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Intensify efforts to preserve peace confront US imperialism!

  • PV
  • January 9, 2020
Iranian communists are calling for deepened opposition to US aggression, in an effort to avoid war on Iran. The Tudeh Party of Iran (TPI) issued an international statement on January 3, that denounced the US assassination of Qasem Soleimani as a [...]

“This is the road to Armageddon – we must reverse course!”

  • PV
  • January 9, 2020
The Communist Party of Canada has condemned the illegal US airstrike and assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and 9 others, warning that they place humanity on a path to destruction. The CPC denounces the strike and assassinations as [...]

First Nations back in court to fight TMX, defend land

  • PV
  • January 9, 2020
(PV Staff, with files from Tsleil-Waututh Nation Sacred Trust) Representatives of Indigenous communities fighting the Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project (TMX) in the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) gathered on December 16, the day before [...]

Indigenous peoples want their #LandBack

  • Kimball Cariou
  • January 9, 2020
On December 31, the BC Supreme Court ruled in favour of Coastal GasLink (CGL), which has never obtained consent from the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs to work on un-surrendered traditional Indigenous territories in the north-central part of the [...]

Alberta Communists issue open letter on U of A controversy about Ukrainian famine

  • PV
  • December 23, 2019
The Communist Party – Alberta has issued an open letter commending the University of Alberta for resisting calls to dismiss sessional lecturer Dougal MacDonald over his comments that the Ukrainian famine was not a genocide. MacDonald made the [...]

Music Notes: Nueva Cancion still nurturing the progressive struggle

  • Wally Brooker
  • December 23, 2019
Allende era's music inspires Chileans The struggle that culminated in the election of Salvador Allende's socialist Popular Unity government in Chile in 1970 was nurtured by a profound musical revolution. While Latin America's Nueva Canción (“New [...]

Michael Palin: From Monty Python to Pyongyang

  • Brian Major
  • December 23, 2019
North Korea Journal (2019) Michael Palin  Many readers might know Michael Palin as part of the Monty Python comedy troupe. His comedic antics were hilarious, and his work has been shown around the world. In later years he also became a [...]

Divide et impera or free and equal? Soviet nationalities policy in perspective

  • TJ Petrowski
  • December 23, 2019
If you have ever looked at a map of Central Asia and the Caucasus, you have more than likely wondered why the borders of many former Soviet states are so confusing and seemingly irrational. The strategic and fertile Ferghana Valley, for instance, [...]

Leash the climate change monsters (the sooner the better) 

  • Baldev Padam
  • December 23, 2019
If allowed to go unchecked further, the day isn’t far off when climate change will make life on our planet unfeasible. Yet, when scientists portray climate change as an existential threat, the skeptics call it a hoax. Climate change suffers from [...]

Calls to nationalize GM and Bombardier under democratic control

  • PV
  • December 23, 2019
Meeting on November 16-17, the Ontario Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Canada reiterated its demand for the nationalization of General Motors. The committee endorsed the grassroots Green Jobs Oshawa campaign that calls for the [...]