The Communist Party of Canada unequivocally condemns the ongoing imperialist aggression in Syria, the latest stage of which has seen the fall of the Assad government. While the Canadian government has welcomed Assad’s ousting, the Syrian people and the region now face new and dangerous threats, including the rise of fundamentalism and the redrawing of the political landscape in the Middle East.
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Le Parti communiste du Canada s’insurge contre la récente annonce du Président états-unien élu, Donald Trump, qui entend imposer des tarifs douaniers de 25% pour tout produit en provenance du Mexique, de la Chine et du Canada. Ajoutant l’insulte à l’injure, il a fait preuve d’un mépris débridé envers le Canada en traitant le pays comme 51e État, preuve que ses objectifs s’étendent bien au-delà de la hausse des tarifs douaniers.
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While we have grown accustomed to Trump’s erratic flip-flops during his first term, this latest threat must be taken seriously. Whether or not this provocative measure is implemented, it makes clear where the President-elect stands. Beyond tariffs, Trump aims to put the entire Canadian economy at the disposal of U.S. monopolies, which means immense pressure to sell off productive industries and dismantle public services.
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The Liberals legislation cutting the GST-HST on some food items and some children’s clothes and toys for 2 months starting December 15, is completely inadequate to meet the needs of working people who are victims of massive corporate profiteering, exorbitant interest rates, and deep cuts to real wages. Price fixing and gouging by Loblaws, Metro, Sobeys, and Walmart has made food unaffordable and bled dry food banks across the country. The banks and corporate landlords for whom evictions and foreclosures are business as usual, have created tent cities across the country, guaranteeing more deaths from freezing cold this winter and lethal heat next summer. The oil and gas companies who make huge profits by driving up gas prices and threatening cut-offs to people who can’t pay their heating bills, are also the main obstacle to stopping climate change in Canada.
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The political campaign by the Canadian state against Palestine solidarity activist Charlotte Kates escalated again on Nov. 14 with a violent police raid at her residence in east Vancouver. Rather than simply obtain a warrant to search the building, Vancouver Police entered with guns, ludicrously claiming that they faced potential danger. The obvious motive for such aggressive tactics was to intimidate solidarity movements and to spread the lie that critics of Israel’s genocide against the people of Gaza and Palestine are to be considered “terrorists” or “supporters of terrorism” by definition.
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Le Parti communiste du Canada exprime sa pleine et active solidarité avec les 55 000 travailleurs et travailleuses des postes en grève. Nous exigeons que Postes Canada présente une offre qui réponde aux exigeances de ses travailleurs et que le gouvernement fédéral respecte leur droit de grève.
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The Communist Party of Canada extends its full and active solidarity with the 55,000 postal workers on strike. We demand Canada Post put forward an offer that addresses the needs of its workers and that the federal government honour the rights of workers to strike.
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Le Parti communiste du Canada condamne le ministre du Travail, Steven MacKinnon qui, affirmant qu’il y « a une limite à l’autodestruction économique que les Canadiens sont prêts à accepter », impose un retour au travail aux travailleurs portuaires de Montréal et de Colombie-Britannique en conflit avec la partie patronale. Ce faisant, il reprend la formule gagnante du patronat employée en fin d’été pour asséner d’un coup de loi-matraque les cheminots du CP et du CN.
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The Communist Party of Canada strongly condemns Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon for his remarks that “there is a limit to economic self-destruction that Canadians are prepared to accept” and his subsequent decision to impose a return-to-work order on port workers in Montreal and British Columbia amidst their dispute with their port employers. This intervention mirrors the approach used by other employers and government earlier this summer to suppress CP and CN railway workers through legislative force.
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The Communist Party of Canada had warned that the worst outcome on Nov. 5 would be a victory for a Republican party bankrolled by the super-wealthy and large corporations, who have taken advantage of the base of far-right, white supremacist, and even fascist forces, including influential Christian nationalists who seek to eliminate all reproductive rights. Republicans loyal to Trump will soon control the White House, both houses of Congress, the majority of state governors and legislatures, the Supreme Court and most lower courts, the FBI and CIA, surveillance bodies such as the NSA – all the key elements of the US capitalist state.
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