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How Student Loans Became America’s Financial Catastrophe
From hopeful beginnings to a broken system, student loans reveal how policy choices turned higher learning into a lifelong financial...

The Left Chapter
Sep 1414 min read


Where's the Outrage Over Labor Leader Chris Smalls' Violent Arrest by the IDF?
Despite Smalls having been profiled by every major media outlet in the U.S. when he successfully led the union drive at Amazon, not a...

The Left Chapter
Jul 293 min read


ALBA-TCP and Cuba condemn new Trump aggression against the socialist nation
The Trump administration is seeking to further intensify the already crippling, illegal economic blockade against Cuba. This blockade has...

The Left Chapter
Jul 24 min read


What Will It Take to End Trump’s ICE Raids?
Our reliance on armed agents of the state has led to fascism. The only way out is to abolish policing and militarism. An ICE operation in...

The Left Chapter
Jun 247 min read


Let’s Get Child Labor Off Our Dinner Plates
From agriculture to restaurants, more and more food in the United States is produced by child labor. That’s putting whole communities at...

The Left Chapter
Jun 123 min read


New Spider-Man Sequence: One Second Closer to Doomsday?
89 seconds to midnight announcement, January 28, 2025 -- image via video screenshot By Biljana Vankovska In 2022, I was invited to...

The Left Chapter
Jun 44 min read


Marshal Zelenskyy’s High Noon
May 10 in Ukraine -- Number 10, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska The past few days have felt like a decisive chapter...

The Left Chapter
May 134 min read


Trump’s Address to Congress Highlights the Absence of Opposition
The relentless resistance that defined Trump’s first term has faded into an unsettling quiet. A perfect storm of factors has granted him...
Michael Laxer
Mar 116 min read


Carney caps the faux Canadian nationalist charge
The left in Canada must reject the faux Canadian nationalism of neo-liberal politicians like Mark Carney as well as its outdated "left"...
Michael Laxer
Mar 115 min read


US organizations DAWN and CODEPINK call for ICC to investigate Biden, Blinken, and Austin
Blinken, Biden and Austin in March, 2024 -- public domain image Two US based organizations -- Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) and...
Michael Laxer
Mar 23 min read


Why Education Reformers Will Find a Home in the Trump Administration
Trump’s inclination to mix policymaking with business deals and profiteering is an ideal situation for education reformers like his...
Michael Laxer
Feb 1612 min read


Develop the struggle for peace and internationalist solidarity against aggressive imperialism: Portuguese Communist Party
Public domain image of Donald Trump on February 9, 2025 The Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), met on February 8...
Michael Laxer
Feb 125 min read


Washington’s Fantasy of a War Against China
Public domain image By Vijay Prashad The fragility of U.S. power was clear when a small Chinese startup released the DeepSeek machine...
Michael Laxer
Feb 55 min read


The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia condemns the shameful actions of U.S. imperialism against Cuba
Statement: The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia condemns the shameful actions of U.S. imperialism against Cuba The New Communist Party...
Michael Laxer
Jan 282 min read


President Trump’s first 24 hours
On day one of this presidency, Trump signed a flurry of executive orders. What are they, do they have staying power, and what do they...
Michael Laxer
Jan 275 min read


Greek and Spanish Communists denounce Cuba's reinstatement on bogus US "terror" list
Both the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and Communist Party of Spain (PCE) are strongly condemning the decision of the incoming Trump...
Michael Laxer
Jan 232 min read


Communists in South Africa, Mexico and Croatia condemn Donald Trump's attack on Cuba
The South African Communist Party (SACP), the Communist Party of Mexico (CPM) and the Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia (SRP) are all...
Michael Laxer
Jan 225 min read


'There Are Bodies in the Streets:' Israel Launches Attack on Jenin
"There is no cease-fire for Palestinians," said Palestinian writer Yara Hawari. Israeli military bulldozers deploying in Jenin -- image...
Michael Laxer
Jan 212 min read


My Community Will Remember the Biden Administration for One Thing: Genocide
In less than a year, more than a dozen U.S. officials publicly resigned in protest of Biden's policy on Israel-Palestine. I was one of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 203 min read


Gaza Cease-Fire Takes Effect After Deadly Three-Hour Delay
Israeli forces killed at least 19 Palestinians during the delay, on top of nearly 47,000 others slaughtered since October 2023....
Michael Laxer
Jan 193 min read
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