CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES
4. EMPLOYMENT

No More Loopholes

Help us make sure every MP’s inbox is flooded with this report’s damning evidence—hundreds of shipments of explosives and military aircraft parts from Canada to the US factories making Israel’s key bomber jets and munitions. Push back on the Canadian government’s web of lies and demand your MP take real action to sanction Israel with a full and immediate arms embargo and adopt Bill C-233 to close the loopholes in Canada’s arms exports.

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Art As Resistance

When: Thursday, November 20th, 6:30pm
Where: Blackhurst Cultural Centre, 777 Bathurst St.

Join journalist Dalton Higgins along with authors Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery plus others for a conversation about the making of the new graphic novel FELA: MUSIC IS THE WEAPON!

A spectacular graphic novel about the life and times of the legendary Fela Kuti—the Pan-African frontman, multi-instrumentalist, sociopolitical powerhouse, and father of Afrobeat.

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Cross Movement Solidarity

When: November 20th, 7pm
Where: 401 Richmond St W

The Free School event “From Turtle Island To Palestine: Cross Movement Solidarity in Action” is a conversation with two pairs of activists working together within and across labour and Indigenous solidarity movements towards liberation in the face of genocide.

This event is free, hybrid, and open to the public. Attendees can participate in person or through Zoom. Food, ASL and interpretation will be provided. We ask that those coming in person wear a face mask. Surgical masks will be available.

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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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Cuba and Africa Liberation

When: November 22nd, 9:30am
Where: 45 Willcocks St

A symposium commemorating the relationships between liberation struggles in Africa and the Cuban Revolution.

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Housing Day Rally

When: November 22nd, 11am
Where: FRPO Office, 67 Yonge St – march to Queen’s Park

This National Housing Day, join tenants from across Ontario as we march to Queen’s Park and rally against Bill 60.

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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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Mayworks Labour Arts Awards Gala

When: Nov 22nd, 6pm
Where: 25 Cecil St

Join us at the 2025 Labour Arts Awards Gala event where we will come together with labour activists and artists to enjoy dinner, entertainment, a silent auction, and more. Bring your friends, local members and family.

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Gaza Square

When: Every Sunday, 11am to 1pm
Where: 371 Wallace Ave

We’ll be at Gaza square once again this Sunday morning with hot chocolate and coffee, buttons and posters, lawn signs and colourful chalk! Come say hi and meet your fellow neighbours/organizers as we make our presence known and continue to build safety in our community!

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Hands Off Venezuela!

When: November 23rd, 1pm

Interested in learning about the zone a peace, and how to protect nuestra America from US Imperialism? Join us on November, 23 at 1PM for an educational webinar on the ongoing situation in Venezuela, and the surrounding Caribbean. Expect an email with the zoom link on Saturday, November 22nd.

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Streetcar Summit

When: November 23rd, 1pm
Where: Cecil Community Centre, 58 Cecil St

It’s time for more reliable, fast, accessible, and frequent streetcar service – join us on Sunday, November 23 for the Save our Streetcars summit.

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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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Understanding Joint Struggles

When: Tuesday November 25th, 11am

Understanding Joint Struggles — Food Sovereignty from Turtle Island to Palestine, Sudan, and Beyond with Nisrin Elamin and Yasmeen El-Hasan.

Communities worldwide are fighting for food sovereignty and self-determination – from Indigenous movements here on Turtle Island to struggles in Palestine, Sudan, and beyond. This webinar will explore how these deeply interconnected fights for food justice hold shared roots in resistance against settler-colonialism and imperialism.

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Human Rights Defenders Working under Tyranny in Afghanistan

When: November 25th, 2pm

The Taliban’s 2021 takeover of Afghanistan was a catastrophe for the Afghan human rights movement. Human rights defenders were forced into exile, fearing for their lives. Those who remain, cannot work openly without great risk. Many continue their efforts from exile, but the country’s new rulers seem impervious to reform. Despite this, a new wave of women’s rights defenders has emerged in spontaneous protests, while other Afghans have found clandestine and creative ways to work in the interstices.

Join Rachel Reid for a discussion of her recent report on the Afghan human rights movement, Manoeuvring Through the Cracks.

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North America in the World Economy

When: November 25th, 3pm

James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a professorship in Government at The University of Texas at Austin. He is one of America’s leading progressive economists and thinkers.

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The Future of Mining Justice

When: November 25th, 6pm

To celebrate the end of our 25th anniversary fundraising campaign, MiningWatch is hosting a roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current issues in their struggles for mining justice, share visions for the future, and learn how your support can make a lasting difference.

