Toronto IWW General Defence Committee Local 28

Toronto IWW General Defence Committee Local 28 The aims of this organization shall be to provide defense / relief to members of the working class who are being persecuted for their role in the struggle.

The aim of the General Defense Committee (GDC) is to provide defense and solidarity to members of the working class under attack. We provide these through the provision and maintenance of legal and financial support, and through attempts to innovate new forms of defense of the working class as a whole. The GDC publicly promotes the vision of the IWW and the creation of worker-run industry to the entire working class. Effective worker organizations will face oppression from the master class, and have been effectively shut down and marginalized through lawsuits, imprisonment, and through the institution of neighborhood terror by police, security, and gangs. Some attacks on worker organization involve courts, police, and prisons. We must secure defense against such attacks, but do not imagine that legal and financial defense alone are sufficient. Some of the most effective weapons of the master class are to divide the working class according to unevenly shared oppressions of race, s*x, gender, s*xual attraction, religion, nationality, or language. While the IWW organizes against such divisions in the workplace, the GDC both defends workers in legal trouble, and takes action against such oppressions, in ways that attempt to strategically link anti-oppression struggles to worker organization. As such, we see the GDC’s mission partly as defense of active organized workers already in our union, and partly as outreach to currently under-represented members of the working class. It shall be the purpose of the General Defense Committee to aid those who find themselves persecuted by the powers that be in their struggle for justice and freedom. It shall also be the purpose of the General Defense Committee to publish and distribute literature exposing the false and reactionary propaganda of the master class. By organizing the many and centralizing their efforts in each instance, labor will be given the protection of the entire working class, thereby making an injury to one the concern of all.

08/25/2026

On this day, 25 August 1944, a group of 32 Spanish and eight French resistance fighters tackled an entire German column, consisting of 1,300 men in 60 lorries with six tanks and two self-propelled guns, in La Madeleine, France.
The Maquis blew up the road and rail bridges and positioned themselves on surrounding hills with machine guns. The battle raged from 3:00pm till noon the following day.
Three Maquis were wounded, while 8 Germans were killed, nearly 200 wounded and the rest surrendered. After his humiliating defeat, the N**i commander killed himself before he could be captured.
Many anti-fascist fighters from the Spanish civil war were exiled in France, and ended up taking part in the French resistance.
Learn more about the Spanish civil war in episodes 39-40 of our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/
More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9715/french-resistance-tackles-german-column

08/19/2026

Join us for a community event to mark International Overdose Awareness Day 2026, hosted in partnership with Regent Park Community Health Centre, PASAN, Sherbourne Health Centre, South Riverdale Community Health Centre, Street Haven, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre, Fred Victor, Toronto Drug Checking, and The Neighbourhood Group.

Date: Monday, August 31, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: Moss Park, 151 Shuter St.

Memorial March at 9AM starting at Regent Park Community Health Centre, walking along Dundas Street and finishing at Moss Park.

08/02/2026

📢General strike proclamation against war.

🔴⚫The Italian Trade Union Union joins the ICL-CIT International Organization. ICL-CIT has launched an appeal for two days of mobilization against militarism and all wars.

✊🏻USI-CIT welcomes the appeal of the international organization it is part of, sharing its concerns about the current global situation and the Italian government's policies that do not oppose wars, when they do not legitimize or even favor them.

📆USI proclaims the general strike on October 30, 2026, for all public and private employees for the entire day.

👎🏻Against: militarism;

the increase in military spending and the production of weapons;

the war economy and the consequent worsening of the conditions of female and male workers;

the export of weapons, both as sales and as free support, particularly in countries involved in conflicts;

the militarization of society.

👍🏻For:
the elimination of military spending;

investment in savings derived from the reduction of military spending in social policies within the framework of disaffection, schools, public housing, and everything that constitutes the social state;

the withdrawal of all military shipments abroad;

the demilitarization of society: no more military personnel in schools and streets.

For the firefighters, the strike will only concern the first shift.

The following sectors are excluded from this proclamation:

Local public transport,
Air transport,
Rail transport,
Maritime transport.

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