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Michael Laxer
Jan 21, 20222 min read
Capitalism today
The Brazilian Communist Party held its XVI Congress in November 2021 and has recently released an English language translation of the...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 9, 20226 min read
Looking back on the counter-revolution that defeated socialism in the USSR
The Party of Labour of Austria looks back at the catastrophe that was the collapse of the USSR and Socialist Bloc in this exceptional...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 6, 20226 min read
The Keystone Koup and the whiff of Weimar: Reflections on a very American Fascist dress rehearsal
The failed fascist Koup on Jan. 6th, 2021 has quickly become Myth to liberal and conservative regressives as well as the increasingly...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 6, 20225 min read
Inverting reality: The dangerous propaganda of a new Cold War encirclement of Russia
For weeks now western governments, leaders and their dutiful friends in the mainstream media have been pushing a dangerous narrative that...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 1, 20226 min read
2021: The year in review on The Left Chapter
2021 is done and what a year it was. Along the way we saw momentous victories for the left in Kerala, Chile, Peru, Honduras and...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 8, 20213 min read
US claims about Russian "aggression" are a hypocritical farce
If you read almost any of the western mainstream media you would have basically no idea that there is a lot more to the ongoing situation...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 25, 20212 min read
The BC NDP's disgraceful week
It is hard to get one's mind around the last week in the life of John Horgan's right-wing NDP government. Needless-to-say a variety of...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 20, 20211 min read
Federal NDP Wet’suwet’en statement is a masterclass in BS
The statement does not mention the BC NDP provincial government of John Horgan once, anywhere. Seriously. The NDP statement on the...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 19, 20213 min read
RCMP attack on Wet’suwet’en during a "climate disaster" is a new BC NDP government low
In a breathtakingly cynical, disgraceful move, the RCMP in British Columbia have chosen the backdrop of a state of emergency due to...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 30, 20212 min read
Canada leads G20 in financing fossil fuels but is still fighting First Nations in court
It is hard to get one's mind around the staggering hypocrisy and performative bullshit of our federal Liberal government and its utterly...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 24, 20212 min read
CP of Ireland Nicaragua solidarity statement reminds us of which side we need to be on
On October 18 the Communist Party of Ireland released a statement that reminds us of why the Left in the west needs to stand with...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 22, 20213 min read
Propaganda movie? It all depends on the country
Western media like the BBC call the Chinese movie The Battle at Lake Changjin "propaganda" while unironically mentioning James Bond and...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 15, 20212 min read
Trudeau echoes Trump in equating "far-left" and far-right
It is utterly ridiculous to claim, as Trudeau did, that the "far-left" spreads fear, hate and white supremacy. Remember when former US...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 14, 20212 min read
Think we can't afford free transit? Think again.
The $11 million per minute that the fossil fuel industry receives in subsidies shows that we can. A bus in Kansas City which has extended...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 24, 20213 min read
Albuquerque has embraced fare free public transit and the left should too
What was once seen as an utopian, marginal and fringe idea is increasingly being embraced by mainstream politicians in communities across...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 11, 202111 min read
9/11: 20 Years of Retro-Colonial Gambles and Anti-Colonial Reckoning
By Gabriel Haythornthwaite The phone rang that day in my Victoria home at 7am. I heard my partner answer the call as I continued to...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 10, 20218 min read
No Majority For You! And Other Kvetching On The 2021 Canadian Election Farce
As the farce that is Canada's election heads into the homestretch, Gabriel Haythornthwaite takes an incisive, caustic look at the...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 2, 20219 min read
The left shift in China the western left is not talking about
- A significant "left shift" is occurring in the People's Republic of China under Xi Jinping that is totally in keeping with the...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 19, 20213 min read
CP of Spain: The "workers of the world cannot ignore the suffering of Afghanistan"
"Twenty years of war and military occupation in Afghanistan end for the United States with a strategic disaster and a painful withdrawal...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 18, 20212 min read
NDP tries to spin its way out of CEWS support
Image via twitter Have you heard the news? Suddenly the NDP is concerned about the unbelievable, scandalous fiasco that is the Canada...
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