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Michael Laxer
May 6, 20243 min read
'Unlawful and Catastrophic': IDF Begins Forced Evacuation of Rafah
The head of one humanitarian group called the Israeli military's directives "a serious violation of international law." Smoke from an...
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Michael Laxer
May 3, 20245 min read
Student Demands for Divestment Are Not New
There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and...
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Michael Laxer
May 3, 20245 min read
The Older Generation of Politicians Can’t Stop the American Intifada
Millions of Americans are clearly fed up, with war, with their government’s allegiance to a foreign country, to militarism, to police...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 27, 20243 min read
Campus Activism for Gaza Ignites
Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University on the night of April 24 -- screenshot image via X By Saurav Sarkar Students at more...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 202410 min read
A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun
Amaury Laporte, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By Richard D. Wolff By “class system” we...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 11, 20244 min read
As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty Like Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
We urge anyone who reads this to publicly oppose sending weapons to Israel as long as this onslaught continues. By Feroze Sidhwa & Mark...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 3, 20243 min read
Western Warlords Welcome Israeli Investigation Into IDF War Crimes
By Gabriel Haythornthwaite Now we see what balance looks like to the American Axis as the Israeli crucifixion of Gaza nears its 6-month...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 27, 20244 min read
On the Side of the Cuban Revolution! - Statements from Slovakia, Ireland and the Sao Paulo Forum
Cubans rally for May Day in Havana, 2018 -- image via X Communist parties in Slovakia and Ireland as well as the Working Group of the...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 25, 20246 min read
Europe Sleepwalks Through Its Own Dilemmas
Soldiers of NATO’s multinational enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup training with the 1st Estonian Infantry Brigade during Estonia’s...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 23, 20245 min read
Here’s Why You Can’t Afford an Electric Car
The U.S. is aggressively keeping cheap Chinese-made EVs off the market. We are all paying the price for this protectionism. BYD Seagull...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 18, 20242 min read
ALBA-TCP denounces US destabilization attempts against Cuba
Image via the Communist Party of Cuba The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) has...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 14, 20247 min read
Venezuela’s Election in the Crosshairs of New U.S. Regime Change Scheme
As Venezuela prepares to head to the polls in July, the U.S. has already started drumming up suspicion and doubt around the electoral...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 14, 20247 min read
Exit of Victoria Nuland Presents Opportunity for Peace in Ukraine
The imperative must be to chart a path back from this hopeless but ever-escalating war of attrition to the negotiating table that the...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20241 min read
Biden Delivers State of the Union Speech While Under Fire for Supporting Genocide
Image via NYC DSA on X By Global News Service US President Joe Biden’s unwavering support for Israeli genocide in Gaza has earned him the...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20243 min read
State of the Union: War and Genocide Are Still the American Way
.Peace cannot be found in the endless military packages but in the corridors of diplomacy and peace talks, where dialogue and negotiation...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 8, 20242 min read
Five Gazans Killed by US Aid Airdrops as Biden Faces Backlash Over 'Gimmicks'
The U.S. has been airdropping humanitarian assistance as Israel impedes and attacks aid convoys on the ground. Screenshot of video of the...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20245 min read
Empire Decline and Costly Delusions
President of Russia Vladimir Putin and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping, March 2023 -- Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 4, 20245 min read
The Remarkable Decline in the Global North’s Leadership
Image via news video screenshot By Vijay Prashad A group of young people in Paris are enjoying a drink in a café on an unseasonably warm...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 4, 20247 min read
Theatre of Cruelty—And Its Double: From Aaron Bushnell to Biden's Gaza Airdrop
The real purpose of this spectacle was to deliver votes for the president, not meals for the starving. Mourners at a vigil for Aaron...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 1, 20245 min read
On March 2, the World Will March to Stop Israel’s Genocidal Assault on Rafah
Israel is threatening to carry out a full-scale invasion of Rafah, a tiny section of Gaza where 1.5 million Palestinians are now packed,...
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