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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 [...]
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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By Kimball Cariou, editor of People’s Voice Time may be running out for yet another U.S. war resister who faces deportation from Canada. On September 20, Kimberley Rivera, her husband Mario and their four young children, are scheduled to be sent to the U.S., where she faces a possible two to five years in a [...]
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Message from the Communist Party of Canada and the Young Communist League 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. The global Occupy Movement has exposed the growing income gap and political power disparity [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial This year, March 8th marks the beginning of a second century of International Women’s Day celebrations. Launched in Copenhagen by a conference of socialist women, IWD quickly became a key date on the calendar of working class and revolutionary movements. March 8th remains a day to measure successes on the path to [...]
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The Native Women’s Association of Canada has made public the issues of violence confronting Aboriginal women and girls through the research findings of the Sisters in Spirit Research Initiative, which showed concrete evidence that Aboriginal women and girls continue to be the highest risk group in Canada relating to violence. These research findings point directly [...]
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No Going Back: Defeat Harper’s Bigots! Pride 2011 statement from the Communist Party of Canada and the Young Communist League This summer, as the LGBTQ communities and their allies across Canada hold Pride events, there is much to celebrate, but also serious challenges. The Communist Party of Canada and the Young Communist League send warmest [...]
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Communist election candidates demand full equality The Communist Party of Canada issued a detailed statement today on women’s and equity issues that condemned the track record of the Harper Conservative government. “In Canada, and across the capitalist world,” the party noted, “women are disproportionately paying the price for government bailouts of the banks and major [...]
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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This article is part of a series produced by People’s Voice Newspaper honouring the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of Canada. Our series of articles marking the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of Canada continues with the story of a party militant who became known to many Canadians a few years ago with the publication of [...]
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Women’s rights are Human Rights International Women’s Day 2011 Greetings from the Communist Party of Canada This year, the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day comes amidst inspiring new struggles for democratic rights in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries. Women have played key roles in the trade union, community, student and other grassroots organizing which [...]
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Betrayal of Aboriginal Women People’s Voice Editorial Since about 1980, up to 3000 Indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered in Canada. Indigenous women and their allies are rallying across the country on February 14, a date which has come to symbolize the long struggle against racist, misogynist violence. In recent years, a leading [...]
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AS THE ANNUAL summer of Pride events begins, members and allies of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered communities across Canada have been through a federal election which saw LGBTQ rights emerge as a key issue. Since the next Parliament will include both opponents as well as strong supporters of equality, efforts to preserve and [...]
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IWD 2004 message from the Central Committee, Communist Party of Canada. International Women’s Day 2004 is a time to salute those who have struggled for decades to win: equality advances for women: the vote, reproductive choice, trade unions, some legal protections against violence, homophobia and racism, social programs to provide a measure of equality. Today [...]
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Commentary from the CPC Central Women’s Commission WORKING CLASS WOMEN and our allies in Canada achieved many important advances in the past century: the vote, reproductive choice, trade unions to defend us in the workplace, some legal protections against violence, homophobia and racism, social programs to provide a measure of equality. But today all these [...]
Continue reading …Statement by the Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada THE WELCOME TREND towards greater equality and justice for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered (LGBT) persons continues in Canada, but not without setbacks and difficulties. As we celebrate the gains achieved through years of struggle by many individuals and organizations, we know that this is also [...]
Continue reading …Statement by the Women’s Commission of the Central Committee Communist Party of Canada The most enduring accomplishment of the World March of Women 2000 is the revitalization of the international women’s movement. Millions of women, in over 161 countries, actively participated in local, national and regional education and mobilization events to demand the elimination of poverty [...]
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International Women’s Day 2000 Statement, Central Women’s Commission, Communist Party of Canada WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD are taking action this International Women’s Day, demanding an end to poverty and the elimination of violence against women. The launch of the World March of Women on March 8th marks the beginning of an intensive period of organizing [...]
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Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada July 1999 The spring of 1999 has seen some important victories for legal equality and justice for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered persons in Canada. This year’s Pride events across the country are an occasion to celebrate those advances and to reflect on the struggles that lie [...]
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Commentary by Helen Kennedy, chair of the CPC Women’s commission The central issue at the annual general meeting of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, held June 5-7 in Ottawa, was the demand that the federal government restore core funding to NAC and the women’s movement. The AGM confirmed that NAC’s priority [...]
Continue reading …Helen Kennedy, co-chair of the Central Women’s Commission of the Communist Party of Canada Women have been particularly hard hit by the resurgence of neoliberalism and the globalization of world markets. This May Day, let us celebrate the women responding with a renewed enthusiasm towards organizing unions. First the bad news. While women constitute 50% of [...]
Continue reading …-an IWD Message from the Women’s Commission of the Communist Party of Canada We come together again this year to celebrate International Women’s Day, at a time when women are at the forefront of the struggle for the people’s agenda across this country and around the world. Women speaking at the Jan. 28 Canadian Federation [...]
Continue reading …Canadian women recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the striking down of Canada’s anti-abortion law. This statement was issued by the Women’s Commission of the Communist Party of Canada: Many women’s lives in Canada have been saved since Canada’s abortion law was struck down by the Supreme Court a decade ago. Prior to that, women [...]
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