HOME - SOCIALIST PROJECTTHE BULLETIN THE NEWS ARCHIVEPOPULAR STRUGGLESEVENTSPAMPHLETSLEFTSTREAMED What is the Socialist Project? Committed to the development of a more free, democratic, humane and sustainable society than the one we live in, the SP is one of the many organizations building 21st century socialism. Learn more about the Socialist Project ». DOUG FORD AND THE PCS PLAN ANOTHER DECADE OF AUSTERITY 5 hours ago · Doug Ford and the PCs Plan Another Decade of Austerity. Public Goods • June 11, 2021 • Doug Allan. Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) reports that the nominal healthcare funding increases planned by the Doug Ford PC government between 2019-20 to 2029-30 fall well short of the nominal increases over the previous nine years (2010-11 to 2019-20, the period of public

sector

WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and MEDICAL APARTHEID: FROM ISRAEL/PALESTINE TO CANADA Medical Apartheid: From Israel/Palestine to Canada. Anti-Racism • May 11, 2021 • Judith Deutsch. Independent Jewish Voice Canada (IJV) has applauded Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem for declaring Israel an apartheid state in its treatment of Palestinians. However, neither organization included medical apartheid in its charges. THE GEOPOLITICS OF VACCINE APARTHEID At the end of December, 2020, Oxfam estimated that 70 poor countries will only be able to vaccinate one in ten inhabitants in 2021. In Africa 25% of vaccine supply will be covered by COVAX, 11% by the African Union while the vast majority of 64% will not have vaccinations in 2021. This is vaccine apartheid with Africa reflecting

the moral and

MISMANAGEMENT OF THE COVID-19 CRISIS INCREASES FOOD Mismanagement of the COVID-19 Crisis Increases Food Insecurity in India and Brazil. International Relations • May 22, 2021 • Ruhi Bhasin. As Indians continue to scramble for survival through a deadly second COVID-19 wave and deal with an inadequate healthcare system that has failed them at every step, for a majority of the country living in rural areas and in slums in urban centers, food SR 2021: INTERPRETATION MACHINES /W LARRY LOHMANNCLICK TO VIEW Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. Larry’s article in the 2021 Socialist Register: “ Interpretation Machines: Contradictions of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in 21st WOMEN AND NATURE: TOWARD AN ECOSOCIALIST FEMINISM THE PANDEMIC AND THE NEED FOR A NEW SOCIETY

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27 lish translations of letters and essays by former ACFTU offi-cials critical of admitting capitalists to the Communist Party, published in Monthly Review, reflect the same point of view. The first official delegation of the Vancouver & District HOME - SOCIALIST PROJECTTHE BULLETIN THE NEWS ARCHIVEPOPULAR STRUGGLESEVENTSPAMPHLETSLEFTSTREAMED What is the Socialist Project? Committed to the development of a more free, democratic, humane and sustainable society than the one we live in, the SP is one of the many organizations building 21st century socialism. Learn more about the Socialist Project ». DOUG FORD AND THE PCS PLAN ANOTHER DECADE OF AUSTERITY 5 hours ago · Doug Ford and the PCs Plan Another Decade of Austerity. Public Goods • June 11, 2021 • Doug Allan. Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) reports that the nominal healthcare funding increases planned by the Doug Ford PC government between 2019-20 to 2029-30 fall well short of the nominal increases over the previous nine years (2010-11 to 2019-20, the period of public

sector

WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and MEDICAL APARTHEID: FROM ISRAEL/PALESTINE TO CANADA Medical Apartheid: From Israel/Palestine to Canada. Anti-Racism • May 11, 2021 • Judith Deutsch. Independent Jewish Voice Canada (IJV) has applauded Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem for declaring Israel an apartheid state in its treatment of Palestinians. However, neither organization included medical apartheid in its charges. THE GEOPOLITICS OF VACCINE APARTHEID At the end of December, 2020, Oxfam estimated that 70 poor countries will only be able to vaccinate one in ten inhabitants in 2021. In Africa 25% of vaccine supply will be covered by COVAX, 11% by the African Union while the vast majority of 64% will not have vaccinations in 2021. This is vaccine apartheid with Africa reflecting

the moral and

MISMANAGEMENT OF THE COVID-19 CRISIS INCREASES FOOD Mismanagement of the COVID-19 Crisis Increases Food Insecurity in India and Brazil. International Relations • May 22, 2021 • Ruhi Bhasin. As Indians continue to scramble for survival through a deadly second COVID-19 wave and deal with an inadequate healthcare system that has failed them at every step, for a majority of the country living in rural areas and in slums in urban centers, food SR 2021: INTERPRETATION MACHINES /W LARRY LOHMANNCLICK TO VIEW Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. Larry’s article in the 2021 Socialist Register: “ Interpretation Machines: Contradictions of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in 21st WOMEN AND NATURE: TOWARD AN ECOSOCIALIST FEMINISM THE PANDEMIC AND THE NEED FOR A NEW SOCIETY

