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JetBlue Suspends All Flights to Cuba
Global News Service On August 31, U.S.-based airline JetBlue announced that it has decided to suspend all flights to Cuba, effective...
Michael Laxer
Sep 10, 20231 min read


Economic Growth in G7 Versus BRICS: A Reality Check
By Richard D. Wolff In the United Kingdom, the BBC prepared and published data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in January...
Michael Laxer
Sep 7, 20235 min read


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...
Michael Laxer
Jan 2, 20237 min read


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
Oct 19, 20225 min read


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
Feb 8, 202210 min read


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
Jan 6, 20226 min read


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 30, 20212 min read


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
Oct 15, 20212 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


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 21, 20212 min read


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
Jul 12, 20215 min read


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
Jun 23, 20212 min read


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
May 29, 20212 min read


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 16, 20214 min read


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
Jan 2, 20216 min read


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 18, 20203 min read


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 6, 20203 min read


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 4, 20204 min read


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...
Michael Laxer
Nov 3, 20204 min read
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