Women’s March 2019: Rebuild a powerful, united pan-Canadian women’s movement

The third annual Women’s Marches across North America take place on January 19, and once again, millions will be in the streets. These marches are a powerful stand against gender inequality and misogyny, in direct response to the sharpening attacks against trade unions, women, Indigenous and racialized peoples, the LGBTQ2+ community and others targeted by…

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Demand the Sudanese Government release Masoud Ali

End Repression, Arbitrary Detentions and Arrests The Communist Party of Canada today called on Prime Minister Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland to demand the Sudanese government immediately release Masoud Ali, a member of the Sudanese Communist Party leadership kidnapped by Sudanese security forces yesterday (Dec 23rd), now “disappeared” and in grave danger of…

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La cour du Québec ordonne à la Ville de Montréal de verser des dommages punitifs de 12 000$ dans la cause BDS-Québec / Parti communiste du Canada contre la Ville de Montréal

Pour diffusion immédiate Montréal, le 14 décembre 2018 Au cours de la campagne électorale fédérale de 2015, les travailleurs de la Ville de Montréal ont enlevé les affiches électorales de BDS-Québec (comité de la Coalition pour la justice et la paix en Palestine) (BDS-Québec / CJPP) et du Parti communiste du Canada (PcC)  enfreignant ainsi…

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Une loi de retour au travail qui menace le droit de grève

La décision des Libéraux de présenter une loi forçant le retour au travail et mettant fin à la grève du STTP, met en péril le droit à la libre négociation collective et le droit de grève de tous les syndicats et de toutes les travailleuses et les travailleurs du Canada. L’argument du gouvernement à l’effet…

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Back to work legislation threatens the right to strike

The Liberals’ decision to introduce back to work legislation and end the CUPW strike threatens free collective  bargaining and the right to strike for all unions and workers in Canada. The government’s argument that the strike threatened small businesses and consumers at the height of the holiday spending season doesn’t hold water.  CUPW never closed…

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Stop the GM Closure! Stop NAFTA 2.0!

General Motors announcement that it will close the Oshawa car plant is a declaration of war on Canadian autoworkers and on automobile manufacturing in Canada.  The Big Three automakers will use the new NAFTA 2.0 agreement to shift their plants south to Mexico where wages are $4 an hour or less – a fraction of…

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Withdraw back to work legislation

The Communist Party of Canada today demanded the federal government withdraw back to work legislation and an enabling bill to speed its passage, which the government will use against the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. The union has been forced to strike as a result of the employer’s refusal to negotiate a fair contract that…

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In solidarity with the internship strike

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada extends its solidarity to the nearly 60,000 students who are on strike this week of November 19-23 to win compensation for all internships. The strike affects several universities and CEGEP across Quebec. Some institutions, including the CEGEP du Vieux Montréal, has suspended classes while thousands of…