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

From Trump's trade war and Carney's austerity to the genocide in Gaza and growing climate chaos the capitalist system is producing multiple crises. 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.

Opening Rally

October 30, 7:00 PM

Getting Organized for a Better World.

Main Program

October 31, 10:00 AM

Follow your course

Our program features six "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

  • Indigenous Sovereignty and Socialism
  • Russia 1917: Festival of the oppressed
  • Queer liberation and the Black radical tradition
  • A socialist history of disability

Imperialism and Resistance

  • Easter Rising 1916: James Connolly and 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 militant roots of education workers
  • War on workers: The political economy of AI
  • Trade unions and 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 and 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 and the fight against Amazon

Life under Capitalism

  • Why does capitalism need war?
  • Socialism & sports: A hidden history of resistance
  • Trotsky's Art and 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

October 26, 11:00 AM

Spring Labour Caucus & Strike Solidarity School

11 am - 3 pm

Room 221 | 720 Spadina Ave

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.