CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Humanitarian Aid for CUBA

The Government of Canada must use every diplomatic and economic tool at its disposal to support the people of Cuba—including urgently delivering more humanitarian aid and fuel shipments to help alleviate the crisis.

Donald Trump has intensified U.S. sanctions to choke off oil shipments to Cuba, tightening the embargo and pressuring other countries and companies not to supply the island with fuel. Because Cuba depends on imported oil to keep its power plants, transportation, and hospitals running, the crackdown has fueled sweeping blackouts, paralyzed transit, and disrupted food and medical supply chains. The impact falls hardest on ordinary Cubans: hospitals struggle to operate, emergency services stall, and families face worsening shortages of basic necessities.

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Stop Wage Theft

Ontario faces a crisis in wage theft. Over the past 10 years, the Ontario Ministry of Labour found that almost $200 million was owed to workers, and it was unable to recover $80 million for workers owed these wages. But this is the tip of the iceberg.  60% of workers surveyed said they experienced wage theft. This includes unpaid hours of work, public holidays and overtime pay. 

Wage theft hurts our communities and local economies. It reduces funding for our social programs. When wage theft laws are not enforced, it gives financial advantage to the employer and pressures other companies to commit wage theft. This drives down all our wages and working conditions.

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Flyer for better transit at Warden Station

When: Thursday, March 12 at 4:30pm
Where: Warden Station

We’ll be handing out flyers and talking to riders at Warden Station about the federal government’s $5 billion cut to public transit funding, and how they can take action to call on the federal government to invest in a better TTC. No experience required, just show up!

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Rank and File Show

When: March 13th, 7:30pm
Where: Handlebar, 159 Augusta Ave

The Democratic Socialists of Canada & Eureka Productions have teamed up to present… Rank + File, of a solidarity concert series.

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Workers Alliance

When: Saturday March 14th, 11am
Where: #221, 720 Spadina Ave

The Workers Alliance believes that the working class is capable of leading the political struggle for a truly democratic system. We are focused on Canada’s strategic industries —those where we hold up the economy— such as warehousing, transportation, manufacturing and public service. We seek to build “industrial caucuses” of determined workers who will organize unions to rival the power of the bosses in each of these major strategic industries. And where unions already exist, we seek to make them into powerful, fighting organizations of the working class. We invite all class-conscious workers and labour organizers to join the Workers Alliance or to work alongside us towards common goals.

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Annual Walk for Palestine

When: March 14th, 3pm
Where: 361 University Ave

Join Al Quds Toronto, Lebanese4Palestine, Palestine Youth Movement Toronto, and more as we take to the streets for the International Day of al-Quds, an annual event supporting a just peace for Palestine, and opposing Apartheid Israel’s control of Jerusalem.

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Break the Blockade

When: March 14th, 8pm
Where: 818 College St

All proceeds donated to The @cdnntwrkoncuba to support the Cuban people as they rebuild from Hurricane Melissa amidst the cruel and criminal US imposed blockade.

Also accepting donations of hygiene products, medication and school supplies.

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No War with Iran!

When: March 15th, 1pm
Where: US Consulate, 360 University Ave

The Toronto Association for Peace and Solidarity is calling on all peace loving people to join us on Sunday, March 15th at 1pm at 360 University Ave (US consulate) to condemn the illegal and reckless war being waged on Iran by the United States and Israel.

This aggression has nothing to do with the just struggles of the Iranian people but rather with the desire to control energy resources and strategic trade routes for world commerce.

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Filmscreening: The War on Cuba

When: March 15th, 2pm
Where: Shevchenko Museum, 1604 Bloor St W

The Canadian Cuban Friendship Association Toronto will be hosting a screening of the Belly of the Beast production “The War on Cuba.” Join us for a powerful documentary about the effects of the US economic war on Cuba and the Cuban people, and a short discussion after.

There will be a books and bake sale to raise funds for our scholarships to this year’s Che Guevara Brigade, which is looking to be one of the most important brigades in years!

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Political Prisoners Webinar

When: Sunday, March 15th, 3pm

Join the Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners Campaign on March 15th to hear first-hand testimonies from released political prisoners, lawyers, and leading voices in the movement for Palestinian Prisoners.

Today, more than 9,300 Palestinians are held in Israeli prisons subjected to widespread acts of torture, starvation, denial of medical treatment, sexual violence, and other cruel, degrading, and inhumane forms of abuse, deprivation, and detention.

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Save Public Healthcare

When: Monday, March 16th, 4:30pm
Where: MP Julie Dzerowicz’s office at 1202 Bloor St W

Alberta’s Danielle Smith government passed a new law to end universal public health care and bring in U.S. style privatization.

Ontario’s Doug Ford government is cutting, closing and privatizing our public hospitals.

Call on our federal Liberal MPs to help us stand up to them, enforce the Canada Health Act and save public health care.

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Women in the Labour Movement

When: Tuesday, March 17th, 7pm

Join TWHP to hear Peggy Nash talk about the new book Women United – Stories of Women’s Struggles for Equality in the Canadian Auto Workers Union.

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Housing, Pensions, and Jobs: Win-Win-Win

By Frank Hoffer

Providing decent pensions in an ageing society, overcoming the affordability crisis driven by skyrocketing housing costs, and creating better-paid jobs for workers without university degrees are all essential to securing social peace and democracy. A compulsory, state-owned second-tier pension fund required to invest its capital exclusively in social housing can address all three challenges at once. Yet it demands a fundamental shift in mindset.

Source: The Bullet No. 3266

IASWI Statement Against War

The International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI) condemns in the strongest terms the war launched on February 28, 2026 by the governments of the United States and Israel against the territory of Iran. Framed, among other lies, as a “preemptive strike” and “support for the Iranian people,” this aggression makes clear that civilian lives, safety, and democratic aspirations are not even the least concern of the Trump and Netanyahu regimes. Within the first hours of bombing, more than 150 elementary school girls in Minab, along with education workers, were killed, many more were injured, and hospitals and civilian neighborhoods were targeted in Tehran and other cities across the country.

Source: The Bullet No. 3267

In Spain, Amazon Workers Win with Quick-Hit Walkouts

By Alfonso Martinez Valero

At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off. We struck for three days in November and in December in a series of “flexible strikes,” timed to hit production with intermittent walkouts during the holiday “peak” season. On December 22, the union committee announced a settlement, negotiated through government mediators.

Source: The Bullet No. 3268

Oil, Capitalism, and Climate /w Adam Hanieh

We are honoured to welcome author and academic Adam Hanieh back to Toronto to deliver this year’s talk. This event marks the fourth edition of the school’s annual lecture, held in the memory of the late Leo Panitch. Adam Hanieh discusses how understanding oil’s place in world capitalism is key to grasping geopolitical dynamics and global finance, reviving vital climate struggles, and challenging the structural interests underpinning the system itself. He also explores the connections between our fossil-fuel centred world and the contemporary politics of Palestine and the wider Middle East.

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