Socialist Project

Beyond Market Dystopia: Socialist Register 2020
The Toronto book launch of Socialist Register 2020 – Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living (edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo). Watch...

Urgent call for international solidarity with the metal workers strike in Turkey!
Metal workers, once again, act like an icebreaker for the whole population to shake off and break the chains of despotism.

Metal Workers Strike in Turkey
More than a hundred thousand metal workers are getting prepared to launch a strike on February 5th.

Alberta’s Coal Phase-Out: A Just Transition?
The relatively rapid transition away from coal power is the result of numerous decisions made since 2007.

Capitalism, Socialism, and Existential Despair
Decades ago, Edward Said remarked that contemporary life is characterized by a “generalized condition of homelessness.” Decades earlier, Martin...

The Traffic Hierarchy
One is not born a motorist, one becomes one. Mobility and class are deeply entangled. Not only because one’s potential for mobility often has to...

Abiy Ahmed: Nobel Peace Laureate Who Faces Unrest at Home
When the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, was in Oslo for the award ceremony, eyebrows were raised when he...

200,000 Canadian Teachers Strike to Defend Public Education
Ontario teachers have joined the front lines in the worldwide battle against austerity.

From Lockout to Blockade at Co-op Refinery: Solidarity with Unifor 594
Members of Unifor 594 and the union’s national leadership are waging a bitter battle against Co-op Refinery Complex, a division of Federation of...

Trump-style politics the new normal in Alberta
The meaning of the Trump years goes deep.