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Dec 14, 2025 - Working-Class Priorities as the Principle for Climate Action

By Soutrik Goswami

The global climate emergency is no longer a distant warning - it is an unfolding catastrophe. Longer heatwaves, recurring cyclones, changing rainfall patterns, and rising sea levels are already reshaping lives across South Asia. A UN report notes that over the past 50 years, 130,000 lives in India have been lost due to extreme weather events. Between 2001 and 2019 alone, it is estimated that more than 20,000 people died from heatwaves - though the real figure is likely much higher.

Source: The Bullet No. 3236

Dec 13, 2025 - The Fight for Housing in Toronto’s Downtown East

By John Clarke and Gaetan Heroux

230 Fightback is locked in a struggle to ensure that social housing will be built at 214-230 Sherbourne instead of yet another luxury condo development. In this, we are up against the greed and power of the developers and the complicity of the politicians at every level of government, who act as their agents. Indeed, as we continue with this fight, we are very well aware that it is but one part of a battle to decide whether housing will be provided in the interests of profit-hungry developers, investors, and corporate landlords or in order to meet the needs of our communities. In this regard, the campaign we have taken up in the heart of Toronto's poor working-class Downtown East is an important part of the fight for housing justice.

Source: The Bullet No. 3235

Dec 9, 2025 - The Many Faces of (In)Equality

By Sam Gindin

Adolph Reed Jr. and Ken Warren, two of the most prominent participants in the race-vs-class saga haunting the left, return here to deepen their case and do so with great clarity. Along the way they provide an exemplary illustration of how to seriously think - analytically, historically, and politically - about transformative social change. This makes their new book, Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality, (Routledge, 2026), a must-read whether the reader is looking to find the holes in Reed and Warren's reasoning, confirm his/her sympathy with the authors, or is as yet undecided.

Source: The Bullet No. 3233

Dec 6, 2025 - Dissent, Reason, or Reasoned Dissent: Trumpism Amidst Mamdani

By Paramjit Singh

Across the world, neoliberalism has exhausted the moral and material foundations of the liberal order that once began as a promise of equality, justice, prosperity, efficiency, and freedom. In practice, it has produced deep inequality, widespread dispossession, ecological devastation, and the disintegration of collective life. However, neoliberalism's most enduring damage lies not only in its economic consequences but also in its epistemic effects. It has weakened the categories through which societies understand justice, equality, community, and reason. The rationality that once carried an emancipatory promise has been confined to instrumentality, and dissent, once regarded as the moral voice of reason, has increasingly taken the form of resentment, evident in populist backlashes that convert structural grievances into affective antagonism.

Source: The Bullet No. 3232

Dec 1, 2025 - Climate Change and Labour Precarity: A Worker-Centred Agenda

By Leah Montange

Just as the COP30 meeting in Belen, Brazil, has ended, the last week of November is Canada Climate Week Xchange. We could hope this is good news, but instead of the week's activities being sponsored by traditional climate organizations or climate innovators, it is organized by the Toronto Stock Exchange. Canada Climate Week stands out from other Climate Weeks across the globe - such as Climate Week NYC, PNW (Pacific NW) Climate Week, Panama City Climate Week - for its multi-city, nationwide approach.

Source: The Bullet No. 3230