Michael Laxer
Capitalism isn’t the best system to deal with climate change
The greatest justification for a post-capitalist society is the environmental crisis. No capitalist nation is achieving what is necessary...
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Michael Laxer
- Feb 3, 2022
- 3 min
Green Party Ukraine statement far better than the NDP's
For the last few election cycles many have argued that what was the rising Green Party was at least as "progressive" as the supposedly...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 16, 2021
- 2 min
New Green Left eco-socialist initiative launched in Canada
Screenshot from launch video A new and avowedly eco-socialist movement has been launched in Canada's Green Party that says that the...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 14, 2021
- 1 min
Atwin backtracks on Palestine
As former Green Party leadership candidate Dimitri Lascaris noted, "You do not change the Liberal Party. The Liberal Party changes you."...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 4, 2021
- 3 min
Neither Green nor Orange
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...
Michael Laxer
- May 12, 2021
- 2 min
Response to state violence in Colombia exposes western hypocrisy yet again
The mass popular uprising in Colombia that arose out of an April 28 general strike against a proposed tax reform bill continues, though...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 16, 2020
- 5 min
A Green-NDP merger makes perfect sense...but not for the left
Any clearheaded analysis makes it obvious that for a real anti-capitalist, left movement a Green-NDP merger is irrelevant. As is...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 25, 2020
- 3 min
Does the Green Party Haddad fiasco point to a greater malaise?
It might not be just the ideology of the party at stake in the leadership contest, but its self-professed internal culture. After being...
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