CONTENTS

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

End the injustice against Dr. Hassan Diab!

In April 2023, despite clear exculpatory evidence, the French Court of Assize conducted an in absentia trial that unjustly declared Dr. Hassan Diab guilty and sentenced him to life in prison. The proceedings amounted to a sham trial and a mockery of justice. The court’s verdict was based on hearsay testimony, unsourced “intelligence,” and unfounded speculation rather than credible evidence.

Since that ruling, Dr. Diab and his family have lived in constant uncertainty, facing the ongoing threat that a second extradition request could be made at any time.

We urge you to please send the letter below demanding that Justice Minister Sean Fraser categorically refuse any future extradition request and put an end—once and for all—to this ongoing miscarriage of justice.

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Mayworks

When: May 1 to May 31
Where: Various locations

The artists of this year’s festival engage with our world as it is. They bring us into the lives of workers, both local and international: a truck driver in Brampton, a health care worker in Thunder Bay, an activist in Montreal, a miner in Morocco, a sugar cane worker in the Dominican Republic, a guide in Palestine, and a contract worker in Mozambique.

Their works raise issues such as wage theft, labour misclassification, technological displacement, union busting, and incarceration as public policy. They also demonstrate how such issues are interwoven into a network of global supply chains, and how communities are organizing as agents of change.

Presented throughout the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, the diversity of works include live theatre, film, animation, installation, music, and pastry making.

Festival Program

CUPE Local 2 Leafleting

When: Thursday May 14th, 7:30am to 9am
Choose location: Queen, Osgoode, St Patrick or Victoria Park

CUPE Local 2 represents approximately 700 workers at the TTC, who install and maintain the electrical, signal, and communications systems that transit riders rely on every day. They may be locked out as of Saturday.

On Thursday, May 14 CUPE Local 2 is organizing a series of information pickets and they need local unions across Toronto to help to picket as many subway stations as possible. We need to support them to stop this lock-out!

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Rally to End Violence

When: May 14th, 12noon
Where: Queen’s Park, College and University Ave

The Rally to End Violence will begin in a good way, grounded in a traditional welcome that invites everyone into connection, respect, and collective intention at 12 noon on May 14th.

The Moose Hide Campaign Family will share their reflections on the 15-year journey of the Moose Hide Campaign, reminding us that this movement is rooted in love, responsibility, and the belief that change is possible.

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Defending Nature from Major Projects

When: May 14th, 1pm

The federal government is proposing to accelerate approval of several Major Projects across Canada, including pipelines and mines. The new Building Canada Act authorizes the circumvention of key federal environmental laws such as the Impact Assessment Act and Species at Risk Act in order to expedite these projects.

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Photography for the Revolution

When: May 7, 14, 21 at 10pm

Join us for an insightful participatory workshop series facilitated by master photographer and journalist David Bacon, designed to help you engage with movement photography more critically. Learn to read photos, analyze context, and discuss how images can inspire real change.

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Fridays4Palestine

When: May 15th, 3pm
Where: Bloor-Yonge

Come show your support for Palestinians every Friday between 3 pm and 6 pm. Come anytime for as long as you like. Most people come at 5 pm. The location is the Israel Consulate, located at 2 Bloor Street East, on the northeast corner of Yonge and Bloor Streets. Stand up for Human Rights. Raise your voice to say that the elimination of 50,000 people, including 18,000 children, is NOT okay. Will it only stop when another 2.2 million people are eradicated?

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Toronto Palestine Film Festival

When: May 15th, 6pm
Where: OISE Auditorium

Through a lecture and film, this program confronts the ongoing realities of settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing in Palestine, bridging the trauma of the 1948 Nakba with the live-streamed genocide of Palestinians today.

This event invites audiences to bear witness, engage critically, and stand in solidarity. Our esteemed keynote speaker Mouin Rabbani will examine salient themes in Israeli policy towards the Palestinian people, from the origins of the Zionist movement until the Gaza Genocide, and examine how this helps explain current regional developments.

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Nakba 78

When: Saturday May 16th, 3pm
Where: Sankofa Sq, Yonge/Dundas

Since the Nakba 78 years ago, the US-backed Zionist project has continued to wage a war of extermination on the Palestinian people, culminating in the last two years of genocide in Gaza. Emboldened by the genocide they are still committing in Gaza, the US and Israeli war machine has expanded the scope of their imperial war to Lebanon, Iran and the entire region.

