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May 23, 2026 - #Build Communities Not Jails

When: Saturday May 23rd, 1pm
Where: 25 Grosvenor St, Solicitor General Headquarters

Let's join forces to stop the Ford Government's costly jail expansion plans!

According to a previously secret plan @cappontario obtained through a freedom of information request mere weeks before the law changed blocking the release of ministerial records, the Ford government is planning to build up to 5,760 new jail beds by 2050.

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May 23, 2026 - Organizing 101

When: May 23-24

The IWW's Organizer Training 101 (OT101) is a skill-based training that will teach you how to organize a union at your job, take action and win better working conditions for you and your coworkers.

The training consists of two 8 hour sessions. We'll contact you closer to the date with location details. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

To offset some of the costs associated with this training, we encourage participants to pay a registration fee of $15. No worker will be turned away for financial hardship, so please contact us if you can't make this contribution.

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May 22, 2026 - Workers Summit

When: May 22-23

On May 22nd and 23rd, workers from across Toronto will come together for the first ever Toronto Workers Summit -- a gathering to build a shared vision for our city and demand that mayoral and council candidates commit to what workers and the communities we serve actually need.

From shelter workers to children's services, from museum staff to public health -- Toronto's workers are organizing, and we're just getting started.

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May 21, 2026 - Workers’ Open House

When: May 21st, 5:30pm
Where: The Hub, 2660 Eglinton Ave E

Join us at the Workers' Open House to get your workers' rights questions answered and learn what you can do to protect yourself at work. Refreshments will be provided!

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May 19, 2026 - Booklaunch: Radical Jewish Tradition

When: May 19th, 7pm
Where: Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave

The gripping and inspiring account of Jewish socialist struggles against tsarist pogroms, exploitative sweatshops and murderous Nazis across three continents.

The book celebrates Jewish radicalism from the Tsarist Empire to Poland and Germany, from London to New York. Fighting oppression and exploitation took numerous political forms, including left Zionism, Bundism and revolutionary Marxism. This inspiring radical tradition was ultimately checked by the callous indifference of capitalist governments to refugees and the horror of Auschwitz. However, its lessons must be passed on to inform working-class and anti-imperialist struggles in a world in crisis.This book recovers some of that long-neglected history. Before the Second World War, the majority of Jews were working-class and part of a wider struggle alongside their non-Jewish comrades on the left.

To illuminate this background, the issue of Jewish identity is analysed along political, cultural and sociological lines. This is essential because, today, the claim of Israel and its apologists to represent Jews everywhere, the growth of the antisemitic far right and the approach of the left to the Jewish question are central issues. A knowledge of the breadth of Jewish resistance aids understanding of these debates.

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