CONTENTS

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

Stop Bill C-12

This bill would allow mass deportations, deny refugees protection, and share sensitive info with foreign governments.

The vote could happen ANY DAY this week. Every single call counts. Don’t wait.

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The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine

When: February 1st and 7th, 6pm

Join the Toronto Chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement for a special 2-part book club on Ghassan Kanafani’s The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine. This interactive book club will take place in-person over two evenings on Sunday, February 1 and Saturday, February 7.

The first session aims to provide relevant context and background for understanding Palestinian revolutionary history and the second session builds upon these learnings as it applies to the Revolt period itself. Both sessions are interactive with breakout group discussions and planned activities.

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Booklaunch: Organizing Amazon

When: February 5th, 7pm
Where: College Street United Church, 502 Bathurst St

Amazon workers in Coventry, England, have won breakthrough wage gains through years of strikes and organizing at the global giant. Now, a new book documents these achievements and the militant grassroots methods the workers and their GMB union employed to build worker power.

Organizing Amazon: Building Worker Power Under Conditions of Fragmentation, Precarity and Regimentation offers a rich case study of the factors contributing to the union’s successes and setbacks. It provides a practical organizing model applicable beyond Amazon, offering strategies to engage the workforce, sustain support, and develop leadership.

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Workshop reading: Two Birds One Stone

When: Friday February 6th, 7:30pm
Where: Factory Studio Theatre, 125 Bathurst St

When Palestinian theatre maker Rimah Jabr moved to Toronto, she became friends with Natasha Greenblatt, a Jewish Canadian playwright. They decided to make a play together… and it’s mostly true. “Two Birds One Stone” asks complicated questions about identity, privilege, and the search for home. First created in 2016, Natasha and Rimah are now returning to their auto-fictional play with the support of director Guillermo Verdecchia and Common Boots Theatre. What does it mean to tell these stories, together, in the face of genocide?

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Oppose White Nationalist Rally

When: February 7th, 12:30pm
Where: Nathan Phillips Sq.

White nationalists are once again trying to hold a rally in Toronto. Show them that their hate is not welcome- not here, not anywhere!

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[Ottawa] Support Public Healthcare

When: February 10th, 12pm
Where: Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Alberta has launched a full-on attack on the Canada Health Act, forcing patients to pay for doctors and surgeries, letting the rich jump the queue and push everyone else back, and opening the door to US private health insurance corporations.

Ontario is privatizing our public hospitals and letting for-profit clinics charge patients thousands $ in violation of our medicare protection laws.

healthcoalition.ca | Facebook

Fund Our City

When: February 10th, 12pm
Where: Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St W

On February 10, Toronto City Council will be voting on the 2026 City Budget. Social Planning Toronto and partners are organizing a community rally outside City Hall to let Council know this is no time for cuts.

Hot chocolate and snacks provided.

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Science for Peace Student Conference

When: Tuesday February 10th, 4pm
Where: 60 Lowther Ave

Hear from students at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University on issues pertaining to climate change and militarism.

scienceforpeace.org | zoom.us

Rally with OPSEU Local 304

When: Wednesday Feb 11th, 12pm
Where: 16915 Leslie St, Newmarket

York Region Children’s Aid OPSEU/SEFPO Local 304 is at a breaking point.

The Board of Directors and Senior Management are not only hiding from OPSEU members but hiding information from the Ministry.

OPSEU is having a Rally on February 11th. Come show some solidarity with your friends from OPSEU.

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Black History Month: Being Black

When: Thursday February 12th, 6pm

We’re living through a global shift, whether culturally, politically, economically or environmentally, but what does that mean for the Black community?

Everyone is invited to join us in a discussion on the importance of acknowledging the impact our choices and actions make, and the continued work being done to end anti-Black racism.

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Booklaunch: Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry

When: February 12th, 7pm
Where: Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave

Join us as we celebrate the launch of Notes Toward a Digital Workers Inquiry, a brand new book full of first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s resurgent labor movement as artificial intelligence gains ground in every facet of our lives.

As tech billionaires align with Trump, they are also launching a renewed assault on labor through artificial intelligence and alienating tactics. But for now, it still takes workers to make fortunes for the bosses, and collective action is again on the rise. Previously thought to be “unorganizable,” these workers are part of a North American movement that is reaffirming faith in collective revolutionary action through new methods of organizing, new ways of association, and a new synthesis of traditional labor activities with original research.

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Virtual screening: Teresita’s Dream

When: Thursday, February 12th, 8pm

This documentary tells the story of Cuban scientist Teresita Rodríguez, whose journey to find a treatment for Alzheimer’s was inspired by her personal experience caring for her mother.

The film — which is not yet available to stream anywhere online — was produced by Belly of the Beast, an award-winning team that is a collaboration between Cuba and U.S.-based journalists and filmmakers.

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Introduction to Socialism

When: Sundays, February 15 to April 5

Curious about socialism? Interested about if it is really possible and taking a sober look at the problems it will face? Want to discuss how to begin affecting change right now?

In these uncertain and dangerous times, The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is a space to listen, discuss and challenge the contemporary relevancy of socialism.

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A Global Wave of Resistance to the US Empire

By Palestinian BDS National Committee

The US administration has unilaterally announced a so-called “Board of Peace” for Gaza led by US President Trump in a statement that completely omitted any mention of Palestinians. This board is packed with Israel-First politicians and billionaires and installs an Israel-biased former UN envoy who is controlled by the UAE despotic regime as the colonial viceroy of the illegally occupied Gaza Strip, supervising a “technocratic” Palestinian committee. The Palestinian BDS National Committee, the largest Palestinian civil society coalition leading the global BDS movement, condemns and rejects this thinly-veiled attempt to normalize Israel’s ongoing genocide, rehabilitate its genocidal regime, and rescue it from its global isolation. The Indigenous Palestinian people will never give up our inalienable rights.

Source: The Bullet No. 3256

Venezuela: It’s Much More Than Oil

By Don Fitz

As the US openly discussed schemes to add Greenland to its list of conquered territories, it became abundantly clear that “Alternative Energy” (AltE, solar, wind, hydro power) joined fossil fuels at center stage.1 Corporations which pull the puppet strings of governments are well aware that oil production will cease long before none remains in the ground. When extraction becomes so expensive that it takes more than a barrel of oil to obtain a barrel, then it will no longer be financially viable to pump it out. They must look to AltE.

Source: The Bullet No. 3257

Cybernetic Circulation Complex

Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis (Verso, 2024), Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon and Google, Palantir and Uber, is in the speeding up and automation of the circulation of commodities. Big Tech aims to subject everything from advertising and shopping, to logistics and financial services to the level of control and predictability that capital has secured in industrial production.

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Director of Operations

The Toronto & York Region Labour Council is seeking a Director, Operations & Strategy, to lead its small and dynamic staff team. This is a new position within the organization. Interested candidates should apply by sending a resume and a short cover letter to smcmurray@labourcouncil.ca.

The starting rate for the position is $120,000 annually and a generous benefits package is provided.

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CLC Regional Representative

The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is the largest labour organization in Canada, bringing together dozens of national and international unions, provincial and territorial federations of labour, and community-based labour councils to represent more than 3 million workers across the country.

The CLC has a vacancy for a permanent Regional Representative in our Ontario Region office, based in Sudbury, Ontario.

The annual starting salary for this position is $107,705.39 along with comprehensive benefits.

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