UNIONS IN CHINA

27 lish translations of letters and essays by former ACFTU offi-cials critical of admitting capitalists to the Communist Party, published in Monthly Review, reflect the same point of view. The first official delegation of the Vancouver & District THE BULLET - SOCIALIST PROJECT The Bullet is an online publishing venue for the socialist Left in Canada and around the world. It publishes articles by socialist thinkers and activists, DOUG FORD AND THE PCS PLAN ANOTHER DECADE OF AUSTERITY 5 hours ago · Doug Ford and the PCs Plan Another Decade of Austerity. Public Goods • June 11, 2021 • Doug Allan. Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) reports that the nominal healthcare funding increases planned by the Doug Ford PC government between 2019-20 to 2029-30 fall well short of the nominal increases over the previous nine years (2010-11 to 2019-20, the period of public

sector

THE CARE ECONOMY STATEMENT The Care Economy Statement. Public Goods • April 22, 2021 • Pat Armstrong, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Laurell Ritchie, Leah Vosko and Armine Yalnizyan. If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else, it is that we need a new approach to caring for each other in this country. DOES THE USA REALLY NEED ANOTHER OIL PIPELINE? ENBRIDGE 1 day ago · Does the USA Really Need Another Oil Pipeline? Enbridge and Line 3. Environment • June 10, 2021 • Sonali Kolhatkar. A decades-old pipeline called Line 3, run by the Canadian company Enbridge, is in the midst of a controversial upgrade sparking fierce resistance from Indigenous communities living along the route.Line 3 is being replaced in order to enable the transport of nearly 800,000 TWO ECO-SOCIALIST REPORTS: THE STRUGGLE OVER OLD GROWTH Two Eco-Socialist Reports: The Struggle Over Old Growth Forests in B.C. Environment • June 7, 2021. Fairy Creek: A New War in the Woods. Since last August, activists have set up numerous blockades in protest of old growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed. ECOSOCIALIST ALLIANCE STATEMENT ON G7 CONFERENCE Ecosocialist Alliance Statement on G7 Conference. Environment • June 5, 2021 • Ecosocialist Alliance. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US (and the EU) have a great part of the immense wealth of the richest countries in the world in 2021. FIGHT ANTISEMITISM, FREE PALESTINE Recently, Independent Jewish Voices helped to launch a vision for a world free of antisemitism. INTERNATIONAL MANIFESTO IN SUPPORT OF CATALONIA'S RIGHT TO International Manifesto in Support of Catalonia’s Right to Freedom as a People. International Relations • May 31, 2021. In the 14th of February elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, 52% of Catalans voted in favour of parties that call for Catalonia to become an independent state. This is an irrefutable victory for the Catalan pro PALESTINE /W NIKO BLOCK (PART 1) In the first part of a two-part series, we interview writer, activist, academic, and friend of the podcast Niko Block about Palestine. Diving into the history of the mid-00s, Niko explains how Israeli disengagement from Gaza and the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections

