The Constitution’s Notwithstanding Clause was a sop to provincial governments in western Canada opposed to the Constitutional recognition of a strong federal government with power and authority greater than that of the provinces and territories over such things as the implementation of a national energy policy and equalization payments, to sign on to the new…
Le Parti communiste du Canada se joint à l’appel lancé au gouvernement fédéral pour qu’il accorde immédiatement le statut de résident permanent à tous les travailleurs-euses sans statut et à ceux qui ont un statut temporaire au Canada. Le 18 septembre, des manifestations à travers le Canada demanderont au gouvernement Trudeau d’inclure tous les sans-papiers…
The Communist Party of Canada joins the call on the federal government to immediately extend permanent resident status to all non-status and temporary status workers in Canada. On September 18th, demonstrations across Canada will call on the Trudeau government to include all undocumented migrants in their previously announced, although undefined, immigration regularization program. Only through providing status to all can basic workers’ rights truly apply to all workers, raising the floor on wages and living and working conditions for all.
At the end of the day, the organized strength of the left and centre forces in the trade union movement, organizing and mobilizing in the workplace, pressing for independent political action around labour’s policies, and fighting for a united, class-oriented trade union movement – these will move labour from the defensive to the offensive against the employers and their governments.
The Communist Party of Canada expresses its full solidarity with the 530 workers at the Rolls-Royce plant in Montreal who have been locked out since March 15. They have been without a collective bargaining agreement since December 2020.
May Day 2022 marks a year of “corporate recovery” from the COVID-related economic crisis which hammered workers in Canada and around the world. It marks a year in which escalating militarism and aggression erupted into a war in Ukraine which threatens to expand into a greater war in Europe. It also marks a year of…
The Communist Party of Canada strongly denounces bill C-29 adopted by the House of Commons and the Senate on Friday April 30.
May Day 2021 marks a year of unprecedented attacks on the health and well-being of working people around the world, first by the coronavirus pandemic and the greedy pharmaceutical companies, and other corporations who saw the health crisis as an opportunity to make enormous profits.
Patchwork too thin, too temporary for 4 million victims of capitalist crisis.
En cette “Fête du travail”, les travailleur-euses et le mouvement syndical sont confrontés à des défis inédits depuis les années 1920 – 1930