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Prisoners' Justice Day Vigil August 10th, 2024 Parc Vinet, Metro Lionel-Groulx 2-5 pm Every August 10th, prisoners participate in Prisoners’ Justice Day (PJD) by fasting and refusing to work for the day. The practice dates back to 1975 when imprisoned people at Millhaven Penitentiary, located outside Kingston, Ontario, organized a day-long hunger strike, work stoppage, and memorial service to honour two prisoners who had died in solitary confinement. This year is the 50th anniversary of the death of one of those prisoners—Edward Nalon. On August 10th,1974, Eddie bled to death while in solitary confinement at Millhaven. According to prisonjustice.ca, "Eddie...

* Version française ci-dessous.* Traduction chuchotée disponible lors de l'évènement. August 15th 2024 6:30pm EDTJ.A. DèSeve Cinema, Concordia University J.W. McConnell Building (Library building)LB-125, 1400 De Maisonneuve OuestMontreal (Tiohtiake) Facebook event With speakers: * Afreen Fatima* Fahad Ahmad* Mayur* Teesta Setalvad (Bios below) After ten years of a Hindu Supremacist government in power in India, the ruling fascist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finally lost their outright majority when 640 million people went to the polls earlier this year. They lost a whopping 63 seats, dropping down to 240 out of 543. Despite these uplifting electoral results, the BJP remains at...

[This interview was conducted for the New Left Review and is mirrored from their site. You can get a copy of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine here.] Let’s start with the present, not just in the sense of the horrors being inflicted on Palestine right now, but the present as part of Palestine’s still-active past. The brutal Anglo-Zionist repression of the great Arab Revolt of 1936–39 was followed by the Nakba of 1948, the Six-Day War in 1967, the 1982 siege of Beirut, led by Ariel Sharon, and the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, the two Intifadas, the continuous...

WHEN: June 16, 4pm-6pm WHERE: The Anarchist. 190 Jarvis St, Toronto, ON M5B 2J9Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/410921081407714  A discussion with author D.Z. Shaw. Aimed at a politically committed activist audience, Shaw's Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique, and the Three Way Fight provides a snapshot of an evolving philosophy of antifascism that grapples with the theoretical and practical challenges presented both by recent events and by the historical foundations of North America’s settler societies. Learning from the past to build a revolutionary antifascism for the present and future.

Double book launch for Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism + Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique, and the Three Way FightAn evening of discussion with Xtn Alexander, D.Z. Shaw, and Rob Luzecky. Friday, June 14, 6–8pmOttawa Trans Library (1104 Somerset St. W.)Facebook eventThree Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, edited by Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons, brings together more than thirty essays, position statements, and interviews from the Three Way Fight website and elsewhere, spanning from the antifascist struggles of the 1980s and 1990s to the political upheavals of the twenty-first century.Three way fight politics argue that the...