Communists committed to building working class resistance By Fredericton Club, CPC Though disappointing, the results of New Brunswick’s provincial election are unsurprising. The Tories won a majority with 27 seats, the Liberals won 17 seats, [...]
As governments lift the temporary bans on evictions that were put in place during the initial stages of the COVID-related economic crisis, an estimated 16 percent of people in Canada are at risk of losing their housing. Nearly 6 million people could [...]
Communist Party campaigning in five ridings PV Vancouver Bureau BC Premier John Horgan’s snap election is a cynical attempt to reap political advantage from momentarily favourable polling numbers. By calling the vote a year ahead of [...]
PV Vancouver Bureau The strangest election the West Coast has witnessed in many years is underway, with voters casting ballots by mail, or going to the polls in person on October 24. For the last three years, BC Premier John Horgan had vowed [...]
By Marianne Breton Fontaine This year, the World March of Women celebrates its 20th anniversary. This huge global action in the name of women's rights was initiated in Quebec by the Fédération des Femmes du Québec (FFQ), whose then president was [...]
Patchwork too thin, too temporary for 4 million victims of capitalist crisis Recent changes to Employment Insurance, combined with the new Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) proposed by the government in the Throne Speech, will slash benefits to 2.7 [...]
Home-based day care workers in Québec are fighting to bring up their wages and see their crucial work properly recognized and respected by the provincial government and Québécois society as a whole. 10,000 home-based day care workers affiliated [...]
By Chris Frazer In mid-September, the Sipekne’katik Mi’kmaq First Nation launched its own fishery and issued seven licenses to trap lobster in the waters off the southern shore of Nova Scotia, in Mi’kma’ki (the traditional territories of the [...]
By CODIR September 2 marked the 80th day since workers of the Haft-Tappeh Sugarcane complex in the south of Iran came out on strike, on June 15. They are demanding their unpaid wages, medical insurance, reinstatement of dismissed colleagues, [...]
By Guillermo Teillier del Valle, President of the Communist Party of Chile It was 1952 and Salvador Allende was facing his first presidential campaign with few resources. He had the support of the Socialist Party, many of whose militants [...]
