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 2022 federal budget is a product of the Liberal-NDP pact that promised to deliver pharmacare, denticare, affordable housing, and action on climate change, but in fact has delivered very little of these urgent policy commitments -urgent that is to working people across Canada. But this budget certainly delivers for Big Business and the military,…
The Liberal-NDP Pact announced this week contains a lot of promises that working people have been waiting for, for a long time. The Romanow Commission proposed more than 20 years ago and to wide acclaim, to expand universal Medicare to include pharmacare, dental care, vision, and long-term care. The Liberal’s own Dr. Eric Hoskins proposed…
International Women’s Day, 2022 The continuing struggle for women’s and gender equality, peace and socialism March 8, 2022 marks two years of a pandemic and economic crisis that has seen women losing ground in the struggle for social equality. Women in Canada have lost jobs at a higher rate than men, have lost hours of…
Le 8 mars 2022 marque deux ans depuis le début d’une pandémie et d’une crise économique qui ont fait perdre du terrain aux femmes dans la lutte pour l’égalité sociale. Au Canada, elles ont perdu leur emploi à un rythme plus élevé que les hommes, ont vu leurs heures de travail réduites, connu des pertes…
Pour le rapatriement des soldats, contre la vente d’armes et d’équipements militaires du Canada et de l’OTAN vers l’Ukraine Pour une résolution politique et pacifique L’intervention militaire des forces russes en Ukraine a sérieusement augmenté les tensions dans la région, a travers l’Europe, et à l’international Elle a également accru le danger d’une confrontation entre…
Repatriate Canadian and NATO Troops, Arms, and Military Equipment Negotiate a Peaceful Political Solution The military incursion of Russian forces into Ukraine has seriously ratcheted up tensions in the region, across Europe and internationally, and increased the danger of ‘great power’ confrontation and even nuclear war. This military action must end as quickly as possible,…
The Communist Party stands with anti-fascist, anti-racist forces who are the real public defenders today, and calls on the labour, democratic and civil rights movements to speak up now against the invocation of the Emergencies Act, in defence of civil liberties and for government action to protect the public from the occupation using existing legislation and anti-hate laws.
Certains ont peut-être accueilli positivement le fait que le gouvernement fédéral invoque la Loi sur les mesures d’urgences pour s’attaquer à l’occupation continue d’Ottawa par le soi-disant convoi de camionneurs dirigé par des forces d’extrême droite et fascistes. Pourtant, il s’agit d’une manœuvre capable de suspendre les droits démocratiques pour tous et toutes au Canada,…
The Communist Party of Canada views the “Freedom Convoy” as a public expression of the increasingly organized and assertive far right. The clear links between the organizers of the convoy and far-right networks indicate that this is not a spontaneous working-class demonstration. On the contrary, it is part of a global phenomenon: the rise and…