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Jun 15, 2025 - Prime Minister Carney Must Take Decisive Action to End Genocide in Gaza

We write as a concerned group of 412 Canadians, including academics, lawyers, former and retired ambassadors (including to the United Nations), ministers and public servants, UN human rights experts, and civil society, labour and faith leaders, all deeply concerned with the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month. Israel's actions in Gaza are broadly understood by international law experts and leading human rights organizations as constituting genocide.

Source: The Bullet No. 3151

Jun 14, 2025 - The Indonesian People’s Movement Need to Build a Political Party

Twenty-seven years after the fall of Suharto (1921 - 2008), the Indonesian Poor People's Union (SPRI) argues that democratic promises have been hijacked by oligarchs and capital owners who continue to dominate through co-opted political parties and state institutions. In this translated manifesto from a May 2025 public discussion, SPRI activists make an urgent case for building a new political party "born from the womb of the people's struggle" rather than elite boardrooms.

Source: The Bullet No. 3150

Jun 13, 2025 - Hard Questions for Portugal’s Left Bloc After a Terrible Parliamentary Election

The 18 May parliamentary elections were a disaster for Portugal's Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc). The far right replaced the Socialist Party as the main opposition to the conservative government, and may now push for constitutional changes. All left parties suffered but none as much as the Left Bloc. Its vote collapsed, and it lost 4 of its 5 seats in the Assembly of the Republic (parliament). In this National Board resolution, the Left Bloc leadership takes stock of the legislative election results, starting from the national context and the party's campaign, to find answers for the future.

Source: The Bullet No. 3149

Jun 10, 2025 - Rethinking Free Speech

Peter Ives is professor of political science at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Rethinking Free Speech (Fernwood, 2024). We need to rethink free speech to better address diverse goals from knowledge production to democratic participation and individual expression. Clashes over free speech rights and wrongs haunt public debates about the state of democracy, freedom and the future. While freedom of speech is recognized as foundational to democratic society, its meaning is persistently misunderstood and distorted.

Source: LeftStreamed

Jun 9, 2025 - Stop European Funding for Israeli Institutions

Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, which has raged for over 19 months, has turned Gaza into hell on earth. Since Israel imposed a total blockade on March 2, 2025, and unilaterally resumed its military offensive in violation of the ceasefire agreement, over 2 million people have been facing the worst levels of hunger, starvation and disability imaginable, amidst relentless bombings. The level of death, destruction and human suffering is apocalyptic. The trickle of aid Israel allowed to enter on May 23 is just a camouflage to avert further international pressure. Ethnic cleansing looms behind the intensified attacks.

Source: The Bullet No. 3148