CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Defend Canadians’ Rights to Criticize Zionism

The Government of Canada has recently announced new commitments to combat antisemitism that include addressing anti-Zionism as a contemporary manifestation of antisemitism.

While antisemitism must be firmly opposed, Canadians must also remain free to criticize political ideologies—including Zionism—and the policies and actions of foreign governments, including Israel.

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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.

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Palestine Film Festival

When: September 30th to October 9

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

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TTC Riders

When: Thursday, October 8th, 6pm
Where: Victoria Park Subway Station

Handout Flyers about Scarborough-Southwest Councillor Candidate Survey Results!

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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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Booklaunch: Against Tech Oligarchy

When: October 8th, 7pm
Where: The Garison, 1197 Dundas St W

The authors of Against Tech Oligarchy bring together labour leaders and tech critics to pack the jury in the trial of a tech billionaire.

Witnesses will present Bezos’ most notable injuries to the working class and together we’ll decide his fate. Join us for an event that is sure to be a boisterous, cathartic celebration of working-class solidarity and power.

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Booklaunch: Mobilizing Data for Justice

When: October 9th, 6:30pm
Where: Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave

Knowledge is power and the information behind it must be liberated. Today, more than ever, data has become an important stake in social struggles and the tightening of control over it has not gone without resistance. Social activists around the world are engaging with data in novel ways, whether through investigating tax havens, tracking police misconduct, confronting employers with evidence of wage theft, mapping evictions across the cityscape, or charting the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples of their lands.

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March for Palestine

When: Saturday October 10th, 3pm
Where: Sankofa Square

On October 10, we take the streets to mark three years since Israel’s genocide on Gaza began.

Our people in Gaza have endured over 1,000 days of bombing, starvation, and occupation. As imperialist powers attempt to dictate the fate of Palestine, we must confront and oppose their efforts to liquidate our struggle. We must hold the governments of the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Arab states fully accountable for continuing to enable and fund the genocide.

The genocide must end. The escalated attacks on the people of Palestine, Lebanon and Iran must end.

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Cuba’s Independence Day

When: Saturday October 10th, 5pm
Where: Wildseed Centre, 24 Cecil St

The struggle of the Cuban people for independence from Spanish colonial rule began on October 10, 1868 and finally materialized on January 1, 1959 with the victory of the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro Ruz!

Guests: Honorable Consul of Cuba, Robert Massoud, film From Gaza to Cuba.

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Anti-Capitalist Book Fair

When: October 11th, 10am – 6pm
Where: Cecil Street Community Centre

Toronto’s Anti-Capitalist Book Fair is back for its third year! Last year, we had eighteen vendors and hundreds of guests — and we aim to surpass that this year!

The Anti-Capitalist Book Fair isn’t just a market, it’s a place for people from across Toronto and beyond to get together, discuss, and find the ideas we need to change the world.

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Seniors for Climate

When: October 12-18

Seniors for Climate will be holding a week of action from October 12th to 18th to break through the climate silence. Save the dates and stay tuned for more details.

We started the climate conversations during Environment Week in the beginning of June. This fall, we will escalate those conversations into direct engagement with municipal leaders, provincial/territorial representatives, and Members of Parliament.

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Earth’s Changing Climate

When: October 13th, 1pm

Climate Action for Lifelong Learners (CALL) and Seniors for Climate Action Now! (SCAN!) are pleased to present an up-to-date, in depth, inspiring and accessible climate course with Dr. Martin Bush, a leading expert in climate science and renewable energy.

The course will review and analyze the global impacts of the worsening climate crisis.

Solutions to the crisis will be presented and discussed, with a focus on renewable sources of energy, electrification, distributed systems, and energy efficiency.

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Claim Our Corner

When: October 14th, 12pm
Where: All Saints Church Community Centre, 315 Dundas Street E

Join 230fightback and the Toronto Underhoused and Homeless Union for food, art installations, and more to remind those that would like to wipe away the unhoused that they are strong, capable people who deserve housing, dignity, and opportunity – and will not be moved.

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Transit Mythbusting

When: Wednesday, October 14th, 6pm

We’ll be debunking common myths about transit, including addressing transit policies put out by candidates that may not actually improve public transit for all.

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Workshop: Know Your Rights at Work

When: Thursday October 15th, 6pm
Where: 720 Spadina Ave, unit 221A

Join our free and confidential workshop to learn about your rights. Whether you’re starting a new job or have years of experience, this workshop will give you the tools to protect yourself and take action if you’re having an issue at work!

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Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks

When: Thursday, October 15th, 6:30pm
Where: Alberto de Castro Gallery (2nd floor), 130 Dupont St

Book reading, followed by a conversation with labour organizer, civilian journalist, and author Humberto da Silva, and a Q&A session with the author.

Also on October 21 and 27 – at various locations. See link below.

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Here Where We Live Is Our Country

When: October 16th, 7pm
Where: Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St. W
Tickets: UJPO members: $25; non-members: $28; low income/students: $10

Join the United Jewish People’s Order (UJPO), The Jewish Faculty Network (JFN) and Another Story Bookshop for a magical evening with author Molly Crabapple, in conversation with Professor Jason Stanle about Molly Crabapple’s book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund.

All proceeds from the event will be donated to Glia, a medical solidarity organization dedicated to providing healthcare in Gaza.

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Fighting to Win

When: Nov 12 to Dec 2

Unions and social movements today are operating under incredibly dire circumstances. There is great economic uncertainty and we confront the worsening impact of climate change as well as a global situation marked by the growing threat of conflict and war. When workers strike or communities under attack take to the streets, it seems that victories are much harder to win and past gains more difficult to defend.

This course will grapple with these questions by looking at the forms of exploitation and oppression that exist in society and the means by which the power structure acts to limit and contain our struggles. The course will move towards a discussion of how our movements can overcome the factors that hold them back and fight to win!

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Building the Confront Carney’s CEO Summit Protest

By Bianca Mugyenyi

The September 14 demonstration against Mark Carney’s CEO summit was a big boost for the Left. Some 2,000 people participated in the Confront Carney’s CEO Summit protest in Toronto, which included a “Carnival Against Capitalism” targeting the largest gathering of capitalists in Canadian history. The biggest explicitly anti-capitalist protest in Canada in many years received widespread mainstream media coverage. CBC’s The National went live to the march at the top of its broadcast that night, while international outlets including Reuters, Al Jazeera and the New York Times reported on the protest.

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‘And They Call it Democracy’

By Bryan Palmer

In 1894 Sam Gompers, a conservative craft unionist and head of the American Federation of Labor, stated bluntly, “There never yet existed coincident with one another autocracy in the shop and democracy in political life.” Gompers is not someone I usually quote with favor. In this instance, however, he was undoubtedly right. For the working-class, ostensible democracy in the political arena has always been compromised by the transparent lack of democracy in productive everyday life, where the interests of capital prevail. Those interests are sustained, legitimized, and periodically revived and deepened by the capitalist state that proclaims itself operating in the interests of all citizens at the same time as it relentlessly serves the needs and wants of the powerful.

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Solidarity Is Strength

Solidarity is Strength is an organizing event reflecting on a defining chapter of Ontario’s history and what lessons we can carry forward to fight today’s austerity agenda. The event includes a conversation with Paul Kellogg, author of Austerity and Resistance: the Ontario Days of Action, 1995-1998, as well other labour leaders, rank and file education workers, and prominent activists.

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