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What are the tasks of activists in the Global North, when mass movements against oppression erupt in the Global South? In the 1970s and 1980s, this was posed sharply by the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. In Canada, the United States and many other countries, activists in the unions and social movements worked to build solidarity with the anti-apartheid campaign. Today, we are confronted with the same questions with regards to many struggles internationally. At this meeting, we will focus on the recent uprisings against oppression in Egypt and throughout North Africa.
Friday, March 25 at 7pm, the International Solidarity Committee of the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly is organizing a coffee house where Golta Shahidi of Students Against Israeli Apartheid will chair a panel that includes Ahmed Shawki – editor of International Socialist Review. Ahmed, originally from Egypt, was in Cairo during the key days of the uprisings. Other panelists TBA.
