Le Parti communiste du Canada condamne la récente annonce du Premier ministre Trudeau selon laquelle le Canada consacrera 2 % de son PIB aux dépenses militaires d’ici 2032. Cette annonce, prononcée le 11 juillet dernier lors du sommet de l’OTAN, signifie un engagement à réduire les soins de santé et les services publics et promet d’aggraver le danger croissant de guerre mondiale et d’anéantissement nucléaire.
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The Communist Party of Canada condemns the recent announcement of Prime Minister Trudeau that Canada would spend 2% of its GDP on military spending by 2032. This announcement, made at the NATO summit on July 11, is a commitment to cut healthcare and public services and promises to escalate the growing danger of global war and nuclear annihilation.
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Amid the many celebrations of Pride this summer across Canada, the growing dangers of war, environmental catastrophe and social injustice are also on everyone’s mind. While public support remains strongly in favour of full equality rights, the “culture war” launched by fascist and fundamentalist groups continues to target transgender rights in particular, but aimed at the entire 2S/LGBTiQ+ (Two-Spirit / Lesbian / Gay / Bisexual / Transgender / Intersex / Queer) community.
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As Israel’s genocidal bombing of civilians in Rafah continues, people in Canada who defend the rights of the Palestinian people are facing an escalating series of attacks. During May and early June, there has been a frightening pattern of more arrests, firings, media-bashings, and political intimidation.
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Le 1er mai 2024 marque l’intensification de la lutte des travailleurs contre les bas salaires et la baisse du niveau de vie après des années d’austérité, de hausse des prix et de profits gargantuesques des plus grandes entreprises nationales et transnationales.
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May Day 2024 marks the rising struggle of workers against low wages and falling living standards, after years of austerity, high prices and gargantuan profits by the biggest national and transnational corporations.
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The Communist Party of Canada condemns the federal government’s decision to increase military spending to $58 billion annually by 2029, in the process raising NATO funding from 1.29% to 1.76% of GDP, with a promise to continue the increases until military spending reaches 2% of GDP. According to the government these funds will be used to buy and build offensive weapons to be staged in the Arctic under NORAD, to produce and export weapons, munitions and vehicles for use in foreign wars, including some that could be used by police and military at protests and picket lines in Canada. These funds could also include nuclear submarines if Canada joins the AUKUS group which is building a nuclear powered submarine base in Australia.
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NATO’s Fascist Origins
When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded in 1949 it claimed to be “founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Two of its 12 original member states were openly fascist: Spain under Fransisco Franco and Portugal António de Oliveira Salazar. Italy and Germany had been freed from Mussolini and Hitler respectively, but their governments and ruling classes were made up of the same capitalists who had supported them.
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End US interference and provocations now!
The Communist Party strongly condemns the 64 year old US economic blockade of Cuba which is a major contributor to the current economic difficulties in Cuba including a shortage of food and electricity. This is the whole purpose of the US blockade as stated in this 1960 US State Department memo:
“every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba…to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation, and the overthrow of government.”
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Dans sa célébration de la Journée internationale de la femme 2024, le Parti communiste du Canada appelle tous ceux qui soutiennent les droits des femmes et qui reconnaissent le 8 mars comme une journée pour célébrer les conquêtes du passé et s’engager à poursuivre la lutte pour les droits des femmes, à faire des activités de cette année un appel retentissant pour faire avancer les principales problématiques qui se dressent entre les femmes et leur droit à l’égalité totale.
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