Demand EI increases and full coverage now!
Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in Canada, the Trudeau government has unveiled a series of temporary programs designed to stabilize working people’s incomes. Details of these measures have only been announced gradually, with many revisions and contradictions, and it has been left to individuals to navigate a confusing and incomplete web of information.
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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.
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Support locked out Co-op refinery workers!
The escalating struggle by 800 locked out workers, members of Unifor Local 594, at the Federated Co-op Limited (FCL) refinery in Regina has the full solidarity of the Communist Party of Canada. All working people in the country have an interest in defeating this effort by a profitable corporation to bust the union and gut the pension plan that workers have relied on for 4 decades.
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The Communist Party of Canada joins with labour organizations across the country in expressing solidarity with the Canadian Union of Labour Representatives (IAMAW 3111), whose members working at the Canadian Labour Congress have taken strike action.
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Le Parti communiste du Canada se joint aux organisations syndicales qui, à travers le pays, expriment leur solidarité avec le Syndicat canadien des représentants et représentantes syndicaux (AIMTA section locale 3111, SCRRS) dont les membres, qui travaillent pour le Congrès du travail du Canada, se sont mis en grève le matin du 15 octobre.
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The news that the Canadian Labour Congress has stripped Vice-President Donald Lafleur of his duties and put him on administrative leave raises many troubling questions. This action runs counter to the urgent need for labour to adopt a more militant fightback strategy, to strengthen the role of trade unions in the struggles for peace and international solidarity, and to promote a more democratic and inclusive leadership style, from the top levels of the CLC down to the provincial federations, labour councils, and union locals.
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In the wake of the recent announcement from Bombardier that it will cut 550 jobs at its Thunder Bay Rail Transportation facility, the Communist Party of Canada is reiterating its call for the aerospace and transportation corporation to be placed under public ownership and democratic control.
The job cuts are devastating to the Northern Ontario city of just over 100,000 people, where Bombardier is the 8th largest employer. The announcement comes on the heels of 15,000 job cuts worldwide over the previous three years, including 3000 in Quebec and Ontario in November 2018. Over that same period, Bombardier received at least $4 billion in public bailouts from the federal, Ontario and Quebec governments.
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Dans le monde entier, le 1er mai 2019 sera célébré comme une journée de lutte pour les droits des travailleur-euse-s, la paix, la démocratie, la solidarité et la durabilité environnementale. Le 1er mai commémorera également le 100ième anniversaire de l’historique grève générale de Winnipeg, en 1919. Mais en même temps, les ennemis de la classe ouvrière sont en train d’entraîner le monde dans la guerre, le fascisme et vers la catastrophe climatique, tandis que des élections fédérales cruciales auront lieu dans quelques mois au Canada.
The Communist Party of Canada calls on the federal government to nationalize the General Motors operations in Canada under democratic control, as the only way to save the jobs of the 2,700 workers in Oshawa and the many jobs in parts plants and in the surrounding communities dependent on the income from workers in the factory. Continue reading »
US imperialism has moved aggressively to disrupt and reverse the progressive movements and governments that have emerged and developed throughout Latin America over the past two decades. It has at its disposal a wide range of weapons, from direct intervention to blockades to economic sabotage and beyond.
One of US imperialism’s more insidious tools is a wide range of funding organizations that pour money and other resources into political and social movements all over the world. The overarching objective is to maintain a pro-US discourse and orientation among foreign countries. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is among the most powerful of these instruments. Continue reading »