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Feb 26, 2024 - The Ford Government’s Hospital Privatization Scheme

By Ontario Health Coalition

A new report, Robbing from the public to build the private: The Ford government's hospital privatization scheme reveals that local hospitals in every region of Ontario have operating rooms sitting idle the majority of the time. The public has funded local hospitals for more than 70 years to build operating room capacity that is unused while the Ford government is shunting unprecedented public money to private for-profit clinics and hospitals to build new operating rooms, the Coalition reports.

Source: The Bullet No. 2955

Feb 25, 2024 - Israel Killed 12,300 kids in Gaza

By Judy Haiven

Drum roll, please. Today, I want to salute Canada's media. It is largely because of you, and your coverage of Israel's war on Gaza, that the latest poll reveals approximately the same number of Canadians support Israel as support the Palestinians. Does that sound fair - after four months of Israel's total destruction of Gaza, Israel's murders of 12,300 children (43% of the total death toll), more than 1,000 children with one or both legs amputated, and the 610,000 children trapped in Rafah?

Source: The Bullet No. 2954

Feb 24, 2024 - Defunding UNRWA is Collective Punishment

Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) condemns Canada's shameful decision to suspend further funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) while Palestinians in Gaza face the disastrous consequences of Israeli forces' deadly assault. According to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on food security, famine is an inevitable consequence of such actions by Western states.

Source: The Bullet No. 2953

Feb 20, 2024 - Fascist Threat and What it Means for Working Class Politics

Amidst unfolding environmental disaster, ongoing genocide, and a lack of faith in public institutions, fascist and anti-democratic movements continue to gain political ground, both at home and abroad. How can working class movements respond to these fundamental threats? How can we build a real alternative that can challenge the dominant politics of division and distrust? To speak to this pressing topic, the Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education (LPSSE) is thrilled to host Adolph Reed Jr. for his special guest lecture, "The Fascist Threat: What it Means for Working Class Politics."

Source: LeftStreamed

Feb 19, 2024 - It Is Dark Before the Dawn, But Israeli Settler Colonialism Is At an End

By Ilan Pappe

The idea that Zionism is settler colonialism is not new. Palestinian scholars in the 1960s working in Beirut in the PLO Research Centre had already understood that what they were facing in Palestine was not a classical colonial project. They did not frame Israel as just a British colony or an American one, but regarded it as a phenomenon that existed in other parts of the world; defined as settler colonialism. It is interesting that for 20 to 30 years, the notion of Zionism as settler colonialism disappeared from the political and academic discourse.

Source: The Bullet No. 2952