The Society for Socialist Studies presents our next annual conference, taking place at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences from May 30 – June 2, 2012, in Waterloo, Ontario. Here’s an excerpt from our Call For Papers: The Great Recession of recent years produced new kinds of discontent but, so far at least, nothing that […]

As part of its mandate to facilitate and encourage research and analysis in Canada with an emphasis on socialist, feminist, ecological and anti-racist points of view, the Society for Socialist Studies is pleased to offer a venue to new scholars working in these areas who have not yet completed a Masters degree. Paper proposals could […]

Our keynote speaker, Michael A. Lebowitz will present his talk: Building Socialism for the 21st Century Michael A. Lebowitz is Professor Emeritus of Economics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby. B.C. His Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 and Spanish, Venezuelan, Turkish, Korean and Chinese editions) won the 2004 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize […]