Tory and Ford's faux outrage at eviction protest is absurd
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The real cause for outrage is not a rally at an elite Toronto condo tower. but rather the mass evictions coming soon in Ontario. Photo...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 1, 2020
- 6 min
Canadian workers go from heroes to under attack
Recent corporate actions belie lofty rhetoric and empty praise. Sign praising essential workers in South Etobicoke, Toronto It was not...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 26, 2020
- 1 min
BC NDP greenlights tenant evictions during economic crisis and pandemic
Social democratic government allows some evictions of residential tenants even before Doug Ford's Ontario. In one of those moves that...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 25, 2020
- 6 min
Open Letter: Time to Fundamentally Reassess Canadian Foreign Policy
An Open Letter signed by 200 politicians, artists, activists and academics. An Open Letter signed by 200 politicians, artists, activists...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 18, 2020
- 4 min
The extension of the CERB is no victory for workers
There has never been a better time to make the case for an EI system that works for workers. So why aren't we doing it? In an era of...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 16, 2020
- 2 min
Ontario's “Bill 175 is so misguided and flawed that it is irredeemable"
The Ontario Health Coalition issued a statement on Monday, June 15 calling on the Ford government in Ontario to withdraw the "Connecting...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 6, 2020
- 4 min
"We ask you to disassociate the IUPA from the AFL-CIO."
An Open Letter calls for "the AFL-CIO to stop allowing the International Union of Police Associations (IUPA) and other law enforcement...
Michael Laxer
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
"I think we are witnessing America as a failed social experiment."
The full text of Cornel West's statement on CNN I think we are witnessing America as a failed social experiment. What I mean by that is...
Michael Laxer
- May 25, 2020
- 3 min
NDP claims victory in advance of battle
By declaring victory on paid sick leave before the real war has even begun, Singh actually harms the cause of ensuring that Trudeau...
Michael Laxer
- May 20, 2020
- 4 min
American "transparency" is a sham
The United States is in the vanguard of a great push by global capital to throw the workers of the world into the cauldron of flames of a...
Michael Laxer
- May 19, 2020
- 6 min
CANADA DOES NOT DESERVE A SEAT ON THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL: Open Letter
An open letter supported by more than a hundred artists, activists and academics. This open letter is supported by more than a hundred...
Michael Laxer
- May 13, 2020
- 7 min
Just dying for them to reopen: The corporate coronavirus agenda
Two things are becoming clear at this critical moment in the western capitalist coronavirus crisis. One is that the capitalists and their...
Michael Laxer
- May 8, 2020
- 3 min
Michael Laxer
- May 1, 2020
- 5 min
Seriously...fuck capitalism -- A May Day message from The Left Chapter
With International Workers' Day at hand after weeks of the capitalist coronavirus crisis the truly awful, harsh and likely to get much...
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