The Left Chapter's editor Michael Laxer talks about why Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew's "Epstein Class" rhetoric is a problem and its not because it is antisemitic. It is not. But what it is is a fake liberal "radicalism" that diverts attention away from the real enemy which is the entire capitalist class and the capitalist system. There is no conspiracy. The "conspiracy" is right out in the open and it is capitalism itself. If we want to end war we must oppose capitalism and th

The Left Chapter's editor Michael Laxer looks at the undemocratic sham that is Canada's NDP leadership race and discusses why he thinks that even if Avi Lewis wins tomorrow (which is likely) the party's right wing, anti-democratic nature will not change in any significant way.

The Left Chapter's editor Michael Laxer discusses how it is impossible to oppose US and western imperialism, adventurism and militarism without also opposing NATO both at home and abroad.

The Left Chapter's editor Michael Laxer looks at the US and Israeli war on Iran (which they are losing), the necessity of international solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and the NDP's "leadership" race in Canada.

The amazing shrinking federal NDP is the fallout from a deepening rightwing political consensus the party signed onto long ago. Lori Idlout endorsing Avi Lewis -- image via the Avi Lewis campaign on Facebook By Gabriel Haythornthwaite The Ides of March came a little early to Ottawa this year with the defection of Nunavut MP Lori Idlout from the NDP to the Mark Carney Liberals on March 11. That day, as the banker-PM paraded the newly minted Liberal MP Idlout to a caucus meetin

Cartoon via Countercurrents By Gabriel Haythornthwaite In the early morning hours of January 3rd 2026, Trump America launched a sneak attack on Venezuela after months of annihilationist threats, murderous bombings, full-on blockade and high seas piracy. Headlined by an aerial bombardment of Caracas, the capital, an elite American death squad unit succeeded in taking Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro--and his wife, Cilia Flores--hostage and spirited them swiftly to New York

By C. J. Atkins, People's World MONTREAL—“This is a city whose history has, to no small degree, been written by Communists,” declared Communist Party of Canada leader Liz Rowley as the 41st Central Convention of the party opened in Montreal, Quebec, on Dec. 5. It’s the hometown of the famed Dr. Norman Bethune, who first proposed a public healthcare system for Canada and died in China offering his medical expertise to the revolution there. “It’s where the Communist Party of Qu

The first part of a two part analysis. Trump and Carney at the G7 meeting in Canada, June 16, 2025 -- public domain image By Gabriel...

By Michael Laxer Calling on Canadians to "Join the Fight for Fundamental Change" the Communist Party of Canada is fielding a slate of 24...

The left in Canada must reject the faux Canadian nationalism of neo-liberal politicians like Mark Carney as well as its outdated "left"...

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Dignified, affordable housing for working people provided by the government with constitutional guarantees. Leftists in the west should...

Image via X screenshot By Michael Laxer In a deeply cynical move, Manitoba NDP premier Wab Kinew is calling for Canada to fast track the...

In a telling social democratic turn of events, after rather shamefully leading Finland away from its post-WWII neutrality -- which flowed...

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"...

Watkins explains the Waffle alternative, January 1972 Report in the "Pro Tem" student newspaper from the Glendon campus of York...

It is amazing how when it comes to what are likely isolated crime incidents the media and police propaganda responses are truly always...

Chris Smalls speaks 2022 is done and what a complicated year it was. There was the imperialist war in Ukraine, the uprising in...

Just when you think the ongoing farce that is the NDP in Canada could not possibly get anymore laughable, news comes that the...