On Saturday May 16th, 3pm, at Sankofa Square (1 Dundas St E, Toronto) thousands of people will come together to demand an end to the ongoing Nakba and to affirm that we will struggle until full liberation and return.

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Frames of Sudan

When: Saturday May 16th, 6pm
Where: TMU, 350 Victoria St

Join us for a powerful evening screening of Heroic Bodies, a groundbreaking documentary that premiered at IDFA 2022—making history as the first Sudanese feature selected in a “Frontline” Section at IDFA—and went on to win multiple international awards, including the Audience Award at Malmö Arab Film Festival and the Shireen Abu Akleh Award for Best Documentary Film at the Jerusalem Arab Film Festival, among other honors.

The film explores the history, resilience, and resistance of Sudanese women. Through intimate storytelling and rare archival footage, the film sheds light on deeply rooted systems of oppression while celebrating the courage of those challenging them.

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YCL Banquet

When: May 16th, 7pm
Where: College St United Church, 452 College St.
Tickets: $25

Rebel Youth readers and friends of the Young Communist League are invited to celebrate our 30th convention with a dinner banquet. The banquet will be hosted in Toronto at 452 College street. There will be music and speeches from our allies in various student, worker, and solidarity struggles. Now’s the time to celebrate the work we’ve accomplished and reflect on the work that lies ahead. For Socialism in our lifetime!

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Food Not Bombs

When: Saturday May 16th, doors @ 8pm
Where: Handlebar, 159 Augusta Ave (Kensington Market)
Pay what you can at the door (fundraiser)

All proceeds go towards Food Not Bombs, an anarchist org that conducts weekly food serves and grocery drives throughout the globe. Come out and support food sovereignty! Come out and dance together!

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Spring Spectacular

When: Sunday, May 17th, 11am to 2pm
Where: Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor St W.

Cycle Toronto will be at Councillor Dianne Saxe’s Spring Spectacular! This is a free community event held at Christie Pits Park on Victoria Day weekend. There will be a community BBQ, ice cream, music, and local vendors.

We will have an engagement station, so bring your bike, and one of our fabulous cycling educators will check it out for you!

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Envisioning Return Amid Genocide

When: Sunday May 17th, 2pm

We are honored to invite you to join us in conversation with Angela Davis and Rashid Khalidi to discuss Zochrot’s Vision of Return Initiative.

While the world speaks of “the day after” in Gaza, it erases the root: over 70% of Gaza’s population are refugees or their descendants, living under siege and denied the right to return.

Our Return from Gaza Vision is not a slogan but a political horizon, centering return and confronting responsibility from within.

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Booklaunch: Radical Jewish Tradition

When: May 17th, 2pm
Where: Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St

Speakers: Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone with Judy Rebick and Julia Barnett.

The Radical Jewish Tradition tells the inspiring and lesser-known story of working class Jews—together with their non-Jewish neighbours—who took on the bosses, the Czars and the fascists.

The book is recommended reading for all Jewish people scouring their histories for alternatives to Zionism. But it is meant for a more general audience, too. All readers interested in uncovering the roots of racism, understanding the way ruling classes need scapegoats to divide and rule and learning strategies for cross-cultural movements against oppression, will get something out of The Radical Jewish Tradition.

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Democratic Socialists of Canada Orientation

When: May 18th, 9pm

In this one-hour session, you will listen to a brief presentation outlining the DSC’s mission, structure, and activities, and learn how to get involved in your local Chapter and/or on a National level. Following the presentation, we will have a discussion period and the organizers will answer any questions you may have.

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No To Nuclear

When: Tuesday May 19th, 2pm

There is no silver bullet for the climate crisis—but that hasn’t stopped people searching. Seizing its chance, the nuclear power industry wants us to believe that theirs is the only technical fix for our deliverance. The public, politicians and the media have been easily swayed.

No To Nuclear calls the industry’s bluff. Blasting aside its claims to be safe and green, Linda Pentz Gunter makes the irresistible case that nuclear power is too slow, too expensive, too dangerous and too integrally connected to the nuclear weapons complex, to serve as a rational energy choice.

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Booklaunch: Radical Jewish Tradition

When: May 19th, 7pm
Where: Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave

The gripping and inspiring account of Jewish socialist struggles against tsarist pogroms, exploitative sweatshops and murderous Nazis across three continents.

