Michael Laxer
2022: The year in review on The Left Chapter
Chris Smalls speaks 2022 is done and what a complicated year it was. There was the imperialist war in Ukraine, the uprising in...
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Michael Laxer
- Oct 19, 2022
- 5 min
Cuba releases new report on the devastating impact of the US economic blockade
The Biden administration has maintained almost all of Trump's attack on the socialist country causing an estimated $6.3 billion in...
Michael Laxer
- Feb 8, 2022
- 10 min
Business freedom convoy delivers regressive politics
By Gabriel Haythornthwaite Less than two weeks after the cross-country “freedom convoy” took up a crusade to end government COVID...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 6, 2022
- 6 min
The Keystone Koup and the whiff of Weimar: Reflections on a very American Fascist dress rehearsal
The failed fascist Koup on Jan. 6th, 2021 has quickly become Myth to liberal and conservative regressives as well as the increasingly...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 30, 2021
- 2 min
Petition calls on Canada to strongly oppose US sanctions on Cuba
A new petition to Canada's parliament sponsored by NDP MP Niki Ashton calls on the Canadian government to take a stronger stance in...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 15, 2021
- 2 min
Trudeau echoes Trump in equating "far-left" and far-right
It is utterly ridiculous to claim, as Trudeau did, that the "far-left" spreads fear, hate and white supremacy. Remember when former US...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 11, 2021
- 11 min
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
- Jul 21, 2021
- 2 min
UK union Unite condemns "inhumane blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba"
Cubans at a mass rally in defense of the Revolution and against the blockade, Havana July 17 -- image via Twitter One of the UK's leading...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 12, 2021
- 5 min
Solidarity with Cuba!
Cubans rally in support of the Revolution, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez speaks and statements of solidarity come in from around...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 23, 2021
- 2 min
UN votes overwhelmingly to demand an end to the embargo against Cuba
The vote was a staggering 184 in favour with only the United States and Israel voting against. There were 3 abstentions. Image via...
Michael Laxer
- May 29, 2021
- 2 min
Petition calls on Canadian government to robustly oppose US sanctions on Cuba
A new petition to Canada's parliament calls on the Canadian government to take a more robust stance in opposition to the continuing US...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 16, 2021
- 4 min
Trump's final attack prompts international solidarity with Cuba
In the wake of the outrageous decision by the outgoing Trump administration and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to, in their final days in...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 3, 2021
- 6 min
2020: The year in review on The Left Chapter
It is hard to overstate how momentous a year 2020 was. Among so many other events, it was the year of the Black Lives Matter uprisings,...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 18, 2020
- 3 min
NDP and Greens back Trumpian Conservative motion on China
Progressives should not be supporting a Conservative motion tinged with anticommunism and Cold War style nationalism that could have been...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 7, 2020
- 3 min
The streets will not push Biden left, only an organized Left party will do that
What many progressives and leftists seem to fail to understand is that fascism in the US is a process more than an ideology and the...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 4, 2020
- 4 min
The Worst Show on Earth -- 2020 Edition Continued: Trump Judicial Coup or Regressive Blue Dog Rule?
The marked shortfall of the Democrats in 2020 is, again, primarily a product of elite liberal arrogance. Photo via twitter By Gabriel...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 3, 2020
- 4 min
The Worst Show on Earth—The 2020 Yankee Election Circus is a Strictly Rightwing Affair
By Gabriel Haythornthwaite The fury on what passes for a Left in the US has produced a lot of mystifying smoke but little in the way of...
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