People's Voice

Communist Party demands more action to curb violence against women

The murder of 22 people in rural Nova Scotia on April 18-19 has shone a spotlight on the need for meaningful steps to reduce gun violence in Canada, and to tackle the related problems of misogyny and racism which are often the motives behind mass [...]

No, we’re not all in this together

“Do you think that the Russians want war?” So asked Dick Gaughan in his anti-war song, “Think Again.” Cutting through the ideological barrage of the Cold War and the frenzied imperialist drive to militarism, he snarled, “Do you think it’s possible, [...]

COVID-19 and the capitalist housing crisis in Québec

By Jason Johnson On the eve of the COVID-19 health emergency, Québec was already experiencing its most severe housing crisis since 2001. The vacancy rate for rental housing in Québec cities with a population of at least 10,000 people was only 1.2 [...]

Health Coalition: inquiry into long-term care and COVID-19 must be independent and transparent

The Ontario Health Coalition, which has called for a full public inquiry into the province’s response to COVID-19, has responded with some caveats to the Ford government’s May 19 announcement supporting an independent commission into long-term care [...]

Oscar Figuera: Imperialist war threatens humanity

Yadira Cruz Valera The Secretary General of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), Oscar Figuera, warned that the possibility of an imperialist war threatens humanity and puts the existence of life on the planet at risk. During a [...]

Communist Party demands release of non-violent prisoners

The COVID-19 pandemic and the deepening economic crisis are imposing far more serious consequences on working people and those in poverty than on the wealthy and the big corporations. Prisoners, the majority of whom are from racialized communities, [...]

Prison justice advocates rally at hard-hit Mission Institution

The rain was falling hard at noon on May 3, as cars slowly pulled into a deserted parking lot outside the municipal hall in Mission, BC. But within a few minutes, the skies began to clear, and ten vehicles drove a couple of hundred yards to the [...]

State plunder by Bolivia’s coup regime

Bolivia’s state-owned services are being dismantled and sold off to the private sector, exiled former president Evo Morales warned on Saturday, accusing the coup administration of destroying the country. Morales reminded Bolivians of the need to [...]

After COVID-19: Humanity’s radical needs… and glaring flaws

COVID-19 has reminded us, brutally, that not only do capital, goods, ideas (useful and nasty) and people flow like wind and water in this world; our mutating viruses do too. Less obviously, the pandemic has put communism back on the table. I use [...]

Help us finish with a strong final push!

As federal and provincial governments begin to implement “reopening” plans, corporate lobbyists are making sure they have politicians’ ears. We know, for example, that the oil industry has had multiple meetings with governments at different levels, [...]