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On the Eviction of 450 families from Quilombo Campo Grande, Brazil
During the second week of August in Brazil, the ruthlessness of state violence by the government of President Jair Bolsonaro was on full display against the Quilombo Campo Grande community … Keep reading »
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Havana Once Again Under Quarantine
Introduction Last month The Bullet published a report on Cuba’s remarkable success in meeting the threat of COVID-19, “Cuba in the Last Stretch of the Pandemic.” At the time there … Keep reading »
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Revolution Means Taking Care of the Future
Thinking a socialist future implies imagining what this future might look like, and then asking how we can get there. Utopia, as conceived by revolutionary theory, implies a pragmatic aspect … Keep reading »
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International Aid to Lebanon Must Not Enforce Neoliberalism
As activists in the international CADTM network we were deeply moved when hearing of the disastrous explosions that hit Beirut on Tuesday 4 August. In this press release we want … Keep reading »
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The Left in Belarus Is Fighting to Put Social Demands at the Heart of the Protests
The protests in Belarus have widely been painted as a pro-Western “color revolution” or “Minsk Maidan,” ignoring the deeper reasons for popular discontent with president Alexander Lukashenko. Keep reading »
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Online Education and the Struggle over Disposable Time
During COVID-19 times, the ‘social distancing’ catchphrase has invaded every aspect of our lives. Public space has been fragmented into individualized, quarantined units, transforming social relations into aggregates of their … Keep reading »
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Racism, Palestine and the IHRA: Letter to Barrie City Council
Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) applauds Barrie, Ontario, Mayor Jeff Lehman for withdrawing a motion to adopt the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism on August … Keep reading »
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Shocking but Not Surprising: COVID and Class
A recent Toronto Star article, by Sara Mojtehedzadeh and Jennifer Yang, “More than 180 workers at this Toronto bakery got COVID-19,” and reproduced below, reveals a large COVID outbreak at … Keep reading »
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Limits of Ontario’s Mineral Strategy: The Magino Mine Approval
On June 11, 2020, 21 lakes, streams and wetlands in northern Ontario were re-characterized as a mine tailings impoundment for the proposed Magino gold mine. This magical transformation took place … Keep reading »
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Extractivism and Exploitation in Peru
Martin Vizcarra, Peru’s president, has announced that “[t]his government has taken up the challenge and has been working on the approval of a new regulation for mining procedures in order … Keep reading »
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Bolivia’s Perfect Storm: Pandemic, Economic Crisis, Repressive Coup Regime
Introduction The rising toll of diseased and deceased from the COVID-19 pandemic has hit Bolivia particularly hard, in a continent that is now in the lead in global contagion rates. … Keep reading »
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Systemic Racism in the US and Israel: Analogies and Differences
A most relevant analogy between the US and Israel lies in the principal rationale for the force of their establishment as settler-colonial states. Imperialism, which is the driving force of … Keep reading »