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  •  | Francesca Albanese the United Nations Special Rapporteur | MR Online

    30 Jewish Organizations: We support UN Human Rights Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on November 8, 2024 by 30 Jewish Organizations (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Nov 15, 2024)

    Ms. Albanese has been under relentless attack from politically motivated organizations like ‘UN Watch’, which have been waging toxic smear campaigns to silence her and to harm her human rights mandate.

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    Health and safety: Amazon fails to deliver

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on October 14, 2024 (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  |

    “We are going to be Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.” (Jeff Bezos, April 2021)

  •  | Coalition | MR Online

    Finnish capitalism at a tipping point: Resisting racism, austerity, and militarism

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on October 9, 2024 by Kyle Bailey (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Oct 15, 2024)

    The Finns Party leader and current finance minister and deputy prime minister, Riikka Purra, has previously made a litany of racist and violent statements against immigrants (e.g., using the Finnish equivalent of the ‘n-word’) (Teivainen, 2023).

  •  | Jewish National Fund | MR Online

    Revoking charitable status of Jewish National Fund is long overdue

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on August 5, 2024 by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Aug 06, 2024)

    CJPME urges Canada to continue to investigate and punish all connections between Canadian charities and illegal Israeli activity.

  •  | NYPA The Return of A New Deal Public Utility | MR Online

    A Public Power victory in New York State

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on June 6, 2023 by Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2023)

    On May 2, New York became the first U.S. state to pass a major Green New Deal policy following four years of organizing by the Public Power NY coalition and allies.

  •  | The State and the Future of Socialism Image 2 | MR Online

    The State and the future of socialism

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on April 23, 2023 (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  |

    In his recent book, The Communist Hypothesis, Alain Badiou describes the past defeats of May 1968, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Paris Commune as well as those of factory occupations and other such struggles as defeats ‘covered with glory’.

  •  | Public Libraries | MR Online

    Public libraries continue to thrive despite defunding and privatization attacks

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on January 19, 2023 by April M. Short (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Jan 20, 2023)

    The public sector in the U.S. has been shrinking rapidly since the 1990s as a deluge of privatization has, to various degrees, overtaken many so-called public services and institutions.

  •  | Nova Scotia strike | MR Online

    The NDP and the Right to Strike

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on January 17, 2023 by Larry Haiven (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Jan 18, 2023)

    Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently found himself in hot water for removing the right to strike from educational workers, imposing terms and conditions of employment on them, and using the Notwithstanding Clause to bar them from asserting their constitutional rights.

  •  | Offloading Climate Responsibility on the Victims of Climate Change | MR Online

    Offloading climate responsibility on the victims of climate change

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on November 9, 2022 by Steve Taylor and Nnimmo Bassey (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Nov 14, 2022)

    Nnimmo Bassey (NB): Simple solutions are avoided in today’s world because they don’t support capital.

  •  | Fawzi al Juneidi being arrested Photo taken by Palestinian photographer Wisam Hashlamoun December 2017 | MR Online

    Israel’s detention of Palestinian minors: a horror show

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on October 13, 2022 by Michelle Weinroth (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Oct 15, 2022)

    In tracking Israel’s arrest of Palestinian children, from the moment these (often) young teens are seized from their homes to the moment they arrive at an interrogation facility, Ha Moked registers a consistent pattern.

  •  | Inflation the Fed and Workers | MR Online

    Inflation, the Fed and workers

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on September 20, 2022 by Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Sep 21, 2022)

    The U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) is supposed to have a dual mandate of “maximum employment and price stability.” However, a close look at its policies since 1980 have shown it very willing to sacrifice the former for the latter.

  •  | Canadas Development Finance Institution and Land Grabbing in Africa | MR Online

    Canada’s Development Finance Institution and land grabbing in Africa

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on July 20, 2022 by Adrian Murray and Susan Spronk (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Jul 28, 2022)

    This interview is part of a series with the Blended Finance Project a group of unions, non-governmental organizations and academics who are concerned about the Canadian government’s embrace of what is called “blended finance.”

  •  | Salmon Nation | MR Online

    Pacific Northwest: The salmon fishery, climate change and the eco-system

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on February 24, 2022 by April M. Short (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Mar 23, 2022)

    Salmon have shaped the lives and cultures of people in the Pacific Northwest since ancient times. These migratory fish who return each year from the deep sea to the rivers, where they were born to mate, give birth and die–then nourish the forests’ soil after death–are legendary.

  •  | Justice for Palestine | MR Online

    The erasure of Palestine and the JNF

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on March 17, 2022 by Judith Deutsch (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Mar 18, 2022)

    The JNF is a case study of misrepresentations and fabrications to rationalize and justify profound immorality. There is a great deal of critical history documenting that antisemitism is not inevitable, intrinsic, or constant in history.

  •  | The Workings of Commodified Education | MR Online

    The workings of commodified education

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on February 11, 2022 (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  |

    The product of pedagogical labour becomes something set apart from life and abstracted into the commodity of “degrees” which can be bought and sold on the educational market.

  •  | The general theme of the Montréal demonstration  Justice sociale Climate justice même combat | MR Online

    In the wake of the pandemic: the rebirth of climate mobilizations

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on September 27, 2021 by Marc Bonhomme (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Sep 28, 2021)

    One-hundred-thousand students strike. Fifteen-to-twenty thousand demonstrate in Quebec.

  •  | Turtle Island | MR Online

    Genocide and Colonialism: Challenging the Canadian State

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on July 26, 2021 by Nouveaux Cahiers du socialisme (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Jul 28, 2021)

    Public opinion has been shaken by the ‘discovery’ of unmarked graves of children who died in residential schools. The word ‘discovery’ has to be placed in quotation marks because Indigenous communities have been saying for many years that terrible things happened at these places. The time has come to call this what it is–a genocide.

  •  | Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism | MR Online

    Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on June 3, 2021 by Christoph Hermann (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Jun 08, 2021)

    The book suggests a number of important modifications to the critique of global capitalism and the debates about how to solve the ecological crisis: First, it links production to consumption.

  •  | Medical Apartheid From IsraelPalestine to Canada | MR Online

    Medical Apartheid: From Israel/Palestine to Canada

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on May 11, 2021 by Judith Deutsch (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted May 13, 2021)

    Canada has a long history of humanitarian hypocrisy with regard to racial and ethnic discrimination. During World War II, “none is too many” referred to European Jewish refugees fleeing from Nazi Germany who were refused admission and sent back to Germany.

  •  | The Class Character of the Expansion of COVID 19 The Case of Perus Capital City Lima | MR Online

    The class character of the expansion of COVID-19: The case of Peru’s Capital City Lima

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on February 25, 2021 by Jan Lust (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Mar 03, 2021)

    At the end of December 2019, the world was notified about the existence of a new coronavirus in the city of Wuhan in China. This virus, SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19), rapidly spread and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020.

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