CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Contribute to UN peacekeeping

Petition to the Minister of National Defence
Whereas:
– Canada has significantly reduced its involvement in UN peacekeeping missions from over 3,000 in 1993 to just 26 today;
– Never implemented the 600 troops committed in 2017;
– Announced further reduction this past July, which would bring Canada to just 4 or 5 military personnel in the UN…

We call upon the Government of Canada to uphold and augment Canada’s reputation as a peacekeeping nation by increasing its contribution to UN peacekeeping staffing to at least 400, providing the senior officer leadership we are famous for and complementing it with troops knowledgeable in the latest technology to train soldiers from other nations in these advanced systems.

ourcommons.ca

Workers’ Justice

When: Sept 24 – November 12
Where: Jane-Finch area

The third Workers’ Justice cohort will meet every Thursday from September 24 to November 12, 2026. Over eight weeks, workers and community members will come together to share their experiences, learn about workplace rights, and explore how collective action can create change in workplaces and communities.

The course is grounded in participants’ own knowledge and experiences. Sessions will combine practical information, group discussion, participatory activities, and collective problem-solving. Together, participants will examine why workplace injustices happen, who is most affected, and how workers can respond individually and collectively.

yorku.ca

Palestine Film Festival

When: September 30th to October 9

The Toronto Palestine Film Festival – Sept. 30 to Oct. 9.

tpff.ca

Sudan’s Conflict: Examining Canada’s Responsibility

When: Thursday, October 1st, 12pm

Join us for a conversation with experts on the impact of Canadian corporate accountability, arms control framework, and trade relationships on the war in Sudan.

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Panel Discussion: Defending Democracy

When: Thursday, October 1st, 6pm
Where: 30 Sewells Rd

What does a healthy democracy look like?

Join a panel of experts to discuss how we can sustain a strong democracy in Toronto. Learn about key democratic structures and issues, share ideas, and discover new pathways for civic action. The panel will be followed by a facilitated group discussion focused on thoughtful engagement in today’s democratic systems.

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Municipal Election Panel

When: Thursday October 1st, 6:30pm
Where: Centre for Social Innovation, 192 Spadina Ave

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how city politics works, the power of local voices and local governments, what’s on the table for the environment and how this election can help build a greener city. Plus, you’ll get a sneak peek at TEA’s candidate survey results on key local environmental issues.

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Filmscreening: Land of Canaan

When: Saturday, October 3rd, 5:45pm
Where: TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 1

Land of Canaan is an environmental portrait immersing viewers in the lives of Palestinian farmers and their ancient olive trees — living symbols of heritage and land stewardship. The film follows Dr. Nasser Abufarha’s return to the occupied West Bank, where he finds the olive harvest industry in crisis and leads a movement to protect a fragile ecosystem and generations of ecological knowledge. Many of the featured olive trees are over 1,000 years old, rooted in regenerative, biodiversity-rich ecosystems. The film explores how food sovereignty, fair trade, and environmental stewardship become acts of cultural survival under occupation, and highlights the work of Canaan Palestine and the Trees for Life initiative, which supports over 2,400 artisan farming families across 52 villages and has helped plant more than 429,000 trees throughout the West Bank.

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Community Breakfast and Rally

When: October 4th, 9am
Where: Food Terminal, 125 The Queensway

Canada has a strategy to solve food insecurity: fund more farms for “local production.” But we know millions of dollars in agricultural products leave Canada to go to the US and elsewhere, and are grown, harvested, and packaged by migrant farmworkers.

Join us on Sunday October 4 for a hearty breakfast and community rally as we remind the industry and our government who puts food on Canadian (and global) tables, and what it means to fund the companies who exploit them.

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Marxism and the National Question

When: October 4th, 1-5pm
Where: Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street and on zoom

Imperialism has created a pecking order of oppressor and oppressed nations which shapes our world in profound ways. Canada, founded on the theft of Indigenous lands and the conquest of Quebec, is a “prison of nations”.

