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Highlights from the 13th National Party Congress of the CPV
The congress wrapped up Monday, February 1 in Hanoi. Screenshot of the closing ceremony of the CPV congress, Hanoi, February 2021 The...
Michael Laxer
Feb 1, 20213 min read


More corporate fun and games with the CEWS
With the CEWS having gone to companies that locked out workers and that had workers on strike, as well as to companies that laid off...
Michael Laxer
Jan 20, 20214 min read


Trump's final attack prompts international solidarity with Cuba
In the wake of the outrageous decision by the outgoing Trump administration and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to, in their final days in...
Michael Laxer
Jan 16, 20214 min read


Demands for paid sick days in Ontario grow
As the pandemic surges in the province the desperate need for paid sick days in Ontario is increasingly obvious. The Ford government...
Michael Laxer
Jan 15, 20214 min read


Anti-choice groups got the government's CEWS wage subsidy
In addition to all the other issues with the CEWS, it turns out that extremist anti-choice groups like the Canadian Centre for...
Michael Laxer
Jan 9, 20213 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,...
Michael Laxer
Jan 2, 20216 min read


Solidarity with Cuba on the Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez Visits the Grave of Karl Marx, London, England 2018 Solidarity with Cuba on the anniversary of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 1, 20212 min read


Snapshots from the pandemic class war in Canada
As the year ends the rich are not only getting richer, they are doing so so brazenly at the expense of everyone else that they obviously...
Michael Laxer
Dec 23, 20205 min read


Left Democratic Front in Kerala wins big victory in local elections
The victory comes just a few months before the May, 2021 state elections in which the LDF is hoping to retain power. Bus stop bench in...
Michael Laxer
Dec 17, 20202 min read


Growing coalition supports Wet’suwet’en calls to close BC work camps
`"To put the interests of economy and industry ahead of Indigenous lives is not public health." LNG Work Camp. Image via Twitter A...
Michael Laxer
Dec 10, 20203 min read


"Your great uprising, a living poem of freedom and justice composed by 250 million people."
CPUSA solidarity statement with striking workers and farmers in India On November 26 India witnessed the largest general strike in the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 8, 20202 min read


The "establishment of a just, democratic and equitable international order is an imperative"
Excerpt from a statement at the thirty first Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel, President...
Michael Laxer
Dec 4, 20202 min read


Solidarity with Kisan Struggle!
Joint Left parties statement in solidarity with the mass farmer protests in India. Joint statement of the Communist Party of India...
Michael Laxer
Dec 1, 20201 min read


Who will pay for Ontario's food delivery app fee cap?
CUPW says that while the Supporting Local Restaurants Act "may help small businesses, it provides little protection to couriers making...
Michael Laxer
Dec 1, 20202 min read


Ford attacks, Ontario Nurses' Association supports Auditor General's pandemic report
Ontario Premier Doug Ford tells Auditor General Lysyk to "Stick with the job that we hired you for. Don’t pretend you’re a health...
Michael Laxer
Nov 25, 20205 min read


Class and the pandemic in Ontario
The government and bosses are trying to shift the blame for the devastating pandemic surge in the province from factors like overcrowded...
Michael Laxer
Nov 19, 20205 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
Nov 18, 20203 min read


National General Strike called in India for November 26
The country's unions are organizing a one-day, country-wide strike against the “the anti-people, anti-worker" polices of the Modi...
Michael Laxer
Nov 17, 20202 min read


Outrage as Loblaw profits and dividends rise, but workers left out
Profits and dividends up, pandemic pay gone, and 12 week Dominion strike ends with little improvement for workers. Many took to social...
Michael Laxer
Nov 14, 20202 min read


Sacramento joins growing list of US cities calling for collaboration with Cuba
"The people of Sacramento would benefit from Cuban biotechnical, medical, and public health expertise in combating the COVID-19...
Michael Laxer
Nov 12, 20202 min read
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