14) THIS YEAR, PUT THE COMMUNIST PARTY ON YOUR GIFT LIST!

 

            This holiday season the Communist Party is celebrating the end of 10 years of Harper’s extreme right-wing, pro-war government, and the upsurge of public opposition that ushered him out October 19!

 

            But significant parts of the Harper agenda remain on the table, still in play with the new Liberal government:

 

* the Trans Pacific Partnership, which will decimate the auto industry in Canada; undermine the supply management system, cut farm incomes, and compromise Canada’s food security; protect drug company patents for years, making drugs even more expensive, draining our Medicare budgets, and fattening profits for Big Pharma; and allow transnational corporations to over-ride elected Canadian governments.

 

* a foreign policy of permanent involvement in US and NATO dirty wars against countries that pose no threat to Canada.

 

* Bill C-51, which must be repealed, not amended, to protect our civil, labour and democratic rights.

 

* mass unemployment and austerity policies designed to drive down wages, incomes and living conditions, leaving our youth without a future,

 

* the privatization of Medicare and the attack on the Canada Health Act.

 

* the Immigration and Refugee Act which welcomes the wealthy and rejects the rest.

 

* the Foreign Temporary Workers’ Program that turns foreign workers into indentured labour with no rights and no access to citizenship

 

            Canadians may not see it yet, but a massive struggle is shaping up. At issue is the kind of country we want, vs. the country the transnational corporations and their governments intend to impose. In this, they have the support of both the Liberals and Conservatives, and on too many occasions even the support of the NDP.

 

            The Communist Party has consistently opposed this anti-human capitalist agenda in the streets, in the factories and workplaces, on the picket lines, sit-ins, protests and demonstrations, on the hustings, wherever people are in struggle. Since 1921, we have fought for a better life for workers, youth, and women, for peace and disarmament, for sovereignty, democracy, and equality. We fight for working class and people’s unity, and for strategies and tactics to strengthen the working class movement, while always advocating for a socialist Canada as the real alternative to imperialism, racism, fascism and war. Today this struggle is international as well as in Canada, and more important than ever.

 

            We need your support now to help us organize through the winter, when many of the struggles mentioned above will be in full swing.

 

            Your contributions help us organize across Canada around issues like C-51 and the fight to Save Canada Post, to print booklets and leaflets, to hold public speaking tours, educational events, and seminars. All of this and  more is paid for by your donations.

 

            The Communist Party is supported solely and only by its members and friends – working people like you who know why these struggles are so important.

 

            Thanks to tax rebates available from Revenue Canada for political donations to the Communist Party of Canada, contributors can make their donations stretch up to four times more than the actual cost, after rebates are applied.

 

            For example,  a $400 donation will only cost the donor $100, after filing the Official receipt with your taxes, and receiving the 75% rebate.  A $100 donation will only cost $25 after applying the rebate, while a $200 donation will cost $50, and a $300 donation will cost $75, after the rebate.  Please note that donors must have a taxable income of at least $20,000  to qualify for the rebate, according to Revenue Canada.

 

            Donors in Ontario can get around this by making their donations to the CPC (Ontario) which has no income requirements for rebates to apply. Every donation to CPC (Ontario) receives a rebate of 75% on every donation up to $372.

 

            For a 2015 tax receipt, donations must be dated and mailed before midnight December 31^st.

 

            Please make out your cheque today, payable to “CPC”, and mail it to CPC, 290A Danforth Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4K 1N6.

 

            Thank you for your support!

 

            Central Committee, CPC

 

(The above article is from the November 16-30, 2015, issue of People's Voice, Canada's leading socialist newspaper. Articles can be reprinted free if the source is credited. Subscription rates in Canada: $30/year, or $15 low income rate; for U.S. readers - $45 US per year; other overseas readers - $45 US or $50 CDN per year. Send to People's Voice, c/o PV Business Manager, 706 Clark Drive, Vancouver, BC, V5L 3J1.)