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#Elxn44: Peace Congress for realignment of foreign and defence policies

PV Staff It is often not at the forefront of voters’ minds, but foreign policy is one of the most important issues in this federal election. From ballooning military spending to the renewed Cold War against Russia and (especially) China to the [...]

Trump exits, Biden enters, Cold War continues

By Greg Godels Biden’s first week or so in office proved eventful. He began to aggressively undo much of what Trump undid of the Obama presidency. In essence, he is returning US politics to 2016. For those who longed only for the exit of Trump [...]

Pan-Canadian Day of Action opposes plan to buy fighter jets, drones

Protesters project progressive vision for country By Ed Lehman On October 2 Canadian peace activists held their second pan-Canadian Day of Action against the purchase of 88 new fighter jets. At some locations activists also underscored their [...]

People’s Voice Podcast launches with #Hiroshima75 call to Ban the Bomb

Renew the call to Ban the Bomb!

On two days, seventy-five years ago, the United States used nuclear weapons in combat for the first and, so far, only time in history. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6 and 9, 1945, killed a quarter of a million people and [...]

Modi’s right-wing populism inflames China-India standoff

By B. Prasant The military confrontation and hand-to-hand scuffle that took place on June 15 in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh in eastern Kashmir was but one in a series of such confrontations that had taken place over the recent years along the [...]

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 [...]

Open letter to PM, demanding end to economic sanctions

The following letter was issued on April 13 by the Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War and the Mouvement Québécois pour la paix/Quebec Movement for Peace. The letter's 100 signatories ask the Prime Minister to suspend Canada’s economic sanctions [...]

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 [...]

The US-Taliban peace agreement promises to be anything but

A dark cloud of vengeance over Kabul Special to PV, by Lawang Diyar On February 29, a historic event took place in the Qatari capital of Doha, when formerly blocklisted Taliban representatives signed a historic peace deal with top US diplomat [...]