gave rise to

WHY BIG PHARMA’S ARGUMENTS AGAINST PATENT WAIVERS DON’T Why Big Pharma’s Arguments Against Patent Waivers Don’t Add Up. Public Goods • June 1, 2021 • Sonali Kolhatkar. Days after he publicly opposed the waiving of patents for lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates had a change of heart. HOME - SOCIALIST PROJECTTHE BULLETIN THE NEWS ARCHIVEPOPULAR STRUGGLESEVENTSPAMPHLETSLEFTSTREAMED What is the Socialist Project? Committed to the development of a more free, democratic, humane and sustainable society than the one we live in, the SP is one of the many organizations building 21 st century socialism. Learn more about the Socialist Project » WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and THE BULLET - SOCIALIST PROJECT The Bullet is an online publishing venue for the socialist Left in Canada and around the world. It publishes articles by socialist thinkers and activists, MISMANAGEMENT OF THE COVID-19 CRISIS INCREASES FOOD Mismanagement of the COVID-19 Crisis Increases Food Insecurity in India and Brazil. International Relations • May 22, 2021 • Ruhi Bhasin. As Indians continue to scramble for survival through a deadly second COVID-19 wave and deal with an inadequate healthcare system that has failed them at every step, for a majority of the country living in rural areas and in slums in urban centers, food WOMEN AND NATURE: TOWARD AN ECOSOCIALIST FEMINISM SR 2021: INTERPRETATION MACHINES /W LARRY LOHMANNCLICK TO VIEW Since the nineteenth century, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its MEDICAL APARTHEID: FROM ISRAEL/PALESTINE TO CANADA Medical Apartheid: From Israel/Palestine to Canada. Anti-Racism • May 11, 2021 • Judith Deutsch. Independent Jewish Voice Canada (IJV) has applauded Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem for declaring Israel an apartheid state in its treatment of Palestinians. However, neither organization included medical apartheid in its charges. GREENWASHING WITH BOLSONARO THE LIMITS OF CO-OPS /W DR. SHARRYN KASMIR In a time where the Left is desperately searching for a viable alternative model to global capitalism, rather than merely critiques of it, co-ops have emerged as WORKPLACE STRUGGLES AND DEMOCRACY: CHALLENGES FOR UNION Workplace Struggles and Democracy: Challenges for Union Organizing. Labour • December 13, 2019 • Sam Gindin. Jane McAlevey is everywhere these days. Recently appointed a senior fellow at Berkeley’s Labor Center, she is now also a regular columnist for both the Nation and Jacobin.Her webinar (“Organizing for Union Power”) has a global audience. HOME - SOCIALIST PROJECTTHE BULLETIN THE NEWS ARCHIVEPOPULAR STRUGGLESEVENTSPAMPHLETSLEFTSTREAMED What is the Socialist Project? Committed to the development of a more free, democratic, humane and sustainable society than the one we live in, the SP is one of the many organizations building 21 st century socialism. Learn more about the Socialist Project » WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and THE BULLET - SOCIALIST PROJECT The Bullet is an online publishing venue for the socialist Left in Canada and around the world. It publishes articles by socialist thinkers and activists, MISMANAGEMENT OF THE COVID-19 CRISIS INCREASES FOOD Mismanagement of the COVID-19 Crisis Increases Food Insecurity in India and Brazil. International Relations • May 22, 2021 • Ruhi Bhasin. As Indians continue to scramble for survival through a deadly second COVID-19 wave and deal with an inadequate healthcare system that has failed them at every step, for a majority of the country living in rural areas and in slums in urban centers, food WOMEN AND NATURE: TOWARD AN ECOSOCIALIST FEMINISM MEDICAL APARTHEID: FROM ISRAEL/PALESTINE TO CANADA Medical Apartheid: From Israel/Palestine to Canada. Anti-Racism • May 11, 2021 • Judith Deutsch. Independent Jewish Voice Canada (IJV) has applauded Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem for declaring Israel an apartheid state in its treatment of Palestinians. However, neither organization included medical apartheid in its charges. SR 2021: INTERPRETATION MACHINES /W LARRY LOHMANNCLICK TO VIEW Since the nineteenth century, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its relation to work and energy. GREENWASHING WITH BOLSONARO THE LIMITS OF CO-OPS /W DR. SHARRYN KASMIR In a time where the Left is desperately searching for a viable alternative model to global capitalism, rather than merely critiques of it, co-ops have emerged as WORKPLACE STRUGGLES AND DEMOCRACY: CHALLENGES FOR UNION Workplace Struggles and Democracy: Challenges for Union Organizing. Labour • December 13, 2019 • Sam Gindin. Jane McAlevey is everywhere these days. Recently appointed a senior fellow at Berkeley’s Labor Center, she is now also a regular columnist for both the Nation and Jacobin.Her webinar (“Organizing for Union Power”) has a global audience. WHITHER FARMERS’ STRUGGLES IN INDIA? 1 day ago · Whither Farmers’ Struggles in India? International Relations • June 8, 2021 • Achin Vanaik. The ongoing struggle of farmers in India is the most significant mass mobilization in decades and represents the biggest challenge to the government of Narendra

Modi since it

TWO ECO-SOCIALIST REPORTS: THE STRUGGLE OVER OLD GROWTH Two Eco-Socialist Reports: The Struggle Over Old Growth Forests in B.C. Environment • June 7, 2021. Fairy Creek: A New War in the Woods. Since last August, activists have set up numerous blockades in protest of old growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed. ECOSOCIALIST ALLIANCE STATEMENT ON G7 CONFERENCE Ecosocialist Alliance Statement on G7 Conference. Environment • June 5, 2021 • Ecosocialist Alliance. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US (and the EU) have a great part of the immense wealth of the richest countries in the world in 2021. PALESTINE /W NIKO BLOCK (PART 1) 19 hours ago · In the first part of a two-part series, we interview writer, activist, academic, and friend of the podcast Niko Block about Palestine. Diving into the history of the mid-00s, Niko explains how Israeli disengagement from Gaza and the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections gave rise to COVID-19, CAPITALISM, AND SOCIALISM COVID-19, Capitalism, and Socialism. Public Goods • May 13, 2020 • Victor Wallis. The COVID-19 emergency underscores longstanding truths about capitalism and socialism. Acting on the most immediate demands that it raises draws us directly into a confrontation with core

issues.

