CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Transit-only lanes now

Is your commute slow and unreliable? Buses and streetcars are spending more time in traffic as congestion worsens. This means being late for school, work, appointments and more.

Transit should be reliable, frequent, and fast. Toronto has a plan to get buses and streetcars moving with transit-only lanes and other measures, called RapidTO. But progress has been slow.

Your voice is needed to convince City Councillors to speed up TTC with transit priority measures! More transit-only lanes will increase ridership, reduce crowding, and help Toronto meet our 2040 Net Zero targets.

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100 Years of Working Class Life

When: Friday July 18th, 7pm
Where: 31 Wellesley St E

Between 1917 and 1936 the Governments of Ontario and Canada produced hundreds of films on various subjects like farming techniques, industrial technology, vacations for the wealthy and “appropriate” workplace behaviour, among others. The Ontario Motion Picture Bureau, (OMPB) made educational films for “farmers, school children, factory workers and other classes”. The Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, (CGMPB) advertised “Canada’s scenic attractions, agricultural resources and industrial development.”

Today these films provide a rare glimpse at how work, industry, gender, and class was understood and promoted by the state over 100 years ago. The narratives in the films avoided overt discussions of politics. Unions are invisible in these films, though they feature industries where unions were militant and active. Similarly, protests of any kind do not appear, yet in their absence, they have much to say about workplace struggle.

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Palestine All the Time

When: July 18-19
Where: Gallery TPW, 170 St. Helens Ave

Join us for Palestine All the Time—a 24-hour program at Gallery TPW that brings together Palestinian artists, writers, filmmakers, scholars, and activists. In-person and live streamed continuous programming includes performances, talks, readings, film screenings, music and sound works, and discursive gatherings that centre Palestinian cultural life and struggle.

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Feminist Gathering for Disarmament and Connection

When: July 19th, 1pm

Join Canadian Voice of Women for Peace for a virtual gathering and fundraiser in support of our Disarmament Education Program, developed in partnership with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War – Canada.

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Revolutionary Theory to Stop Climate Collapse

When: July 19th, 2pm

Join us for a lively encounter with Mariana Rodrigues and Alice Gato, two organizers with Climáximo, a leading European climate justice and anti-capitalist organization based in Portugal. Mariana and Sinan Eden, another Climáximo activist, have just published a provocative new book entitled All In: A Revolutionary Theory to Stop Climate Collapse. All In is now a project reaching out to climate justice activists across Europe and beyond with a call for action to build an international anti-capitalist ruptural movement that realistically reflects the urgency of the ecological crisis.

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End the Genocide

When: July 19th, 3pm
Where: Spadina and Queen’s Quay

As Gaza faces relentless US-Zionist bombardment and genocide, the Zionist state’s violent escalation threatens our entire region. From Palestine to Lebanon to Syria to Yemen and Iran, our people are suffering under the imperial powers determined to maintain their domination of our lands.

This genocide is not only carried out with bombs and military power, but through the weaponization of so-called “aid.” The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US-Israeli-backed private scheme, masquerades as relief while creating militarized distribution zones guarded by tanks and snipers.

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Hot Cargo and Labour’s Fight for Justice in Palestine

When: July 20th, 1pm

Join Labour for Palestine for a discussion with Palestinian and international labour leaders about the role of international labour solidarity and boycotts (Hot Cargo) in the struggle for justice and liberation for the Palestinian people.

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BDS Leafletting

When: Every Saturday, 1-2pm
Where: Dufferin Mall, 900 Dufferin St (south entrance by Marshalls)

End the Occupation! Build the Boycott! This is your friendly reminder of D4P’s weekly BDS leafleting taking place every Saturday from 1 to 2 pm at Dufferin Mall. Meet outside south entrance to mall, 900 Dufferin Street by Marshalls. No prior experience necessary! We can buddy you up if it’s your first time.

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Philippine Society and Revolution Educational Workshop!

When: July 20 and August 3, 1-3PM
Where: Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor St W

Through our studies of Philippine Society, we grow closer to our roots and understand our revolutionary history as Filipino People. As Filipino youth abroad, we understand how the ties of imperialism (or foreign powers), bureacrat capitalism (or corrupt officials), and feudalism (or rampant landlordism in the hands of few) continue to impact our kababayans back home, as well as our kababayans all over the world.

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Shadow Summit & Mass Rally

When: Monday July 21 – Wednesday July 23
Where: Deerhurst Resort just outside Huntsville near Algonquin Provincial Park

All the provincial and territorial leaders from across Canada will be in Huntsville for the annual meeting of the premiers hosted by Doug Ford this year. At the same time the Health Coalitions from across Canada will join together to hold a Shadow Summit just down the road.

