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    Michael Laxer
    • 3 days ago
    • 4 min

    Toronto targets tiny shelters as city ranked 5th most unaffordable housing market in world

    Toronto's leaders have spectacularly failed to tackle the city's affordable housing crisis. Yet now, during the winter and a pandemic, th...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Feb 3
    • 3 min

    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 ...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 13
    • 4 min

    The Ontario lockdown was a tragedy, the stay-at-home order is a farce

    With many loopholes, big box stores still fully operating, few new workplace closures and no paid sick leave, the "stay-at-home" order se...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 3
    • 5 min

    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...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 3
    • 6 min

    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, t...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 1
    • 4 min

    Notley's Quisling New Year

    Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley winds up 2020 by asking for everyone "to come to the table" to help craft the NDP economic recovery prog...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Dec 23, 2020
    • 5 min

    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 ...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Dec 2, 2020
    • 7 min

    Taxing the billionaire class is nowhere near enough

    Building 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...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Nov 21, 2020
    • 3 min

    Call what the Ford government did whatever you want, but it is not a lockdown

    The Ford government is closing down the retail outlets and workplaces that are the least responsible for the second wave. It is a big bus...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Nov 19, 2020
    • 5 min

    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 ...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Nov 19, 2020
    • 3 min

    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...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Nov 11, 2020
    • 5 min

    Pandemic approach in Ontario prioritizes business over people

    Headlines like "Ford eases COVID-19 restrictions as Ontario case count hits new high" reflect the dangerous priorities and bizarre air of...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Nov 7, 2020
    • 3 min

    The streets will not push Biden left, only an organized Left party will do that

    What 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...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Nov 5, 2020
    • 4 min

    The 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...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Nov 4, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Worst Show on Earth—The 2020 Yankee Election Circus is a Strictly Rightwing Affair

    By 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...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Oct 28, 2020
    • 2 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...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Oct 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    During 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...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Oct 17, 2020
    • 12 min

    Blinded by the right: My past as an anti-abortion activist

    On 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...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Oct 16, 2020
    • 5 min

    A Green-NDP merger makes perfect sense...but not for the left

    Any clearheaded analysis makes it obvious that for a real anti-capitalist, left movement a Green-NDP merger is irrelevant. As is inevitab...

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    Michael Laxer
    • Oct 4, 2020
    • 5 min

    We need national publicly owned transportation, not bailouts for private carriers

    Union leaders in Canada are calling for massive government corporate bailouts in aviation with no mention at all of nationalization. This...

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