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Apr 14, 2025 - Trump’s Tariffs Seen from Contradictory Angles

By Patrick Bond

Donald Trump's paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targets announced on "Liberation Day," April 2, are sustained, a full-blown economic catastrophe could result, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The worst danger: national elites in victim countries will be divided-and-conquered.

Source: The Bullet No. 3122

Apr 11, 2025 - Facing Trump: What Perspectives for Quebec’s Ecosocialist and Ecofeminist Left?

By Bernard Rioux

The new era is characterised by far-right parties taking power in different parts of the world, including Donald Trump's party in the United States. This situation poses a series of challenges to the ecosocialist and ecofeminist left and to the political and social left as a whole worldwide, in Canada and in Quebec. Quebec solidaire also faces these challenges and must develop a programme, strategies and actions to address them. To do this, it is important that a broad debate opens up within the political and social left, particularly within Quebec solidaire.

Source: The Bullet No. 3121

Apr 9, 2025 - How Amazon Workers Can Organise Globally

By Jonathan Rosenblum

When will Amazon workers around the world enjoy collective bargaining agreements with good pay, union job rights, and safety protections? The challenges facing this lofty goal remain daunting. One only needs to look at the pictures of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos mingling with his fellow centi-billionaires at Trump's inauguration to understand that workers are up against the merged power of private corporations and hostile governments.

Source: The Bullet No. 3120

Apr 8, 2025 - The Man Who Would Be King

By Sam Gindin

Headwinds have emerged in Donald Trump's rush to derail and transform the state and place the US Empire on a radically new - but no less oppressive - footing. This time, however, Trump came with a more primed agenda, while the social forces to counter his trajectory remain a remote wish. This facilitates Trump's stubborn soldiering on.

Source: The Bullet No. 3119

Apr 6, 2025 - Trade War and Attacks on National Sovereignty

By Geoff Bickerton

The United States has launched a full-scale attack on our economy and our very existence as a sovereign country. Canadians have responded by boycotting US products, buying Canadian, and cancelling travel plans to the US. But as unionists, how can we respond collectively through our unions? What should be the role of the labour movement?

Source: The Bullet No. 3118