{"id":7128,"date":"2026-07-31T16:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:21:23","slug":"press-conference-communists-call-to-stop-the-war-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/press-conference-communists-call-to-stop-the-war-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Conference: Communists call to stop the war economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 29 in Ottawa, Communist Party Leader Drew Garvie and National Secretary of the Communist Party of Quebec, Adrien Welsh, held a press conference challenging the federal government\u2019s proposed $150 billion war budget. They articulated the Party&#8217;s campaign against the war economy, which argues that this military spending serves weapons manufacturers and banks, not working people in Canada. The Party demanded a reallocation of funds from the war economy to address the urgent crises in housing, healthcare, education, and affordability. Their campaign to send messages to MPs continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Communists call to stop the war economy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2FBa7XpY2iI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 29 in Ottawa, Communist Party Leader Drew Garvie and National Secretary of the Communist Party of Quebec, Adrien Welsh, held a press conference challenging the federal government\u2019s proposed $150 billion war budget. They articulated the Party&#8217;s campaign against the war economy, which argues that this military spending serves weapons manufacturers and banks, not&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7130,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions\/7130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}