CONTENTS
CALLS TO ACTION
Hands Off Our Education
Hands Off Our Education! is a provincial campaign launched by the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario, aimed at opposing the persistent and targeted attacks on education – including the latest attack: Bill 33.The campaign is calling on members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to:
– Reject Bill 33 and cease unnecessary government oversight,
– Defend and legislate students’ right to organize and safeguard the autonomy of our campuses,
– Provide immediate and dedicated public funding into the post-secondary education system.
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EVENTS
Raise the Rates! Freeze the Rent!
When: October 23rd, 11amWhere: Queen’s Park
Tell Doug Ford it’s time to raise the rates, freeze the rents & bring in FULL rent control!
After a 4-month summer break, MPPs are heading back to Queen’s Park — and we’ll be there to welcome them back to work.
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OPSEU Rally
When: Thursday October 23rd, 12pmWhere: 10 Armoury St
Over the past year, community and social services workers in OPSEU and CUPE Ontario have been organizing and building power. Now, the Worth Fighting For campaign is taking the heat straight to Queen’s Park!
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Bill 5s and Critical Minerals
When: Thursday, October 23rd, 12:30pmPlease join us for another installment of our Critical Minerals Seminar Series entitled The Bill 5s and Critical Minerals: The Implications for Indigenous Sovereignty.
This roundtable will feature interventions from Dr. Dayna Scott (Osgoode), Dr. Gabrielle Slowey (Politics, York), and Ryan Fleming (Political Science, U of T). Dr. Anna Zalik (FEUC, York) will chair the session.
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Fundraiser for Medical Aid in Gaza
When: Friday October 24th 6:30pmWhere: 58 Cecil St
Tickets: $100
Join us for an evening of solidarity and support. All proceeds will go to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to provide lifesaving care in Gaza.
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Kidical Mass TO
When: October 25th, 10:00amWhere: 155 Bayview Ave
Kidical Mass is an international movement for child- and cycling-friendly cities. Kidical Mass rides are an all-ages and abilities celebration of cycling which also highlights the need for healthier cities. Cycle Toronto is proud to be powering the return of KidicalMassTO on the last Saturday of every month until October.
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CUPW Solidarity
When: October 25th, 11amWhere: 47 Densley Ave
A press conference followed by direct door-to-door outreach to residents in Toronto and Scarborough.
How: CUPW members and volunteers will leaflet assigned neighbourhoods and drop notices in individual mailboxes. Volunteers will walk door-to-door to deliver these notices.
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No To Hate; Everyone Belongs
When: October 25th, 11:30amWhere: Queen’s Park (Museum subway south exit)
“Canada First” are bringing their hate to Queen’s Park on October 25th. They seek to spread vicious hate, blaming immigrants for crises in housing, jobs and social services. This far-right group, which looks to UK fascist Tommy Robinson for inspiration, is promoting “remigration” – a call for mass deportation of people of non-European or non-Christian descent.
This is part of a growing threat around the world from the far-right. Over the years, wherever white supremacist and Islamophobic hate groups reared their heads in Toronto’s public spaces, they have been challenged. On October 25th, bring your flags, placards, banners and energy – Solidarity not hate! No to racism and Islamophobia!
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[Hamilton] We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System
When: Saturday, October 25th, 1pmWhere: Solidarity Place, Hamilton
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to welcome longtime organizer Jonathan Rosenblum to Hamilton for the launch of his brand new book We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System!
From inside Kshama Sawant’s historic tenure in Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for twenty-first-century socialists, a counterpoint to the common strategies of mainstream progressives today.
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Booklaunch: We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System
When: Saturday, October 25th, 7pmWhere: Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to welcome longtime organizer Jonathan Rosenblum to Hamilton for the launch of his brand new book We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System!
From inside Kshama Sawant’s historic tenure in Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for twenty-first-century socialists, a counterpoint to the common strategies of mainstream progressives today.
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Resistance Until Total Liberation
When: Sunday, October 26th, 2pmWhere: Bay and Front St
Join us for a protest in Toronto to call for immediate aid to enter Gaza and for a full two-way arms embargo. As we enter a new phase of the genocide, one that is more silent, more hidden, and disguised by the perpetrators “ceasefire”. However, Palestinians continue to be murdered daily. Since the implementation of the “ceasefire,” 23 Palestinians have been killed. Continue to resist until the siege is lifted, until every Palestinian political prisoner is free, until the occupation crumbles, until total liberation!
