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A Victory for the Brazilian People Once More Through Lula
Lula at a massive preelection rally on October 24 -- Lula Oficial, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The week before 25 October in Brazil was frenetic. It appeared that every one of the over 200 million Brazilians had a political opinion about the presidential election. The country was fundamentally polarised. Polls showed that the vote was going to be tight, with most polls favouring the challenger Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the former president Jair Bolsona

The Left Chapter
Oct 264 min read


The Smith MAGA Ballot, Part I
Trump Lends A Hand In Siccing Anger Against Immigrants By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With 24 days until Alberta’s pre-annexation referendum, The DNA Report is taking a first look at the regressive ballot by reviewing the five anti-immigrant questions cooked up and launched by the Governor Smith cabinet on March 31. This review comes as Herr Trump snarled a ‘Truth Social’ statement on September 23 pushing immigrant scapegoating in Canada. The Orange Ogre’s putativ

The Left Chapter
Sep 265 min read


Artificial Intelligence: Private Ownership, Collective Risks
Trump delivers remarks at the White House AI Summit, July 23, 2025 -- public domain image By Rezgar Akrawi On 8 September 2026 the researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, declaring that the two largest companies in the field are ‘gambling with our lives,’ and the people building these systems ‘earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.’ His concern was not an isolated one. Tens of thousands of people, among them leading scientists, have sign

The Left Chapter
Sep 225 min read


The US-Canada trade war demands expanded public ownership and Canada’s exit from the USMCA and NATO
Carney with Trump at the White House in May, 2025 -- public domain image Via the Communist Party of Canada The trade war with the United States is already causing devastation for workers across Canada. Despite doing the right thing and walking away from a bad deal on tariff negotiations, the response from the Carney government has been to make working people pay for the deepening trade war and to show a willingness to make profound concessions that will hurt working people. T

The Left Chapter
Sep 17 min read


A Time of Living Dangerously – For Telling the Truth
Public domain image By Biljana Vankovska The West has long cherished political correctness as though it were a core democratic value ....

The Left Chapter
Apr 16, 20255 min read


Macedonia’s Foreign Policy Between Two Suns
Mickoski speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) -- Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of...
Michael Laxer
Mar 14, 20255 min read


What Will US Wars Look Like in Trump's Hands?
The team that Trump has assembled seems to offer some hope for an end to fighting in Ukraine, but little to none for peace in the Middle...
Michael Laxer
Nov 13, 20247 min read


The Ugly Anti-Black Racism at the Heart of Trump's Attacks on Haitian Immigrants
One of the key lessons of the events in Springfield is that this type of hatred doesn’t just hurt the intended target, but whole...
Michael Laxer
Sep 29, 20243 min read
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