Join us for our first in person event since 2020!

We'll meet on Tuesday, August 9th at 7:00pm to discuss the 2022 Municipal Elections in Winnipeg and how anti-capitalist should relate to them.

We’ll meet in the park behind the Millennium Library Downtown.

And if it looks like it’s going to rain, we’ll switch to a virtual event over zoom.

To get the zoom link for that, send us an email at [email protected] and we’ll send you the link.

In this episode David and Misha talk about the different ways people understand the word socialism and how this informs political practice

Solidarity Winnipeg - Our Ecosocialism

https://www.solidaritywinnipeg.ca/?p=276

Charlie Post - Actually Existing "Socialism"--A Critique of Stalinism

https://newsocialist.org/actually-existing-socialism-a-critique-of-stalinism/

Colin Barker - What Do We Mean By... The State?

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/barker-c/1985/03/state.htm

David McNally - Socialist Politics in the Age of Trump

http://newsocialist.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Pamphlet-01.pdf

Hal Draper - The Two Souls of Socialism

https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1966/twosouls/

In this episode Posy, Teddy, Misha, and Vivienne talk about the future of union organizing.

The articles we reference are:

James Wilt: https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/parasitic-solidarity

Kim Moody: https://spectrejournal.com/payback-time/

Mostafa Henaway: https://breachmedia.ca/infiltrating-amazon-what-i-learned-going-undercover-at-the-corporate-giant/

https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/fighting-amazons-new-fordism/

In this episode, Travis and Danielle talk to teacher and trade union activist Tara Ehrcke about organizing for climate justice.

If you enjoyed this episode, join us for a public discussion on April 21st, 2022 at 8pm CT. Email [email protected] for a zoom link.

E-mail [email protected] to register and we'll send you the Zoom link in advance.

If you can, please listen to the latest episode of our podcast before the discussion: https://soundcloud.com/solidarity-winnipeg-sw/swpod-ukraine-ep-final.

Solidarity Winnipeg is committed to ensuring that discussions are respectful and constructive. Anyone whose words or actions violate these norms will be cautioned. If they do so again they will be removed.

Russia Out of Ukraine, and No to NATO Too!

A discussion of what stance leftists should take to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and to NATO, whether it matters, and what we can do in Winnipeg.

Want to learn more?

Statement by LeftEast: No War But Class War

https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/no-war-but-class-war/

Statement by the Transnational Social Strike Platform

https://www.transnational-strike.info/2022/02/24/no-to-war-for-a-transnational-politics-of-peace/

People and Nature - Simon Pirani's site has lots of good material on Russia and Ukraine

https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/

episode of Politics, Theory, Other with Richard Seymour

Interregnum - Russia invades Ukraine by Politics Theory Other

https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/interregnum-russia-invades-ukraine

episode of Politics, Theory, Other with James Meadway

Russia and the West - the economic war w/ James Meadway by Politics Theory Other

https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/russia-and-the-west

episode of The Dig with Tony Wood

https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-invades-w-tony-wood/

If you want to support socialists in Ukraine, we suggest donating to the organization

Social Movement (see this page in English on their website: 'Sotsialnyi Rukh': who we are?)

The easiest way to do that is to send money by PayPal to Yuliya Yurchenko at [email protected]

Money will be spent on food, medicine, housing, transportation and other evacuation needs.

You can learn more about Social Movement on their socials:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/social.ruh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/social.ruh/

In this episode, we open with a brief comment about the horrendous, so-called Freedom Convoy, and what the left needs to do to fight fascism.

Then we proceed with the main focus:

Mass collective struggle is where we will learn how to become better organizers. Workplace strikes are a crucial opportunity to put our ideas into practice. Now that the 2021 University of Manitoba Faculty of Association(UMFA)Strike has ended, we can reflect and draw some lessons.

Listen to Travis, Mads, David and Joe reflect on lessons from strike both from a worker and student organizing perspective. In their discussion they share experiences, challenges, and next steps.

Check it out and Happy Organizing!

Resources:

-Article by Judy Rebick and Corvin Russell "The left is nowhere on covid and that's a big problem" https://rabble.ca/columnists/the-left-is-nowhere-on-covid-and-thats-a-big-problem/

-Our Episode 11 (December 2021) talking about the UMFA strike while it was going on https://soundcloud.com/solidarity-winnipeg-sw/episode-11-umfa-strike

-Jo Freeman's "Tyranny of Structurelessness" was mentioned. Here's the wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness

A google search can help you locate the short essay.

JOIN US FOR DISCUSSION!

"Our Health > Their Profits"

Thursday, January 20th, 2022 at 7PM (CST) over Zoom.

Email us at [email protected] so we can send you the zoom link!

Check out article by Daniel Sarah Karasik: "Against Pandemic Realism" http://www.midnightsunmag.ca/against-pandemic-realism

We will discuss the politics of the pandemic. Here in Manitoba we have seen case counts sky rocket, test positivity rates go off the charts, and we are seeing an increase in hospitalizations too. People are frustrated, people are suffering, while capitalists have everything to gain from people acting like, and believing that, there’s no alternative to the current approach of essentially letting the virus rip through our communities.

But there has always been an alternative that uses the best of science, challenges the existing power structures of society, and most importantly puts our health and well-being before the profits of capitalists. And it is important for those of us who want to create a world that’s more fair and more safe to clearly understand that and communicate it.

For this discussion, we are excited to be joined by socialist writer and activist, Daniel Sarah Karasik!

More details on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/426532979204009

The Canada Goose company markets itself as a socially and environmentally conscious provider of rugged winter wear, proudly manufactured in Canada. The recent union drive by their workers in Winnipeg contrasted this image with the reality of working conditions within their plants.

This episode is an interview with worker organizers from the Canada Goose plants in Winnipeg and a rep from Workers United, who recently won a historic vote to unionize 1200 workers, most of whom are immigrant women.

For more information:

https://linktr.ee/CGWorkersUnited

What's the University of Manitoba Faculty Association strike about? A socialist discussion of the strike, its causes and some of its implications with a founder of Students Supporting UMFA and two UMFA members.

Students Supporting UMFA

https://www.ssumfa.ca

Instagram @ supportingumfa

https://www.instagram.com/studentssupportingumfa/

A great meme about the Manitoba Tory agenda for post-secondary education:

https://twitter.com/supportingumfa/status/1454959039226466304/photo/1

For analysis of what's happening to universities, check out Alan Sears and James Cairns' article "Austerity U"

https://newsocialist.org/austerity-u-preparing-students-for-precarious-lives/