Michael Laxer
Reinforcing reaction: Quislings Starmer and Singh the progressive label on the capitalist boot
In a telling social democratic turn of events, after rather shamefully leading Finland away from its post-WWII neutrality -- which flowed...
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Michael Laxer
- Feb 16
- 1 min
New York Times reports on the defeat of the Waffle, 1971
New York Times reports on the defeat of the Waffle, 1971 The New York Times reports (April 26, 1971) on the victory of the "moderate"...
Michael Laxer
- Feb 8
- 1 min
Watkins explains the Waffle alternative
Watkins explains the Waffle alternative, January 1972 Report in the "Pro Tem" student newspaper from the Glendon campus of York...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 29
- 9 min
Don't buy the police propaganda campaign in Toronto
It is amazing how when it comes to what are likely isolated crime incidents the media and police propaganda responses are truly always...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 2
- 7 min
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
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
Fun and games in NDP land as Sask party ghosts Singh & Singh still pretends no coalition with Libs
Just when you think the ongoing farce that is the NDP in Canada could not possibly get anymore laughable, news comes that the...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 26, 2022
- 7 min
On the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of the Waffle
James Laxer during the 1971 federal leadership convention. June 24, marked the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of the Waffle from the...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 23, 2022
- 2 min
Could the federal NDP and its apologists please stop with the bullshit
At what point will the federal NDP and its apologists admit what everyone else can see: the NDP has entered into a de facto coalition...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 28, 2022
- 9 min
Red Review #50 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Swaziland, Serbia, Canada, Greece, Cuba, Bolivia, the UK and elsewhere. There are also a number of updates related to the...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 24, 2022
- 7 min
Dull and duller: The NDP's totally predictable capitulation to the Liberals
It has been interesting to watch the reaction to the coalitionesque agreement reached between the Liberals and the NDP on March 22 over...
Michael Laxer
- Feb 22, 2022
- 4 min
Reflections on the convoy, the Left and the rise of the far right in Canada
The widespread joy and approval by liberals, social democrats and "progressives" of the use of the Emergency Act by the Trudeau...
Michael Laxer
- Feb 8, 2022
- 10 min
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 3, 2022
- 3 min
Green Party Ukraine statement far better than the NDP's
For the last few election cycles many have argued that what was the rising Green Party was at least as "progressive" as the supposedly...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 24, 2022
- 4 min
NDP statement on Ukraine is predictably awful
Image via Twitter The NDP has gotten around to issuing a statement on the situation regarding Ukraine and it is predictably disingenuous...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 1, 2022
- 6 min
2021: The year in review on The Left Chapter
2021 is done and what a year it was. Along the way we saw momentous victories for the left in Kerala, Chile, Peru, Honduras and...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 12, 2021
- 7 min
Starbucks US union first: Red Review #35 -- International Left and Labour News
The thirty-fifth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from the US, Australia, the UK, Nepal,...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
ONDP accused of being up to its old anti-democratic tricks
Members of the ONDP's Scarborough Centre riding association executive are alleging some serious shenanigans are going on with the...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 25, 2021
- 2 min
The BC NDP's disgraceful week
It is hard to get one's mind around the last week in the life of John Horgan's right-wing NDP government. Needless-to-say a variety of...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 21, 2021
- 10 min
Indian farmers victorious: Red Review #32 -- International Left and Labour News
The thirty-second edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from India, Belarus, Nicaragua, Canada,...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 20, 2021
- 1 min
Federal NDP Wet’suwet’en statement is a masterclass in BS
The statement does not mention the BC NDP provincial government of John Horgan once, anywhere. Seriously. The NDP statement on the...
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