CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Tariff Crisis

Now is the time for governments to take action to stabilize workers’ incomes, fix Employment Insurance permanently, and invest in public infrastructure and services to make life more affordable. We must restore moratoriums on rent increases and evictions.

Take action to demand urgent protections for workers and communities.

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Clean Electricity and Energy Justice

When: March 27th, 4pm

Join us for a celebratory and insightful webinar on clean electricity in Canada.

Where is Canada in its journey toward affordable, reliable, clean electricity for all? And how can we push for the change we need to ensure our electricity system benefits the many, not the few?

In December 2024, Canada finalized its clean electricity regulations to help usher in a renewable-energy future. This was an unprecedented win for clean electricity in Canada, but it also included damaging loopholes for fossil fuel companies.

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Screening/fundraiser: From Ground Zero

When: Thursday, March 27th, 7pm (doors 6:30pm)
Where: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave

From Executive Producer Michael Moore and Palestine’s Official Submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero is a collection of revealing stories from 22 Palestinian filmmakers living through war, who capture their lives in Gaza amidst war.

Using a blend of animation, documentary, and fiction, they create a powerful testament to the steadfastness of the human spirit. This film serves as a remarkable reflection of how art can thrive even in the darkest times, showcasing the enduring spirit and creativity that emerge amid ongoing devastation.

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AI’s Hidden Abode of Production

When: March 27th, 7pm

This talk dispels the myth that generative AI is an autonomous force with a will of its own. Focusing in on the AI industry’s hidden abode of production, the talk centers on how AI is designed, built, and maintained by workers—both waged and unwaged—employed by big tech giants and a vast international network of contractors and sub-contractors. The talk recognizes the human labour powering AI, shedding light on the AI industry’s dependence on human knowledge and skill and also showing how AI is being used by firms to deskill and automate labour in creative industry fields like acting, music, writing, and visual arts.

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Toronto Queer Film Festival

When: March 28 to 30
Where: Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave

This year’s theme, “For a Future to Believe In | Collective Resistance,” responds to global and local variants of fascism and neo-colonialism, and their hastening of climate and social disintegration.

Our theme honours American and Turkish activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, whose belief in the interconnectedness of struggle led her to protest at both Standing Rock and in the West Bank. We take her words, “We are the fire….We are burning for a future to believe in” as a call to action.

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Pedal Protest

When: Friday March 28th, 6pm
Where: Bloor and Spadina

Stop Bill 212 – Critical Mass

Please join this ride. It’s an important moment to build on the growing groundswell of opposition to Ford’s planned removal of sections of the Bloor, Yonge and University bike lanes. Hope to see you there!

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Land Day 2025

When: March 29th, 2pm
Where: Yonge and Dundas

Yom al-Ard (يوم الأرض), or Land Day, recalls the events of March 30, 1967 when six unarmed Palestinians were killed during protests against Israel’s theft of Palestinian land. Israel had ordered the confiscation of approximately 5,000 acres of land belonging to Palestinians in the Galilee. This was a step in Israel’s plan to “Judiase Galilee” after the occupation of Palestine in 1948. Since then, March 30 has become a central date in the Palestinian collective memory, a memory of the 1976 land dispossessions and the brutality of the occupation’s response to Palestinian resistance.

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Rally for Cuba

When: March 30th, 1pm
Where: 361 University Ave

Join our monthly protests to end the immoral US blockade and take Cuba off the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list.

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Palestine Land Day

When: March 30th, 1pm

Join us for a presentation and discussion with Palestinian and international political prisoner, land, and labour rights activists about the significance of Land Day commemorations for the Palestinian people, and its relevance in the context of the ongoing genocide

Land Day commemorates the events of March 30, 1976, when Israeli police killed 6 unarmed Palestinians who were protesting the theft of Palestinian land by the settler-colonial state of Israel in the Galilee region. Since then, March 30th – Land Day has become a central date in Palestinian collective memory of steadfastness and resistance to Israeli dispossession and brutality against Palestinians.

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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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Book launch: Interrupting Innovation

When: April 3rd, 5:30pm
Where: 288 Church St, 7th floor

Join the co-editors Melanie Panitch, Samantha Webhi and Jessica Machado for the launch of Interrupting Innovation: Centring the Social. This launch will be facilitated by the executive director of the Centre for Social Innovation, Dr. Eliza Chandler. It will feature remarks from the dean of community services Kiaras Gharabaghi.

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Hope in the Era of Trump

When: April 3rd, 7pm

Douglas Roche is an author, parliamentarian, and diplomat who have devoted his 50-year public career to peace and human-security issues. His latest book is Keep Hope Alive (2nd ed.)

The Hon. Roche will address themes from his most recent book. He asks: What is the basis for hope concerning a more peaceful and sustainable world in this tumultuous time?

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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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Introduction to Socialism

When: April 6 to June 1

Curious about socialism? Interested about if it is really possible and taking a sober look at the problems it will face? Want to discuss how to begin affecting change right now?

In these uncertain and dangerous times, The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is a space to listen, discuss and challenge the contemporary relevancy of socialism.

The School’s flagship course, Introduction to Socialism, is designed for both those experienced activists always looking to learn more, and those newer to socialist ideas and full of questions. It will not only provide a unique venue for collectively tackling important topics, but also a welcoming space where any question relevant to socialist organizing, no matter how basic or advanced, can be raised and discussed.

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Trump: Shock Therapy as a Media Spectacle

By Ingo Schmidt

1982: The Mexican government declares insolvency. A consequence of restrictive monetary policies in the US. The beginning of an international debt crisis. During the crisis, emissaries of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) granted loans to many countries in the South so that they could service their debts to creditors in the imperialist centres. The loans were tied to the following conditions: devaluations, spending cuts, and tariff reductions. This forced a reorientation from industrialization and growth of the domestic market to the export of cheap raw materials, agricultural products, and industrial goods produced with cheap labour.

Source: The Bullet No. 3110

Anschluss, Schulterschluss or Concrete Internationalism?

By Stefan Kipfer

In these turbulent and rapidly shifting times, we often search for quick answers. “How to respond to Trump 2.0?” is a question that calls for an immediate response here in Canada. This question harbors other long-standing questions. What is Canada’s place in the world? How does Canada relate to the USA? How should left and emancipatory voices in English Canada, Québec, and Indigenous nations position themselves in the world as well as in relationship to the US?

Source: The Bullet No. 3111

The Trump Tariff Challenge and the Rule of Capital

By Joshua McEvoy

As Canadians sift through the rubble of Trump’s latest salvo and steel themselves for the next in the back-and-forth of the US-Canada trade war, there is increasing interest, especially on the left, in an alternative, independent path for Canada. But in the understandable renewal of interest in attempts like that of the Waffle’s pursuit of left economic nationalism in the NDP of the 1960s and 70s, it is essential as socialists that we do not miss one of the most important lessons that can be gleaned from Trump’s tariff gambit.

Source: The Bullet No. 3112