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Dec 6, 2025 - Dissent, Reason, or Reasoned Dissent: Trumpism Amidst Mamdani

By Paramjit Singh

Across the world, neoliberalism has exhausted the moral and material foundations of the liberal order that once began as a promise of equality, justice, prosperity, efficiency, and freedom. In practice, it has produced deep inequality, widespread dispossession, ecological devastation, and the disintegration of collective life. However, neoliberalism's most enduring damage lies not only in its economic consequences but also in its epistemic effects. It has weakened the categories through which societies understand justice, equality, community, and reason. The rationality that once carried an emancipatory promise has been confined to instrumentality, and dissent, once regarded as the moral voice of reason, has increasingly taken the form of resentment, evident in populist backlashes that convert structural grievances into affective antagonism.

Source: The Bullet No. 3232

Dec 1, 2025 - Climate Change and Labour Precarity: A Worker-Centred Agenda

By Leah Montange

Just as the COP30 meeting in Belen, Brazil, has ended, the last week of November is Canada Climate Week Xchange. We could hope this is good news, but instead of the week's activities being sponsored by traditional climate organizations or climate innovators, it is organized by the Toronto Stock Exchange. Canada Climate Week stands out from other Climate Weeks across the globe - such as Climate Week NYC, PNW (Pacific NW) Climate Week, Panama City Climate Week - for its multi-city, nationwide approach.

Source: The Bullet No. 3230

Nov 29, 2025 - Aren’t We Clever! Alas, Israel Is Too Clever by Half

By Larry Haiven

Living in the UK in the 1980s, we encountered a particularly British phrase we had hardly heard before: "Too clever by half." The Cambridge Dictionary definition is "too confident in one's intelligence, often in an irritating way that annoys others or leads to problems." Others have defined it as "irritating and manipulating, rather than actually very clever." We and other Jews understood that epithet as antisemitic. Not exclusively against Jews, it was also employed to demean South Asians, East Asians, and West Asians (Arabs) who had "risen above their rank" as well, especially as those groups entered the higher echelons of the colonial metropolis, capped by the Prime Ministership of Rishi Sunak, of South Asian ancestry.

Source: The Bullet No. 3229

Nov 27, 2025 - Huge Costs to Workers and the Environment

By Benjamin Selwyn

Early in his second presidency, Donald Trump's imposition of tariffs was met with widespread scepticism. Critics warned of economic decline and a global backlash. Yet the current landscape for the United States paints a more complex picture. Less than a year into his second term in office, the White House claims that Trump is bringing manufacturing back to the US. It also proclaims that Trump has secured trillions of dollars of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2025 alone. Other voices, however, estimate that these commitments will amount to just a fraction of that.

Source: The Bullet No. 3228

Nov 25, 2025 - Lessons from the Zapatistas

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is proud to host Lia Pinheiro Barbosa and Peter Rosset for the online launch of their new book Lessons from the Zapatistas: From Armed Insurgency to People's Autonomy (Fernwood Publishing).

Lessons from the Zapatistas is essential reading for anyone interested in liberation, democracy and radical social transformation. It tells the story of the Zapatista insurgency, including the contemporary breadth and depth of their territorial autonomy, tracing how an Indigenous uprising burst forth from southern Mexico's Lacandon Jungle to stage the 21st century's first and most electrifying example of autonomy in action.

Source: LeftStreamed