Sep 14, 2020 | Events & Presentations
Click for the video on Facebook On September 11, 1973 the Chilean military under General Pinochet brutally attacked the democratically elected Popular Unity Government, killing President Salvador Allende and established a military junta that suspended civilian rule...
Mar 27, 2020 | Events & Presentations
Like so much else, the Toronto Workers’ History Project is on hiatus as the world confronts the COVID-19 crisis. As promoters of workers’ history and participants in workers’ movements, we are thinking a lot these days about the front-line workers...
Feb 20, 2020 | Events & Presentations
Tuesday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St. During World War II, over 20,000 Japanese Canadians were interned by the Canadian state and displaced from their homes and communities in British Columbia. Their businesses and homes, including a fleet of...
Jan 25, 2020 | Events & Presentations
Tuesday, February 4, 7:00 p.m.120 Diner, 120 Church St., Toronto ** Note change from our usual location ** Though criminalized and pushed to the margins, sex workers have played critical roles in Toronto’s history, contributing to its economic development and...
Nov 1, 2019 | Events & Presentations
Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 p.m.Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil St. The year 2020 will mark the 80th anniversary of the death of anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman in Toronto in May 1940. Deported from the United States in 1919, Goldman spent part of her exile in Toronto...
Sep 26, 2019 | CLiFF, Events & Presentations
Tuesday, October 8, 7:00 p.m.Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil St. Imagine a world where thousands of films are made about workers and the conditions under which they live, work, fight, and succeed in their daily lives! Instead, the world of labour has found it...
