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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


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 2, 20213 min read


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


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 2, 20216 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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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