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Jul 22, 2025 - Socialist Self-Sufficiency /w Paramjit Singh

US President Trump's tariffs and trade policies represent a fundamental attack on Canadian working people. In our workplaces and communities, we are faced with layoffs, intensified attacks on social programs and rights, job security and potentially deep economic recession.

Source: LeftStreamed - short

Jul 21, 2025 - Housing a Basic Right or Playground for Global Capital?

By Paul Jay

Across Canada and the United States, housing is not treated as a basic human need. It has been reimagined as an investment vehicle, a speculative asset class, and a profit machine for institutional investors. This transformation, what housing experts call the financialization of housing, sits at the heart of the affordability crisis gripping cities across North America.

Source: The Bullet No. 3168

Jul 18, 2025 - Real and Fake Antidotes to Trump’s Latest Tariffs, Seen from South Africa

By Patrick Bond

US President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base - especially consumers of cheap imports - will soon become evident when price inflation rises.

Source: The Bullet No. 3167

Jul 17, 2025 - How Employers Have Become Part of a Persecution Campaign

By Harry Glasbeek

There are many accounts and criticisms of public-private partnerships (PPP's) which are created to attain a government's goal. Governments have internalized a market notion that profit-seeking leads to more efficiency and better outcomes. All too often this is not true. One aspect of these PPP arrangements is that government is expected to hold its private partner responsible for any failure to meet the formally agreed-upon terms. Governments are seen to be responsible to the public for the way in which a PPP is operating and delivering.

Source: The Bullet No. 3166

Jul 15, 2025 - ‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call

By Sam Gindin

An all-too predictable pattern has emerged in US-Canada relations. US President Donald Trump makes Canada 'an offer it can't refuse'. What follows is a national gnashing of teeth, flag-waving, businesses and politicians going patriotic. The Canadian government then caves, lamenting we had 'no choice'. What would it take to truly have a choice? An end to Trump's on-again, off-again tariff ultimatums would obviously be welcome, but our previous 'normal' was never actually all that great, and it misses the larger point. Our quandary doesn't lie in this or that policy conflict but something far deeper: unless we break out of this never-ending story by considerably delinking from the US - soberly, of course, and necessarily over time - we're stuck with the fatalism of having 'no choice'.

Source: The Bullet No. 3165