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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

Nov 29, 2025 - Aren’t We Clever! Alas, Israel Is Too Clever by Half

By Larry Haiven

Living in the UK in the 1980s, we encountered a particularly British phrase we had hardly heard before: "Too clever by half." The Cambridge Dictionary definition is "too confident in one's intelligence, often in an irritating way that annoys others or leads to problems." Others have defined it as "irritating and manipulating, rather than actually very clever." We and other Jews understood that epithet as antisemitic. Not exclusively against Jews, it was also employed to demean South Asians, East Asians, and West Asians (Arabs) who had "risen above their rank" as well, especially as those groups entered the higher echelons of the colonial metropolis, capped by the Prime Ministership of Rishi Sunak, of South Asian ancestry.

Source: The Bullet No. 3229

Nov 27, 2025 - Huge Costs to Workers and the Environment

By Benjamin Selwyn

Early in his second presidency, Donald Trump's imposition of tariffs was met with widespread scepticism. Critics warned of economic decline and a global backlash. Yet the current landscape for the United States paints a more complex picture. Less than a year into his second term in office, the White House claims that Trump is bringing manufacturing back to the US. It also proclaims that Trump has secured trillions of dollars of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2025 alone. Other voices, however, estimate that these commitments will amount to just a fraction of that.

Source: The Bullet No. 3228