CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Workers’ Bowl

Our team is fundraising for the Workers’ Bowl – an annual charity event run collaboratively by the Ontario Employment Education & Research Centre (OEERC) and the Workers’ Action Centre.

All funds raised will directly benefit racialized, immigrant and low-wage workers in precarious jobs.

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Social Justice Community Fair

When: Thursday, October 22nd, 2:30pm to 4pm
Where: William Doo Auditorium

Come out to our Social Justice Fair.

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Resurrecting the Narco-State

When: October 22nd, 5pm

In the last election (November 2025), right-wing forces in Honduras and blatant US interference defeated the country’s progressive government as part of a broader campaign against leftist governments across Latin America. Hear eye-witness reports from our activist speakers about the resistance to attacks on the Garifuna, repression in the Aguán, the libertarian Zede and Prospera projects, and the new right-wing government.

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Rally for Public Education

When: October 24th,1pm
Where: Queen’s Park

Across Ontario, teachers, education workers, families, and communities are coming together to stand up for publicly funded educatio.

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Guatemala Solidarity

When: October 24th, 7pm
Where: 720 Spadina Avenue, 2nd Floor

Guatemalan October 20 1944 Revolution Commemoration and Today Native People Struggles.

Presentation by Leocadio Juracan, member coordinator and political prisoner from Peasant Commite of the Highland CCDA, Guatemala.

Special guests Transita Gutierrez Solis and Jose Gonzalez.

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Booklaunch: Revolutions of our Times

When: October 22nd, 8pm
Where: Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave

Our global generational experience of uprisings have not left the hearts of empires untouched. The encampments of the 2011 Occupy movement and the Student Intifada, street battles against police from Montreal to Minneapolis, land defense from Standing Rock to Unistʼotʼen—each of these struggles in North America is tied to global waves of upheaval stretching from Cairo to Santiago, Jakarta to Gaza, Hong Kong to Khartoum. From this generational experience, we want to weave a fabric of transnational solidarity even as empires desperately project their violence globally.

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Rally for Cuba

When: Sunday, October 25th, 1pm
Where: US Consulate, 361 University Ave

Join our rally to stand with Cuba against the cruel US blockade and Trump’s oil cut-off. End the embargo now!

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Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks

When: Thursday, October 27th, 7:30pm
Where: Columbus Centre, 901 Lawrence Ave W

Book reading, followed by a conversation with labour organizer, civilian journalist, and author Humberto da Silva, and a Q&A session with the author.

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Stop Bill C-39

When: October 28th, 1pm
Where: Asquith Green Park, 14 Park Rd

As part of the Week of Action for Indigenous Sovereignty, we are uniting our voices from Indigenous communities and leadership, environmental organizations, labour unions, grassroots groups, supporters, and allies to stand together against Bill C-39: Building Canada Strong Act.

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Booklaunch: For the Long Haul

When: October 28th, 6pm
Where: Workers Action Center, 720 Spadina Ave

Chris Dixon in conversation with Shiri Pasternak, hosted by Between the Lines, Workers Action Centre, and Upping the Anti.

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Rally for Childcare

When: October 29th, 12pm
Where: Queen’s Park, South Lawn

Ontario has signed a four-year extension to their child care agreement, but advocates are slamming the new plan for freezing wage improvements, stalling fee reductions, and making no new commitments to make affordable child care available for more families. The Ford government is finally back at Queen’s Park at the end of October, and we’ll be ready! Join the OCBCC, the AECEO, the OFL, CUPE Ontario, Parents for Child Care, and more of our members, partners and allies for a rally on Thursday October 29th at noon on the South Lawn of Queen’s Park. We’ll be calling on the Ford government to immediately deliver raise ECE wages, and deliver on affordability, decent work, and end the waitlist crisis for families.

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Building Canada Strong Act and the right to strike

When: October 29th, 3:30pm

The Supreme Court of Canada has declared workers’ right to strike constitutionally-protected. But Mark Carney’s “Building Canada Strong” Act proposes to make it easier for the Minister of Labour to intervene in the federal jurisdiction.

Stephanie is an associate professor at the School of Labour Studies, McMaster University. Her research and teaching engage the theme of how ordinary people make social change through collective action in the face of powerful forces to the contrary.

Eric Tucker is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He has published extensively on the history and current state of labour and employment law.

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Booklaunch: Austerity and Resistance

When: Thursday October 29th, 4pm
Where: York University, 519 Kaneff Tower

With author Paul Kellogg.

– Judy Rebick, author of Heroes in My Head (House of Anansi Press, 2018)
– Esther Reiter, author of A Future Without Hate or Need (Between the Lines, 2016)
– Herman Rosenfeld, retired national staff, Canadian Auto Workers (Unifor)
– Moderated by Phil Henderson, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at GLRC.

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Why Lula Lost and How Brazil’s Left Can Come Back

By Antonio Martins

Defeats become deeper and more prolonged when we misunderstand what caused them, avoid correcting course, and embrace “solutions” that only compound our mistakes. Lula’s government and the Brazilian left suffered a disaster in Sunday’s first round presidential election. Contrary to every poll, the president finished the first round 2.2 million votes behind Flávio Bolsonaro – and, more significantly, 3.4 million votes below his total four years ago, when the machinery of the state was working against him and in favor of his opponent. His vote share declined in 98 percent of Brazil’s municipalities.

Source: The Bullet No. 3332

Climate Refugees: The Notion Remains Largely Taboo

By Karine Gantin

“Migration in response to environmental changes has been a constant throughout human history and represents a rational adaptation strategy,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres once said when he was still UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Nevertheless, at the COP17 UN Conference on combatting desertification in Mongolia this summer, the development of a protection framework for those commonly referred to as ‘climate refugees’ was once again poorly addressed by the COP’s agenda. The only item listed was a high-level meeting devoted to ‘security and migration’, while, in a striking contrast, pastoralism was being celebrated and promoted as well1 – a form of nomadism that tends to disregard the administrative divisions imposed by national borders.

Source: The Bullet No. 3333