Michael Laxer
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...
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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 18
- 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...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 24
- 7 min
Dull and duller: The NDP's totally predictable capitulation to the Liberals
It has been interesting to watch the reaction to the coalitionesque agreement reached between the Liberals and the NDP on March 22 over...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 16
- 4 min
No to War in Ukraine! No to NATO! For Peace and Socialism!
A The Left Chapter editorial. As the war in Ukraine continues the danger of an historic betrayal of the international working class and...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 4
- 3 min
Putting the Chrystia Freeland photo in its broader context
Canada's Deputy PM and her defenders claim "Russian disinformation" after she is photographed holding a far right scarf. This is not the...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 3
- 4 min
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
- Mar 2
- 3 min
Forcing people to take political stances based on nationality is wrong. Period.
A The Left Chapter Editorial. Players from the 2007-2008 Stanley Cup Champion Detroit Red Wings with war criminal George W. Bush Since...
Michael Laxer
- Feb 25
- 5 min
No to War! No to NATO! No to Imperialism!
A look at events leading up to and around the Russian military intervention in Ukraine including a joint statement of Communist and...
Michael Laxer
- Feb 22
- 4 min
Reflections on the convoy, the Left and the rise of the far right in Canada
The widespread joy and approval by liberals, social democrats and "progressives" of the use of the Emergency Act by the Trudeau...
Michael Laxer
- Feb 15
- 2 min
The Shougang Big Air course at the Olympics is forward thinking not "post-apocalyptic"
Far from being "post-apocalyptic" it is a part of a drive by the PRC to prevent the apocalypse of climate change. Image via Twitter In a...