Michael Laxer
2023: The year in review on The Left Chapter
Palestinian flags fly at a Solidarity with Gaza march in Toronto, Canada on October 21 -- from our post: "End the Siege of Gaza Now!":...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 22, 20235 min read
Normalization With Israel Has Been Ended by Its Brutal War on Gaza
President Donald J. Trump, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Michael Laxer
Dec 20, 20235 min read
The Suffocation of Democracy in India
By Vijay Prashad On December 18 and 19, 141 members of the two houses of India’s Parliament were suspended, as of December 19, by the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 13, 20236 min read
The No-State Solution Becomes More and More Real as Israel’s Permanent Nakba Continues
Image via X By Vijay Prashad In 1948, the Syrian historian Constantin Zurayk used the Arabic word Nakba (Catastrophe) to refer to the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 7, 20235 min read
ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in South America
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro votes in a referendum on the Essequibo region. Photo: Nicolas Maduro/X By Vijay Prashad On December...
Michael Laxer
Nov 28, 20236 min read
Are There Any Paranoids in the Stadium Tonight? Two Nights in Santiago With Roger Waters
Image via Vijay Prashad on X By Vijay Prashad No one does a stadium show like Roger Waters. The music, of course, is resplendent, but so...
Michael Laxer
Nov 9, 20235 min read
How the War on Gaza Has Stalled the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC)
Image from September 9 meeting By Vijay Prashad On September 9, 2023, during the G20 meeting in New Delhi, the governments of seven...
Michael Laxer
Oct 31, 20235 min read
Israel Wants Either an Apartheid State or an Ethnic Cleansing Process
Both are crimes under international law. Aftermath of an Israeli attack on Gaza, October 29 By Vijay Prashad On October 30, 2023, Israeli...
Michael Laxer
Oct 27, 20236 min read
The Suffocating Occupation of Palestine Is Now a Series of War Crimes
By Vijay Prashad On October 24, it became clear to the United Nations (UN) that the sustained bombardment of Gaza—which had already...
Michael Laxer
Oct 24, 20235 min read
The Everyday Violence of Life in Occupied Palestine
By Vijay Prashad Driving along the Jordan River Valley in the Occupied Palestine Territory (OPT) of the West Bank is a stunning...
Michael Laxer
Oct 10, 20236 min read
The Savagery of the War Against the Palestinian People
More of Gaza in ruins, October 10 -- Image via Twitter By Vijay Prashad Who knows how many Palestinian civilians will be killed by the...
Michael Laxer
Sep 20, 20235 min read
Is This the End of French Neo-Colonialism in Africa?
By Zoe Alexandra and Vijay Prashad In Bamako, Mali, on September 16, the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger created the...
Michael Laxer
Sep 8, 20235 min read
‘Chile Needs a Communist Party,’ an interview with General Secretary Lautaro Carmona
Carmona reflects on the political situation in Chile amid increased right-wing attacks, the death of the CP’s president, and the 50th...
Michael Laxer
Mar 3, 20224 min read
The west's hypocrisy and history of violence matters. Calling it out is not "whataboutism".
Opposing NATO, US and western imperialism, aggression, hypocrisy and warmongering is always a must and a duty of every leftist in the...
Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20214 min read
Castillo wins vote in Peru as Fujimori refuses to concede
Leftist Pedro Castillo has won the presidential election in Peru by 44,058 votes. But many fear that far-right candidate Fujimori may...
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