What can we learn from the writings of Marx, Lenin and Luxemburg on this question? What does the experience of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath tell us about the connection between struggles for national liberation and international working class revolution? Join us for a discussion of insights and strategies the classical Marxist tradition offers revolutionaries in the Canadian state today.

socialist.ca

Digital Sovereignty and Working Class

When: Monday October 5th, 12:30pm

Led by the Tech Sector of the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil, the workshop will present the social movement’s principles and practices around popular digital sovereignty and discuss the next steps for building transnational solidarities. This activity is part of the Digital Sovereignty Archives project, funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

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DSC Orientation

When: Monday October 5th, 7pm

We offer free tenant organizing training on a quarterly basis. This training is the first step to taking some control of your housing situation!

We also host an introductory information session two times per month for people interested in the Democratic Socialists of Canada (DSC).

democraticsocialists.ca

Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks

When: Wednesday, October 7th, 6pm
Where: Museum of Toronto, 401 Richmond St. West.

Guests can purchase a copy of the book from the Spacing Store and explore more of Toronto’s unexpected histories in The T.O. You Don’t Know exhibition. Light refreshments will be available.

Also October 15, 21, and 27 – various locations.

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Higher Education Workers’ Campaign

When: Wednesday, October 7th, 7pm
Where: 502 Bathurst St

The Socialist Project’s Higher Education Workers’ Campaign is starting up monthly meetings again! Join us on October 7 at 7pm as we review the state of organizing in our sector, build on the priorities for a solidarity pact across all of our unions, and identify key goals for the campaign in the coming year!

With big fights brewing across universities and colleges, as well as elementary and secondary schools, there’s no better time to get involved.

socialistproject.ca

Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin

When: Thursday, October 8th, 6pm
Where: William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks St.

Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment, and ecological negligence. Fixes for these forms of breakage often conceal and amplify harm—but what happens if we refuse to rehabilitate this inhospitable world?

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How Amazon Busts Unions, in Its Own Words

By Benjamin Y. Fong

Nearly ninety years ago, Ford kept its own private security force on the payroll for whenever they needed to beat up union supporters. Having traded in the brass knuckles and baseball bats of the early twentieth century for the empathetic listening and fine-grained surveillance of the early twenty-first, Amazon today employs an entirely different set of tactics to ward off union drives – tactics that may well be more effective precisely because they are so systematic.

Source: The Bullet No. 3325

AI and the Class Struggle

By Hugo Pompougnac

The notion that so-called Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are destined to degrade human labour, if not destroy it altogether, has become a commonplace. In a report published in 2023, Goldman Sachs even claimed that 300 million jobs could disappear in the coming years! One might well doubt the scenario of widespread automation put forward by these investment banks. It is even refuted by (real) economists and by the capitalists themselves, when they are among themselves. Since the early 2000s, the number of jobs worldwide has been rising, and productivity gains have been falling, despite the digital revolution. Why? Because capitalism devalues labour.

Source: The Bullet No. 3326

We’ll Take Those Odds: The Left and the Polarization of Options

Sam Gindin interviewed by Benjamin Y. Fong

Sam Gindin is one of the most exacting and capacious thinkers on the socialist Left today. With decades of experience in the labour movement as research director for the Canadian Auto Workers (which merged in 2013 with the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union to form Unifor, today the largest private sector union in Canada), his political orientation is grounded in the reality of the contemporary state of organized labour. His perspective is also informed by a careful study of the current political-economic conjuncture, evident most notably in his important work with Leo Panitch, The Making of Global Capitalism. We talk of the contemporary crisis of capitalism, of the privileged position of organized labour among social movements, and finally, of the importance of the project of organizing Amazon today.

Source: The Bullet No. 3327

Rally and March for Migrant Justice

Migrants make Canada work. We care for children and elders, grow food,
build homes, and keep communities running. But the government is pushing migrants out instead of giving people equal rights. Permits are expiring, being refused, cancelled, or made impossible to renew. Refugees are under attack. People are being deported. Families are being separated. Those who remain are forced to work with fewer rights and more fear. At the same time, working class people are being squeezed by high rents, low wages, service cuts, and insecurity. Migrants are being blamed for a crisis created by underfunding, privatization, corporate greed, and governments that put the rich first.

Source: LeftStreamed