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- Queer liberation and the Black radical tradition
- A socialist history of disability
Red October 2026
A conference of socialist ideas in action
Oct 30 - Nov 1
TMU Student Centre | Toronto
Register nowfor a weekend of socialist ideas and strategy
War, climate chaos, trade conflicts, a rising cost of living and attacks on public services. The capitalist world order is growing less stable by the day. For most working-class people, this moment has provoked feelings of frustration, anger, and despair. It is clear that socialists need to join together and strategize to build working class unity and power to combat the reactionary right and fight for a socialist alternative. Come to Spring’s fourth annual "Red October: A Conference of Socialist Ideas in Action," on October 30th, 31st, and November 1st at the Toronto Metropolitan University Student Centre in downtown Toronto (North and East of Dundas Station) to connect with likeminded socialists from across the Canadian state.
Opening Rally
October 30, 7:00 PM
World on fire: Workers, resistenace, and revolution
Main Program
October 31, 10:00 AM
Follow your course
Our program features eight "courses" on different topics, which you can follow as you please. Each programming block of concurrent sessions will feature one talk per course. Feel free to follow along with a particular course, or to mix-and-match as you attend sessions. Click on the course titles below to see the associated sessions.
Until all of us are free
Imperialism and resistance
- Easter Rising 1916: James Connolly & the fight for national liberation
- Turtle Island, South Africa, Palestine: What is settler colonialism?
- 'Fair Play for Cuba!' How global solidarity broke a blockade
- China: From revolution to state capitalism
Socialists at work
- 'Smash the patriarchy!' Women, work & revolution
- Class struggle: The radical roots of education workers
- War on workers: The political economy of AI
- Trade unions & the fight for reproductive justice
Memory of the class
- The radical Jewish tradition
- Lessons from the Spanish Civil War: 90 years later
- Soledad Brother: George Jackson & the fight for abolition
- 'Fight or starve!' A radical history of tenant organizing
Socialists and elections
- What was the Regina Manifesto?
- The NDP in power: A socialist history
- From Mamdani to Lewis: Is radical reformism possible?
- Socialist in Seattle: Kshama Sawant & the fight against Amazon
Life under capitalism
- Why does capitalism need war?
- Socialism and sports: A hidden history of resistance
- Leon Trotsky's Art & Revolution: How socialists understand art
- OPSEC: Security culture & socialist strategy
Nuit Rouge
6:00 pm - 11:00 pm
TMU Student's Union Building
55 Gould St.
Final Day
November 1, 10:00 AM
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2:00 PM
Toronto |
Closing Rally (placeholder)
3:40 PM
Toronto |
Directions
Toronto Metropolitan University Students’ Centre
55 Gould Street Toronto, M5B 1E9
Dundas Station is the closest TTC station to the conference.
Parking is available at 300 Victoria Street.