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Nov 19, 2025 - Three Dimensions of Militarism in the Climate Crisis

By Patrick Bigger

War, famously, is the pursuit of politics by other means. Cliche though it may be, the impacts of war and militarism are often overlooked by social movements focusing on formal political processes. And this is understandable: we cannot always have our minds on military spending and the structural conditions that reinforce the highly militarized, violent realities we are collectively living through. So many of us are already stretched thin by struggles for affordable housing, climate action, racial justice, criminal punishment reform, equitable healthcare, improved public transportation, and countless other issues.

Source: The Bullet No. 3224

Nov 17, 2025 - Data Center Resistance: Stopping the Corporate AI Offensive

By Martin Hart-Landsberg

Major tech companies - OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), Meta (Llama), and xAI (Grok) - are spending heavily to boost the computing power of their respective large language artificial intelligence (AI) models. The companies claim that this spending will transform them into systems that businesses will happily pay to use and, in the near future, lead to artificial general-intelligence-powered machines capable of autonomously solving problems and making decisions far better than humans.

Source: The Bullet No. 3223

Nov 15, 2025 - Complex Challenges Require Radical Responses

By Herman Rosenfeld

Robert Chernomas and Fred Wilson, in their SP Bullet of October 24th, "Beyond the 'Elbows Up' Response to the Tariff War," call for a "national industrial policy" strategy to respond to the economic challenges posed by the tariffs imposed on Canada by US President Donald Trump. They argue for a set of policies to challenge the integration and dependence on the US in ways that also address some of the impacts of neoliberalism. Their strategy calls out and identifies the weaknesses in Prime Minster Mark Carney's policies; it is a positive contribution alongside others in a similar vein. But there are also certain limits that need to be raised for the challenges that lay ahead for the union and socialist movements in Canada.

Source: The Bullet No. 3222

Nov 14, 2025 - Macron, Merz, and Starmer: The rearguard of liberal democracy

By Ingo Schmidt

Large parts of the world are ruled by autocrats. Vladimir Putin is the worst of them all, Xi Jinping is not much better, and even America, the bastion of freedom, has fallen into the hands of a would-be king. Only Europe, inhabited by indomitable democrats, resists autocracy, led by the heads of state and government of Germany, France, and Great Britain. This is roughly how one could summarize the self-image that resonates in the speeches and interviews of Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, and Keir Starmer.

Source: The Bullet No. 3221

Nov 13, 2025 - Canadian Auto Isn’t in ‘Crisis’, It’s in Danger of Extinction

By Sam Gindin

Canadian autoworkers have faced many crises over the years, but the present threat is distinct. Lana Payne, President of Unifor, has warned that "If we don't push back hard against him [US President Donald Trump] and against these companies, we're going to lose it all." So far, the debate over what to do has started and stopped with Trump's tariffs. But the threats go deeper, both for auto companies and for our ability as workers and citizens to determine democratically what kind of society we want - that is, for Canada's substantive and not just formal sovereignty. Taking on these larger challenges demands coming to grips with some tough realities.

Source: The Bullet No. 3220