. The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is proud to present the launch of the new book from Scott Aquanno and Steve Maher: The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock (Verso, 2024). Today, it is all but taken for granted that finance is parasitic on industry. Financialization, in this view, amounts to financial institutions capturing the state, hollowing out the ‘real’ economy, and hastening the decline of capitalism.…

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Born on 5th May 1818 Died on 14th March 1883.  Know why Karl Marx called Religion “The Opium of the People” and his dream of a communist revolution: The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes Religion, Religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society…

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A banner reads ‘Against apartheid, Boycott of Israel’. Thousands of people demonstrate in support of Gazans, in Toulouse France on November 18th 2023 [Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Getty Images] The First Global Anti-Apartheid Conference for Palestine will be held in South Africa later this month in an historic move that aims to amplify the urgent need to address Israel’s ongoing genocidal actions against Palestinians – especially in Gaza. Organised by the South African Anti-Apartheid Steering Committee (SAAASC), the conference will be held from 10-12 May and reflects a collective aspiration to…

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On May 4th 1886, workers in Chicago staged a protest in the Haymarket Square, fighting for an eight-hour workday. Workers withstood brutal attacks by the police and sacrificed their lives and bodies to make the eight-hour workday a reality. All of us in Sri Lanka enjoy an eight-hour work day, which became one of our fundamental rights as working people as a result of the struggles and sacrifices of our predecessors. Today, we have come full circle where our government and employers are drafting a new labour law shredding sanctified…

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La Marx International A real insurrection of the student movement in support of the struggle of the Palestinian people is shaking the United States and the world. Protests and occupation camps in solidarity with the 3rd Intifada of the Palestinian people have spread to 60 universities in the United States, and the protests have spread to high schools and high schools in Washington.  This movement is globalizing and becoming international with protests that extend to the student movement of other countries such as the Sorbonne in Paris, the Institute of…

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LAST CHANCE! Submit your session proposal by May 1! The last year has changed us all. As global crises deepen, social movements the world over are striving toward new visions and experimenting with new strategies. From Palestine to the US and beyond, radical politics have re-emerged as necessary for both survival and full liberation. At this critical juncture, the Socialism 2024 Conference will be a vital gathering space for today’s left. Featured speakers at Socialism 2024 will include: Arundhati Roy, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Noura Erakat, Mohammed El-Kurd, Ilan Pappé, Roxanne…

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