The September 10 provincial election in Manitoba had a near record low turnout, at just over 55%. Of those who voted, 47% voted for Brian Pallister’s Conservatives, just over 31% for Wab Kinew’s NDP, 14.5% for the Liberals, and around 6.5% Green. [...]
Working class Manitobans are in for the fight of their lives, against 4 more years of neoliberal austerity from Brian Pallister’s Conservatives. Fresh from winning a majority in the provincial election, Pallister announced on September 18 his [...]
The Communist Party is running 5 candidates in Manitoba's provincial election
Amalgamated Transit Union 1505 faces a hostile Winnipeg city administration and press in a battle over working conditions that could help push forward the fight for free transit.
The NDP in opposition is as tepid as it was in government, facing the Manitoba government of Pallister.
While all Saskatchewan residents are faced with resolving the financial mess, the government has let big business avoid taking its share of the burden.
Hydro bills could double over the next decade; they are already up nearly 50% since 2004. Most affected are the poor, the working poor and remote communities, especially Indigenous communities.
The election was a referendum on the condition of the working class in Manitoba. The Manitoba NDP upheld a system of unrestrained, neoliberal capitalism and oversaw the deep impoverishment of workers.
Many have a strong gut sense that the neoliberal Kool-Aid has not been working. Yet foremost in the Kool-Aid mix is the claim that “There Is No Alternative.”
Paula Ducharme is running for the Communist Party in the riding of Fort Rouge in Manitoba’s April 19 election. She had her first job in Fort Rouge - in her early teens she worked out of Mulvey Avenue riding a Dicky Dee ice cream cart for the [...]
