Michael Laxer
Capitalism isn’t the best system to deal with climate change
The greatest justification for a post-capitalist society is the environmental crisis. No capitalist nation is achieving what is necessary...
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Michael Laxer
- Nov 22
- 3 min
Corporations that fund food banks do so out of self-interest
By Dennis Raphael Food banks are good because they feed hungry people. Corporations that fund food banks are good because they help feed...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 5
- 10 min
The blockade of Cuba is like a "permanent pandemic...a constant hurricane"-Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla
On November 3, for the 30th year in a row the United Nations overwhelmingly voted to call for an end to the economic, commercial and...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 20
- 3 min
BC NDP's anti-democratic disqualification of Appadurai latest in a long line
The disgraceful, cynical rigging of the race is par for the course for a party with a long history of anti-democratic actions internally...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 14
- 2 min
"Cuba will have the solidarity, the support of the Chinese Party, government and people"
Comments by Wang Yulin, Director General of Bureau V of the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC),...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 10
- 7 min
Capitalism "is human exploitation, environmental destruction and war for the benefit of a minority"
Excerpts from the speech given by Enrique Santiago, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain at the Fiesta PCE, October 1, 2022....
Michael Laxer
- Sep 28
- 2 min
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
- Sep 6
- 1 min
"Calls for wage restraint by companies who are fueling soaring prices are contemptible."
“The two words that unite all the individual strikes taking place are ‘pay cuts’. Workers are simply no longer prepared to accept poverty...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 3
- 5 min
Remember the Victims of War on Hiroshima Day 2022
Rafe Saltman, a founding member of the Vancouver Island-based Freedom From War Coalition, reflects on the terrible human costs of...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 20
- 2 min
Wang Wenbin on John Bolton
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson of the People's Republic of China Wang Wenbin weighed in on former Trump National Security Advisor John...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 17
- 2 min
Joe Rogan is a joke but the punchline is a dangerous one
In an impossibly stupid moment that set Twitter on fire and that energized the legions of right wing fanatics that have been bred of...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 13
- 5 min
"NATO in Europe does not mean peace" -- Portuguese Communist Party
July 2 Statement of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) Press Office "NATO Summit – boosting confrontation and war" regarding the NATO...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 12
- 23 min
"The wheel of history turns with the class struggle!" - Meeting of Communist parties in Greece
Speeches and statements from the quadripartite meeting of Communist parties in Greece. The headquarters of the KKE in Athens On 8 July...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 7
- 2 min
China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian on the “rules-based international order”
Question and answer exchange from Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s Regular Press Conference on July 6, 2022 CCTV: US Secretary...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 1
- 3 min
Celebrate the CPC and its 101 years
Photo from celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the party On the 101st anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 26
- 7 min
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
- 2 min
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
- Jun 3
- 3 min
Fiasco: Ford wins reelection in a vote dominated by deep ennui, disaffection
Image via Twitter What a fiasco. After a turbulent four years that was marred by incompetence, malice, arrogance and often incoherence,...
Michael Laxer
- May 26
- 6 min
Ford cruising to reelection in Ontario due to squandered opportunities, uninspiring opposition
Doug Ford and Andrea Horwath at the Leader's Debate, May 10, 2022 With a week to go Ontario is in the homestretch of an election that has...
Michael Laxer
- Apr 19
- 2 min
"We express deep concern over the deteriorating human rights conditions in the US" - Wang Wenbin
Wang Wenbin, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson of the People's Republic of China gave a powerful response on April 18 when asked a question...