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Sep 27, 2025 - France’s ‘Block Everything’ Anti-Austerity Movement

By Emiliano Brancaccio

"Due to social unrest, the Musee d'Orsay is closed," a sign might have read on Wednesday (Sept. 10), when tourists were not able to admire the works of Courbet. The great revolutionary painter would have surely looked on with sympathy at this shutdown laden with irony, and at the movement that paralyzed Paris on Wednesday with the rallying cry of "Let's block everything."

Source: The Bullet No. 3196

Sep 24, 2025 - Labour Leaders Must Advance BDS, or Step Aside

By Jessica Copley

In his Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci invokes the "Fable of the Beaver" to critique the political failings of party leaders who compromise their obligation to represent the classes that raised them up in order to placate existing structures of State power. Today, some labour leaders are falling into the same trap with their compromised positions on Palestinian liberation. Like the beaver, they politically castrate themselves to assure their own political survival in the short term, thus compromising the collective reproduction of our movements in the long term.

Source: The Bullet No. 3195

Sep 22, 2025 - The Intertwined Food and Climate Emergency: Heeding Science

By Judith Deutsch

This is an astonishing world. Blame for current disasters cannot be offloaded to 'human nature'. All who take care of children know that children can learn to live within limits and that they can develop a realistic sense of time, that they can learn to forego some pleasures and wishes. From psychoanalytic work, I find that people can learn to be objective and to have a conscience. But everywhere there are examples of shocking entitlement, lying, distorting facts.

Source: The Bullet No. 3194

Sep 17, 2025 - The Passivity or Complicity of BRICS+ with Imperialist Wars

By Éric Toussaint

In the first part of this series entitled "Why the BRICS are not denouncing the ongoing genocide in Gaza," Éric Toussaint demonstrated that instead of severing trade relations with Israel, the BRICS+ are actually maintaining and strengthening their trade with Netanyahu's neo-fascist regime by supplying it with fuel and food, purchasing weapons from it, and specifically in India's case, providing the Israel Defence Forces with drones and other military hardware.

Source: The Bullet No. 3193

Sep 14, 2025 - Pedagogies of Repression: Ford, Trump and the War on Education

By Henry A. Giroux and William Paul

Analyses of fascism too often fixate on its most spectacular expressions: staggering inequality, systemic racism, the militarization of daily life, unbridled corruption, monopolistic control of the media, and the concentration of power in financial and political elites. Fascism thrives on a culture of fear and racial cleansing and the normalization of cruelty, lies, and state violence. Yet what is often overlooked is how culture and education now function as decisive forces in legitimating these authoritarian passions and in eroding democratic commitments.

Source: The Bullet No. 3192