Michael Laxer
United Action Can Defeat War Measures Act - Communist Party of Canada 1970
Canadian troops on patrol in Montreal during the War Measures Act On October 16, 1970 the federal Trudeau government used the pretext of...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 82 min read
Looking at AMLO's radical new housing plan for Mexico
Dignified, affordable housing for working people provided by the government with constitutional guarantees. Leftists in the west should...
Michael Laxer
Jul 183 min read
Wab Kinew makes deeply cynical, opportunist call for a rapid increase in Canadian imperialist war spending
Image via X screenshot By Michael Laxer In a deeply cynical move, Manitoba NDP premier Wab Kinew is calling for Canada to fast track the...
Michael Laxer
Apr 5, 20237 min read
Reinforcing reaction: Quislings Starmer and Singh the progressive label on the capitalist boot
In a telling social democratic turn of events, after rather shamefully leading Finland away from its post-WWII neutrality -- which flowed...
Michael Laxer
Feb 16, 20231 min read
New York Times reports on the defeat of the Waffle, 1971
New York Times reports on the defeat of the Waffle, 1971 The New York Times reports (April 26, 1971) on the victory of the "moderate"...
Michael Laxer
Feb 8, 20231 min read
Watkins explains the Waffle alternative
Watkins explains the Waffle alternative, January 1972 Report in the "Pro Tem" student newspaper from the Glendon campus of York...
Michael Laxer
Jan 29, 20239 min read
Don't buy the police propaganda campaign in Toronto
It is amazing how when it comes to what are likely isolated crime incidents the media and police propaganda responses are truly always...
Michael Laxer
Jan 2, 20237 min read
2022: The year in review on The Left Chapter
Chris Smalls speaks 2022 is done and what a complicated year it was. There was the imperialist war in Ukraine, the uprising in...
Michael Laxer
Sep 28, 20222 min read
Fun and games in NDP land as Sask party ghosts Singh & Singh still pretends no coalition with Libs
Just when you think the ongoing farce that is the NDP in Canada could not possibly get anymore laughable, news comes that the...
Michael Laxer
Jun 26, 20227 min read
On the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of the Waffle
James Laxer during the 1971 federal leadership convention. June 24, marked the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of the Waffle from the...
Michael Laxer
Jun 23, 20222 min read
Could the federal NDP and its apologists please stop with the bullshit
At what point will the federal NDP and its apologists admit what everyone else can see: the NDP has entered into a de facto coalition...
Michael Laxer
Mar 28, 20229 min read
Red Review #50 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Swaziland, Serbia, Canada, Greece, Cuba, Bolivia, the UK and elsewhere. There are also a number of updates related to the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 24, 20227 min read
Dull and duller: The NDP's totally predictable capitulation to the Liberals
It has been interesting to watch the reaction to the coalitionesque agreement reached between the Liberals and the NDP on March 22 over...
Michael Laxer
Feb 22, 20224 min read
Reflections on the convoy, the Left and the rise of the far right in Canada
The widespread joy and approval by liberals, social democrats and "progressives" of the use of the Emergency Act by the Trudeau...
Michael Laxer
Feb 8, 202210 min read
Business freedom convoy delivers regressive politics
By Gabriel Haythornthwaite Less than two weeks after the cross-country “freedom convoy” took up a crusade to end government COVID...
Michael Laxer
Feb 3, 20223 min read
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...
Michael Laxer
Jan 24, 20224 min read
NDP statement on Ukraine is predictably awful
Image via Twitter The NDP has gotten around to issuing a statement on the situation regarding Ukraine and it is predictably disingenuous...
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
Dec 12, 20217 min read
Starbucks US union first: Red Review #35 -- International Left and Labour News
The thirty-fifth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from the US, Australia, the UK, Nepal,...
Michael Laxer
Dec 1, 20213 min read
ONDP accused of being up to its old anti-democratic tricks
Members of the ONDP's Scarborough Centre riding association executive are alleging some serious shenanigans are going on with the...
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