May Day 2013
LABOUR AND PEOPLE’S UNITY CAN DEFEAT AUSTERITY May Day 2013 message from the Communist Party of Canada On May Day, the International Workers’ Day, the Communist Party of Canada extends warmest solidarity to all those in struggle against capitalist austerity and war. The systemic crisis of capitalism in Canada and internationally continues to deepen, reflected [...]
People’s Voice Editorial The latest example of employer abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program give new reason to abolish the TFWP. The situation is under official review, but it seems that either RBC Investor Services in Toronto, and/or the iGATE Corp. transnational, have violated the terms of the TFWP, which bans the replacement of [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial The New Democratic Party’s retreat towards “qualified support” for the Canada‑European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is raising serious concerns within the trade union movement, and rightly so. As OFL President Sid Ryan wrote recently, “this particular trade deal is being negotiated in secret and in the interest of multinational [...]
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Central Women’s Commission, Communist Party of Canada March 8 is a day to honour women’s struggles, take stock of hard‑won gains, and to demand full equality. This year, International Women’s Day comes amidst inspiring new struggles. Working people around the world, particularly in Europe, continue their huge struggles against austerity measures. In Canada we saw [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial The latest sign of the drive to privatize anything that moves is the impending service cuts at Canada Post. According to the big business media, the crown corporation operates at a loss, so the only solution is to close more outlets, reduce deliveries (possibly to just three days a week), consolidate sorting [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial The announcement by NDP leader Thomas Mulcair that his party is “very open” to a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union is a betrayal of the movements resisting the “free trade” blitz to allow corporations to shift investments freely across borders. Trade unions, environmentalists, the Council of Canadians, [...]
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37th Central Convention of the Communist Party of Canada Draft Main Political Resolution Submissions and opinions about the Communist Party’s documents are welcome from everyone, not just members, clubs and committees. We encourage readers to please download the full document, including the call to the convention, in PDF form here: 37th Central Convention Discussion no. [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial As 2012 comes to an end, revolutionary and progressive activists have much to reflect upon. This was the fourth full calendar year of the global economic crisis which erupted in the fall of 2008, and there is no end on the horizon for 2013. Everywhere in the “developed” capitalist world, austerity is [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial Across the planet, the tide of popular anger against “austerity” policies keeps rising. Some of the most publicised examples are in Europe, where huge general strikes and demonstrations have spread to many countries. The European working class and its allies are turning their fire not just on government cutbacks and attacks on [...]
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PV Manitoba Bureau On September 29, Winnipeg’s Ukrainian Labour Temple finally received a plaque marking it as a National Historic Site. Close to one hundred people attended the unveiling ceremony which included performances by the hall’s orchestra and choir. The ULT and its manor continue to play an active role in Winnipeg’s progressive community, including [...]
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PV Ontario Bureau Communist Party (Ontario) leader Liz Rowley will be travelling across the province in October, campaigning at public meetings and in the streets against Bill 115 and the austerity measures introduced by the McGuinty government to attack free collective bargaining, cut jobs and wages, erode education and healthcare, and sell off public assets. [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial Ontario’s McGuinty Liberal government is preparing to recall the Legislature to impose an “emergency” two year wage freeze and benefit cuts on teachers and educational workers, despite the fact that negotiations continue with no signs of any imminent work stoppage. As usual, bargaining between School Boards and the unions will continue if [...]
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Commentary from the Central Trade Union Commission, Communist Party of Canada In January of this year, the Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) launched a discussion paper, “A Moment of Truth for Canadian Unions”, meant to make public and transparent their merger talks. It is interesting [...]
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For a single, secular, quality public school system in Ontario Kitchener-Waterloo Communists have nominated provincial party leader Elizabeth Rowley to contest the Sept. 6 by‑election in that riding. Rowley, who was an East York Public School Trustee during the Mike Harris years, told campaign supporters at an August 15 event in Kitchener that the Liberals [...]
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Bill 78 is a dangerous club to beat the people! The adoption of Bill 78, May 18, 2012 by the corrupt and reactionary government of Jean Charest (with the support of the ultra‑right party, Coalition Avenir Québec or CAQ), will go down in Canada and Québec`s history as one of the most serious attacks against [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial There are a variety of explanations for the neoliberal agenda which continues to drive working people into poverty, credit card debt, homelessness and despair – and for the best way to reverse this attack. The latest moves by the Harper Tories offer a good example of this debate. The federal government’s changes [...]
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Here are some of the most draconian sections of Bill 78, the Charest Liberal government’s legislation against the Québec student strikers. Section 16 says the police must be informed eight hours in advance and in writing about any demonstration, including the duration and route of the protests, for actions larger than 50 or more people. [...]
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For free education and a general political strike! Resolution of the Central Committee, Communist Party of Canada Since early February, college and university students across Québec have been confronting the Charest Liberal government’s attack on accessible education with a magnificent and historic student strike that has rocked the province. The student strike has been marked [...]
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Solidarity message from the Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada Organized labour in Canada is under attack legislatively and economically, blackmailed by strike and lockout. Two and three tier levels of wages, benefits and pensions are being forced on workers under the bludgeon of lockout and forced strikes. There has not been a major [...]
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Tract diffusé par le PCQ-PCC à la manifestation du Jour de la Terre le 22 avril 2012, à Montréal La lutte du mouvement étudiant québécois contre la hausse des droits de scolarité s’engage maintenant dans une onzième semaine de grève. Impliquant à son zénith jusqu’à 310 000 étudiantes et étudiants en même temps, la grève [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial It has been said that government budgets are a form of congealed class war between workers and bosses. In recent years, governments have squeezed working people to pay for an economic crisis worsened by corporate greed. The result in all capitalist countries has been a wider gap between rich and poor, and [...]
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Bill 22: an assault on collective bargaining, an attack on youth! Statement of the B.C. Committee, Communist Party of Canada, Feb. 29, 2012 The Communist Party condemns Bill 22 as an assault on collective bargaining, a degradation of the judicial system and a threat to democracy in British Columbia. In one stroke this failed and [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial As this issue goes to press on March 6, 41,000 British Columbia Teachers Federation members are on the picket lines. The outcome remains in the balance, but for the second time in seven years, this courageous union has stood up against the corrupt, pro-corporate gang of Liberal bullies in Victoria. We salute [...]
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From the Public Sector Workers Club of the Communist Party (Ontario) On March 21 progressive people the world over will observe the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On that day, in 1960, police of the South African Apartheid regime opened fire and killed 69 unarmed children, women and men at a peaceful [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial With the next federal budget looming, the question must be asked: will the Harper Tories put jobs or profits first? The so-called “recovery” from the crisis of 2007-08 is sputtering to a halt across the capitalist world, including in Canada. Yes, stock prices and corporate revenues have rebounded, but the ominous signs [...]
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