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The Left and Breaching Capitalism’s Digital Fortress
Slippery slope302, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Rezgar Akrawi The battle for socialist liberation in the twenty-first century cannot be fought with the weapons of the last century. In an era in which algorithms hold sway, in which the influence of artificial intelligence over media, culture, education, and labor continues to expand, and in which economic policies and strategies are formulated on the basis of big data and algorithmic analysis, the left finds itself conf

The Left Chapter
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For a better life! For equality! For peace, cooperation, social progress! -- European Communist parties release joint appeal
Communist Party of Britain flags -- image via the Communist Party of Britain With elections to the European Parliament set for June 6-9,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 16, 20249 min read


The Construction of Socialism -- The LPP on socialist nationalization, 1952
The Communist Party of Canada on the difference between capitalist and socialist nationalization. Socialist Canada -- Illustration for...
Michael Laxer
May 21, 20215 min read


Castro speaks to the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, 1980
"We still have a long way to go and many problems to solve as we build socialism, but history has already shown that our ideas are far...
Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20214 min read


In Memory of James Laxer, 22 December 1941 – 23 February 2018
On the anniversary of the death of James Laxer we share some remembrances and reflections on his remarkable life and legacy in Canadian...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20212 min read


Socialism and profit
An excerpt from Profit and "Profits", article by Soviet economist Evsei Liberman, Soviet Union Today 1966 Profit is the difference...
Michael Laxer
Nov 24, 20202 min read


Soviet socialism and the war recovery
History shows that after the almost unreal sacrifices and blows of the war and the distortions to Soviet society these led to, the...
Michael Laxer
Sep 26, 20206 min read
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