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Michael Laxer
Jan 2, 20216 min read
2020: The year in review on The Left Chapter
It is hard to overstate how momentous a year 2020 was. Among so many other events, it was the year of the Black Lives Matter uprisings,...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 31, 20204 min read
Notley's Quisling New Year
Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley winds up 2020 by asking for everyone "to come to the table" to help craft the NDP economic recovery...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 23, 20205 min read
Snapshots from the pandemic class war in Canada
As the year ends the rich are not only getting richer, they are doing so so brazenly at the expense of everyone else that they obviously...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 2, 20207 min read
Taxing the billionaire class is nowhere near enough
Building a "fairer" capitalism is an illusion. The most important thing any of us can do to begin a serious fight to end inequality and...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 20, 20203 min read
Call what the Ford government did whatever you want, but it is not a lockdown
The Ford government is closing down the retail outlets and workplaces that are the least responsible for the second wave. It is a big...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 19, 20205 min read
Class and the pandemic in Ontario
The government and bosses are trying to shift the blame for the devastating pandemic surge in the province from factors like overcrowded...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 18, 20203 min read
NDP and Greens back Trumpian Conservative motion on China
Progressives should not be supporting a Conservative motion tinged with anticommunism and Cold War style nationalism that could have been...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 10, 20205 min read
Pandemic approach in Ontario prioritizes business over people
Headlines like "Ford eases COVID-19 restrictions as Ontario case count hits new high" reflect the dangerous priorities and bizarre air of...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 6, 20203 min read
The streets will not push Biden left, only an organized Left party will do that
What many progressives and leftists seem to fail to understand is that fascism in the US is a process more than an ideology and the...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 4, 20204 min read
The Worst Show on Earth -- 2020 Edition Continued: Trump Judicial Coup or Regressive Blue Dog Rule?
The marked shortfall of the Democrats in 2020 is, again, primarily a product of elite liberal arrogance. Photo via twitter By Gabriel...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 3, 20204 min read
The Worst Show on Earth—The 2020 Yankee Election Circus is a Strictly Rightwing Affair
By Gabriel Haythornthwaite The fury on what passes for a Left in the US has produced a lot of mystifying smoke but little in the way of...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 28, 20202 min read
"The Socialist Party is the only alternative for an economically emancipated Zambia"
Photo via the Socialist Party of Zambia Election Manifesto Socialist Party of Zambia Chawama candidate in the 2021 elections Ntazana...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 21, 20202 min read
During the pandemic Cuba "has won the respect of millions of workers around the world."
Excerpt from a statement by Elisaios Vagenas, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, October 17, 2020 Cuban doctors arrive...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 17, 202012 min read
Blinded by the right: My past as an anti-abortion activist
On the anniversary of its first publication in 2012 we look again at Natalie Lochwin's important and powerful account of her days as a...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 16, 20205 min read
A Green-NDP merger makes perfect sense...but not for the left
Any clearheaded analysis makes it obvious that for a real anti-capitalist, left movement a Green-NDP merger is irrelevant. As is...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 4, 20205 min read
We need national publicly owned transportation, not bailouts for private carriers
Union leaders in Canada are calling for massive government corporate bailouts in aviation with no mention at all of nationalization. This...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 28, 20204 min read
Capitalism has overrun the planet
When figures like Sir David Attenborough talk about the impact of population growth on the environment but not that of corporations and...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 25, 20203 min read
Does the Green Party Haddad fiasco point to a greater malaise?
It might not be just the ideology of the party at stake in the leadership contest, but its self-professed internal culture. After being...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 24, 202010 min read
"Let us hear in the streets of the world the fury of the peoples": Diaz-Canel and Maduro speak
Highlights from the speeches at the United Nations General Assembly of two of the world's great anti-imperialist fighters, September 22 &...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 21, 20203 min read
"The pro-imperialist purposes of this report are exposed": PCV
Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) condemns the report presented by the Independent International Mission of the United Nations...
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