Courses

Imperialism & anti-imperialism
Why the West is losing in Afghanistan
Is the US empire in decline?
Suez Crisis and the real legacy of Canadian peacekeeping
Pakistan in crisis: justice, democracy and the war on terror
Mining, oil and gas companies: the face of Canadian imperialism

Capitalism today: between crisis and neoliberalism
Booms, slumps and the Marxist theory of crisis
Canada’s economy: immune to the US crisis?
The US, China and the world economy

1968: the year of the barricades
The Tet Offensive and the US defeat
Unbearable lightness: the Prague Spring
1968: students and workers in the streets

Climate change
After Kyoto: what next for the movement?
Climate change and revolution
Poisoned environment: Canada’s shameful record
Are India and China a threat to the environment?

Racism and anti-racism
Racism and Canada’s new "security state"
Racism and education: religious schools and Afro-centric schools
Orientalism and the writing of Edward Said

Marxism and religion
The revolutionary roots of Islam
Marxism and religion
The Enlightenment and the new atheism

Imagining emancipation
Socialism and freedom: alienation and emancipation
Capitalism, democracy and socialism

The Working Class
Which way forward for the labour movement?
Teamsters strike of 1934: rank and file rebellion

National liberation and colonialism
Today’s struggle for indigenous liberation
The Communist International and national liberation
Israel 1948: the making of a colonial settler state

Politics and popular culture
Music and revolution
The Olympics: competition unplugged
Bertolt Brecht’s theatre to change the world

Introduction to Marxist theory:
ideas to change the world
Lenin and ‘Leninism’ in the 21st century
What is capitalism?
Gramsci’s Marxism

Revolutionary strategy and tactics
Russia 1917: how a revolution was won
Reform and revolution of Rosa Luxemburg
Stalinism, fascism and the united front

Africa
Somalia and Darfur: new fronts on the war on terror
Egypt: on the edge of the volcano

Life under capitalism
The housing question in the age of neoliberalism
Cops, crime and capitalism
Capitalism and cancer: neoliberalism and the fight for the cure

Students in the class struggle
The student movement today
Education under capitalism
SDS and the 1960s student revolt

The rise of the Global South
China: new superpower or social powderkeg?
Hugo Chavez after the referendum

Oppression
Disability: ‘the last civil rights movement’
Abortion rights and the struggle for women’s equality
Women’s liberation in the age of Hillary Clinton
Women’s and gay oppression: reality and myth in Iran today
Politics of the Heart: a history of lesbian and gay rights in Quebec

Rebuilding the Left
Quebec Solidaire two years on

Special Sessions
The US election: will it make a difference?
Introduction to the International Socialists