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Posted: September 6, 2025
Updated: October 1, 2025
On June 16, 2025, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine Francesca Albanese published From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, her report on corporate economic complicity in the ‘Israeli’ genocide in Gaza. To paraphrase Albanese’s summary, her report investigates the global corporate machinery sustaining the ‘Israeli’ settler-colonial project of displacement of the Palestinian populations and occupation of their territory. With political leaders and governments shirking their obligations under international law, corporate entities have eagerly profited from the ‘Israeli’ economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now, genocide. Albanese’s report exposes this corporate complicity, but recognizes that ending it will require holding accountable private sector executives. (SEWP NOTE: this accountability can not, and will not, occur under the capitalist system that incentivizes corporate complicity in genocide in the first place. Global working class political power is the only path to achieving justice for Palestine). International law, toothless as it has been shown to be, recognizes varying degrees of responsibility in these cases, each requiring individual scrutiny, with the Palestinian people’s self-determination and very existence at stake. She recognizes this as ‘a necessary step to end the genocide and dismantle the global system that has allowed it.’
From a Canadian perspective, it’s notable that no Canadian companies appear in the Albanese Report. While not taking the absolute central role in the genocide that the United States has played, the Canadian state and military-industrial complex has been materially, steadfastly, and vocally supportive of every single ‘Israeli’ action, despite how the Canadian elite has begun to change their tone as ‘Israel’s’ full food blockade of Gaza enters its sixth month. This surface level lack of evidence for Canadian corporate complicity doesn’t tell the full story, however. First, the BDS Canada movement and Just Peace Advocates have compiled their own reports on Canadian corporate complicity, which you can reference here. Second, to fully reveal the hidden Canadian complicity lurking within the Albanese Report, we have taken the time to find all the Canadian locations (both industrial facilities and offices) of the global multinationals and subsidiaries listed in the report. Like any Canadian economic list, companies from the United States are greatly overrepresented, but there are also British, Japanese, Swiss, and of course ‘Israeli’ companies mentioned in the Albanese Report currently operating in Canada.
From the success of campaigns like Mask Off Maersk and No Azure for Apartheid in bringing real material consequences and disruptions to the global imperialist war machine behind the ‘Israeli’ genocide, we must open other fronts in these struggles, in proletarian and petit-bourgeois workplaces alike. We must connect and unify the labour, anti-imperialist, and economic struggles against Canadian capital and imperialist genocide. We will continue our research in the coming months, including connecting with union locals in these industrial facilities, to diversify and expand the number of fronts in this struggle, to cause the weak spots in the genocidaire’s global supply chain to multiply. The liberation of Palestine depends on all the world’s workers.
Canadian Branches of Companies in the Albanese Report
Elbit Systems: Geospectrum (subsidiary) in Dartmouth, NS
General Dynamics: Facilities in Repentigny, Nicolet, and Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, QC, London, ON, and offices in Ottawa, Calgary, and Dartmouth, NS
Lockheed Martin: Facilities and offices in Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, and Calgary
L3Harris MAS (F-35 Supplier): Facility in Mirabel, QC
FANUC Corporation (Japanese Robotics company): facilities in Mississauga, ON and Blainville, QC
Maersk: Main office in Mississauga, ON, and operates at ports in Halifax, Montreal, Prince Rupert, Vancouver, and Surrey
IBM: Offices in every province except P.E.I
Microsoft: Offices in Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver
Alphabet/Google: Offices in Kitchener, Montreal, and Toronto
Amazon: Offices in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver; full list of fulfillment centres in Canada: https://www.seabaycargo.com/amazon-warehouse/Canada
Palantir: Office in Ottawa
Caterpillar Inc.: Facilities in Laval, QC and Woodbridge, ON
Hyundai: Canadian HQ in Markham ON, office in Toronto
Volvo: Office in Richmond Hill, ON
Swiss Glencore:
Glencore Canada office in Toronto
Port facility in Quebec, QC
Copper Smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, QC
Canadian Copper Refinery in Montreal-Est
Raglan Nickel Mine in Nunavik, QC
Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations in Sudbury, ON
Steelmaking Coal Operation in Elk Valley, BC
Canadian Electrolytic Zinc Limited (subsidiary) in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, QC
General Smelting of Canada in Lachine, QC
Kidd Concentrator and the Kidd Mine in Timmins, ON
XPS Technology Centre in Falconbridge, Ontario
US Chevron Corporation: Canadian HQ in Calgary, with an Atlantic office in St. Johns, NFLD; Stake in several projects in Alberta Oil Sands
British BP: Canadian HQ in Calgary, with an Atlantic office in St. Johns, NFLD
Netafim (‘Israeli’ irrigation company): Project with Vermillion Growers in Manitoba: https://www.netafim.com/en/success-stories/growing-vegetables-in-a-high-tech-greenhouse/
Booking Holdings Inc. Offices in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver
Airbnb, Inc.: Offices in Toronto and Montreal
Union Locals for Albanese Report Companies
General Dynamics (London, ON): Unifor Local 27, Unit 66 (https://www.uniforunit66.com/)
L3Harris MAS (Mirabel, QC): Internationale Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 712 (https://aimta712.org/en/unite-L3Harris)
Microsoft - Bethesda Game Studios (Montreal, QC): CWA Canada Local 30111, Game & Media Workers Guild of Canada
Alphabet/Google: Communications Workers of America Local 9009 (https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/find-your-chapter)
Amazon: ongoing campaign through Teamsters Canada (https://teamsters.ca/amazon/#re)
Glencore
Sudbury, ON: Unifor Local 598 (https://locals.unifor.org/local/mine-mill-and-smelter-local-598/glencore)
Nunavik, QC: USW Local 9449
Elk Valley, BC: IUOE Local 115 (https://www.iuoe115.ca/)
If you're interested in assisting with this project, or if you or someone you know works at one of these companies, please reach out at se4wp@proton.me, or on Instagram @read.sewp. Additionally, you can find the Socialist Economics for Worker Power Handbook here, and begin putting it to work in your organization or union right away, to build class consciousness and sharpen class struggle.