As the world burns
The rest of the planet watched nervously in early January as wildfires raged across Australia. Temperatures topped 50 degrees, forcing the country’s Bureau of Meteorology to add a new colour ‑ deep purple ‑ to show areas that shattered all-time heat records. Climate scientists say the fires and the heat are unprecedented in scale and [...]
People’s Voice Editorial The Idle No More movement has done all working people an enormous favour, by mobilizing popular anger against the pro-corporate Harper Tories. The slumbering leadership of the Canadian Labour Congress could certainly learn how to resist the neoliberal offensive, just by following the examples of Idle No More, the Quebec students, the [...]
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Le 10 Décembre, Journée internationale des droits humains de l’Organisation des Nations Unies, les peuples autochtones sont descendus par milliers dans les rues des villes et des villages du Canada. Le Comité central du Parti communiste du Canada exprime sa plus profonde solidarité avec le mouvement « Idle no more » qui a initié cette [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial Across the planet, ownership and control of natural resources – especially energy – is an urgent issue. U.S. imperialism and its allies are shifting their military might into the Middle East and Asian Pacific regions, largely to secure domination over such resources. The human cost is enormous, from those killed in the [...]
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Statement by the BC Provincial Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada, October 4, 2012 On October 22, thousands of people will gather at the Legislature in Victoria for a powerful protest against the corporate drive for more tar sands exports and tankers on the west coast. The Communist Party extends full solidarity to this courageous [...]
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Solidarity can block the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Statement by the Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada The Joint Review Panel hearings into the Enbridge Northern Gateway (ENG) pipeline have become a historic clash between two different visions for the future of Canada. On the one hand, the transnational energy monopolies and their [...]
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By Darrell Rankin, Winnipeg Unless a court overturns Bill C-18, the so-called “Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act”, the loss of the Canadian Wheat Board will be a heavy blow to prairie farmers, to all Canadians, and to the global food system. The millions who rely on grain imports are now more firmly in the [...]
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The Occupy movement: a powerful and liberating action Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada The expansion of Occupy Wall Street actions across North America is a welcome boost for the movement to check the power of transnational capital. The conscious decision to rise up together against corporate rule is a powerful and liberating [...]
Continue reading …Election 2011 – On earth day, CPC releases more detailed environmental policy
22/04/2011 Comments OffTo mark Earth Day, the Communist Party of Canada released a more detailed set of proposals designed to protect the environment. “The major opposition parties including the Green Party base their policies on “market-based” tinkering with the “real costs” of human economic activities. But the Communist Party argues that capitalism itself, a system based on [...]
Continue reading …Campaigning in Calgary today, Communist Party leader Miguel Figueroa reiterated the CPC’s “Energy Plan for People” which calls for the public ownership and democratic control of all energy and natural resources, closure of the Alberta tar sands, emergency measures to slash greenhouse gas emissions, and massive increases in urban mass transit. “Our world – and [...]
Continue reading …Our world – and our country – are entering a period of grave dangers, an era of potentially devastating climate changes, widespread hunger and chaos, all linked to the unchecked growth of fossil fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and wars to control oil reserves. In response, the Communist Party of Canada proposes far-sighted and radical [...]
Continue reading …People’s Voice Editorial The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has projected that global sea levels will rise at least 28 cm by the year 2100. But according to Dutch researchers, “regional variations” mean that cities such as New York and Vancouver face higher rises. Indeed, many scientists believe the IPCC’s figure is a huge under-estimate. [...]
Continue reading …1. Charge the real G20 criminals Chaos, brutality and waste marked the brutal repression during the G20 Summit last June in Toronto. Over 1100 people were arrested, for the “crime” of peacefully demonstrating for affordable housing, workers’ rights, an end to war and occupation, and environmental justice. This “security” operation cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion. [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial, Nov. 16, 2005 The setback for the Free Trade Area of the Americas at the recent Summit in Argentina was a tremendous victory. Why did thousands of working people travel to Mar del Plata to condemn the drive for the FTAA? Their reasons were many. Among the protesters were peasants and workers [...]
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Statement of the Central Executive Committee CPC, September 12, 2005 Several factors have brought the control of energy resources to the forefront in Canada, to a degree not seen since the debates over the National Energy Program in the 1980s. The role of oil in the US/UK war against Iraq; growing fears that the world is [...]
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Statement by the Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada, Jan. 8, 2005 All members and friends of the Communist Party of Canada have been shocked by the impact of the Dec. 26 tsunami on the coastal regions of the Indian Ocean. A natural calamity of such a magnitude, resulting in a staggering death toll [...]
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