Thousands of casino workers in several British Columbia cities are either on strike or gearing up for walkouts as they struggle to win fair wages and improved working conditions.
"Putting students first means we must find a way to serve students who are most adversely affected by these proposed cuts.”
The NDP has refused to consider anything more than token measures to claw back some of the vast wealth lost in tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.
Unfortunately for working people there is still no apparent progress in the Labour Council's efforts to promote a unified progressive slate.
The formation of the Vancouver Peace Council follows a decline in anti-war activity in this city in recent years.
This unholy alliance of Liberals, NDP, and Tories striving to meet oil companies' demands says a lot about the current composition of Parliament.
The path to an economy based on public ownership, renewable energy, and green jobs will be long and difficult. But the journey has begun.
Our economic future should not be based on handing out taxpayers’ dollars in the scramble for a bigger share of shrinking global demand for fossil fuels.
Fugitive methane emissions from B.C.’s oil and gas industry are vastly underreported.
Vision has been increasingly condemned for its close links with profit-hungry developers who have made the city unaffordable for thousands of renters and working class families
The NDP backed away from any serious challenge to corporate power.
Vancouver's Mayor and three other Vision councillors will not be running in upcoming elections. Does this open the door to the cooperation of anti-developer political forces?
It’s puzzling that Site C was approved but Ajax not, despite equal indigenous opposition. Of course there were notable differences, especially where each drew its support and opposition.
The Communist Party of BC urges ongoing resistance to Site C.
Iceland is not waiting for the gender pay gap to fix itself.
North Vancouver's Capilano University is being pressed to provide a decent wage and better conditions for cleaning staff.
Around 50 people gathered to attend the founding meeting of the Vancouver chapter of Toronto-based coalition Solidarity Against Fascism Everywhere.
PV Vancouver Bureau The October 14 Vancouver civic byelection for one city council seat and nine school trustees was an interesting test of political winds heading towards the regular municipal elections next year. The results were [...]
$45 million of public money was spent funding elite private schools in 2015 & 2016.
As long as the major parties can spend tens of millions of dollars to get elected, campaigns will remain primarily an exercise in advertising, rather than in democratic debate and discussions.
Site C is a wildly speculative economic gamble, a violation of First Nations treaty rights, and an attack on the people and environment of northern BC.
Competition among left-oriented forces may give an advantage to the city’s dominant centrist and right-wing parties.
An estimated five thousand people jammed the area around Vancouver City Hall on August 19, stopping a planned Nazi rally.
Anti-poverty activists and poor people welcomed the NDP’s move to raise social assistance and disability rates but these increases still tail the skyrocketing costs of rent, food and other necessities.
The right-wing corporate agenda springs from the nature of capitalism itself, regardless of which parties are in office.
Statement from the Communist Party of BC, on the outcome of the May 9 provincial election
Parties should take the first opportunity to defeat Clark, reverse tax cuts for the rich and corporations, take action for a sustainable environment and green jobs, and tackle housing and poverty crises.
More and more upper-income earners in Canada are taking advantage of allowable deductions to avoid paying income taxes.
An interview with Tyson Strandlund, Communist Party of BC candidate in the May 9 British Columbia election
Another of BC Premier Christy Clark's pet projects has taken a serious credibility hit, just weeks before the May 9th provincial election.