Hosted by the Canadian Health Coalition, Ontario Health Coalition, and the Ontario Federation of Labour.

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Weekly Phone-zap for Palestine

When: Mondays at 12:30pm

Week after week, we’re keeping the momentum going with our Monday lunchtime zaps.

Our collective action is making waves, but we need to ensure our elected officials continue to feel the pressure until real change happens.

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Canadian Foreign Policy Hour with Yves Engler

When: Mondays at 6pm

Join 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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Combating Gentrification

When: July 22nd, 6pm

Are you interested in learning more about gentrification and how it impacts our neighborhoods? Curious about why these issues are relevant to 2SLGBTQ+ communities?

LGBT YouthLine is excited to welcome organizers from Jane-Finch Action Against Poverty for a teach-in on organizing against gentrification! JFAAP is a resident-led grassroots coalition of community residents, activists, workers, and organizations working to eliminate poverty in the Jane-Finch community and beyond.

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Basic Tenant Rights

When: July 22nd, 7pm

Are you a tenant living in the GTA?

Do you have questions about your rights under the law?

This FREE interactive workshop explains:
– How leases work
– How rent increases are calculated
– What to do to get repairs done
– How to end a tenancy, and much more!

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Fighting To Win

A Ten-Week Course for Union and Community Activists Facilitated by John Clarke, Former Organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).

Unions and social movements today are operating in a very challenging situation. There is great economic uncertainty, the worsening impact of climate change and a global situation marked by the growing threat of conflict and war. When workers strike or communities under attack take to the streets, it seems that victories are much much harder to win, and past gains more difficult to defend.

This course will grapple with these questions by looking at the forms of exploitation and oppression that exist in society and the means by which the power structure acts to limit and contain our struggles. The course will move towards a discussion of how our movements can overcome the factors that hold them back and to fight to win!

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Booklaunch: Health and Health Care Inequities

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to host the Toronto launch of Health and Health Care Inequities by author and healthcare worker Arnel Borras. The book provides an in-depth examination of health and healthcare inequities, delving into the interplay between power dynamics, policy advocacy, evidence-based research, and political economy. It uniquely integrates document and interview data to critically analyze how inequalities related to class, race, ethnicity, and gender contribute to health inequities.

Source: LeftStreamed

Iran’s Response to the Israeli-US Invasion

By Mojtaba Mahdavi

Not many saw it coming. In just 12 days, the Middle East was once again plunged into a catastrophic war – from Israel’s massive surprise invasion of Iran, to the US’s unprecedented military strikes, and ultimately, a sudden call for a ceasefire. On June 24, 2025, US President Donald Trump surprized the world by calling for an immediate ceasefire in the escalating Israeli-American war on Iran. Trump’s Iran policy has shifted wildly over the past few months: initially insisting only on preventing Iran from weaponizing its nuclear program, then moving toward a hardline “zero enrichment” stance, and later threatening for regime change declaring, “if the current Iranian regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a regime change?” – MIGA, a provocative echo of his MAGA slogan!

Source: The Bullet No. 3162

BRICS: A Defensive Coalition Against the Empire

By Claudio Katz

The decline of the United States is the main explanation for the rise of the BRICS and allows us to place the dynamics of this emergence in a long-term context. It is important to precede any judgments on the expanded quintet with this diagnosis in order to avoid simple praise or condemnation of an alliance that is representative of the new multipolar scenario. The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have formed a coalition to set their own agenda, in opposition to Washington’s dictates.

Source: The Bullet No. 3163

BDS@20: Redefining International Solidarity

By Palestinian BDS National Committee

On July 9th, we marked a milestone in the liberation struggle of the Indigenous people of Palestine, as the Palestinian-led nonviolent, anti-racist BDS movement completes 20 years of grassroots organizing and building intersectional people power. This day will be remembered in history as the start of a principled, strategic, and creative process that has isolated Israel’s 77-year-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and military occupation at the grassroots and institutional level. It has redefined the meaning of solidarity with our struggle as starting with ending the complicity of states, corporations and institutions with this regime.

Source: The Bullet No. 3164

‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call

By Sam Gindin

An all-too predictable pattern has emerged in US-Canada relations. US President Donald Trump makes Canada ‘an offer it can’t refuse’. What follows is a national gnashing of teeth, flag-waving, businesses and politicians going patriotic. The Canadian government then caves, lamenting we had ‘no choice’. What would it take to truly have a choice? An end to Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff ultimatums would obviously be welcome, but our previous ‘normal’ was never actually all that great, and it misses the larger point. Our quandary doesn’t lie in this or that policy conflict but something far deeper: unless we break out of this never-ending story by considerably delinking from the US – soberly, of course, and necessarily over time – we’re stuck with the fatalism of having ‘no choice’.

Source: The Bullet No. 3165