CONTENTS
CALLS TO ACTION
Fund Our Schools
The cuts to schools continue to mount. Schools are facing death by a thousand cuts. Year after year, due to chronic underfunding, schools have been cut to the bare bones.Literacy supports cancelled. International language programs cut. Teachers and educational workers are being cut year after year. Even photocopy paper and toilet paper are now a luxury in our schools.
This is not how we want Ontario schools to function. We want our students to thrive. Please sign this petition if you care.
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EVENTS
OPSEU Strike (week 8)
When: while the strike is onDoug Ford has underfunded our community services to the point of crisis — and it’s pushing workers into poverty.
OPSEU members are now in the fifth week of their ongoing strike. These workers provide critical frontline services that our communities rely on. Stability, dignity, and decent wages for workers will mean better services for all.
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Summer Practice School
When: Sundays (1-4pm), July 12 to Sept 20 BiweeklyAlliance of Workers and Students (AWAS) is launching a summer series of hands-on trainings to build practical skills for actions and organizing. Sessions will include security culture at actions, street medic, legal observing (LO), Know Your Rights (KYR), chant leading, street tactics, and more.
The goal is to build collective capacity across the city, so more of us feel confident stepping into key roles at actions.
Sessions will run bi-weekly on weekends and be led in collaboration with experienced organizers and groups.
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TransAtlantic Nuclear Free Alliance
When: July 16th, 2pmHow does nuclear energy fuel the weapons complex?
Join us to explore the link between Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power.
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Filmscreening: Parasite
When: July 16th, 6pmWhere: 720 Spadina Ave, Suite 221
Join the Workers’ Action Centre for an in-person movie night featuring a screening of Parasite, with free snacks and popcorn! Stick around after the film for an engaging community discussion with neighbors and workers.
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Arms Embargo Now
When: Thursday July 16th, 7pmJoin an urgent movement briefing where we will announce the next stage of the Arms Embargo Now campaign and delve into a new strategy to meet this new political context. This is a big one – don’t miss it.
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Cuba under siege
When: July 16th, 7pmUnderstanding Cuba’s new economic measures and our work ahead. Featuring Helen Yaffe, and Isaac Saney.
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Debating Class Politics and Canadian Unions
When: July 17th, 7pmWhere: College Street United Church, 502 Bathurst St
The Leo Panitch School is proud to present the launch of Out of the Impasse? Debating Class Politics and Canadian Unions. It represents the latest in the long running series of pamphlets published by the Socialist Project. It features four pieces of striking analysis, all drawing from Rosenfeld’s decades of experience as an autoworker, educator, and socialist activist.
“These interventions remind us that worker power depends not only on shop-floor solidarity, but on building a capacity for independent collective political action by unions and workers…”
All are invited to join as we celebrate this new entry into the debates on Canadian socialism and working class politics!
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Palestine Football Exhibit
When: July 18th, 12pmThe story of football in Palestine is one rooted in identity, community, resilience, and the ongoing struggle for liberation.
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Canada Out of NATO
When: July 18th, 2pmWhere: US Consulate, 361 University Ave
CodePink Ontario, WILPF, Voice of Women…
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Filmscreening: No Jets TO!
When: July 20th, 6:00pmWhere: Friends House
How can we prevent jets on our waterfront? Stay after the film to meet the filmmaker Elizabeth Littlejohn and hear WHAT YOU CAN DO about the proposal to expand the airport – and what it means for the waterfront, from NoJetsTO, and for our health, from Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE).
Speaker lineup: Elizabeth Littlejohn, Norm di Pasquale for No Jets TO and Anne Keary from CAPE. This event is co-hosted by Toronto Climate Film Festival, ClimateFast and Environmental Defence.
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Artificial Intelligence
When: July 20th, 8pmHow is AI affecting the working conditions of researchers, tech workers, and scientists? How can these groups promote solidarity with workers in other industries? And how can we all confront job deskilling and support workplace organizing around AI-related issues?
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Tenant Rights Workshop
When: Tuesday July 21st, 7pm– What is and isn’t a legal evictions
– Important forms, the process and going to court
– How to try and challenge an eviction
This FREE and interactive workshop is designed to explain the law, your rights and answer your questions.
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Disability Without Poverty
When: July 22nd, 12pmJoin us for a celebratory afternoon online as we host a community gathering to highlight Disability Pride Month. Observed every July, Disability Pride Month is a bold celebration of identity and resilience.
This town hall is a place for people with disabilities and their carers to share, connect and advocate.
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Grassy Narrows Webinar
When: July 23rd, 7pmJoin Chrissy Isaacs and youth from Grassy Narrows First Nation for this upcoming virtual workshop: Grassy Narrows and Indigenous Rights: 150 Years of Resistance.
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ARTICLES
Out of the Impasse
This collection of Herman Rosenfeld’s writings provides a vital record of socialist analysis rooted in the lived experiences of Canadian labour. Drawing on his background as a shop floor worker at General Motors in Scarborough and in the education department of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW, now Unifor), this selection examines how a constantly changing capitalism seeks to reorganise workplace practices. And how, in resistance, working-class organisations must adapt, rebuild, and reimagine collective power. Across these essays, Rosenfeld argues that technological modernisations and economic “efficiencies” suggested by management are never value-neutral but rather political choices that reproduce class (and other) hierarchies unless challenged by workers and their representative organisations.Source: Socialist Interventions Pamphlet No. 26