Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly

For our 5th coffeehouse, we will talk about local and international experiences in left political projects. As per the usual format, we'll have moderated discussion and debate in an overheated room over drinks.

Anti-capitalist organizations: experiences and debates

Where: Reagle Beagle Pub, 355 Bloor St W (near St.George)
When: 7pm on Friday, January 21
Guest speakers:

Xavier Lafrance - Quebec solidaire
Sean Smith - the United Left Alliance in Ireland
Abbie Bakan - the Workers' Assembly

A forum and group discussion with members of the GTWA and guests from the United Steel Workers Local 1005 (currently locked out by US Steel), the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 416 (city workers facing the Ford administration) and others TBA.

Join us for a coffeehouse discussion about the politics of elections and the left.

Anti-Capitalism and Electoral Politics:  Questions and Answers
Friday, December 17
7:00 PM
Regal Beagle Pub (back room)
335 Bloor  St. W. (near St. George)

Join fellow activists, allies, supporters, workers and community in a forum to discuss the reality of part-time, precarious and undocumented work.

Hear and learn about the nature and challenges of precarious work and take part in discussions that will help us build and prepare for workshops and an action plan for the upcoming labour conference in January 2011.

The Labour Caucus of the Greater Toronto Workers Assembly has formed a Flying Squad!

The November Discussion Bulletin for the GTWA is now available for download.

The November 2010 IDB can be downloaded from here:
http://www.workersassembly.ca/bulletin/GTWAbulletinNOV2010.pdf

The Bulletin is an open forum for members of the Workers' Assembly to discuss the Assembly as well as pressing questions facing radical activists in the Toronto
area today.

GTWA members please consider submitting an article to the next IDB.

Stop the Liberal Government's Attack on Care for Seniors

Friday November 26, 2010 at 12 noon
Ministry of Health
900 Bay Street Toronto - 12 noon

Please bring banners, flags etc

Sponsored by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE and endorsed by the Labour Caucus of the Greater Toronto Worker's Assembly.

We hope that every Assembly member, who can, will attend. We will be attacking the Liberal’s approach to seniors’ care:

The GTWA holds regular coffee house discussions where members and those interested in the GTWA can gather over drinks and discuss politics in an informal setting. The next coffee house discussions is about the recent municipal elections.

Friday, November 19
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Reagal Beagle Pub
335 Bloor St West (near St. George subway)
We will meet in the back room of the pub. The Reagle Beagle is an accessible space.

Please participate in a Community-Labour discussion hosted by No One Is Illegal – Toronto
November 4, 2010. 6:00pm – 8:00pm. OPSEU Union Hall, 31 Wellesley Street (across from Wellesley Subway Station)

NO MORE DEATHS: PEOPLE'S RESISTANCE TO UNDOCUMENTED & PRECARIOUS WORK

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159718884061029

Join us for a panel discussion with labour activists from the private and public sector sharing successful strategies to fight back against the challenges working people, communities and labour are facing due to corporate greed, cutbacks and the crisis of capitalism. There will be time for questions and discussions for those in attendance.

Tuesday October 26, 2010
7 to 9 pm
Ryerson Student Centre, Room A/B (Second floor)
63 Gould St. Toronto
One block north of Dundas on the corner of Church St.

Speakers: