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End the Nuclear Threat: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) -- Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CPUSA Statement on Hiroshima Day (August 6) The United States, eighty-one years ago, carried out a surprise nuclear attack on the people of Hiroshima. Three days later, it dropped an even more powerful nuclear device on Nagasaki. Between the initial blasts, subsequent firestorms, and acute radiation exposure, the two bombs killed over 200,000 people by the end of 1945. Those who survived

The Left Chapter
Aug 72 min read


The Genocidal Weapon and the Nuclear Exception
Today we live as prisoners consigned to a permanent death row, having organized our world not around a commitment to collective sanity, safety, and security but around the perpetual preparation for collective destruction. Public domain image. By Eric Ross, Common Dreams It has been 81 years since the atomic bombings delivered an unmistakable message. From the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, humanity was faced with a choice that Martin Luther King, Jr. would later describe as

The Left Chapter
Aug 69 min read


Chilean Communists denounce Trump's threats of military intervention in Latin America
Trump on August 5 at the White House -- public domain image The Communist Party of Chile has issued a statement regarding Trump's recent...

The Left Chapter
Aug 13, 20251 min read


Hiroshima Lives On – in Gaza
Rafah in January, 2025 -- Ashraf Amra, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska This year marks another solemn...

The Left Chapter
Aug 9, 20255 min read


Protests in Greece mark the 80th anniversary of the imperialist crime in Hiroshima - Nagasaki
Image via the KKE The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that on August 6, 2025 -- the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of...

The Left Chapter
Aug 7, 20251 min read


Hiroshima and Nagasaki admonish: Abolish all nuclear weapons!
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial - Alec.cortez, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons...
Michael Laxer
Aug 6, 20242 min read


Freedom from War Coalition: Hiroshima Day remembrance and information picket, August 6
Hiroshima Day: The Freedom From War Coalition invites you to join us in solemn remembrance of the bombing of Japan’s cities at the close...
Michael Laxer
Aug 1, 20233 min read


Remember the Victims of War on Hiroshima Day
Rafe Saltman, a founding member of the Vancouver Island-based Freedom From War Coalition, reflects on the terrible human costs of...
Michael Laxer
Aug 3, 20225 min read
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