Red October 2025

Friday October 24

7:00 pm
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9:00 pm

Saturday October 25

10:00 am
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11:15 am

11:15 am
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11:30 am

Break

Book sale room open at Tecumseh Auditorium

11:30 am
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12:45 pm

12:45 pm
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2:00 pm

Lunch Break

Book sale room open at Tecumseh Auditorium

2:00 pm
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3:15 pm

3:15 pm
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3:30 pm

Break

Book sale room open at Tecumseh Auditorium

3:30 pm
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4:45 pm

4:45 pm
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6:30 pm

Recess

Book sale room open at Tecumseh Auditorium

Program

Friday October 24

Getting Organized for a Better World

Saturday October 25

Black, Feminist, Queer, Marxist: What was the Combahee River Collective?

The United Front: How to build a mass movement

On-to-Ottawa Trek 1935: Unemployed workers fight back

Exploitation: Where does profit come from?

Can we vote our way to socialism?

How do we win climate justice: Why we need the working class

Break

José Carlos Mariátegui: Latin American Marxism & Indigenous liberation

Russia 1917: The Theory of Permanent Revolution

Soviets, shoras, cordones: The revolutionary history of workers' councils

Capitalist crisis: What is the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall?

The Waffle movement and the NDP: Lessons for socialists

Don't attack Iraq! How we stopped Canada from joining the war

Lunch Break

Trans liberation: What are the roots of transphobia?

From above or from below? The two souls of socialism

Black workers vs South African Apartheid: Lessons for Palestine

Artifical Intelligence: What is the value of human labour?

Capitalism & class consciousness: How do ideas change?

The case for Universality: From child care to health care

Break

Kanehsatà:ke (Oka), Ipperwash, Gustafsen Lake: Land Back lessons from the 1990s

From Claudia Jones to Hossam El-Hamalawy: What is revolutionary journalism?

Education workers & Ontario’s almost general strike: The role of socialists

Resisting the new militarism: What is the permanent arms economy?

What would a future socialist society look like?

Palestine solidarity: What was the Pride Coalition for Free Speech?

Recess

Nuit Rouge

Closing rally & Social

Sunday October 26

Spring Labour Caucus & Strike Solidarity School