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Feb 15, 2026 - Introduction to Socialism

When: Sundays, February 15 to April 5

Curious about socialism? Interested about if it is really possible and taking a sober look at the problems it will face? Want to discuss how to begin affecting change right now?

In these uncertain and dangerous times, The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is a space to listen, discuss and challenge the contemporary relevancy of socialism.

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Jan 23, 2026 - Cybernetic Circulation Complex

When: Friday January 23rd, 7pm
Where: College Street United Church, 502 Bathurst St

Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis (Verso, 2024), Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon and Google, Palantir and Uber, is in the speeding up and automation of the circulation of commodities. Big Tech aims to subject everything, from advertising and shopping, to logistics and financial services to the level of control and predictability that capital has secured in industrial production.

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Jan 21, 2026 - Booklaunch: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us

When: January 21st, 6:30pm
Where: Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave

Join authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks to celebrate the launch of their book Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax.

Music by Three Chord Johnny. Everyone is welcome.

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Jan 15, 2026 - Higher Education Organizing Meeting

When: January 15th, 6:30pm
Where: College Street United Church, 502 Bathurst St

Building on our first successful meeting in November, we're forging ahead with our sectoral-wide organizing strategy in the higher education sector. Our second organizing meeting, which will be held on January 15th, is focused on creating a Solidarity Pact for higher education workers. Sean Smith - a former activist and organizer with the Toronto Airport Workers Council - will be joining us to discuss what a solidarity pact is, how Toronto Airport Workers used it as an organizing tool, and how we can develop something similar to build our collective power across the education sector.

The purpose of January's meeting is threefold: (1) understanding what a Solidarity Pact is and how it can help us develop unity across the sector; (2) begin constructing our own Solidarity Pact; and (3) strategize ways we can use our Solidarity Pact as an organizing tool across the higher education sector.

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Jan 14, 2026 - Performance: The Battle for a Shorter Working Day

When: January 14, 15, and 16th, 7:30pm
Where: Steelworkers' Hall, 25 Cecil St

There was a time when workers sweated through ten or twelve-hour working days. How did we end up with more time off the job? By unions demanding it, again and again.

It all began in 1872. That year a movement for a nine-hour day burst onto the public stage in cities and towns across central Canada. Toronto was the site of one of the most famous incidents in that campaign when the printers went on strike against almost all the city's newspapers.

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