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NDP backs aggressive NATO MAP expansion into Ukraine
The federal NDP, which once called for Canada to leave NATO, is now going all-in on the imperialist alliance advocating for its...
Michael Laxer
Apr 16, 20212 min read
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"Playing politics" with sick days
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's claim that unions and progressives calling for proper sick days in the province are "playing politics" is...
Michael Laxer
Apr 8, 20213 min read
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The federal NDP's "free tuition" pledge is much ado about literally nothing
Singh announces student "debt relief" plan, March 20, 2021 - video screenshot I will give Jagmeet Singh credit for one thing: He has...
Michael Laxer
Mar 30, 20212 min read
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Niki Ashton turns the tables on Twitter
NDP MP Niki Ashton takes aim at the Broadbent Institute and her critics in a truly splendid Twitter "touché" moment. Image via You Tube...
Michael Laxer
Mar 13, 20212 min read
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Broadbent Institute Executive Director fires twitter broadside at Corbyn, Ashton and Robinson
Rick Smith, Jeremy Corbyn and Niki Ashton Broadbent Institute Executive Director Rick Smith took some time out from his schedule today to...
Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20212 min read
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Courage statement shows, yet again, why fighting for a left agenda in the NDP is futile
Resolutionary socialism was a waste of time in 2013 and it still is now. Screenshot from the 2018 NDP convention In the least surprising...
Michael Laxer
Feb 3, 20213 min read
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Forget hypocritical personal trips, the CEWS scandal is far worse
While it is perfectly understandable that Canadians are upset at the hypocrisy of individual politicians, the boondoggle that is the CEWS...
Michael Laxer
Jan 3, 20215 min read
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2020: The year in review on The Left Chapter
It is hard to overstate how momentous a year 2020 was. Among so many other events, it was the year of the Black Lives Matter uprisings,...
Michael Laxer
Jan 3, 20216 min read
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Notley's Quisling New Year
Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley winds up 2020 by asking for everyone "to come to the table" to help craft the NDP economic recovery...
Michael Laxer
Dec 31, 20204 min read
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Snapshots from the pandemic class war in Canada
As the year ends the rich are not only getting richer, they are doing so so brazenly at the expense of everyone else that they obviously...
Michael Laxer
Dec 23, 20205 min read
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Taxing the billionaire class is nowhere near enough
Building a "fairer" capitalism is an illusion. The most important thing any of us can do to begin a serious fight to end inequality and...
Michael Laxer
Dec 2, 20207 min read
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NDP and Greens back Trumpian Conservative motion on China
Progressives should not be supporting a Conservative motion tinged with anticommunism and Cold War style nationalism that could have been...
Michael Laxer
Nov 18, 20203 min read
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A Green-NDP merger makes perfect sense...but not for the left
Any clearheaded analysis makes it obvious that for a real anti-capitalist, left movement a Green-NDP merger is irrelevant. As is...
Michael Laxer
Oct 16, 20205 min read
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Does the Green Party Haddad fiasco point to a greater malaise?
It might not be just the ideology of the party at stake in the leadership contest, but its self-professed internal culture. After being...
Michael Laxer
Sep 25, 20203 min read
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