Category: Social Movements
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Transforming the City: Municipal Politics, Socialist Strategy, and Organizing to Win
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is pleased to present “Transforming the City,” a discussion of municipal politics, socialist strategy, and organizing to win. From unprecedented Palestine solidarity actions … Watch video »
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Whose Side is the Law Always On? University of Toronto Palestine Solidarity Encampment
The University of Toronto won an injunction from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (on Tuesday July 2nd) which requires pro-Palestine demonstrators to take down the physical structures they erected … Keep reading »
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Statement on Morning Encampment Raid at York University
[Content Warning: The following statement references police violence and racism, colonialism, imperialism, and anti-Indigenous racism. — YFS] On June 5, 2024, York University students launched the York Popular University for … Keep reading »
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May 30: Stop Privatization of Our Healthcare
The Fightback is On – Either we save our public medicare now, or we are going to lose it. On May 30, join Ontario Health Coalition’s protest and march to … Watch video »
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May 27: Unions, Students, Community and umbrellas at @OccupyUofT rally
Disclose. Divest. We will not stop, we will not rest. Solidarity. OFL open letter to University of Toronto President Dear President Gertler, I am writing in my capacity as the President … Watch video »
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Enabling Dictatorship and Destroying Democracy
In Timothy Ryback’s recently published book Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power, he explains how the establishment (the political and economic ruling elite) allowed Hitler and the Nazi Party to … Keep reading »
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Students Stand with Palestine: Divest from Israel, Boycott Israeli Universities
A series of Palestinian Solidarity Encampments have been set up at university campuses across North America and Europe, including many in Canada. Some 150 students set up more than 50 … Watch video »
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Strike for Palestine this May Day and Nakba Day
This May Day and Nakba Day, we, the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions – Gaza, urgently appeal to our brothers and sisters in the international trade union movement to … Keep reading »
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Belfast’s International Wall becomes the Palestinian Wall
In a defiant show of solidarity with the people of Palestine a group of mural artists led by internationally renowned artist Danny Devenny has transformed Belfast’s iconic “International Wall” into … Watch video »
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Building the Left In and Outside of Parliament
Marc Botenga (PTB, Belgium), Member of the European Parliament (MEP), speaks about workers’ alliances across Europe and why we need more of them, the EU bureaucracy and political culture he … Keep reading »
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We Must Raise Popular Consciousness on Palestinian Resistance
This year marks 75 years of Nakba – 75 years since the violent expulsion of up to one million Palestinians from their homeland by Zionist militias for the creation of … Keep reading »
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Let’s Rent a Train!
Let’s Rent a Train! Life in the Toronto Branch of the League for Socialist Action, 1961-1977 is an unprecedented historical film about the rise and fall of a militant revolutionary … Watch video »