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May 28, 2025 - Imperialist Blackmail Disguised As Diplomacy

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) condemns in the strongest terms the disgraceful deception of the South African public by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation during their recent meeting with Donald Trump in Washington. What was presented as a diplomatic engagement has now been unmasked as a covert operation to surrender South Africa's already-weak transformation policies to the global billionaire elite.

Source: The Bullet No. 3142

May 25, 2025 - Academic Freedom in Canada

We write as a coalition of organizations - the Palestinian Canadian Academics and Artists Network (PCAAN), Faculty for Palestine, (F4P), the Jewish Faculty Network (JFN) and the Coalition Against Antisemitism, Anti-Palestinian Racism and Islamophobia in Canada (CAARI) and the Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism, Racism, Colonialism and Censorship (ARC) - alarmed by the repression of Palestine scholarship and solidarity activities on university campuses.

Source: The Bullet No. 3141

May 21, 2025 - Unified Call to Confront Famine in Gaza

Palestinian civil society, joined by humanitarian and human rights organisations worldwide, issues this urgent and unified call: The manufactured famine in Gaza must be halted. The international community must act decisively, immediately, and with full moral and legal responsibility. We are witnessing, in real time, the deliberate starvation of a civilian population as a method of warfare. Over two million Palestinians in Gaza are living in famine.

Source: The Bullet No. 3140

May 20, 2025 - CUPW Walking Tour (Mayworks, Toronto)

The walk takes participants by downtown Toronto sites associated with CUPW's history, from its beginnings to present day. The walking tour passes by important Canadian Union Postal Workers (CUPW) workplaces in Canada and other spaces of gatherings including the site of the original convention of union delegates who approved the formation of the union. Held on Mother's Day as CUPW brought us maternity and parental leave.

Source: LeftStreamed

May 19, 2025 - DOGE Already Happened in Chicago

Stacy Davis Gates interviewed by Michaela Brant

On April 14, members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) ratified its new contract with 97 percent approval. The nearly year-long negotiation process was steered by union president Stacy Davis Gates, whose leadership of the CTU as a militant force for progressive politics has followed in the footsteps of former CTU president Karen Lewis. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a former CTU organizer and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) middle-school teacher, was also a key figure in the process.

Source: The Bullet No. 3139