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September 21, 2020

Privatization – the next big shoe to drop?

PV Staff
September 14, 2020

Teachers in Ontario: Back to school, back to struggle

PV Staff
September 14, 2020

Communist Party campaigns for EI reform, jobs and wages

PV Staff
September 10, 2020

Communist Party: Hands off Belarus!

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Sugar workers in Iran striking for wages, benefits and public ownership of their industry

By CODIR September 2 marked the 80th day since workers of the Haft-Tappeh Sugarcane complex in the south of Iran came out on strike, on June 15. They are demanding their unpaid wages, medical insurance, reinstatement of dismissed colleagues, [...]

Chile: 50 years on, Popular Unity victory still a lesson for the struggles ahead

By Guillermo Teillier del Valle, President of the Communist Party of Chile It was 1952 and Salvador Allende was facing his first presidential campaign with few resources. He had the support of the Socialist Party, many of whose militants [...]

Indigenous resistance and “law and order” – the struggle at 1492 Land Back Lane

By Karl Dockstader On July 19 in the evening, land defenders moved onto unceded Haudenosaunee lands that were close to being heavily developed. Free, prior and informed consent to develop these lands was not attained. A construction project to be [...]

Horgan NDP riding high in the polls, but for how long?

PV Vancouver Bureau With 13 months left until the British Columbia election scheduled for October 2021, Premier John Horgan's minority NDP government is among the most popular in Canada. But a year is an eternity in 21st century politics. Public [...]

Young Communist convention: “the youth will not pay for the crisis!”

With a spirit of combativeness and unity, the Young Communist League (YCL-LJC) held an extraordinary online convention on August 22 and 23. The COVID-19 pandemic had forced the YCL-LJC to postpone its 28th Central Convention, initially scheduled for [...]

Canada Post arbitration – demand an end to state interference in labour rights

State interference in collective bargaining, on the side of the employer, is not a new phenomenon. Across Canada, governments at all levels work together to prevent and crush workers’ power. From police intervention to special legislation, workers' [...]

Needed now: EI reform, work and wages

The Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue Parliament until September 23 is an effort to position the Liberals as defenders of the 7 million people who lost their jobs this spring, the 8.4 million who needed CERB and the 4.5 million who will still [...]

New Brunswick Communists not on ballot, but still campaigning in election

By Communist Party, Fredericton Club With the sudden calling of an election by Progressive Conservative premier Blaine Higgs, New Brunswick faces the possibility of a Conservative majority government – this is a bid for unchecked power. A [...]

Teachers’ unions are indeed part of the problem – and not the only one

On August 17, Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared that the province’s teachers’ unions were “part of the problem” preventing implementation of his government’s plans for public schools. We couldn't agree more. In addition to the Ford’s [...]

Opposition to interference in Belarus grows

As People's Voice goes to press, Western governments are escalating their threats to intervene in Belarus against the elected government of Alexander Lukashenko. In response, a growing number of voices around the world are warning of the dangers of [...]

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