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For Peace and Socialism!: Red Review #47 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Swaziland, the Philippines, the USA, Canada, India, the UK, the DPRK and elsewhere. There is also an extensive special...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 202225 min read
Putting the Chrystia Freeland photo in its broader context
Canada's Deputy PM and her defenders claim "Russian disinformation" after she is photographed holding a far right scarf. This is not the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 4, 20223 min read
The west's hypocrisy and history of violence matters. Calling it out is not "whataboutism".
Opposing NATO, US and western imperialism, aggression, hypocrisy and warmongering is always a must and a duty of every leftist in the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 3, 20224 min read
Forcing people to take political stances based on nationality is wrong. Period.
A The Left Chapter Editorial. Players from the 2007-2008 Stanley Cup Champion Detroit Red Wings with war criminal George W. Bush Since...
Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20223 min read
No to War! No to NATO! No to Imperialism!
A look at events leading up to and around the Russian military intervention in Ukraine including a joint statement of Communist and...
Michael Laxer
Feb 24, 20225 min read
Red Review #45 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Haiti, Cuba, Bolivia, the USA, Canada, Australia, France, the DPRK and elsewhere. There is also a special section related...
Michael Laxer
Feb 20, 202215 min read
"I would like to see some proof": AP reporter challenges State Department's alleged Russia "intel"
In a long overdue, must see moment, on February 3 Associated Press reporter Matt Lee took State Department Spokesperson Ned Price to task...
Michael Laxer
Feb 4, 20221 min read
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
Feb 3, 20223 min read
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 24, 20224 min read
Open letter & petition call on Trudeau gov't to "de-escalate the conflict between Russia and NATO"
The Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and a number of other organizations have released an open letter and launched a petition in...
Michael Laxer
Jan 19, 20223 min read
US claims about Russian "aggression" are a hypocritical farce
If you read almost any of the western mainstream media you would have basically no idea that there is a lot more to the ongoing situation...
Michael Laxer
Dec 8, 20213 min read
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
Sacrifice at Krasnodon - February 9, 1943
Monument to the Young Guards in Krasnodon -- erected in the Ukrainian SSR, 1954 On February 9, 1943, five heroic leaders and partisans of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #350
Tatra tram cars on Lenin Ave., Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #350
Michael Laxer
Dec 19, 20201 min read
Shuliavka Workers' Republic Proclaimed, Kiev December 11, 1905
Soviet stamp celebrating the 60th anniversary of 1905 On December 11, 1905 the Shuliavka Workers' Republic was proclaimed by the Council...
Michael Laxer
Dec 11, 20201 min read
The Zaporozhets ZAZ "Little King of the Big Road"
1967 Soviet advertisement for the Zaporozhets ZAZ aimed at the Canadian market. The ZAZ was the export model of this sturdy car built in...
Michael Laxer
Oct 26, 20201 min read
17 Postcard Images of Lviv, USSR 1974
In the 70s Lviv was an industrial, administrative and cultural centre in the Ukrainian SSR popular with tourists due to its historic city...
Michael Laxer
Oct 3, 20201 min read
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