CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Support Hassan Diab

Canada must protect Hassan Diab from hate crimes and death threats.

Justice Minister Arif Virani must declare Diab’s innocence and refuse a second extradition NOW!

The Canadian government has failed Hassan Diab. The result? A coordinated campaign of harassment, hate crimes, and death threats is being levelled at Dr. Diab, prompted and orchestrated by the Israel Lobby.

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Fund Our Schools

While students’ needs have increased since the pandemic, the Conservative cuts have resulted in fewer lunchroom supervisors, fewer Educational Assistants and Special Needs Assistants, fewer caretakers, fewer caring adults in schools. As a result, our schools are less clean, less supervised, less safe, and less able to address gaps in student learning, in student socialization, and conflict management. Worst of all, it’s led to an increase in violence.

If all of us take action by sending a message, we can put pressure on the provincial government to stop spending money on ads that speak about how much they spend on education, and instead, put real money into publicly-funded education. Take Action.

Reception: Beyond the Wall

When: February 27th, 6:30pm
Where: PHC Gallery, 325 Church St

This exhibition records separation by design – the experience of facing oppressive walls and the ways people transform them. Through case studies, it reveals parallels between systems of control and the instinct to find a crack in the wall, a space to envision change.

Beyond the Wall rejects the role of design in the destruction of people, places, and identities in Gaza, Palestine, and beyond. It captures struggle, resilience, and visions of a better future.

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Inside Organizer School

When: February 28 to March 2

See poster on x.com

insideorganizerschool.com | Email insideorganizerschool@gmail.com for registration information.

Cyber-Marx at 25

When: February 28th, 9am-4:30pm
Where: Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto

An all-day event reflecting on 25 years of the publication of the book Cyber-Marx, by Nick Dyer-Witheford. How to think about Cyber-Marx 25 years after its publication? What does cyber-Marxism look like today? In dialogue with Nick Dyer-Witheford, +20 researchers will provide provocations and updates on cyber-Marxist concepts. Copies of his new book, Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis, co-authored with Alessandra Mularoni, will also be available.

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CONTROL AT WORK in the Age of AI

When: Saturday, March 1st, 7:15pm
Where: Trinity St. Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor St W

You are warmly invited to join us for the 2025 edition of the Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education’s annual winter lecture! We are overjoyed to be welcoming Nicole Aschoff to deliver this year’s lecture. This event marks the third edition of the school’s annual winter lecture, held in the memory of the late Leo Panitch.

Artificial intelligence will bring the final destruction of good jobs. Soon all jobs will be subject to elimination or degradation! Or so we are told. This technologically determinist vision, while pervasive, ignores the power of working people to shape the future.

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One Day Everyone will have always been against this

When: March 2nd, 12:30 and March 5th, 7pm
Where: 93 Charles Street W

Another Story Bookshop, Toronto Palestine Film Festival and McClelland and Stewart present the Toronto launch of Omar El Akkad’s new book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.

Featuring a conversation with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, audience Q & A and book signing.

March 2nd | March 5th

Rally/march Against Mining Violence

When: March 2nd, 1pm
Where: 100 Adelaide St W

Canadian mining projects are at the heart of the most destructive forces on the planet. From the bombs falling on Palestine to the climate fires burning up the planet, from the theft of Indigenous land and the war profiteering in the Congo to the assassination of land defenders — Canadian mining kills, destroys and colonizes.

Every year at PDAC, representatives from mining companies, governments, and other key industry players come together to make deals and draft plans on how to keep profiting off of land theft, violence, and poisoning the planet. This year is no exception.

mininginjustice.org | Facebook event

Canadian Foreign Policy Hour with Yves Engler

When: Mondays at 6pm

Join author Yves Engler on Mondays for a weekly news roundup and interactive discussion about Canada’s role abroad. This weekly session will delve into the latest developments on subjects ranging from military affairs and Canada’s role in Ukraine to its contribution to Palestinian dispossession, and the exploitation of African resources. Join Yves for a critical take on Canada’s foreign policy. Questions, comments, and criticisms are all welcome.

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We can defeat Poilievre

When: March 4th, 6pm

On Tuesday, March 4, we are very excited to share with you our plans for the federal election and beyond. We’ll discuss how we can gather our forces, rally our allies, and build a movement to win the Canada we want.

You and I are hungry for spaces where we can collectively make sense of the situation and plan together for a grassroots fightback against the corporate agenda – and the politicians, like Poilievre, who do their bidding. This is what our campaign will do.

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Book launch: Invested In Crisis

When: Wednesday, March 5th, 6:30 pm
Where: Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave

Join Tom Fraser in conversation with Deborah Cowen as they discuss the rise of mega-pension-funds and the weakening of the working class.

All workers deserve access to a safe and secure retirement. But neoliberal governments set up a dynamic where the retirement of some is predicated upon the exploitation of many. In Invested in Crisis Tom Fraser delves deep into the sordid stories of the public sector pension fund investment world: the massive real estate projects, the infrastructure privatization debacles, how unions fight back, and what needs to be done so we can all save for a better future.

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International Women’s Day

When: Saturday March 8th, Rally 11am; March starts at 1:00pm
Where: Auditorium, OISE, 252 Bloor Street W.

Fighting for Our Lives. Building Our Resistance.

Rally and March organized by Women Working with Immigrant Women and IWD Toronto Organizing Committee.

iwdtoronto.ca | Facebook event

Online edition: Fighting to Win

Fighting to Win: Social Struggles, Containment, and Effective Resistance (online edition)

Fighting to Win is a 12-week course with former OCAP organizer John Clarke, hosted by the Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education.

This edition of the course will be taking place exclusively online via Zoom. Those based in Toronto, Canada, are invited to join us for the next in-person edition of the course later in 2025.

The course will begin in April 2025 and will take place over 12 weeks on Saturdays at Noon (EST/EDT).

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Trump’s Threats, Canadian Challenges

By Harry Glasbeek

US President Donald Trump blew the bugle: Canada should be the 51st State, perhaps he might legally annex it, certainly hold it responsible for its failures as border watchers, for allowing undesirable people to flow into the US and permitting drug peddlers to supply the insatiable consumer market in the US. More, Trump bellowed, Canada’s spending on its military is forcing the US, as the defender of all that is good and holy, to bear an unfair burden.

Source: The Bullet No. 3100

Interprovincial Trade Barriers – A Solution Looking for a Problem?

By Marjorie Griffin Cohen

Canada struggles with the threats from the United States that include imposing not only high tariffs, but even the unimaginable – annexing the country. In a highly defensive mode, the economic future of the country is beginning to be debated. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, calls for tighter US trade ties, as do others such as Claude Lavoi, who was recently in charge of policy analysis at the Department of Finance, on the side supporting an economic union with the US.

Source: The Bullet No. 3101

Book launch: Against the People

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is thrilled to host the
official launch of the new book Against the People: How Ford Nation is Dismantling Ontario, with editors Bryan Evans and Carlo Fanelli. The election of the Doug Ford–led Progressive Conservatives unleashed an aggressive and undisguised market fundamentalism. Ford’s government has taken the assault against the social welfare state, labour and environmental protections to new and unprecedented heights.

Source: LeftStreamed