For immediate release
June 19, 2012

Toronto, ON—The Congress of Progressive Filipino Canadians (CPFC) and its allies call on everyone to participate at the “Workers’ Struggles Amidst Neoliberal Globalization” national conference to be held on August 11th and 12th at the United Steelworkers Hall in Toronto. The conference will take place amidst the backdrop of the current capitalist crisis, at a time when workers faced all-out attacks on their lives and communities, expressed through draconian austerity measures, on-going cutbacks to essential public services and the incessant push to make work more temporary and to drive wages down.

The heightening exploitation brought upon the capitalist crisis provides a fertile ground upon which to build solidarity and heighten our collective resistance as workers against capitalism’s all-out attacks on working peoples in Canada and beyond.

Conference objectives

1. To gain deeper understanding of the historic role of the working class in the process of social transformation and its relation to the socialist movement and to gain insights in the history of the workers movement in North America particularly in Canada and the United States.
2. To deepen understanding of the role of migrant and immigrant workers in the working class movement in North America.
3. To understand the importance and essentiality of gender and race in the working class movement and the efforts to help build/strengthen the socialist movement in North America.
4. To continue and strengthen linkages with anti-imperialist, socialist and other progressive and democratic forces.

“Workers’ Struggles amidst Neoliberal Globalization”
North American Conference
August 11 & 12, 2012
United Steelworkers Hall
25 Cecil Street
Toronto, ON Canada
Registration fee is $20 (including meals and conference materials)
Organized by the Counterspin secretariat (CPFC & allies)

REGISTER NOW: http://bit.ly/workersconference

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For more information, contact the Conference Secretariat:
Bryan Taguba
(416) 519-2553
siklab-on@magkaisacentre.org
www.magkaisacentre.org
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