The book celebrates Jewish radicalism from the Tsarist Empire to Poland and Germany, from London to New York. Fighting oppression and exploitation took numerous political forms, including left Zionism, Bundism and revolutionary Marxism. This inspiring radical tradition was ultimately checked by the callous indifference of capitalist governments to refugees and the horror of Auschwitz. However, its lessons must be passed on to inform working-class and anti-imperialist struggles in a world in crisis.This book recovers some of that long-neglected history. Before the Second World War, the majority of Jews were working-class and part of a wider struggle alongside their non-Jewish comrades on the left.

To illuminate this background, the issue of Jewish identity is analysed along political, cultural and sociological lines. This is essential because, today, the claim of Israel and its apologists to represent Jews everywhere, the growth of the antisemitic far right and the approach of the left to the Jewish question are central issues. A knowledge of the breadth of Jewish resistance aids understanding of these debates.

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Get On The Tracks!

When: May 28th, 12pm
Where: Gather outside Union Station, then march up to Queen’s Park for a giant protest.

Stop Ford’s Hospital Privatization Train Wreck giant protest.

On Thursday May 28, we will gather outside Union Station in Toronto at 12 pm for a rally, then march up to Queen’s Park for a giant protest. Folks from across the province will be coming in via train, and you can reserve your spot on the train by registering (link below).

Seats are first come, first served. After you register, we will send you an email with all of this information and more.

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Colonialism, Capitalism, and Canada

When: June 20th, 7pm
Where: College Street United Church

The Leo Panitch School is thrilled to host renowned historian and author Bryan Palmer for a celebration of his three-volume history of Canada, Capitalism, and Colonialism!

This monumental work offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada’s past, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history are tied to the creation of a richly endowed, wealthy but very unequal first world country.

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Bill 101: Burning Down Ontario School Boards

By William Paul

Soon after Education Minister, Paul Calandra dropped Bill 101 Putting Student Achievement First Act, parents met at a Toronto District School Board (TDSB) meeting room to talk about their children’s special needs. Parent after parent explained dire situations in which their children find themselves: a teenager with hearing loss deemed by the Board insufficiently affected to qualify for special help, a thirteen-year-old who hasn’t attended school since September and has suicidal ideas. Several parents spoke about their fears over the impending closure of two small secondary schools that offer a haven for young people who cannot manage the bustle, noise, and academic demands of large institutions. These are just a handful of the stories.

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Will the CLC Finally Break from its Support for Israel and its Histadrut Federation?

By Kevin Skerrett

This coming week, the delegates to the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) triennial Convention in Winnipeg will have a vital opportunity to establish a new relationship of fulsome solidarity with the workers and the labour movement in Palestine. Following many months of work by the rank-and-file activists and supporters of Labour for Palestine (L4P), a carefully prepared resolution has been submitted by 12 different CLC affiliated bodies including locals, labour councils, provincial federations, and even two national unions.

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Confronting the Far-Right: Lessons from Italy and Spain

The Leo Panitch School is pleased to present “Confronting the Far-Right: Lessons from Italy and Spain.” We are honoured to welcome Clara Serra and Salvatore Prinzi to Toronto to lead us in a discussion of this vital topic. Clara and Salvatore are both activists, authors, and philosophers, experienced in movements confronting the rise of the far-right in Spain and Italy, respectively. How did the rise of the contemporary far-right come about in Southern Europe? How are left and anti-fascist movements responding to this? What lessons can the socialist left in Canada take from the experiences of Italy and Spain?

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Organizer

The Toronto & York Region Labour Council is seeking a permanent organizer to work as part of the leadership and staff team in a dynamic and fast-paced organization that is responding to a changing economy and new political realities in Canada’s largest urban centre.

Reporting to the President, the successful candidate will play a role in all aspects of the Council’s work in both Toronto and York Region, including political action, building union strength, the development of networks of union activists around key campaign goals, and other duties as assigned.

The role is suitable for a pro-active, articulate, and hands-on and detail-oriented individual who can bring people together to achieve common goals. The individual would have experience in organizing, knowledge of the labour movement, and be comfortable working as part of a small interdependent staff team.

The starting rate for the position is $90,835.16 annually and a generous benefits package is provided.
Applicants are invited to send their resume by Friday, June 5, 2025 at 12:00 noon to jhuang@labourcouncil.ca.

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