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Nov 20, 2025 - Crisis and Resistance

When: November 20th, 7pm

Ontario's higher education sector faces a perfect storm of austerity, rising precarity, and eroding academic freedom. This has provoked a sustained wave of resistance, marked by near-continuous faculty, staff, and student-worker strikes over recent years-exemplified by the recent OPSEU support staff strike.

Learning from these Ontario struggles and from successful, militant unionism in the United States, this event argues for a new strategic direction. We will explore the structural challenges and strategic issues that higher education workers face and consider the potential for a path forward based on commitments to wall-to-wall organization and new forms of sectoral solidarity and joint action.

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Nov 15, 2025 - CLiFF Toronto

When: November 15th, 5pm
Where: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave

9 powerful shorts on work, justice & protest. Real stories, real voices. CLiFF 2025 - cinema with a conscience. Free and open to all!

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Nov 12, 2025 - Booklaunch: Lessons from the Zapatistas

When: Wednesday Nov 12th, 7pm

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is proud to host Lia Pinheiro Barbosa and Peter Rosset for the online launch of their new book Lessons from the Zapatistas: From Armed Insurgency to People's Autonomy.

Lessons from the Zapatistas is essential reading for anyone interested in liberation, democracy and radical social transformation. It tells the story of the Zapatista insurgency, including the contemporary breadth and depth of their territorial autonomy, tracing how an Indigenous uprising burst forth from southern Mexico's Lacandon Jungle to stage the 21st century's first and most electrifying example of autonomy in action.

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Nov 12, 2025 - Fund Our Schools - phone zap

When: November 12th, 8pm

Calling all concerned parents and education workers! Underfunding of education has resulted in $6.3 billion of cuts. Those are having an impact on our kids, our students and the workers inside our schools.

We want those responsible to know that they need to stop Bill 33, supervision of our school boards - which are ploys to distract us from chronic underfunding. Join us on this Phone Zap to call MPPs to tell them to FUND OUR SCHOOLS.

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Nov 11, 2025 - The People of Canada will Love Us Again

When: Tuesday November 11th, 5pm
Where: Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave

With special guest Senator Yuen Pau Woo.

President Trump's comment at his October meeting with Prime Minister Carney about the "mutual love" between Canada and the United States was interpreted by many media observers as striking a more "positive tone". In fact, it masks a deeper problem in bilateral relations, in that many of our policy, business, and civil society leaders are clinging to a belief in enduring US beneficence towards Canada and the maintenance of US primacy in world affairs. For all the talk about "rupture" and "diversification," Ottawa has not advanced a coherent foreign policy vision that allows for greater Canadian strategic autonomy. Is there a better way?

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