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Jul 29, 2025 - Canada Must Act to End the Genocide in Gaza

By NUPGE

We are witnessing unimaginable suffering in Gaza, as Israel uses starvation as a weapon of war through its blockade and militarized aid system. People in Gaza are dying from malnutrition and hunger-related illnesses. This week, over 100 humanitarian organizations warned of mass starvation in Gaza. Aid workers, health care workers, and journalists cannot do their jobs because they, too, are facing starvation.

Source: The Bullet No. 3172

Jul 28, 2025 - On The Front Lines of Ethnic Cleansing in Masafer Yatta

Amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza and continued Israeli attacks across the region, much of the world's attention has been diverted away from the worsening situation in the West Bank. Palestinians across the West Bank have experienced increased violence, demolitions, and displacement from settlers and Israeli Occupation Forces. Toronto based activist Anna Lippman has recently returned from spending three months on the front lines of settler and State violence in Masafer Yatta, or the South Hebron Hills, in the occupied West Bank.

Source: LeftStreamed

Jul 26, 2025 - Israel’s Crimes and Jewish People – A Clarification

By Suzanne Weiss

While the imperialists threaten us with a possible nuclear war and continue to devastate the environment, the Palestinian struggle for freedom from the US and Israeli oppressors is today at the crux of the struggle for human existence. Activists in the struggle to end the Palestinian genocide need to deepen their understanding of the history of Palestine and the Israeli aim of establishing a colonial settler state. Books such as A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Ilan Pappe (2024, Oneworld), and The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah (2014, Haymarket Books) offer a good starting point for further study.

Source: The Bullet No. 3171

Jul 24, 2025 - For an Eco-Communist Alternative to Degrowth and ‘Luxury’ Communism

In his new book, Rojo fuego. Reflexiones comunistas frente a la crisis ecológica (Fiery red: Communist reflections on the ecological crisis), Argentine Marxist Esteban Mercatante takes aim at capitalism as the root cause of the "multidimensional" ecological crisis, while engaging in important dialogues with ecological currents such as degrowth and ecomodernism. Against these, Mercatante argues for an "eco-communist" strategy, focused on labour as the agent of both its own emancipation and the qualitative transformation of society's relationship with nature, as the only means to avoid disaster.

Source: The Bullet No. 3170

Jul 23, 2025 - Health Inequalities and Capitalism in Canada

By Arnel M. Borras

Drawing inspiration from Marx and Engels, and extending my own previous work, this piece explores health inequities - those preventable and unjust differences in health outcomes - through a critical political economy lens. This approach understands health inequities not as isolated problems or unfortunate outcomes, but as structural expressions of a capitalist system that organizes society through class rule and exploitative social relations.

Source: The Bullet No. 3169