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Mar 4, 2026 - Housing, Pensions, and Jobs: Win-Win-Win

By Frank Hoffer

Providing decent pensions in an ageing society, overcoming the affordability crisis driven by skyrocketing housing costs, and creating better-paid jobs for workers without university degrees are all essential to securing social peace and democracy. A compulsory, state-owned second-tier pension fund required to invest its capital exclusively in social housing can address all three challenges at once. Yet it demands a fundamental shift in mindset.

Source: The Bullet No. 3266

Mar 2, 2026 - Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry

Join us as we celebrate the launch of Notes Toward a Digital Workers Inquiry, Common Notions, 2025, a new book full of first-hand accounts from the tech sector's resurgent labour movement as artificial intelligence gains ground in every facet of our lives. As tech billionaires align with Trump, they are also launching a renewed assault on labour through artificial intelligence and alienating tactics. But for now, it still takes workers to make fortunes for the bosses, and collective action is again on the rise. Previously thought to be "unorganizable," these workers are part of a North American movement that is reaffirming faith in collective revolutionary action through new methods of organizing, new ways of association, and a new synthesis of traditional labour activities with original research.

Source: LeftStreamed

Feb 28, 2026 - Canadians Aren’t Imagining the Cost-Of-Living Crisis

By Carlo Fanelli

The idea that Canada's cost-of-living crisis "may be just a perception crisis" or the result of excessive exposure to social media, as argued recently in The Globe and Mail, minimizes the real financial pressures many people face, from rising rents to higher grocery bills. Framing the issue as one of mindset obscures the structural challenges such as wage stagnation, precarious employment, and growing housing unaffordability - turning systemic issues into personal failings.

Source: The Bullet No. 3265

Feb 24, 2026 - Organizing Amazon

Amazon workers in Coventry, England have won breakthrough wage gains through years of strikes and organizing at the global giant. Now, a new book documents these achievements, and the militant, grassroots methods the workers and their GMB union employed to build worker power. Organizing Amazon: Building Worker Power Under Conditions of Fragmentation, Precarity and Regimentation, Bristol University Press (2025), offers a rich case study of the factors contributing to the union's successes and setbacks. It provides a practical organizing model applicable beyond Amazon, offering strategies to engage the workforce, sustain support and develop leadership.

Source: LeftStreamed

Feb 22, 2026 - AI and the Economy: A Losing Bet for Working People

By Martin Hart-Landsberg

Tech billionaires and the Trump administration, with the apparent support of most of the capitalist class, are betting big on artificial intelligence (AI). In fact, AI investments have become the primary driver of US economic growth. But this is a losing bet for us. The AI boom is not sustainable. And because it is delivering little of value, unbalancing our economy, intensifying our ecological crisis, and threatening the quality and responsiveness of our social institutions, the longer it goes on, the greater the harm done, and the more difficult will be the task of economic and social renewal.

Source: The Bullet No. 3264