The Left Chapter's editor Michael Laxer looks at the undemocratic sham that is Canada's NDP leadership race and discusses why he thinks that even if Avi Lewis wins tomorrow (which is likely) the party's right wing, anti-democratic nature will not change in any significant way.

The Left Chapter's editor Michael Laxer looks at the US and Israeli war on Iran (which they are losing), the necessity of international solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and the NDP's "leadership" race in Canada.

The amazing shrinking federal NDP is the fallout from a deepening rightwing political consensus the party signed onto long ago. Lori Idlout endorsing Avi Lewis -- image via the Avi Lewis campaign on Facebook By Gabriel Haythornthwaite The Ides of March came a little early to Ottawa this year with the defection of Nunavut MP Lori Idlout from the NDP to the Mark Carney Liberals on March 11. That day, as the banker-PM paraded the newly minted Liberal MP Idlout to a caucus meetin

The Left Chapter's third and final election roundup. As the grand farce that is the 2021 federal election in Canada enters the...

Waffling between these two shades of faux progressive "left" is a waste of time. It is hard sometimes to get one's mind around the...