INTERNATIONAL MANIFESTO IN SUPPORT OF CATALONIA'S RIGHT TO International Manifesto in Support of Catalonia’s Right to Freedom as a People. International Relations • May 31, 2021. In the 14th of February elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, 52% of Catalans voted in favour of parties that call for Catalonia to become an

independent state.

THE BIG TECH MONOPOLIES AND THE STATE /W GRACE BLAKELEYCLICK TO VIEW As the effects of the coronavirus pandemic swept through the global economy, the average observer could have been forgiven for missing a critical piece of news: by May 2020, the combined market capitalization of the four largest US tech companies reached one fifth of the entire S&P 500. COVID-19 AND ‘ACTUALLY EXISTING’ UNIONS COVID-19 and ‘Actually Existing’ Unions. Labour • May 17, 2020 • Steven Tufts. The shut-down of non-essential work in response to COVID-19 has decimated labour markets. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 20.5 million more workers lost their jobs in April, as official unemployment skyrocketed to 14.7%. It is the largest single-month increase in unemployment since the data WHY BIG PHARMA’S ARGUMENTS AGAINST PATENT WAIVERS DON’T Why Big Pharma’s Arguments Against Patent Waivers Don’t Add Up. Public Goods • June 1, 2021 • Sonali Kolhatkar. Days after he publicly opposed the waiving of patents for lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates had a change of heart. FIRST NATIONS ANNOUNCE OLD-GROWTH LOGGING DEFERRAL ON A group of First Nations say they have reached an agreement to defer old-growth logging in parts of southwestern Vancouver Island for the

next two years.

HOME - SOCIALIST PROJECTTHE BULLETIDLENOMOREIN THE NEWS ARCHIVEPOPULAR STRUGGLESEVENTSPAMPHLETS What is the Socialist Project? Committed to the development of a more free, democratic, humane and sustainable society than the one we live in, the SP is one of the many organizations building 21st century socialism. Learn more about the Socialist Project ». WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and THE BULLET - SOCIALIST PROJECTBULLET MIXER BLENDERMAGIC BULLET OFFICIAL WEBSITEMAGIC BULLET REPLACEMENT PARTSTHE BULLET HAMILTON The Bullet is an online publishing venue for the socialist Left in Canada and around the world. It publishes articles by socialist thinkers and activists, SR 2021: INTERPRETATION MACHINES /W LARRY LOHMANNCLICK TO VIEW Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. Larry’s article in the 2021 Socialist Register: “ Interpretation Machines: Contradictions of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in 21st

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EXPERIMENTS IN FREE TRANSIT Experiments in Free Transit. Among the few positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, some localities have taken the impressive step of implementing free transit. Several cities in Ohio, including Akron, Canton, Toledo and Youngstown announced free fares as of March 16. Towns in Vermont and Nevada have done so as well. WORKPLACE STRUGGLES AND DEMOCRACY: CHALLENGES FOR UNION Workplace Struggles and Democracy: Challenges for Union Organizing. Labour • December 13, 2019 • Sam Gindin. Jane McAlevey is everywhere these days. Recently appointed a senior fellow at Berkeley’s Labor Center, she is now also a regular columnist for both the Nation and Jacobin.Her webinar (“Organizing for Union Power”) has a global audience. FIFTY YEARS AGO: THE BIRTH OF BLACK POWER IN CANADA David Austin, Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, Toronto: Between the Lines, 2013, pp. 4-5.The words quoted in this passage are taken from Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, New York: Vintage Books, 1967, pp. 44-7. David Austin, “Black Power, the Caribbean, and the Black Radical Tradition in Canada TRADE UNIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

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27 lish translations of letters and essays by former ACFTU offi-cials critical of admitting capitalists to the Communist Party, published in Monthly Review, reflect the same point of view. The first official delegation of the Vancouver & District HOME - SOCIALIST PROJECTTHE BULLETIDLENOMOREIN THE NEWS ARCHIVEPOPULAR STRUGGLESEVENTSPAMPHLETS What is the Socialist Project? Committed to the development of a more free, democratic, humane and sustainable society than the one we live in, the SP is one of the many organizations building 21st century socialism. Learn more about the Socialist Project ». WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and THE BULLET - SOCIALIST PROJECTBULLET MIXER BLENDERMAGIC BULLET OFFICIAL WEBSITEMAGIC BULLET REPLACEMENT PARTSTHE BULLET HAMILTON The Bullet is an online publishing venue for the socialist Left in Canada and around the world. It publishes articles by socialist thinkers and activists, SR 2021: INTERPRETATION MACHINES /W LARRY LOHMANNCLICK TO VIEW Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. Larry’s article in the 2021 Socialist Register: “ Interpretation Machines: Contradictions of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in 21st

