Discussion Documents
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. [...]
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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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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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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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is the co‑spokesperson of la CLASSE ‑ Coalition Large of ASSE, one of the key sections of the Québec student strike movement. A student at the University of Québec at Montréal (UQAM), he was elected Secretary for Communications ASSE in April 2010, and became co‑spokesperson of the CLASSE, with Jeanne Reynolds, later that [...]
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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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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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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 [...]
Continue reading …250,000 students and allies hit the streets for the historic March 22nd mass protest. Photo by Paul Lamontaine People’s Voice Students in Québec have stepped‑up their escalating strike action for accessible education, with a massive demonstration of over 250,000 people on March 22. The mobilization far exceeded the expectations of organizers, creating a human [...]
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Comité exécutif national Parti communiste du Québec English here Le Parti communiste du Québec (section du Parti communiste du Canada) dénonce la création de l’escouade GAMMA (Guet des activités et des mouvements marginaux et anarchistes) qui relève de la division du crime organisé du Service de police de la ville de Montréal et exige des [...]
Continue reading …PV Montreal Bureau, July 31 At the end of June, a new squad of the Montreal police swept down and arrested four well‑known activists. By mid‑July, four more activists, this time student leaders, had also been taken into custody. The new squad - Guet des activités des movements marginaux et anarchistes, or GAMMA (which translates as Surveillance Marginal Movements and Anarchists) – has the labour movement, [...]
Continue reading …The Communist Party today announced that it will be running four candidates in Québec in a concentrated strategy on Montréal ridings. The candidates, who have all been nominated and designated by the Returning Officer, are: Bill Sloan, Westmount – Ville-Marie Marianne Breton Fontaine, Hochelaga Sylvian Archambault, Laurier – Ste-Marie Johan Boyden, Outremont The party will [...]
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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Déclaration conjointe du PCC-CPC et du PCQ Le 15 juillet 2005 Il y a quelques mois, une crise avait surgi au sein de la direction du Parti communiste du Québec (PCQ), section québécoise du Parti communiste du Canada (PCC-CPC) et s’était développée. Des frictions et des querelles avaient d’abord augmenté en fréquence et en intensité [...]
Continue reading …Joint Statement of the Central Executive Committee CPC, National Executive Committee of the PCQ July15, 2005 In recent months, an ever-widening crisis emerged within the ranks of the leadership of the Parti communiste du Québec (PCQ), the Québec section of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC-PCC). Friction and squabbles between leading comrades grew in frequency [...]
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One of the biggest student actions in Canadian history continues in Québec, in opposition to replacing student grants with huge tuition hikes. Currently there are no tuition fees for colleges in Québec, and university tuition rates have been frozen for 31 of the past 36 years. At its peak in mid-March, an estimated 230,000 post-secondary [...]
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Statement by the Central Executive Committee Communist Party of Canada The Chrétien government’s so-called “clarity” legislation has been hailed by many in English-speaking Canada as a way to preserve Canadian unity by “getting tough” with separatism. But in reality, this new bill would use Ottawa’s federal authority to run roughshod over the rights of the [...]
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Central Executive Committee Communist Party of Canada January 10, 2000 The Chrétien government’s so-called “clarity” legislation has been hailed by many in English-speaking Canada as a way to preserve Canadian unity by “getting tough” with separatism. But in reality, this new bill would use Ottawa’s federal authority to run roughshod over the rights of the [...]
Continue reading …By Miguel Figueroa, Leader of the Communist Party of Canada, Dec 3-5 1999, Montréal Québec Dear Comrades, Delegates, Invited Guests, Friends and Observers: The convening of this Congress, without doubt, marks an important event in the history of our Party in Québec, a history about which we can be justly proud. The PCQ was [...]
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Federal Tory leader Jean Charest announced on March 26 that he will seek the Québec Liberal leadership. People’s Voice Newspaper asked Communist Party leader Miguel Figueroa for his views on this situation. Jean Charest is set to move into Québec politics. What impact will this have on the coming Québec elections and the deepening “crisis [...]
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