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Apr 30, 2025 - Divest Ontario’s University Pension Plan from Genocide, Occupation and Apartheid

By Workers' Campaign for UPP Divestment

The University Pension Plan (UPP) is now the recommended pension plan for institutions of higher education in Ontario. Currently, it manages $11.7-billion worth of pension assets. Workers at the University of Guelph, Trent University, University of Toronto, and Queen's University are already enrolled in the plan, and workers at Laurier University and the University of Ottawa have recently signed memoranda of agreement. Fourteen other university sector organizations also pay into UPP.

Source: The Bullet No. 3130

Apr 29, 2025 - A Pro-Climate Society of Care and Connection Against Trump’s Blackmail

By Marc Bonhomme

As noted in my previous article, Canada and Quebec's commercial entanglement in the US economy is profound following thirty years of "free trade," with neoliberal capitalism as its legacy. Suddenly, Trump has thrown this aside for an attempt to neo-fascistize the US and the world. The result is an abrupt return to the old annexationist imperialism of yesteryear now that the US no longer has the means to be the world's policeman. From their North American stronghold, the US seeks to build an improbable neofascist alliance with Russia at the expense of a cast-off Europe, beginning with Ukraine, to isolate China.

Source: The Bullet No. 3129

Apr 28, 2025 - Trump’s Tariffs: Building a Working-Class Response

US President Trump's tariffs and trade policies represent a fundamental attack on Canadian working people. In our workplaces and communities, we are faced with layoffs, intensified attacks on social programs and rights, job security and potentially deep economic recession. Given Canada's integration and trade dependence with the US, working class, left, and environmental organizations have to find ways to debate collective strategies, share our analyses, defend working people, and build a challenge to business and business-oriented governments.

Source: LeftStreamed

Apr 26, 2025 - Trump’s Tariff Policy: Disciplining Capital by Granting Exemptions

By Christoph Scherrer

An important motivation for US President Trump's tariff escalation is often overlooked: tariffs serve Trump as a domestic and foreign policy instrument of power. The instrument of power consists of granting tariff exemptions for good behavior and denying such benefits or imposing even higher tariffs for lack of support or even opposition to Trump. Thus, the granting of tariff exemptions is part of a general drive to silence opposition.

Source: The Bullet No. 3128

Apr 25, 2025 - What Can the Diab Affair Tell Us About Far-Right Politics?

By Michelle Weinroth

Some believe that the Diab Affair has been settled. This is a gross misconception; and the responsibility for this erroneous view rests squarely on the Trudeau Liberals' shoulders. For many months, the former Liberal government deferred all necessary action that would have brought this case to a close and granted Hassan Diab his much-deserved justice - freedom from merciless harassment, persecution, and the threat of life in prison.

Source: The Bullet No. 3127