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People’s Voice editorial Courageous and inspiring Idle No More mobilizations continue across Canada and in many other countries, proving that the racist, genocidal status quo will no longer be tolerated. In fact, indigenous peoples have growing support in their opposition to the Harper government’s destructive agenda. Yet (with some honourable exceptions) the corporate media largely [...]
Resolution adopted by the Central Committee, Communist Party of Canada, December 15‑16, 2012, Toronto On December 10, the United Nations International Human Rights Day, Aboriginal peoples took to the streets by the thousands, in cities and towns across Canada. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada sends our deepest solidarity to the “Idle [...]
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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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Meeting on December 16, 2012, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada strongly condemned the conviction and sentencing of student leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, on a charge of contempt of court, by Quebec superior court Justice Denis Jacques. Nadeau-Dubois is the former co-spokesperson of the Coalition large de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante [...]
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Réuni le 16 décembre 2012, le Comité central du Parti communiste du Canada a fermement condamné la déclaration de culpabilité et la condamnation prononcée par le juge Jacques Denis de la Cour supérieure du Québec, contre le leader étudiant , pour une accusation d’outrage au tribunal. Nadeau-Dubois est l’ancien co-porte-parole de la Coalition large de l’Association pour une [...]
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“Build the Revolution!” Solidarity with the Idle No More movement The Communist Party of Canada welcomes the upsurge in protests by Aboriginal peoples, which is forcing everyone in Canada to understand the way our country is truly made; that in Canada, Aboriginal nations live in conditions of inequality and intolerable injustice and impoverishment. Nations [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial Relegated to the back pages by the mainstream corporate media, Canada’s 2011 electoral scandal continues to unfold. The Council of Canadians, for example, has given support to a court case challenging the results in seven ridings which saw extensive reports of electoral fraud and voter suppression. This case is scheduled to be heard [...]
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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. [...]
Continue reading …People’s Voice Editorial The case of “security certificate” detainee Mohammad Mahjoub proves the need to defend civil rights for all in Canada, regardless of our origins or beliefs. For 12 years, Mr. Mahjoub has been struggling to clear his name against shadowy accusations by the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service. Most of that time he [...]
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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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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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L’adoption de la loi 78, le 18 mai 2012, par le gouvernement corrompu de Jean Charest, appuyé par la Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ), restera connue comme l’une des plus graves attaques contre les libertés civiles, les droits fondamentaux et la démocratie en général de toute l’histoire du Québec. Le Parti communiste du Québec appelle les [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial Just two years ago, the Harper Tories killed the long form census, arguing that the government has no right to gather personal information about Canadians. Today, they demand the ability to read our private email. The Tories try to spin every issue for their political benefit, whether that means “defending privacy” or [...]
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Block the Tory anti-aboriginal agenda Statement by the Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada The news of shocking living standards in Aboriginal communities such as Attawapiskat, where deteriorating housing conditions have forced members of that northern Ontario community to survive in tents for many months, reveals yet again the genocidal impact of Canadian racism [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial The revelations of appalling living standards in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat tell us more about the genocidal nature of Canadian racism and colonialism than about any so-called “failures” of aboriginal leaders. For many years, Aboriginal groups have told Canadians about abysmal housing, lack of clean drinking water, high unemployment [...]
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PV Commentary As many activists have pointed out, the Occupy movement continues to have a huge political impact, even though most of the tent cities have been removed by the ruling class. Beyond the matter of who decides where poor people can live and protest, the issues posed by Occupy remain: what is the source [...]
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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 [...]
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This weekend occupation actions took place in over twenty six communities from coast to coast across Canada, in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement. People’s Voice Newspaper editorial To paraphrase the famous Russian Nikolai Chernyshevsky, the road to revolution takes many unexpected twists and turns. Who could have predicted a year ago that Tunisia [...]
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The Communist Party is considering legal action, including a complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal regarding Toronto City Councillor George Mammoliti’s witch-hunting at City Hall, and his attack on the public’s right to free political expression and association – rights guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Mammoliti is a member of Mayor [...]
Continue reading …COMMUNIST PARTY CANDIDATE DREW GARVIE CONDEMNS MARTY BURKE’S RACIST COMMENTS TOWARDS ABORIGINAL PEOPLES “I am appalled by Marty Burke blaming Aboriginal peoples in their struggle against forced impoverishment and Canada’s colonial legacy,” Drew Garvie said today. “The Conservative candidate let his true colour show when he clearly implied that Aboriginal communities are misspending funding and [...]
Continue reading …HOUSING IS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT, BUT REMAINS IN STATE OF CRISIS ACROSS CANADA Communist Party leader Miguel Figueroa has unveiled the CPC’s housing platform, including the call for an immediate and massive campaign to build thousands of publicly-owned social, cooperative and non-profit housing units, and to repair and upgrade existing stock. “Right across the [...]
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. [...]
Continue reading …People’s Voice Editorial The Conservative strategy of appearing as champions of “law and order”, careful spending and open government took a direct hit on April 11, with the release of a “bombshell” confidential report from Auditor‑General Sheila Fraser about “pork‑barrel largesse, dubious spending and misinforming Parliament.” Whether the pro-Tory corporate media will use this news [...]
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Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada October 22, 2010 The latest revelations regarding the “PROFUNC” blacklist prove that the Cold War era witch-hunt tactics included highly organized plans to intern thousands of Communists and other critics of the anti-democratic, anti-working class, pro-war policies of the Canadian state. When evidence of this plot first [...]
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