Amílcar Cabral, Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean revolutionary, theoretician and independence leader, was born September 12, 1924. He was...

The Highest Example of Heroism -- Salvador Allende Today is the 50th anniversary of the US and western backed fascist coup that overthrew...

W.E.B. Du Bois, the scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist was born in 1868 in Massachusetts. He died on August 27, 1963...

During the Soviet era the capital of the Kirghiz SSR was Frunze. Frunze was named after the Bolshevik revolutionary leader Mikhail Frunze...

Sacco and Vanzetti Murdered August 23, 1927 Shortly after midnight on August 23, 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were murdered...

Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Kursk (August 23, 1943) where the soldiers of the Red Army emerged victorious at...

Huge crowds rallied against police racism and violence in Paris, France June 13, 2020.

Around the world statues that were symbols of oppression are falling.

On June 6 hundreds of thousands marched in solidarity with Black Lives Matter around the world. Here is video from Paris, London Ontario...

The full text of Cornel West's statement on CNN I think we are witnessing America as a failed social experiment. What I mean by that is...

Hellworld Episode #10 In this episode, we take a look at the inspiring uprising in Minneapolis, and how it plays into the wider successes...

People are being and will be sacrificed to reopen the economy. These sacrifices are not falling at all equally. It is understandable that...

Despite what the politicians say the "curve" does not seem to be flattening as much as they are saying in places like Ontario and the...

If you were in any doubt who the bailouts are really for Wall St. stocks saw record gains in April even as millions of people lost their...

In this dispatch, Michael Laxer looks at how -- in contrast to Cuban internationalism and humanitarianism -- the US government has...

In this dispatch, Michael Laxer looks at the dark and dangerous cloud of hypocrisy that surrounds the calls by our politicians for social...

In this first The Left Chapter audio dispatch, Michael Laxer looks at how we rally around "leaders" like Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau in...