The 12th annual Education for Activists conference, hosted by Socialist Action Canada, attracted 150+ participants over the course of four sessions, November 15-16, at the University of Toronto.

Topics included: Imperialism, origins and nature of the system; The Next Great Recession; Capitalism versus Life on Earth; and Working Class Politics. Speakers were Jeff Mackler, SA-USA national secretary and candidate for President of the U.S.; Robbie Mahood, leading member of SA/LAS in Montreal; Rebecca Keetch, auto worker in Oshawa and a leading member of the campaign ‘Take the Plant, Save the Planet’; Dimitri Lascaris, lawyer, journalist and coordinator of the Disruption Network Canada; John Clarke, founding member of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty; Ian Angus, editor, Climate and Capitalism; Yvonne Hanson, NDP candidate in Vancouver Granville; Dirka Prout, NDP candidate in London North-Centre; and Barry Weisleder, federal secretary of Socialist Action Canada.

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More than 50 socialists in many countries have raised more than $4,000 to publish the record of Communist women in the years following the 1917 Russian revolution.

The success of this fund drive opens the road to publishing a 750-page volume on the Communist Women’s Movement in 2020, centennial of its foundation.

The book, to be edited by Mike Taber and Daria Dyakonova, is the ninth segment of the Comintern Publishing Project, launched under John Riddell’s direction in 1983.

It will contain many unpublished speeches and writings of women leading the socialist movement across Europe, including Clara Zetkin and Alexandra Kollontai.

For information on the project, go to https://bit.ly/2sYLQHn.

For an update on the fund drive, see https://bit.ly/2ENrDIv.