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EXPERIMENTS IN FREE TRANSIT Experiments in Free Transit. Among the few positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, some localities have taken the impressive step of implementing free transit. Several cities in Ohio, including Akron, Canton, Toledo and Youngstown announced free fares as of March 16. Towns in Vermont and Nevada have done so as well. WORKPLACE STRUGGLES AND DEMOCRACY: CHALLENGES FOR UNION Workplace Struggles and Democracy: Challenges for Union Organizing. Labour • December 13, 2019 • Sam Gindin. Jane McAlevey is everywhere these days. Recently appointed a senior fellow at Berkeley’s Labor Center, she is now also a regular columnist for both the Nation and Jacobin.Her webinar (“Organizing for Union Power”) has a global audience. FIFTY YEARS AGO: THE BIRTH OF BLACK POWER IN CANADA David Austin, Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, Toronto: Between the Lines, 2013, pp. 4-5.The words quoted in this passage are taken from Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, New York: Vintage Books, 1967, pp. 44-7. David Austin, “Black Power, the Caribbean, and the Black Radical Tradition in Canada TRADE UNIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

UNIONS IN CHINA

27 lish translations of letters and essays by former ACFTU offi-cials critical of admitting capitalists to the Communist Party, published in Monthly Review, reflect the same point of view. The first official delegation of the Vancouver & District TWO ECO-SOCIALIST REPORTS: THE STRUGGLE OVER OLD GROWTH 21 hours ago · Two Eco-Socialist Reports: The Struggle Over Old Growth Forests in B.C. Environment • June 7, 2021. Fairy Creek: A New War in the Woods. Since last August, activists have set up numerous blockades in protest of old growth logging in the Fairy Creek

watershed.

EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism. Environment • June 3, 2021 • Christoph Hermann. When it was first published in German in 2017, Ulrich Brand’s and Markus Wissen’s book The Imperial Mode of Living attracted widespread attention and was discussed in mainstream media, while, at the same time, fueling an intense debate within the German academic left. THE PANDEMIC AND THE NEED FOR A NEW SOCIETY The Pandemic and the Need for a New Society. Public Goods, Theory • June 14, 2020 • Raju Das. During the on-going pandemic, humanity’s suffering has increased enormously. To date, June 13, 2020, 7.78 million people in the world have contracted the coronavirus, and 429,000 have died. 1 In the richest and most powerful country in the world, more than 2.12 million cases have been reported WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and WHY BIG PHARMA’S ARGUMENTS AGAINST PATENT WAIVERS DON’T Why Big Pharma’s Arguments Against Patent Waivers Don’t Add Up. Public Goods • June 1, 2021 • Sonali Kolhatkar. Days after he publicly opposed the waiving of patents for lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates had a change of heart. INTERNATIONAL MANIFESTO IN SUPPORT OF CATALONIA'S RIGHT TO International Manifesto in Support of Catalonia’s Right to Freedom as a People. International Relations • May 31, 2021. In the 14th of February elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, 52% of Catalans voted in favour of parties that call for Catalonia to become an

independent state.

SOCIALIST STRATEGY AND COOPERATIVES /W SAM GINDINCLICK TO VIEW 1 day ago · Sam Gindin shares his critique of cooperatives and his ideas about the broader challenges of building socialism. Sam Gindin served as research director of the Canadian region of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and later as chief economist and Assistant to the President of the Canadian Auto SHIFTING GEARS: LABOUR STRATEGIES FOR LOW-COST PUBLICCLICK TO VIEW Writing in the 2021 Socialist Register, Sean Sweeney and John Treat call for a major shift in transport policy: a break from the model of development centered on private personal vehicles to one that places mass public transport at the center of future passenger mobility. The current approach – reliance on OUTBREAK AT CANADA POST I work at Toronto’s largest postal facility. It’s packed with thousands of busy employees, making it next to impossible to avoid

close contact

JOB SECURITY STILL ON THE TABLE FOR UC LECTURERS Job security is still the most important issue for lecturers, especially for those still trying to reach the six-year goal. HOME - SOCIALIST PROJECTTHE BULLETIDLENOMOREIN THE NEWS ARCHIVEPOPULAR STRUGGLESEVENTSPAMPHLETS What is the Socialist Project? Committed to the development of a more free, democratic, humane and sustainable society than the one we live in, the SP is one of the many organizations building 21st century socialism. Learn more about the Socialist Project ». WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and THE BULLET - SOCIALIST PROJECTBULLET MIXER BLENDERMAGIC BULLET OFFICIAL WEBSITEMAGIC BULLET REPLACEMENT PARTSTHE BULLET HAMILTON The Bullet is an online publishing venue for the socialist Left in Canada and around the world. It publishes articles by socialist thinkers and activists, SR 2021: INTERPRETATION MACHINES /W LARRY LOHMANNCLICK TO VIEW Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. Larry’s article in the 2021 Socialist Register: “ Interpretation Machines: Contradictions of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in 21st