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Canadian Foreign Policy Hour with Yves Engler
When: Mondays at 6pmJoin author Yves Engler on Mondays for a weekly news roundup and interactive discussion about Canada’s role abroad. This weekly session will delve into the latest developments on subjects ranging from military affairs and Canada’s role in Ukraine to its contribution to Palestinian dispossession, and the exploitation of African resources. Join Yves for a critical take on Canada’s foreign policy. Questions, comments, and criticisms are all welcome.
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Booklaunch: We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System
When: Monday, October 27th, 7pmWhere: Octopus Books, Ottawa
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to welcome longtime organizer Jonathan Rosenblum to Hamilton for the launch of his brand new book We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System!
From inside Kshama Sawant’s historic tenure in Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for twenty-first-century socialists, a counterpoint to the common strategies of mainstream progressives today.
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Fighting Back Against Wage Theft in Ontario
When: October 28th, 7pmWage theft is happening across Ontario, when employers don’t pay what they owe, take tips, or refuse to pay overtime and vacation pay. While the Ford government makes it easier for bad employers to get away with it, workers are standing up and fighting back.
The Workers’ Action Centre is launching a new Wage Theft Report that exposes how widespread the problem is and what needs to change. The webinar will feature workers who have experienced wage theft and are organizing for justice.
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Fill the Legislature Galleries
When: Wednesday October 29th, 9amWhere” Queen’s Park
At stake is our single-tier public medicare and the services and funding in our local public hospitals. Don’t let Ford destroy them.
We cannot let two-tier medicare and the charging of patients thousands of dollars for surgeries and diagnostic tests to become normalized. We are on the cusp of it now. If we don’t fight back, we are going to lose public medicare.
Please spread the word. Please come out if you can, and if you do not live close to Toronto, please host a Legislature Watch event in your community and invite the media. Speak out. Do everything you can to pour on the pressure.
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FilmSocial: Wall Street
When: Wednesday October 29th, 6:45pmWhere: Eyesore Cinema, 1176 Bloor St W.
Free/PWYC
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is excited to present Wall Street (1987) as the final installment in our special series of film screenings on the topic of money.
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Canada, First Nations, Mexico and the US
When: Wednesday October 29th, 7pmHow Do We Resist a War on Good Jobs?
Great speakers from CUPW, Attiwapiskat First Nation, Mexico and US labour movements. How can we fight to defend ourselves and build solidarity and unity?
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ARTICLES
No Fair Play Under Occupation
By Sanjana P. Rahman and Nibras K. ChowdhuryAs the 2026 FIFA World Cup approaches, the world’s largest sporting event is set to unfold against the backdrop of Israel’s ongoing mass atrocities in Gaza and a growing global consensus that the Israeli state is engaged in genocide. Israel’s occupation of Palestine, the longest running occupation in modern history, forms the context for repeated calls for FIFA – the international governing organisation in soccer – to take action ahead of the 2026 World Cup. From formal appeals by the Palestinian Football Association to growing global solidarity movements demanding that Israel’s national team be banned from international soccer, at no time has the role of FIFA been as crucial as now.
Source: The Bullet No. 3204
The Crisis at Canada Post
With its recent announcement to ‘modernize’ Canada Post, the Mark Carney government has, for all intents and purposes, dusted off the Harper-era “Five Point Action Plan” aimed at gutting the public postal service. In the midst of a bitter, two-year labour dispute with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), the government gave notice that it would accept and implement the recommendations put forward in labour arbitrator William Kaplan’s May 2025 Industrial Inquiry Commission report.Source: The Bullet No. 3205
Germany: A Left-Wing, Grassroots Orientation for Die Linke
Violetta Bock interviewed by Antoine LarracheThe defining feature of the situation in Germany is the decline of the ‘old West’. This applies both to its military and geopolitical role in the US-European alliance and to the economic basis of that alliance: the era when Germany occupied a leading position in European industry and played a dominant role in the global economy seems to be over for the time being, and there is currently no indication that this evolution could be halted or even reversed.
Source: The Bullet No. 3206
We Won’t Be Locked Out
The long-vacant property at 214–230 Sherbourne Street has become a symbol of Toronto’s deepening housing crisis – and the site of a determined community campaign to reclaim it for social housing. For more than two years, 230 Fightback, a grassroots coalition of residents and anti-poverty advocates, has challenged corporate developer KingSett Capital, demanding that the property be converted into affordable housing rather than luxury condominiums. The group argues that this fight is about more than one address – it’s about the right of low-income residents to remain in their communities.Source: LeftStreamed