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Jun 8, 2025 - Christopher Hill: Life and Legacy of a Radical Historian

By Ryan Breeden

Christopher Hill looms large in the landscape of British Marxist historiography, perhaps the indispensable historian of the English Revolution for generations on the Left. His name evokes dusty paperbacks passed around student circles, dense arguments about base and superstructure, and crucially, the recovery of England's own revolutionary tradition - a past "turned upside down" by the common people. Michael Braddick's new biography, Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian, offers a timely opportunity to reassess this complex figure, a man whose life spanned the tumultuous twentieth century and whose work sought to make sense of history, not as a pageant of kings and queens but rather as a terrain of class conflict and ideological struggle.

Source: The Bullet No. 3147

Jun 6, 2025 - Citizen Mercenaries and the Gaza Genocide

By Richard Westra

It is, of course, nice to see Canada, the UK and France finally developing a conscience over what multiple international institutions and prominent scholarly experts have concluded. That is, the Zionist colonial regime of Israel is committing the crime of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. After all, the evidence of murderous carnage perpetrated upon Gaza and its peoples is robust. Scientists for Global Responsibility show how weapons supplied by the above states, along with Germany and the United States (US), have not only resulted in explosive tonnage bombarding Gaza exceeding that of multiple Hiroshima bombings and destructive World War II campaigns against Hamburg, Cologne, and Dresden, but have produced a casualty count far above that estimated by besieged local authorities cited in mainstream presses.

Source: The Bullet No. 3146

Jun 4, 2025 - Trump Tariffs and US Imperialism

By Gillian Hart

On April 2, 2025, US President Donald Trump declared a "Day of Liberation" and slapped massive tariffs on most countries - excluding Russia but including a 50% tariff on Lesotho. The standard Left argument is that Trump's tariffs represent capital's warfare against the working class in response to the crisis of global capitalism. Of course, there's some validity to that view, but it tends to operate at an excessively high level of abstraction.

Source: The Bullet No. 3145

Jun 1, 2025 - A Québécois Socialist Response to Canada’s Federal Election

By Andre Frappier and Bernard Rioux

Although opinion polls in 2024 had predicted a landslide victory for the Conservative Party, the recent federal election gave the Liberal Party of Canada a fourth consecutive mandate. The election campaign was dominated by widespread public apprehension over the trade war and Donald Trump's threats of annexation of Canada. These fears weighed heavily on voting intentions. The new government headed by Prime Minister Mark Carney has pledged to defend the Canadian economy against the effects of the trade tariffs imposed on the country, to reaffirm national sovereignty, and even to protect territorial unity.

Source: The Bullet No. 3144

May 30, 2025 - International Mobilization for Peace, Action and Community Transformation

By Impact G7

Open Letter to G7 and the Canadian Government: Reject Militarization, End Neoliberal Austerity and Address Climate Change: People Come Before Profits.

This message is from IMPACT G7, a coalition of concerned residents and local organizations from Windsor-Essex, Ontario, who share a common perspective. Our community has been known for generations as the "Automotive Capital of Canada." Our region's economy is built on manufacturing and agriculture. Like other communities throughout Southwestern Ontario, Windsor has lost tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs due to so-called 'free' trade agreements, for example, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Source: The Bullet No. 3143