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  • Layoffs in the steel and aluminum sectors.

    Beyond the ‘elbows up’ response to the Tariff War: Debating a National Industrial Policy

    Originally published: The Bullet on October 24, 2025 by Robert Chernomas and Fred Wilson (more by The Bullet) (Posted Oct 27, 2025)

    Canada’s long codependent economic relationship with the United States has abruptly and involuntarily ended.

  • Hill

    ‘Christopher Hill: Life and Legacy of a Radical Historian’

    Originally published: The Bullet on June 7, 2025 by Ryan Breeden (more by The Bullet) (Posted Jun 13, 2025)

    Christopher Hill looms large in the landscape of British Marxist historiography, perhaps the indispensable historian of the English Revolution for generations on the Left.

  • From Bad to Worse

    ‘From Bad to Worse: The New Political Setting and Challenges for the Canadian Left’

    Originally published: The Bullet on April 13, 2025 (more by The Bullet)

    The current political conjuncture can be defined by an unfolding sense, in Canada and around the world, that neoliberal policies have failed and even capitalism itself is not working.

  • Anschlussor or Schulterschluss?

    Canada: Anschluss, Schulterschluss or concrete internationalism?

    Originally published: The Bullet on March 19, 2025 by Stefan Kipfer (more by The Bullet) (Posted Mar 21, 2025)

    To begin, we must also ask: what is Trump 2.0? It is far more than a vengeful new U.S. administration.

  • IPP

    Energy Unions in Mexico welcome shutdown of key neoliberal institutions

    Originally published: The Bullet on September 13, 2024 by Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (more by The Bullet) (Posted Sep 16, 2024)

    The Mexican government administration has proposed a package of 20 reforms, including the dissolution of two energy sector autonomous bodies (the focus of this bulletin) from the power and hydrocarbons sector. In doing so, the government has taken another significant step to roll back the neoliberal reforms that sought to hand over the country’s energy system to private companies.

  • Sheinbaum

    New president in Mexico to accelerate the energy transition

    Originally published: The Bullet on June 14, 2024 by Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) (more by The Bullet) (Posted Jun 17, 2024)

    Claudia Sheinbaum’s resounding victory in Mexico’s presidential election on June 2nd, 2024, has been welcomed by two of the country’s main energy unions, UNTyPP and SME.

  • Amazon

    A generational challenge: Taming Amazon, renewing labour

    Originally published: The Bullet on May 20, 2024 by Sam Gindin (more by The Bullet) (Posted May 22, 2024)

    As the Occupy protests of 2011 exhausted themselves, a dramatic turn from protests to politics surfaced.

  • Israel: State of Denial

    Israel: State of denial

    Originally published: The Bullet on May 15, 2024 by Judy Haiven (more by The Bullet) (Posted May 17, 2024)

    The lies. The packs of lies–deliberate, filthy, and deadly.

  • Labor statements in opposition to the war were initially issued by left-wing unions like the United Electrical Workers and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

    From World War II to Gaza: U.S. Labour opposition to war and fascism

    Originally published: The Bullet on April 25, 2024 by Kurt Stand (more by The Bullet) (Posted Apr 26, 2024)

    To understand the growing support within union ranks for an end to unconditional U.S. military and financial support for Israel in its conduct of a brutal war, it is important to look back at the legacy to which the UAW statements refer.

  • Stand up to the Israel Lobby

    Stand up to the Israel Lobby: An open letter to the B.C. NDP

    Originally published: The Bullet on April 10, 2024 by Sid Shniad and Independent Jewish Voices (more by The Bullet) (Posted Apr 12, 2024)

    In February, former BC cabinet minister Selina Robinson was forced to resign because of her bigoted comments about Palestinians.

  • U of T

    Instead of ‘civil discourse’ we have civil terror

    Originally published: The Bullet on March 12, 2024 by Judy Haiven (more by The Bullet) (Posted Mar 14, 2024)

    Last week, the CBC ran an interview on its flagship program, The Current, with Randy Boyagoda, a professor at the University of Toronto (U of T). Dr Boyagoda is neither Jewish nor Palestinian. He is an English scholar with several novels and critical essays under his belt.

  • Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: Class, Class Consciousness and Activism in the “Knowledge Economy”

    Class Leaders and ‘Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism’

    Originally published: The Bullet on October 15, 2023 by D. W. Livingstone (more by The Bullet) (Posted Oct 17, 2023)

    The basic aim of ‘Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: Class, Class Consciousness and Activism in the “Knowledge Economy”’ is to bring class back into thinking about capitalism and alternatives.

  • Frantz Fanon

    Decolonising development with Frantz Fanon

    Originally published: The Bullet on September 25, 2023 by Benjamin Selwyn (more by The Bullet) (Posted Sep 26, 2023)

    The great cultural theorist Stuart Hall called Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth “the bible of decolonisation” as it encapsulated the urge for freedom across the colonial world. Fanon illuminates how racism represented an organising principle for capitalist classes by systematically devaluing the lives of the majority of the world’s population.

  • Rent Control

    The landlords’ anti-rent-control argument is pure BS

    Originally published: The Bullet on August 6, 2023 by Jonathan Rosenblum (more by The Bullet) (Posted Aug 07, 2023)

    Setting limits on how much landlords can increase rents, as Councilmember Kshama Sawant’s legislation would do the moment the unjust state rent control ban is lifted, is a commonsense response to this sick profiteering.

  • Higher Temperatures and Droughts

    The eco collapse we were warned about has begun

    Originally published: The Bullet on July 30, 2023 by José Seoane (more by The Bullet) (Posted Aug 02, 2023)

    This accumulation of tragic evidence, against all the denialist narratives, makes it undeniable that the climate crisis is already here, among us.

  • Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis, by Erica Cirino (Island Press, 2021).

    Nanoplastics are entering our bodies

    Originally published: The Bullet on July 14, 2023 by Erica Cirino (more by The Bullet) (Posted Jul 15, 2023)

    The air is plasticized, and we are no better protected from it outdoors than indoors.

  • War is Hell Cartoon

    European parliament to join the militarisation path

    Originally published: The Bullet on May 26, 2023 by Herman Michiel (more by The Bullet) (Posted May 27, 2023)

    Whoever wants to wage war must have ammunition, bullets, shells, and missiles. Ukraine would use some 7,000 every day, while for Russia it would be about 50,000. So European ‘solidarity’ means ammunition for Ukraine.

  • Nakba is More Than One Day

    Nakba at 75

    Originally published: The Bullet on May 2023 by The Bullet / Socialist Project (more by The Bullet) (Posted May 15, 2023)

    The Nakba, “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which includes the expulsion and subsequent displacement of Palestinians, the destruction of Palestinian towns and villages, and other attempts to eradicate the Palestinian people from their ancestral homeland in the territory that became the State of Israel.

  • Climate emergency

    Call for a Fossil Fuel non-proliferation treaty

    Originally published: The Bullet on September 15, 2021 by Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative (more by The Bullet) (Posted Sep 22, 2021)

    The scientific consensus is clear that human activities are primarily responsible for global climate change, and that the climate crisis now represents the greatest threat to human civilization and nature.

  • Supporters of President Nicolás Maduro participate in a rally in Caracas in support of the national Constituent Assembly

    The crisis in Venezuela and the left

    Originally published: The Bullet on July 19, 2017 (more by The Bullet)

    The media keep silent about the violence of the Venezuelan opposition and the prevailing repression by the right-wing governments of Latin America. The Right’s strategy of an institutional coup faces serious limits, but the Left must address this new threat, supporting anti-imperialist decisions and making a distinction between the capitalist boycott and the government’s ineffectiveness.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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