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The Lucky Few Club
The people of Venezuela, Greenland and Ukraine are so "lucky" to have resources that have put them in imperialism's crosshairs. Image via Venezuela Analysis on X Via the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) The people of Venezuela are “lucky”. Their country has the largest oil reserves in the world and sits on a veritable gold mine —one that could ensure energy self-sufficiency, and more, while providing cheap fuel and electricity for its people. The people of Greenland are also “

The Left Chapter
5 days ago3 min read


The Gratuitous Barbarity of Trump’s So-Called ‘Board of Peace’
In the fantasy being pushed by Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Jared Kushner, Palestinians appear only as an absence, buried beneath the rubble of the real Gaza. Trump at the Board of Peace announcement and signing ceremony on January 22 -- public domain image By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies, Common Dreams At the opening ceremony for Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace in Davos , Jared Kushner unveiled glossy images of his vision for a “new Gaza”: shining apart

The Left Chapter
6 days ago7 min read


Six Points to Navigate the Turmoil in Iran
Image via X By Vijay Prashad Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and police finding themselves in the morgue. What began as work stoppages and inflation protests drew together a range of discontent, with women and young people frustrated with a system unable to secure their livelihood. Iran has been under prolonged economic siege and has been attacked directly by Israel an

The Left Chapter
Jan 138 min read


The Children of Gaza Are Freezing to Death
January image of Gaza via the WHO By Vijay Prashad From early December 2024 to early January 2025, the body temperature of eight babies...
Michael Laxer
Jan 8, 20255 min read


UN Program's 2025 Outlook Warns 343 Million Acutely Food Insecure
"Global humanitarian needs are rising, fueled by devastating conflicts, more frequent climate disasters, and extensive economic turmoil,"...
Michael Laxer
Nov 24, 20243 min read


Pakistan Set to Illegally Expel More Afghan Refugees
Image of the Torkham border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan By Global News Service Pakistan’s Interior Minister Syed Mohsin...
Michael Laxer
Sep 4, 20242 min read


UNICEF finds 1 in 4 children under 5 globally, 9 out of 10 in Gaza, experience severe child food poverty
Image via the Palestinian People's Party UNICEF released a report June 5 that found that 181 million children worldwide under 5 years of...
Michael Laxer
Jun 6, 20242 min read


Ravaged by Floods: Afghanistan’s Desperate Plight
Unprecedented flash floods wreak havoc in Afghanistan, leaving devastation in their wake and plunging the nation into crisis. Ghor...
Michael Laxer
May 14, 20245 min read


A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
The Lavender AI system is a new weapon developed by Israel, but the kind of kill lists that it generates have a long pedigree in U.S....
Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 202412 min read


Europe Sleepwalks Through Its Own Dilemmas
Soldiers of NATO’s multinational enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup training with the 1st Estonian Infantry Brigade during Estonia’s...
Michael Laxer
Mar 25, 20246 min read


Pakistan Sets Ultimatum for “Illegal Immigrants” to Vacate the Country
The Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan By Global News Service On October 4, Pakistan’s caretaker Interior Minister...
Michael Laxer
Oct 11, 20231 min read


The Perilous Path From Western Domination to De-Dollarization
By Justin Podur Two interesting things happened at the BRICS summit in South Africa in August. Several new members were invited to join...
Michael Laxer
Sep 28, 202312 min read


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 3, 20224 min read


9/11: 20 Years of Retro-Colonial Gambles and Anti-Colonial Reckoning
By Gabriel Haythornthwaite The phone rang that day in my Victoria home at 7am. I heard my partner answer the call as I continued to...
Michael Laxer
Sep 11, 202111 min read


Taliban take Kabul: Red Review #19 -- International Left and Labour News
The nineteenth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from the UK, Venezuela, Cuba, Canada and...
Michael Laxer
Aug 21, 202112 min read


CP of Spain: The "workers of the world cannot ignore the suffering of Afghanistan"
"Twenty years of war and military occupation in Afghanistan end for the United States with a strategic disaster and a painful withdrawal...
Michael Laxer
Aug 19, 20213 min read


Daily LIFT #514
The women's delegation to the International Conference of Solidarity with the People of Afghanistan meets with government officials,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 14, 20211 min read


Remembering the Saur Revolution of April 27, 1978
Chemistry students at Kabul University, Afghanistan 1986 Remember the Afghan Saur Revolution of April 27, 1978 and the horrors brought by...
Michael Laxer
Apr 27, 20212 min read
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