Communists speak on Peace
Latest statements
Every issue of People's Voice gives you the latest on the fightback from coast to coast in the peace movement and issues of global solidarity. Check out the latest peace news the corporate media won't print here.
The Communist Party advocates for a made-in-Canada foriegn policy, including:
Peace and Disarmament
- For a truly independent Canadian foreign policy based on peace and disarmament, and respect for international law
- Canada out of Afghanistan NOW! No war with Iran, demand immediate US/UK withdrawal from Iraq
- Get out of NATO and NORAD military alliances
- Canada must be a ‘safe haven’ for U.S. war resisters – no deportations!
- A just peace in the Middle East based on Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories and the formation of an independent, viable Palestinian state
- Cut the military budget by 50%
Below we reprint some recient statments on these issues.
Support War Resistors
Since the start of the illegal U.S.-led war against Iraq, growing numbers of U.S. military personnel have refused to participate in this war of aggression and occupation. Hundreds have crossed the border into Canada, many with their families, just as an earlier generation of soldiers did during U.S. imperialism's dirty war against Vietnam.
No to NATO Expansionism
The dangerous outbreak of armed conflict in the Caucasus, launched on Aug. 7 by the deadly Georgian military assault against schools, government buildings and residential areas in the South Ossetian capital city of Tskhinvali, is a stark illustration of the potential for such events to spark wider wars.
U.S./NATO aggression in the Caucasus
The outbreak of a deadly armed conflict in the Caucasus is not only a humanitarian disaster which has already cost some 2,000 lives, but poses a very real threat of wider wars in the region. Imperialism’s preparations and aggressions in Georgia are sparks that can eventually ignite a much larger conflagration, demanding the sharpest condemnation of the international labour movement and all peace and anti-imperialist forces.
Release Omar Khadr now
As more light is shed on the case of Omar Khadr, it becomes increasingly obvious to the world that the Pentagon’s prosecution of this young Canadian “child soldier” is a sickening violation of international legal standards and human rights.
Condemn Colombia’s Aggression against Ecuador!
In an illegal incursion into Ecuador on 1 March, Colombian troops murdered 17 combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), including Comandante Raúl Reyes, a long-time military commander and member of the FARC-EP’s Secretariat. Among the other victims was the well-known revolutionary song-writer Julian Conrado.
