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Sep 14, 2025 - Pedagogies of Repression: Ford, Trump and the War on Education

By Henry A. Giroux and William Paul

Analyses of fascism too often fixate on its most spectacular expressions: staggering inequality, systemic racism, the militarization of daily life, unbridled corruption, monopolistic control of the media, and the concentration of power in financial and political elites. Fascism thrives on a culture of fear and racial cleansing and the normalization of cruelty, lies, and state violence. Yet what is often overlooked is how culture and education now function as decisive forces in legitimating these authoritarian passions and in eroding democratic commitments.

Source: The Bullet No. 3192

Sep 12, 2025 - Trump’s Tariff Wars

By Radical Socialist (India)

Donald Trump wants to progressively reduce, even, perhaps, to eventually eliminate the US's huge current account-trade deficit resulting from its imports of commodities of goods and all kinds of services far outstripping in value the US's exports. In 2024, this deficit amounted to $1.1-trillion.

Source: The Bullet No. 3191

Sep 11, 2025 - Daniel Bensaid and Question of Strategy

By Sankha Subhra Biswas

The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 was not merely a geopolitical event but also resulted, globally, in a profound crisis in revolutionary thought. Amidst the ruins of socialist hope scattered across a neoliberal landscape, one encounters Daniel Bensaïd, a Marxist who refused to accept defeat without extracting lessons from historical setbacks. As a prominent intellectual within the French Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR) and a prolific writer, Bensaïd reignited the debate on communist strategy at a time when the very notion was often ridiculed or dismissed.

Source: The Bullet No. 3190

Sep 9, 2025 - Lessons and Legacy of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

It has been 26 years since Hugo Chavez first assumed the presidency of Venezuela in 1999. Since then, Venezuela has gone through enormous ups and downs, and mostly downs since Nicolas Maduro took over from Chavez following his death in 2013. Given Venezuela's current challenging situation, what lessons can be drawn from the Bolivarian Revolution for future revolutionary projects? And what is the meaning of the Bolivarian project in the larger context of Latin American politics in the 21st century more generally? What do these lessons mean for socialist organizing and activism today? Presentation by Gregory Wilpert.

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Sep 7, 2025 - Unifor and UE Pass Resolutions for an Arms Embargo

The ground is shifting in global popular opinion against Israel's war and genocide on Gaza. But western states, notably the US, Britain and Canada, remain complicit in arming and assisting the Israeli military in its human rights violations, war crimes, and mass starvation of the Palestinian population in Gaza. These states are all but silent on the ethnic cleansing and settlement-building in the West Bank, and the apartheid policies across the entire state of Israel and Occupied Territories. It is important that we continue and redouble our solidarity demonstrations with Palestine and deepen the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign across our unions, workplaces, and communities.

Source: The Bullet No. 3189