Sep 112024
 

Depuis plusieurs mois, voire quelques années, on assiste à une montée de la combattivité des salariés du secteur des transports. En début d’année, ce sont les syndiqués du RMT britannique qui ont débrayé. En mai, les cheminots de la CGT française se sont également mis en grève.

Ces luttes sociales qui allient meilleurs salaires et conditions de travail avec le refus catégorique du démantèlement du monopole public sur les transports publics surviennent alors que la pandémie de COVID19 a rappelé le caractère névralgique de ce secteur pour les économies nationales et mondiales. Ainsi, d’une part, les monopoles se sont rués sur cette opportunité pour garantir leurs profits en intensifiant la privatisation et la mise en compétition entre les différents acteurs de l’industrie, puis en pressant les travailleurs à travers des journées de travail plus longues, plus pénibles et moins payées en salaire réel considérant l’inflation ambiante. Souvent, ces mesures anti-populaires sont adoubées par les pouvoirs publics. De l’autre, les travailleurs ont repris conscience de leur pouvoir de négociation et refusent de se vendre sur plateau d’argent.

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Sep 112024
 

Over the last few months, if not years, we have seen an increase in the militancy of employees in the transport sector. At the beginning of the year, it was RMT union members in the UK who walked out. In May, French CGT railway workers also went on strike.

These social struggles, which combine better pay and working conditions with a categorical refusal to dismantle the public transportation monopoly, are taking place at a time when the COVID19 pandemic has served as a reminder of how vital this sector is to national and global economies. On the one hand, the corporate monopolies have seized on this opportunity to guarantee their profits by stepping up privatization and competition between the various players in the industry, and on the other by squeezing workers through longer, more arduous working days and lower real wages, given the prevailing inflation. These anti-grassroots measures are often endorsed by the public authorities. On the other hand, workers have regained their bargaining power and refuse to be sold a bill of goods.

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Sep 022024
 

This Labour Day marks an increase in militancy and solidarity amongst unionized workers from coast to coast. The soaring cost of living has pushed workers to take up the fight for higher wages and better. The horror of the genocide waged by Israel against the people in Gaza, and the federal government’s continued support for Israel’s war on the Palestinian people has stirred the organized labour movement into opposition.

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Aug 132024
 

The Communist Party of Canada has followed the July 28 presidential election in Venezuela with keen interest – not as detached observers, but as a Party with a history of solidarity with the struggles of the Venezuelan people for sovereignty, democracy, social justice, liberation from imperialist domination and ultimately for a socialist future. We extend our congratulations to the Venezuelan working class and progressive movements for continuing these struggles under the extreme pressure of US imperialism and domestic reaction, which desperately seek one way or another to reverse the revolutionary process initiated by the late President Hugo Chavez.

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Aug 012024
 

C’est avec tristesse que nous avons appris le décès du camarade Nguyen Phu Trong, Secrétaire général du Parti communiste du Vietnam, survenu en date du 19 juillet dernier. À cette occasion, le Parti communiste du Canada tient à transmettre ses plus sincères condoléances au Parti communiste et au peuple du Vietnam ainsi qu’à saluer la contribution de ce valeureux combattant qui a consacré sa vie à la construction d’un Vietnam souverain et socialiste. 

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Aug 012024
 

We were saddened to learn of the death of Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, on July 19. On this occasion, the Communist Party of Canada wishes to convey its most sincere condolences to the Communist Party and the people of Vietnam, and to salute the contribution of this valiant fighter who devoted his life to building a sovereign and socialist Vietnam.

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Jul 192024
 

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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Jul 172024
 

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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Jun 292024
 

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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Jun 042024
 

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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