Michael Laxer
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 21, 202110 min read
Indian farmers victorious: Red Review #32 -- International Left and Labour News
The thirty-second edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from India, Belarus, Nicaragua, Canada,...
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...
Michael Laxer
Oct 31, 202111 min read
Red Review #29 -- International Left and Labour News
The twenty-ninth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Canada, the United States, Sudan,...
Michael Laxer
Oct 2, 20211 min read
ONDP up to its old Kafkaesque anti-democratic tricks again
In news that should come as no surprise to anyone, the Ontario NDP is up to its regular anti-democratic tricks again blocking the attempt...
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
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...
Michael Laxer
Aug 2, 20213 min read
After 60 years those embracing class struggle should move on from the NDP
A The Left Chapter editorial. Every year for the last 60 years of the rightward arc of the federal New Democratic Party we have been...
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
Apr 16, 20212 min read
NDP backs aggressive NATO MAP expansion into Ukraine
The federal NDP, which once called for Canada to leave NATO, is now going all-in on the imperialist alliance advocating for its...
Michael Laxer
Apr 8, 20213 min read
"Playing politics" with sick days
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's claim that unions and progressives calling for proper sick days in the province are "playing politics" is...
Michael Laxer
Mar 30, 20212 min read
The federal NDP's "free tuition" pledge is much ado about literally nothing
Singh announces student "debt relief" plan, March 20, 2021 - video screenshot I will give Jagmeet Singh credit for one thing: He has...
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20212 min read
Niki Ashton turns the tables on Twitter
NDP MP Niki Ashton takes aim at the Broadbent Institute and her critics in a truly splendid Twitter "touché" moment. Image via You Tube...
Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Broadbent Institute Executive Director fires twitter broadside at Corbyn, Ashton and Robinson
Rick Smith, Jeremy Corbyn and Niki Ashton Broadbent Institute Executive Director Rick Smith took some time out from his schedule today to...
Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20213 min read
Courage statement shows, yet again, why fighting for a left agenda in the NDP is futile
Resolutionary socialism was a waste of time in 2013 and it still is now. Screenshot from the 2018 NDP convention In the least surprising...
Michael Laxer
Jan 3, 20215 min read
Forget hypocritical personal trips, the CEWS scandal is far worse
While it is perfectly understandable that Canadians are upset at the hypocrisy of individual politicians, the boondoggle that is the CEWS...
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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