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Quebec communists: “Lockdown or not, we must continue to organize”

  • PV
  • January 25, 2021
The Communist Party of Quebec (PCQ) is concerned about the alarming numbers of new cases of COVID-19 infection. With more than 2,500 cases daily for the past few days, there is a real danger of overloading our health care system to the point where [...]

Seafarers keep global economy moving during COVID-19, but face widespread abuse

  • PV
  • January 25, 2021
By Alex C  The transportation of goods by sea has always been vital to the global economy. Raw materials are first transported to factories, then the finished products are directed to various markets. It is estimated that 90 percent of the [...]

Canadian Network on Cuba launches campaign for emergency medical supplies 

  • PV
  • January 22, 2021
There is a bitter irony in the fact that Cuba, a country which sent emergency medical brigades around the world to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, is forced by the US blockade to confront shortages of medical supplies in its own borders. But [...]

Alberta labour fights back as Kenney attacks health and safety

  • PV
  • January 21, 2021
By Corinne Benson  From what I have unfortunately had to witness personally, it is hard to imagine making Alberta’s workers’ compensation laws worse. I have been to the funerals of two Chilean Canadians, who escaped being dumped into the sea [...]

Tough times, struggles ahead for British Columbians in 2021

  • Kimball Cariou
  • January 21, 2021
Most British Columbians were glad to say goodbye to 2020, a year of deep economic crisis and worsening pandemic impacts. But the coming year will see more difficulties for the working class of BC, and sharp challenges for the NDP government which [...]

CPC centenary: Communists in the parliamentary arena, an indispensable element of class struggle

  • Dave McKee
  • January 21, 2021
“We Bolsheviks participated in the most counterrevolutionary parliaments, and experience has shown that this participation was not only useful but indispensable to the party of the revolutionary proletariat, after the first bourgeois revolution in [...]

Stop Irving Oil’s “pandemic profiteering”

  • Editorial
  • January 19, 2021
Editorial  The richest family in New Brunswick just doesn’t feel quite rich enough. And it is prepared to hold the province’s most vulnerable people hostage as it pressures the government to guarantee higher “pandemic profits.” The Irving Oil [...]

Defund Winnipeg police to fund social and community needs

  • PV
  • January 15, 2021
By Cam Scott  As the Executive Policy Committee of Winnipeg’s City Council rushes to pass its 2021 budget, it’s hard not to see this document as a direct rebuke to community health and a show of deadly complacency against a growing social [...]

A WW2 thriller propelled by the real history of rocket science

  • PV
  • January 15, 2021
V2  2020 Robert Harris Random House Reviewed by Leslie Misson A central character in Robert Harris’s V2 is non-fictional: Dr. Wernher von Braun was the charismatic, Nazi engineer who headed the scientific team that designed the [...]

Philippines’ Duterte poised to export anti-communist campaign worldwide

  • PV
  • January 15, 2021
PV Staff  Progressive Filipino organizations in North America and Europe are being warning that the government of Rodrigo Duterte is preparing to export its deadly campaign against left-wing activists to those regions. The National Task Force [...]