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EXPERIMENTS IN FREE TRANSIT Experiments in Free Transit. Among the few positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, some localities have taken the impressive step of implementing free transit. Several cities in Ohio, including Akron, Canton, Toledo and Youngstown announced free fares as of March 16. Towns in Vermont and Nevada have done so as well. WORKPLACE STRUGGLES AND DEMOCRACY: CHALLENGES FOR UNION Workplace Struggles and Democracy: Challenges for Union Organizing. Labour • December 13, 2019 • Sam Gindin. Jane McAlevey is everywhere these days. Recently appointed a senior fellow at Berkeley’s Labor Center, she is now also a regular columnist for both the Nation and Jacobin.Her webinar (“Organizing for Union Power”) has a global audience. FIFTY YEARS AGO: THE BIRTH OF BLACK POWER IN CANADA David Austin, Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, Toronto: Between the Lines, 2013, pp. 4-5.The words quoted in this passage are taken from Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, New York: Vintage Books, 1967, pp. 44-7. David Austin, “Black Power, the Caribbean, and the Black Radical Tradition in Canada TRADE UNIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

UNIONS IN CHINA

27 lish translations of letters and essays by former ACFTU offi-cials critical of admitting capitalists to the Communist Party, published in Monthly Review, reflect the same point of view. The first official delegation of the Vancouver & District HOME - SOCIALIST PROJECTTHE BULLETIDLENOMOREIN THE NEWS ARCHIVEPOPULAR STRUGGLESEVENTSPAMPHLETS What is the Socialist Project? Committed to the development of a more free, democratic, humane and sustainable society than the one we live in, the SP is one of the many organizations building 21st century socialism. Learn more about the Socialist Project ». WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and THE BULLET - SOCIALIST PROJECTBULLET MIXER BLENDERMAGIC BULLET OFFICIAL WEBSITEMAGIC BULLET REPLACEMENT PARTSTHE BULLET HAMILTON The Bullet is an online publishing venue for the socialist Left in Canada and around the world. It publishes articles by socialist thinkers and activists, SR 2021: INTERPRETATION MACHINES /W LARRY LOHMANNCLICK TO VIEW Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. Larry’s article in the 2021 Socialist Register: “ Interpretation Machines: Contradictions of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in 21st

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EXPERIMENTS IN FREE TRANSIT Experiments in Free Transit. Among the few positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, some localities have taken the impressive step of implementing free transit. Several cities in Ohio, including Akron, Canton, Toledo and Youngstown announced free fares as of March 16. Towns in Vermont and Nevada have done so as well. WORKPLACE STRUGGLES AND DEMOCRACY: CHALLENGES FOR UNION Workplace Struggles and Democracy: Challenges for Union Organizing. Labour • December 13, 2019 • Sam Gindin. Jane McAlevey is everywhere these days. Recently appointed a senior fellow at Berkeley’s Labor Center, she is now also a regular columnist for both the Nation and Jacobin.Her webinar (“Organizing for Union Power”) has a global audience. FIFTY YEARS AGO: THE BIRTH OF BLACK POWER IN CANADA David Austin, Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, Toronto: Between the Lines, 2013, pp. 4-5.The words quoted in this passage are taken from Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, New York: Vintage Books, 1967, pp. 44-7. David Austin, “Black Power, the Caribbean, and the Black Radical Tradition in Canada TRADE UNIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

UNIONS IN CHINA

27 lish translations of letters and essays by former ACFTU offi-cials critical of admitting capitalists to the Communist Party, published in Monthly Review, reflect the same point of view. The first official delegation of the Vancouver & District TWO ECO-SOCIALIST REPORTS: THE STRUGGLE OVER OLD GROWTH 21 hours ago · Two Eco-Socialist Reports: The Struggle Over Old Growth Forests in B.C. Environment • June 7, 2021. Fairy Creek: A New War in the Woods. Since last August, activists have set up numerous blockades in protest of old growth logging in the Fairy Creek

watershed.

EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism. Environment • June 3, 2021 • Christoph Hermann. When it was first published in German in 2017, Ulrich Brand’s and Markus Wissen’s book The Imperial Mode of Living attracted widespread attention and was discussed in mainstream media, while, at the same time, fueling an intense debate within the German academic left. THE PANDEMIC AND THE NEED FOR A NEW SOCIETY The Pandemic and the Need for a New Society. Public Goods, Theory • June 14, 2020 • Raju Das. During the on-going pandemic, humanity’s suffering has increased enormously. To date, June 13, 2020, 7.78 million people in the world have contracted the coronavirus, and 429,000 have died. 1 In the richest and most powerful country in the world, more than 2.12 million cases have been reported WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and INTERNATIONAL MANIFESTO IN SUPPORT OF CATALONIA'S RIGHT TO International Manifesto in Support of Catalonia’s Right to Freedom as a People. International Relations • May 31, 2021. In the 14th of February elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, 52% of Catalans voted in favour of parties that call for Catalonia to become an

independent state.

SOCIALIST STRATEGY AND COOPERATIVES /W SAM GINDINCLICK TO VIEW 1 day ago · Sam Gindin shares his critique of cooperatives and his ideas about the broader challenges of building socialism. Sam Gindin served as research director of the Canadian region of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and later as chief economist and Assistant to the President of the Canadian Auto OUTBREAK AT CANADA POST I work at Toronto’s largest postal facility. It’s packed with thousands of busy employees, making it next to impossible to avoid

close contact

SHIFTING GEARS: LABOUR STRATEGIES FOR LOW-COST PUBLICCLICK TO VIEW Writing in the 2021 Socialist Register, Sean Sweeney and John Treat call for a major shift in transport policy: a break from the model of development centered on private personal vehicles to one that places mass public transport at the center of future passenger mobility. The current approach – reliance on WHY BIG PHARMA’S ARGUMENTS AGAINST PATENT WAIVERS DON’T Why Big Pharma’s Arguments Against Patent Waivers Don’t Add Up. Public Goods • June 1, 2021 • Sonali Kolhatkar. Days after he publicly opposed the waiving of patents for lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates had a change of heart. JOB SECURITY STILL ON THE TABLE FOR UC LECTURERS Job security is still the most important issue for lecturers, especially for those still trying to reach the six-year goal. HOME - SOCIALIST PROJECTTHE BULLETIDLENOMOREIN THE NEWS ARCHIVEPOPULAR STRUGGLESEVENTSPAMPHLETS What is the Socialist Project? Committed to the development of a more free, democratic, humane and sustainable society than the one we live in, the SP is one of the many organizations building 21 st century socialism. Learn more about the Socialist Project » WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and THE BULLET - SOCIALIST PROJECTBULLET MIXER BLENDERMAGIC BULLET OFFICIAL WEBSITEMAGIC BULLET REPLACEMENT PARTSTHE BULLET HAMILTON The Bullet is an online publishing venue for the socialist Left in Canada and around the world. It publishes articles by socialist thinkers and activists, SR 2021: INTERPRETATION MACHINES /W LARRY LOHMANNCLICK TO VIEW Since the nineteenth century, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its

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EXPERIMENTS IN FREE TRANSIT Experiments in Free Transit. Public Goods • September 9, 2020 • Joshua DeVries. Among the few positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, some localities have taken the impressive step of implementing free transit. WORKPLACE STRUGGLES AND DEMOCRACY: CHALLENGES FOR UNION Workplace Struggles and Democracy: Challenges for Union Organizing. Labour • December 13, 2019 • Sam Gindin. Jane McAlevey is everywhere these days. Recently appointed a senior fellow at Berkeley’s Labor Center, she is now also a regular columnist for both the Nation and Jacobin.Her webinar (“Organizing for Union Power”) has a global audience. FIFTY YEARS AGO: THE BIRTH OF BLACK POWER IN CANADA David Austin, Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, Toronto: Between the Lines, 2013, pp. 4-5.The words quoted in this passage are taken from Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, New York: Vintage Books, 1967, pp. 44-7. David Austin, “Black Power, the Caribbean, and the Black Radical Tradition in Canada TRADE UNIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

UNIONS IN CHINA

27 lish translations of letters and essays by former ACFTU offi-cials critical of admitting capitalists to the Communist Party, published in Monthly Review, reflect the same point of view. The first official delegation of the Vancouver & District HOME - SOCIALIST PROJECTTHE BULLETIDLENOMOREIN THE NEWS ARCHIVEPOPULAR STRUGGLESEVENTSPAMPHLETS What is the Socialist Project? Committed to the development of a more free, democratic, humane and sustainable society than the one we live in, the SP is one of the many organizations building 21 st century socialism. Learn more about the Socialist Project » WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and THE BULLET - SOCIALIST PROJECTBULLET MIXER BLENDERMAGIC BULLET OFFICIAL WEBSITEMAGIC BULLET REPLACEMENT PARTSTHE BULLET HAMILTON The Bullet is an online publishing venue for the socialist Left in Canada and around the world. It publishes articles by socialist thinkers and activists, SR 2021: INTERPRETATION MACHINES /W LARRY LOHMANNCLICK TO VIEW Since the nineteenth century, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its

