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Wednesday, April 24 6:30 pm edt Resistance Press Bookroom 427 Bloor St West and on zoom – register here for zoom link Organized by the International Socialists. Dates:  Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 18:30 Organized by:  International Socialists ..read more

McGill University was founded in 1821, and never has there been a strike of professors – until now. The University has seen TA strikes, student strikes, and repeated labour unrest from the administrative support staff of the union MUNACA. But a strike by profs, unheard of! The faculty association is not even a legal union with the right to strike. But in 2022, one group of McGill profs unionized separately from the faculty association. It was perhaps the biggest possible challenge to the elitism of McGill, which is why the administration fought it hard in a legal battle, using public money t ..read more

Last spring saw an incredible mobilization by the Ontario Health Coalition, a network of local health coalitions in cities and towns across the province. Currently the Ontario Health Coalition represents more than 500 member organizations and a network of local Health coalitions and individual members. OHC members include: seniors’ groups; patients’ organizations; unions; nurses and health professionals’ organizations; physicians and physician organizations that support the public health system; non-profit community agencies; student groups; cultural organizations; residents’ and family coun ..read more

On March 26th, 400 workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario walked out after rejecting management's latest offer which failed to address key issues such as low wages and protection against contracting out. The strikers, members of OPSEU Local 535, are food and hospitality workers, assistant curators, archivists, visitor service staff, electricians, carpenters and more. Over 60% of these workers are precarious, part-time workers. Paul Ayers, president of Local 535, said: "Last time we checked, part-time workers still pay full-time rent. We need a deal that makes it possible to earn a living and ..read more

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Sunday, April 28th 2 pm EDT | 11 am PDT 427 Bloor St. West, Toronto and on zoom – register here for the zoom link Organized by the international Socialists info@socialist.ca Dates:  Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 20:00 Organized by:  International Socialists ..read more

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has declared a red alert. Their recent State of the Global Climate 2023 report confirmed that 2023 was the hottest year on record with a global average temperature of 1.45 ± 0.12 °C above the pre-industrial baseline (PIB - 30 year average for 1850-1900). This is even more worrying because it reaches the 1.5 °C threshold that was the red line agreed to in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreements.   The last 9 years are the warmest on record and the oceans are the hottest since monitoring began 65 years ago. Oceans are more acidic than at any time in t ..read more

PDF File:  sw_662_final.pdf Cover Image:  Publication:  Socialist Worker Issue Number:  662 Year:  2024 Month:  April ..read more

With heavy hearts we share the news that John Bell, a life-long revolutionary and tireless contributor to Socialist Worker, passed away on March 28th, weeks away from his 69th birthday.   For decades, John's regular column "Left Jab" combined razor-sharp analysis with humour, providing ammunition – and sometimes comic relief – to activists taking on capitalism's many disasters.   John was born and raised in London, Ontario. As he wrote, "I was born into what was billed as a “middle class” family, in what is still considered a thoroughly “middle class” city, smack in the middle of t ..read more