Program

Friday, June 13

Opening panel | 7:00 pm: BUILDING RESISTANCE ACROSS BORDERS
• Merv King, member of Timiskaming First Nation, Coordinator STAC Injured Workers Program
• Learie Charles, President, Canadian Union of Postal Workers Scarborough Local
• Carolyn Egan, Steelworkers Toronto Area Council President and International Socialists
• Victor Fernandez, Immigrant rights activist based in Los Angeles and member of Marx21 US
• Novjot Salaria, Post-Graduate Work Permit (PGWP) Committee from the protest encampment for migrant workers in Brampton
• Virginia Rodino, President, Maryland chapter of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO, and Executive Director, Coalition of Labor Union Women

Saturday, June 14

Morning panel | 9:30 am: TRUMP, TRADE WARS AND CAPITALIST CRISIS
Speaker: Joseph Choonara, editor of International Socialism journal; author of A Reader’s Guide to Marx’s Capital and Unravelling Capitalism: A Guide to Marxist Political Economy

Lunch panel | 12:30 pm: THE NDP AND THE CRISIS OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
Speakers: Matthew Green and Ritch Whyman

Evening panel | 7:00 pm: DISASTER CAPITALISM, CLIMATE CRISIS AND INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY
Speakers: Dorene Bernard and Brian Champ

Plus concurrent sessions on: Imperialism and global crisis | Marxism, gender and trans liberation | Hegemony: how do we fight ruling ideas? | Palestine, repression and resistance | Culture, technology and paranoia in the Age of catastrophe | Dialectical materialism: what is the Marxist method? | The far-right and the war on woke | Jewish radicalism before and after Zionism | What makes a socialist revolution?

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