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Jul 13, 2025 - BDS@20: Redefining International Solidarity

By Palestinian BDS National Committee

On July 9th, we marked a milestone in the liberation struggle of the Indigenous people of Palestine, as the Palestinian-led nonviolent, anti-racist BDS movement completes 20 years of grassroots organizing and building intersectional people power. This day will be remembered in history as the start of a principled, strategic, and creative process that has isolated Israel's 77-year-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and military occupation at the grassroots and institutional level. It has redefined the meaning of solidarity with our struggle as starting with ending the complicity of states, corporations and institutions with this regime.

Source: The Bullet No. 3164

Jul 12, 2025 - BRICS: A Defensive Coalition Against the Empire

By Claudio Katz

The decline of the United States is the main explanation for the rise of the BRICS and allows us to place the dynamics of this emergence in a long-term context. It is important to precede any judgments on the expanded quintet with this diagnosis in order to avoid simple praise or condemnation of an alliance that is representative of the new multipolar scenario. The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have formed a coalition to set their own agenda, in opposition to Washington's dictates.

Source: The Bullet No. 3163

Jul 10, 2025 - Iran’s Response to the Israeli-US Invasion

By Mojtaba Mahdavi

Not many saw it coming. In just 12 days, the Middle East was once again plunged into a catastrophic war - from Israel's massive surprise invasion of Iran, to the US's unprecedented military strikes, and ultimately, a sudden call for a ceasefire. On June 24, 2025, US President Donald Trump surprized the world by calling for an immediate ceasefire in the escalating Israeli-American war on Iran. Trump's Iran policy has shifted wildly over the past few months: initially insisting only on preventing Iran from weaponizing its nuclear program, then moving toward a hardline "zero enrichment" stance, and later threatening for regime change declaring, "if the current Iranian regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn't there be a regime change?" - MIGA, a provocative echo of his MAGA slogan!

Source: The Bullet No. 3162

Jul 9, 2025 - Booklaunch: Health and Health Care Inequities

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to host the Toronto launch of Health and Health Care Inequities by author and healthcare worker Arnel Borras. The book provides an in-depth examination of health and healthcare inequities, delving into the interplay between power dynamics, policy advocacy, evidence-based research, and political economy. It uniquely integrates document and interview data to critically analyze how inequalities related to class, race, ethnicity, and gender contribute to health inequities.

Source: LeftStreamed

Jul 8, 2025 - Put the Social Back in Socialism

Raquel Varela is a social and labour historian, researcher and Professor at New University of Lisbon.

Source: LeftStreamed - short