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Dec 18, 2025 - Ontario Government is Privatizing Surgeries While Pushing Public Hospitals into Deficit

By Ontario Health Coalition

Ontario's public hospitals have been pushed into deficit and ordered to find cuts, while the government of Doug Ford shunts hundreds of millions of public dollars away from them to for-profit clinics, the Ontario Health Coalition warned on December 11 on the heels of the province's announcement of plans to privatize thousands of orthopedic surgeries.

Source: The Bullet No. 3238

Dec 16, 2025 - COP 30: Entrenching the Crisis of Climate Politics

By Brian Ashley

As the dust settles after COP30 in Belem, Brazil, the scale of the failure becomes impossible to ignore. The world is on a path toward catastrophic warming, ecological systems are collapsing, and millions across the Global South face annihilation, not in the distant future, but today. The world's political and economic elites arrived in the Amazon to negotiate when the 1.5°C target had already slipped out of reach, and they left with little more than symbolic gestures. No binding emissions cuts. No serious plan to phase out fossil fuels. No meaningful climate finance for adaptation. No accountability for the destruction already unleashed.

Source: The Bullet No. 3237

Dec 14, 2025 - Working-Class Priorities as the Principle for Climate Action

By Soutrik Goswami

The global climate emergency is no longer a distant warning - it is an unfolding catastrophe. Longer heatwaves, recurring cyclones, changing rainfall patterns, and rising sea levels are already reshaping lives across South Asia. A UN report notes that over the past 50 years, 130,000 lives in India have been lost due to extreme weather events. Between 2001 and 2019 alone, it is estimated that more than 20,000 people died from heatwaves - though the real figure is likely much higher.

Source: The Bullet No. 3236

Dec 13, 2025 - The Fight for Housing in Toronto’s Downtown East

By John Clarke and Gaetan Heroux

230 Fightback is locked in a struggle to ensure that social housing will be built at 214-230 Sherbourne instead of yet another luxury condo development. In this, we are up against the greed and power of the developers and the complicity of the politicians at every level of government, who act as their agents. Indeed, as we continue with this fight, we are very well aware that it is but one part of a battle to decide whether housing will be provided in the interests of profit-hungry developers, investors, and corporate landlords or in order to meet the needs of our communities. In this regard, the campaign we have taken up in the heart of Toronto's poor working-class Downtown East is an important part of the fight for housing justice.

Source: The Bullet No. 3235

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