Michael Laxer
Green Party Ukraine statement far better than the NDP's
For the last few election cycles many have argued that what was the rising Green Party was at least as "progressive" as the supposedly...
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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...
Michael Laxer
Sep 15, 20217 min read
Liberal rebound: Election roundup #3
The Left Chapter's third and final election roundup. As the grand farce that is the 2021 federal election in Canada enters the...
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...
Michael Laxer
Sep 7, 20216 min read
O'Toole flipflopping to a (small) lead: Election roundup #2
The Left Chapter's second election roundup. As the first three weeks of the grand farce that is the 2021 federal election in Canada have...
Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20215 min read
Trudeau stumbles out of the gate: Election roundup #1
The Left Chapter's first election roundup. Image via twitter. As the first two weeks of the grand farce that is the 2021 federal election...
Michael Laxer
Jul 17, 20218 min read
Cuba defends the Revolution: Red Review #14 -- International Left and Labour News
The fourteenth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with a special section this week on international...
Michael Laxer
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Atwin backtracks on Palestine
As former Green Party leadership candidate Dimitri Lascaris noted, "You do not change the Liberal Party. The Liberal Party changes you."...
Michael Laxer
Jun 4, 20213 min read
Neither Green nor Orange
Waffling between these two shades of faux progressive "left" is a waste of time. It is hard sometimes to get one's mind around the...
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...
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...
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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