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Reflections on the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly: SACP
The South African Communist Party on multilateralism, Palestine, the war in Ukraine, the state of global imperialism, and Netanyahu's...

The Left Chapter
Oct 35 min read


Understanding APEC: Towards a Multipolar World
BRICS leaders in Brazil, July 06, 2025 -- Prime Minister's Office (GODL-India), via Wikimedia Commons By Giovani Vastida and Steven Lee...

The Left Chapter
Sep 125 min read


The Return of the Kirkpatrick Doctrine
The Trump agenda in Latin America is about protecting US economic and financial interests, just as it was under Kirkpatrick’s reign of...

The Left Chapter
Sep 86 min read


Against the aggression and blackmail of the USA! Down with imperialism!: PCB
Trump in August, 2025 -- public domain image Political Note from the Central Committee of the PCB The Central Committee of the Brazilian...

The Left Chapter
Aug 287 min read


104 years in the struggle for socialism: SACP
The South African Communist Party on its 104th anniversary, Trump's imperialist bullying and the international situation including in...

The Left Chapter
Aug 47 min read


Brazilian Communists call for popular resistance to Trump's imperialist attacks
Trump and Bolsonaro at Mar-a-Lago, 2020 -- Alan Santos/PR, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Political Statement by the Brazilian...

The Left Chapter
Aug 13 min read


BRICS+: capacitando o desenvolvimento
Prime Minister's Office (GODL-India), GODL-India, via Wikimedia Commons By Busani Ngcaweni A ordem pós-Guerra Fria está se desintegrando....

The Left Chapter
Jul 284 min read


BRICS Summit 2025: Big opportunities for Africa on reform and Global South solidarity
With several African nations now part of the bloc, the BRICS summit presents an opportunity for a continent that has long been sidelined...

The Left Chapter
Jul 115 min read


BRICS+: Empowering Development
Image via X By Busani Ngcaweni & Shiping Tang The post-Cold War order is unravelling. The global trading system and the multilateral...

The Left Chapter
Jul 83 min read


It is not enough to wish for a new international order; it is necessary to fight for it: Díaz-Canel at BRICS
By Leticia Martínez & Alina Perera, translated from the Spanish RIO DE JANEIRO.- "Let us unite to promote the new international order we...

The Left Chapter
Jul 83 min read


Stop the bombing of Iran!: CPUSA
A statement from the Communist Party USA: After green lighting and supplying Israel’s initial wave of attacks Trump has now illegally...

The Left Chapter
Jun 222 min read


Can Global South Investments Develop Sri Lanka?
Anura Kumara Dissanayake with To Lam in Hanoi, May 4 -- image via X By Shiran Illanperuma Since Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara...

The Left Chapter
Jun 46 min read


Progressive Latin American presidents are in Moscow for the Victory Parade
Latin American leaders from Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil have traveled to Moscow for the 80th anniversary of the Victory against the...

The Left Chapter
May 94 min read


The New Bandung Spirit Is About Industrial Development
Indonesia's Foreign Minister Sugiono at the BRICS Summit in Russia, 2024 -- image via X By Vijay Prashad In January 2025, Indonesia – the...

The Left Chapter
Apr 145 min read


"Keep out of tariff wars" British Communists warn
Donald Trump on April 8, 2025 -- public domain image Workers and consumers in Britain have nothing to gain from joining US-EU and...

The Left Chapter
Apr 102 min read


South African Diplomat Called a 'Disgrace' by Marco Rubio, Returns Home a Hero
The Trump administration's ouster of South Africa's Ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool was certainly meant to warn other countries...
Michael Laxer
Mar 246 min read


British Communists condemn "Cold War lies" and social media misogyny
Starmer on the HMS Iron Duke off the coast of Estonia, December 2024 -- Number 10, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons “The first Cold War...
Michael Laxer
Mar 132 min read


United States in 2025: Social Problems Denied via Rhetorics of Refusal
Public domain image from November, 2024 By Richard D. Wolff Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their...
Michael Laxer
Jan 177 min read


2024: The year in review on The Left Chapter
Although there were many stories from around the world we looked at -- from Syria to Ukraine to Sudan and on -- the grinding, genocidal...
Michael Laxer
Jan 113 min read


US Political Economy Contradictions as We Lurch Into 2025
President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump, Wednesday, November 13, 2024, in the Oval Office -- public domain image By...
Michael Laxer
Dec 20, 20245 min read
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