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Nov 22, 2025 - Labour’s Climate Fight Requires Public Ownership

By Vinnie Collins

Zohran Mamdani's historic victory in New York's Democratic Party primary for mayor in June 2025 and victory in the general election on November 4th has provided a dose of hope to a Left seeking a path forward amid a dire political landscape. His campaign succeeded by offering real solutions to working-class concerns - including on climate policy and its connection to New Yorkers' material conditions.

Source: The Bullet No. 3227

Nov 21, 2025 - What We Forgot About Socialism

By Kristen R. Ghodsee

Twenty years ago in November of 2005, Duke University Press published my first book: The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea. Produced in the wake of socialism's global collapse and the riot of Western triumphalism that ensued, I deployed both qualitative and quantitative methods to advance a simple, but unpopular, argument: for most people in the former Soviet bloc, capitalism sucked.

Source: The Bullet No. 3226

Nov 20, 2025 - $50-bn in Subsidies has Failed to Secure EV Jobs

By Doug Nesbitt

On October 16, 2023, it was all smiles for the cameras in Loyalist Township where politicians and corporate executives gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony to build a new $2.761-billion Electric Vehicle battery parts plant. Loyalist Township, located next door to the Kingston, Ontario, is named after the Loyalists who, 250 years ago, sided with the British King against the American Revolution and crossed the St. Lawrence River to settle in Upper Canada.

Source: The Bullet No. 3225

Nov 19, 2025 - Three Dimensions of Militarism in the Climate Crisis

By Patrick Bigger

War, famously, is the pursuit of politics by other means. Cliche though it may be, the impacts of war and militarism are often overlooked by social movements focusing on formal political processes. And this is understandable: we cannot always have our minds on military spending and the structural conditions that reinforce the highly militarized, violent realities we are collectively living through. So many of us are already stretched thin by struggles for affordable housing, climate action, racial justice, criminal punishment reform, equitable healthcare, improved public transportation, and countless other issues.

Source: The Bullet No. 3224

Nov 17, 2025 - Data Center Resistance: Stopping the Corporate AI Offensive

By Martin Hart-Landsberg

Major tech companies - OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), Meta (Llama), and xAI (Grok) - are spending heavily to boost the computing power of their respective large language artificial intelligence (AI) models. The companies claim that this spending will transform them into systems that businesses will happily pay to use and, in the near future, lead to artificial general-intelligence-powered machines capable of autonomously solving problems and making decisions far better than humans.

Source: The Bullet No. 3223