Michael Laxer3 days ago4 minToronto targets tiny shelters as city ranked 5th most unaffordable housing market in worldToronto's leaders have spectacularly failed to tackle the city's affordable housing crisis. Yet now, during the winter and a pandemic, th...
Michael LaxerFeb 33 minCourage statement shows, yet again, why fighting for a left agenda in the NDP is futileResolutionary socialism was a waste of time in 2013 and it still is now. Screenshot from the 2018 NDP convention In the least surprising ...
Michael LaxerJan 134 minThe Ontario lockdown was a tragedy, the stay-at-home order is a farceWith many loopholes, big box stores still fully operating, few new workplace closures and no paid sick leave, the "stay-at-home" order se...
Michael LaxerJan 35 minForget hypocritical personal trips, the CEWS scandal is far worseWhile it is perfectly understandable that Canadians are upset at the hypocrisy of individual politicians, the boondoggle that is the CEWS...
Michael LaxerJan 36 min2020: The year in review on The Left ChapterIt 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, t...
Michael LaxerJan 14 minNotley's Quisling New YearAlberta NDP leader Rachel Notley winds up 2020 by asking for everyone "to come to the table" to help craft the NDP economic recovery prog...
Michael LaxerDec 23, 20205 minSnapshots from the pandemic class war in CanadaAs 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 LaxerDec 2, 20207 minTaxing the billionaire class is nowhere near enoughBuilding a "fairer" capitalism is an illusion. The most important thing any of us can do to begin a serious fight to end inequality and t...
Michael LaxerNov 21, 20203 minCall what the Ford government did whatever you want, but it is not a lockdownThe Ford government is closing down the retail outlets and workplaces that are the least responsible for the second wave. It is a big bus...
Michael LaxerNov 19, 20205 minClass and the pandemic in OntarioThe government and bosses are trying to shift the blame for the devastating pandemic surge in the province from factors like overcrowded ...
Michael LaxerNov 19, 20203 minNDP and Greens back Trumpian Conservative motion on ChinaProgressives should not be supporting a Conservative motion tinged with anticommunism and Cold War style nationalism that could have been...
Michael LaxerNov 11, 20205 minPandemic approach in Ontario prioritizes business over peopleHeadlines like "Ford eases COVID-19 restrictions as Ontario case count hits new high" reflect the dangerous priorities and bizarre air of...
Michael LaxerNov 7, 20203 minThe streets will not push Biden left, only an organized Left party will do thatWhat many progressives and leftists seem to fail to understand is that fascism in the US is a process more than an ideology and the Democ...
Michael LaxerNov 5, 20204 minThe Worst Show on Earth -- 2020 Edition Continued: Trump Judicial Coup or Regressive Blue Dog Rule?The marked shortfall of the Democrats in 2020 is, again, primarily a product of elite liberal arrogance. Photo via twitter By Gabriel Hay...
Michael LaxerNov 4, 20204 minThe Worst Show on Earth—The 2020 Yankee Election Circus is a Strictly Rightwing AffairBy Gabriel Haythornthwaite The fury on what passes for a Left in the US has produced a lot of mystifying smoke but little in the way of p...
Michael LaxerOct 28, 20202 min"The Socialist Party is the only alternative for an economically emancipated Zambia" Photo via the Socialist Party of Zambia Election Manifesto Socialist Party of Zambia Chawama candidate in the 2021 elections Ntazana Musu...
Michael LaxerOct 21, 20202 minDuring the pandemic Cuba "has won the respect of millions of workers around the world."Excerpt from a statement by Elisaios Vagenas, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, October 17, 2020 Cuban doctors arrive i...
Michael LaxerOct 17, 202012 minBlinded by the right: My past as an anti-abortion activistOn the anniversary of its first publication in 2012 we look again at Natalie Lochwin's important and powerful account of her days as a yo...
Michael LaxerOct 16, 20205 minA Green-NDP merger makes perfect sense...but not for the leftAny clearheaded analysis makes it obvious that for a real anti-capitalist, left movement a Green-NDP merger is irrelevant. As is inevitab...
Michael LaxerOct 4, 20205 minWe need national publicly owned transportation, not bailouts for private carriersUnion leaders in Canada are calling for massive government corporate bailouts in aviation with no mention at all of nationalization. This...
