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2020 had some important steps forward – we can turn them into big strides in 2021

If you’re like us, you were pretty happy to see the arse end of 2020. The pandemic meant that the better part of 10 months was spent in some form of lockdown-distancing isolation and the accompanying economic crisis threw millions of people in this [...]

Norman Bethune: forgotten in Canada but more relevant than ever

By Owen Schalk Henry Norman Bethune was an accomplished surgeon, a communist internationalist and a forgotten hero of Canadian history. As a member of the Communist Party of Canada he fought with anti-fascist forces in Spain and later volunteered [...]

What’s next for Bolivia? MAS president needs serious socialist vision

By Owen Schalk On November 8, Luis Arce of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party will be sworn in as president of Bolivia. This outstanding victory is causing leftists around the world to look back with reverence on those who gave their lives [...]

Build and strengthen anti-imperialist solidarity with Venezuela

On December 6, Venezuelans will head to the polls to elect a new National Assembly. The stakes are extremely high. For many, it will probably be a relief simply to be rid of the current Assembly, which is dominated by a hodgepodge of [...]

Upsurge in struggle against systemic racism, economic crisis

The Communist Party’s Central Committee met on June 14, amid a massive struggle against police killings and systemic racism that began in the US and led to mass protests on six continents and sixty countries, including Canada. Led by Black Lives [...]

Celebrate the victory over fascism…and defend it!

It’s one of the most famous images from World War II – perhaps of the entire 20th century. Yevgeny Khaldei’s photograph of soldiers from the Soviet Red Army, raising the red banner over the fallen Nazi Reichstag on May 9, 1945, is the unquestioned [...]

NATO: a virus as deadly as COVID-19

As of the time of writing, the death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 40,000 and the number of people infected by this pandemic is approaching one million. Given the scale of this health crisis, there is no doubt that emergency measures, in [...]

Report from Cuba: The impact of the blockade on the US

One would expect that the most serious impact of Donald Trump’s tightening of sanctions against Cuba would be on the Cuban people themselves. However, on a recent trip to Havana, our delegation heard that the US blockade is now threatening the [...]

Joint Statement on the criminal attack by the United States in the Middle East

The Communist and Workers’ Parties, denounce the new criminal military attack by the United States on the ground of a foreign country, in the international airport of Iraq, under Trump’s command, with officials of Iraq and an Iranian General among [...]

Black history and the vision of a socialist future

WEB Du Bois and the Jefferson School of Social Science Denise Lynn In May 1954, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a memo in support of his employer, the Jefferson School of Social Science. The Jefferson School was devoted to Marxist education and was [...]