SHOCK THERAPY

EXPERIMENTS IN FREE TRANSIT Experiments in Free Transit. Public Goods • September 9, 2020 • Joshua DeVries. Among the few positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, some localities have taken the impressive step of implementing free transit. WORKPLACE STRUGGLES AND DEMOCRACY: CHALLENGES FOR UNION Workplace Struggles and Democracy: Challenges for Union Organizing. Labour • December 13, 2019 • Sam Gindin. Jane McAlevey is everywhere these days. Recently appointed a senior fellow at Berkeley’s Labor Center, she is now also a regular columnist for both the Nation and Jacobin.Her webinar (“Organizing for Union Power”) has a global audience. FIFTY YEARS AGO: THE BIRTH OF BLACK POWER IN CANADA David Austin, Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, Toronto: Between the Lines, 2013, pp. 4-5.The words quoted in this passage are taken from Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, New York: Vintage Books, 1967, pp. 44-7. David Austin, “Black Power, the Caribbean, and the Black Radical Tradition in Canada TRADE UNIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

UNIONS IN CHINA

27 lish translations of letters and essays by former ACFTU offi-cials critical of admitting capitalists to the Communist Party, published in Monthly Review, reflect the same point of view. The first official delegation of the Vancouver & District TWO ECO-SOCIALIST REPORTS: THE STRUGGLE OVER OLD GROWTH 20 hours ago · Two Eco-Socialist Reports: The Struggle Over Old Growth Forests in B.C. Environment • June 7, 2021. Fairy Creek: A New War in the Woods. Since last August, activists have set up numerous blockades in protest of old growth logging in the Fairy Creek

watershed.

EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism. Environment • June 3, 2021 • Christoph Hermann. When it was first published in German in 2017, Ulrich Brand’s and Markus Wissen’s book The Imperial Mode of Living attracted widespread attention and was discussed in mainstream media, while, at the same time, fueling an intense debate within the German academic left. THE PANDEMIC AND THE NEED FOR A NEW SOCIETY The Pandemic and the Need for a New Society. Public Goods, Theory • June 14, 2020 • Raju Das. During the on-going pandemic, humanity’s suffering has increased enormously. To date, June 13, 2020, 7.78 million people in the world have contracted the coronavirus, and 429,000 have died. 1 In the richest and most powerful country in the world, more than 2.12 million cases have been reported WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN BURIED? Where Are the Children Buried? Indigenous • June 2, 2021 • School Magazine. The discovery of the bodies of 215 children in an unmarked grave outside the former Tk’emlúps Indian Residential School is another horror to add to the long list of genocidal acts against Indigenous people and INTERNATIONAL MANIFESTO IN SUPPORT OF CATALONIA'S RIGHT TO International Manifesto in Support of Catalonia’s Right to Freedom as a People. International Relations • May 31, 2021. In the 14th of February elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, 52% of Catalans voted in favour of parties that call for Catalonia to become an

independent state.

SOCIALIST STRATEGY AND COOPERATIVES /W SAM GINDINCLICK TO VIEW 1 day ago · Sam Gindin shares his critique of cooperatives and his ideas about the broader challenges of building socialism. Sam Gindin served as research director of the Canadian region of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and later as chief economist and Assistant to the President of the Canadian Auto OUTBREAK AT CANADA POST I work at Toronto’s largest postal facility. It’s packed with thousands of busy employees, making it next to impossible to avoid

close contact

SHIFTING GEARS: LABOUR STRATEGIES FOR LOW-COST PUBLICCLICK TO VIEW Writing in the 2021 Socialist Register, Sean Sweeney and John Treat call for a major shift in transport policy: a break from the model of development centered on private personal vehicles to one that places mass public transport at the center of future passenger mobility. The current approach – reliance on WHY BIG PHARMA’S ARGUMENTS AGAINST PATENT WAIVERS DON’T Why Big Pharma’s Arguments Against Patent Waivers Don’t Add Up. Public Goods • June 1, 2021 • Sonali Kolhatkar. Days after he publicly opposed the waiving of patents for lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates had a change of heart. JOB SECURITY STILL ON THE TABLE FOR UC LECTURERS Job security is still the most important issue for lecturers, especially for those still trying to reach the six-year goal.

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