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FilmSocial: The Time that Remains

When: Wednesday November 26th, 6:45pm
Where: Eyesore Cinema, 1176 Bloor St W.
Free/PWYC

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is very pleased to present The Time that Remains (2009) as the next film in the FilmSocial series of socialist film screenings.

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23rd Annual Regent Park Film Festival!

When: November 27 – 30
Where: Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas St E

Free films, workshops, artist talks, and community events. From bold new voices to seasoned filmmakers, this year’s roster contains 43 films that encompass the everyday acts of care that sustain us and our communities, even as the world moves through both joy and loss.

Regent Park Film Festival (RPFF) is a community-based, longest-running FREE film festival. RPFF amplifies and centers marginalized communities and their stories, while opening up access to the film and television industry through year-round programming.

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Trump’s ‘Peace’ in the Middle East, A Retrocolonialism Built on Sand

By Kevin Anderson

After two years, the guns are silent, at least for the most part. Long-suffering Palestinians are heading back to their hometowns and villages in Gaza, and the remaining Israeli hostages and some Palestinian prisoners (actually, hostages too) are being released. Meanwhile, the Israeli Knesset has toasted US autocrat Donald Trump as the hero of the hour, and Arab, Muslim, and Western European leaders – from the EU nations to Egypt, and from Turkey to the Gulf monarchies and Pakistan – have gathered to celebrate these developments, while also genuflecting to Trump.

Source: The Bullet No. 3218

Final Statement of the Gaza Tribunal Jury of Conscience

We, the undersigned members of the Jury of Conscience, hereby deliver this Statement of Findings and Moral Judgment at the final session of the Gaza Tribunal. The Jury, guided by conscience and informed by international law, does not speak with the authority of states, but when law is silenced by power, conscience must become the final tribunal. The Tribunal is not a court of law, so does not purport to determine guilt or liability of any person, organization or state.

Source: The Bullet No. 3219

Canadian Auto Isn’t in ‘Crisis’, It’s in Danger of Extinction

By Sam Gindin

Canadian autoworkers have faced many crises over the years, but the present threat is distinct. Lana Payne, President of Unifor, has warned that “If we don’t push back hard against him [US President Donald Trump] and against these companies, we’re going to lose it all.” So far, the debate over what to do has started and stopped with Trump’s tariffs. But the threats go deeper, both for auto companies and for our ability as workers and citizens to determine democratically what kind of society we want – that is, for Canada’s substantive and not just formal sovereignty. Taking on these larger challenges demands coming to grips with some tough realities.

Source: The Bullet No. 3220

Macron, Merz, and Starmer: The rearguard of liberal democracy

By Ingo Schmidt

Large parts of the world are ruled by autocrats. Vladimir Putin is the worst of them all, Xi Jinping is not much better, and even America, the bastion of freedom, has fallen into the hands of a would-be king. Only Europe, inhabited by indomitable democrats, resists autocracy, led by the heads of state and government of Germany, France, and Great Britain. This is roughly how one could summarize the self-image that resonates in the speeches and interviews of Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, and Keir Starmer.

Source: The Bullet No. 3221

Complex Challenges Require Radical Responses

By Herman Rosenfeld

Robert Chernomas and Fred Wilson, in their SP Bullet of October 24th, “Beyond the ‘Elbows Up’ Response to the Tariff War,” call for a “national industrial policy” strategy to respond to the economic challenges posed by the tariffs imposed on Canada by US President Donald Trump. They argue for a set of policies to challenge the integration and dependence on the US in ways that also address some of the impacts of neoliberalism. Their strategy calls out and identifies the weaknesses in Prime Minster Mark Carney’s policies; it is a positive contribution alongside others in a similar vein. But there are also certain limits that need to be raised for the challenges that lay ahead for the union and socialist movements in Canada.

Source: The Bullet No. 3222

Data Center Resistance: Stopping the Corporate AI Offensive

By Martin Hart-Landsberg

Major tech companies – OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), Meta (Llama), and xAI (Grok) – are spending heavily to boost the computing power of their respective large language artificial intelligence (AI) models. The companies claim that this spending will transform them into systems that businesses will happily pay to use and, in the near future, lead to artificial general-intelligence-powered machines capable of autonomously solving problems and making decisions far better than humans.

Source: The Bullet No. 3223

Director of Communications

The Director of Communications provides strategic, creative and dynamic communications to the FMTA. He/she/they are responsible for implementing and overseeing the FMTA communications plan, general FMTA promotion, including services and policy recommendations and oversight of the FMTA hotline program (call center).

BASE SALARY: $62,700

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