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Aug 29, 2025 - Exposing Canada’s Role in Arming Israel

By Laurel M. Owns

On July 29, World Beyond War and the Palestinian Youth Movement published a 53-page report, "Exposing Canadian Military Exports to Israel," detailing the extent of the Canadian government's direct involvement in the Palestinian genocide, which has killed at least 59,219 and injured 143,045 in Gaza since October 7, 2023 through July 23, 2025. This document directly refutes the terms outlined in the one-way arms embargo implemented in March 2024 by the Canadian government under the leadership of the Liberal party.

Source: The Bullet No. 3184

Aug 27, 2025 - Is Socialism Possible?

By Sam Gindin

When this essay by Sam Gindin was first published as "Socialism for Realists" in the Fall of 2018 in Catalyst, the left was at a crossroads. In the preceding years the idea of socialism seemed to finally be on the political map with several left electoral projects gaining traction in many western countries, and anti-capitalist agendas still gathering steam in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Despite these glimmers of hope, there was no overarching strategy, form of organization, or vision of a feasible socialist future.

Source: Socialist Interventions Pamphlet No. 25

Aug 26, 2025 - The Air Canada/CUPE Fight and the Bias of Law

By Harry Glasbeek

In Canada, there are only two parties to a collective agreement: the employer and the union certified as a bargaining agent for some of that employer's workers. Workers are not parties to any collective agreement which covers them. The two parties are allowed to use their economic power to force the other into accepting an agreement. The resultant agreement is, comically, said to be a voluntary agreement. It is therefore enforceable.

Source: The Bullet No. 3183

Aug 24, 2025 - The ‘Twin Bill 5s’ and De-Democratization

By Saeed Rahnema

The recent book by Marcelo Vieta, Workers' Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestion (Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020), provides a wealth of information and analysis on the emergence of worker-run production cooperatives in Argentina's crisis-ridden industries. It highlights workers' prominent role in occupying and self-managing factories that were either shut down or on the brink of closure following the economic crisis of the 1990s. The book also offers fascinating examples of how these worker-managed units were established.

Source: The Bullet No. 3182

Aug 21, 2025 - Workers’ Self-Management and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism