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Communists Condemn Coup Attempt, Warn Far-Right and Fascist Movements Continue to Organize

Jan 092021

The Communist Party condemns the attempted coup d’état by white supremacist and fascist movements urged on by US President Donald Trump January 6^th, and warns that Trump’s imminent departure from the White House does not mark the end of the fascist danger in the US.

Trump is the head of a movement that secured the votes and has the support of almost half of white adults in the US, and is backed by police across the country, as well as important sections of Big Business. He is not a lone ranger, but the most visible leader of a well-organized and well-financed movement with ties to similar far-right and fascist movements around the globe.

Throne Speech Leaves Millions in the Lurch

Sep 282020

Patchwork too thin, too temporary for 4 million victims of capitalist crisis

Recent changes to Employment Insurance, combined with the new Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) proposed by the government in the Throne Speech, will slash benefits to 2.7 million unemployed who just barely got by on Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). Another 482,000 will be left with no benefits at all after CERB wraps up this week.

Emergency Action Required Now to Stop COVID-19 and Deep Recession

Mar 192020

The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the health and well-being of all the world’s peoples, the most vulnerable being working people, Indigenous Peoples, the unemployed, the poor and the elderly. It will take urgent action by the Canadian government, and cooperation by the international community to save tens of thousands of lives, and to prevent a deep recession or even a depression from ruining the lives of working people around the globe.

JIF 2020: les femmes se lèvent

Mar 072020

Partout dans le monde, les femmes se lèvent pour l’égalité des droits, contre la guerre et pour la justice environnementale et climatique. En Inde, les femmes sont à l’avant-garde de manifestations massives contre le gouvernement réactionnaire et nationaliste hindou du Parti Bharatiya Janata de Narendra Modi. Au Chili, des femmes sont descendues dans les rues lors des manifestations contre les politiques d’austérité, et leur chant et leur danse de protestation contre la violence sexuelle ont fait le tour du monde. Cuba modernise son Code de la famille, principal cadre juridique de la vie et des relations familiales, et montre encore la voie vers l’égalité des sexes.

IWD 2020: Women Rising Up

Mar 072020

Women around the world are rising up for equal rights, against war, and for environmental and climate justice. In India, women are at the forefront of massive protests against the reactionary, Hindu nationalist BJP government of Narendra Modi. Women in Chile have taken to the streets in the anti-austerity marches, and their anti-sexual violence protest song and dance has spread across the globe. Cuba is modernizing its Family Code, the main legal framework for family life and relations, and again leading the way for gender equality.

Solidarity and Action to Oppose the Anti-democratic Attacks of the Modi Government in India

Feb 202020

Over the past six months, the right-wing, pro-U.S. imperialist BJP/RSS Government of India, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has moved sharply to attack the constitutional underpinnings of India as a secular, democratic state which have been in place ever since its emancipation of British colonial rule in 1947. These dangerous moves are part of a broader agenda in practices the ideas of communalism and Hindu nationalism on both the state and society, at the expense of various minorities, especially the very large Muslim minority which constitutes almost 15% of the entire population of India.

Communists demand Parliament reject USMCA

Feb 182020

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada calls on Parliament to refuse to ratify the USMCA, and we urge the labour and democratic movements to mobilize against this sellout of the interests of working people and farmers across Canada.

Oppose the Trump – Netanyahu apartheid plan

Feb 172020

At its meeting on February 8-9, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada condemned US President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” as a plan for war and occupation. The Communist Party encourages all labour, solidarity and progressive organizations to demand that the Canadian government oppose the deal.

Anti-China racism must be rejected

Feb 132020

The dangerous upsurge in Sinophobia since the start of the coronavirus crisis is a present day reflection of the anti-China xenophobia which has always been deliberately fanned by reactionary forces, starting from the earliest days of European colonisation on the west coast. The Communist Party of Canada calls upon the labour and people’s movements, and all progressive organizations in Canada, to speak out against the latest wave of extremely divisive hatred directed against China and people of Chinese backgrounds.

Pipelines violate Indigenous rights and threaten the planet

Feb 112020

As resistance grows against the Coastal GasLink pipeline and the massive RCMP invasion of Wet’suwet’en territories, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada, meeting over the Feb. 8-9 weekend in Toronto, sends greetings of solidarity to all who are in struggle today for Indigenous rights and environmental justice.

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