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Congo - A History of Foreign Domination
July 6, 2010 - Peter Gehl, Regina Peace Council
Congo - A History of Foreign Domination
Peter Gehl
Regina Peace Council
July 7, 2010
As the world recognized Africa Day on May 25th, it had become abundantly clear that “peace-making” forces, as opposed to “peace-keeping” forces, sanctioned by the United Nations are incapable of bringing peace and stability. Such forces authorized by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) include MINUSATH in Haiti, ISAF in Afghanistan, MONUC in Democratic Republic of Congo and MINIURCAT in Chad and Central African Republic. Increasingly, these interventions are being seen as enforcing the economic and political interests of the veto-holding Great Powers seated on the Security Council as opposed to resolving deep-rooted, socio-economic and political problems in the recipient nations.
Today (June 23, 2010) Australian Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was forced from office by mining resource giants Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Xstrata through a challenge to his leadership. Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard demanded the confidence vote testing Rudd’s leadership in the Labor Party caucus.
The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) provides background when Guardian author Anna Pha asks the question...Who Runs Australia? With the G8/G20 imperialist summit set to kick off in Toronto, Canadians can ask the same question of Prime Minister Harper...Who Runs Canada?
Who Runs
Australia?
Anna Pha, The Guardian
More than 300000 Demonstrate In
Lisbon
Portuguese Communist Party (PCP)
May 31, 2010
Political Statement of the Communist
Party of Ireland
May 31, 2010
At its regular meeting the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland (22nd May 2010) called upon public-sector workers to reject the proposed Croke Park deal as not being in their interests. If adopted, its provisions and impact would not be confined to the public sector but would have an effect throughout all sectors of the economy, both public and private.
PCPE Calls for the Sustained
Mobilization and the General Strike
May 14, 2010
All efforts of the structures of domination of Spanish capitalism have been fully devoted, for the last two years, in trying to shore up the system and avoid total bankruptcy.
The events of recent weeks had shown the futility of these efforts. Thus, the same voracity of the system proved to be its main problem. In a situation of shipwreck of the various strategies put in place to try to reverse the situation, the same financial sharks pounce on the new difficulties of the Spanish economy to try to get new benefits, a suicidal action that leads to the bankruptcy of their own interests.
Statement of the Communist Party of Turkey
on the May Day rally at Taksim Square
May 7, 2010
We won Taksim, now we have to win the
country!
We have a lot to do; we have a lot to achieve!
The Communist Party of Turkey salutes all
laborers, students and intellectuals who rallied all over the country,
furthermost at Taksim, Istanbul in order to empower the voice of the working
class. The May Day rally at Taksim Square has been marked not only as a response
of the masses to unemployment, poverty, exploitation, injustice and oppression,
but also as a slap on the face of Prime Minister Erdoğan who had been planning
to transform May 1 into a “Justice and Development Party carnival” so as to
conceal his government’s anti-labor, collaborative and reactionary policies
under the disguise of democratization.
The Prime Minister’s words “you haven’t achieved anything, I granted them to
you” are a reflection of his acrimony caused by the resulting picture.
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Greetings to the CPUSA 29th National Convention from the Communist Party of Canada
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KKE Message to the National Committee of CPUSA on the Occasion of the CPUSA 29th National Convention
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CPUSA National Board Criticizes Authors Keeran, Kenny for Canada Visit
Letter to FOS e-Bulletin Editor from Angelo Di Angelo, Ed Wlody, Kevin Keating:
For a CPUSA that Honors the Soviet Experience
There’s no avoiding an ideological struggle in our Party over twentieth-century socialism.
This convention must not accept such opportunistic and evasive formulations as “In some ways we were prisoners of the experience of Russia in 1917,” (“Democracy Matters,” interview with Sam Webb in Political Affairs, 2004)
The CPUSA’s partisan view of the Soviet Union (1917-1991) is rooted neither in nostalgia nor obsession, nor unthinking habit. It is a commitment to the truth and to principle. We were not "prisoners" of anything. Our steadfastness will have practical implications for the future.
For an Anti Imperialist Mundial Front
Brazilian Communist Party
Rio de Janeiro, April 9, 2010
PCB’s (PCB) National Politic Committee evaluated very carefully Hugo Chavez’s well-indented proposal, recently announced at the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), of creating one V international Socialist, which foundation date is scheduled to April 2010.
Above is the statement of the Brazilian Communist Party on the proposal of Hugo Chavez for a 5th International. We align ourselves with its analysis since it corresponds in all principal points to our initial reaction to this proposal. See the CPS Statement: Proposal for a New International. What Does the Communist Party of Canada Have to Say?
Communists in today’s world: The revolutionary party,
bourgeois elections and social democracy
New Communist Party of Britain
By Neil Harris, New Worker, March 31, 2010
The revolutionary party
To ask what revolutionaries do between revolutions is not an idle question, not
least because Lenin’s definition of a revolutionary situation still holds true:
“The fundamental law of revolutions, which has been confirmed by all revolutions and especially by all three Russian revolutions in the 20th century, is as follows: for a revolution to take place it is not enough for the exploited and oppressed masses to realise the impossibility of living in the old way and demand changes; for a revolution to take place it is essential that the exploiters should not be able to live and rule in the old way. It is only when the ‘lower classes’ do not want to live in the old way and the ‘upper classes’ cannot carry on in the old way that the revolution can triumph.”
“Socialist Modernization: The Road to the Resurgence of
Russia”
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
April 20, 2010
Report by Gennady Zyuganov to the V Plenum of the CC CPRF
The bourgeois “reforms” imposed on Russia in 1991 have visited major upheavals on our country.
The Communists maintained from the outset that these “reforms” were destructive. However, the authorities at first brushed aside our demands for a change of course and then began to assert that Russia was rising up from its knees anyway.
The World Peace Council
Statement of Portuguese
Council of Peace and Cooperation
Campaign for the defence of peace and against the NATO Summit in Portugal
June 25th, 2010
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Statement of World Peace
Council (WPC) on the condemnation of the brutal Israeli attack on solidarity
mission to Palestine
May 31st, 2010
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Speech of Socorro Gomes
President of the WPC
Disarm Now Conference
New York, NY
May 1st, 2010
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US Peace Council Statement
to Nepal Conference
Al Marder, President USPC
April 4th, 2010
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For More on the WPC go to Focus On Peace
Call-Summon from the strike rally of PAME to the
working class and the militant Trade Unions of Europe
July
01, 2010
We are sending you a resolution – call adopted today, Tuesday June 29, 2010 by all the workers of Athens, who participated in the strike demonstration of PAME in front of the Greek Parliament.
“All of us, the
tens of thousands of people who demonstrate in Athens, we express once again our
radical contrast to the brutal anti-labor measures of the social democratic
government. Measures that radically reverse conquests that we had achieved
through decades, in favour of the monopolistic capital.”
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KKE: Proposal Solution for the Crisis
May
12, 2010
KKE has always
exposed, especially after 1991, the deception concerning the ceaseless
development of capitalism, competitiveness and productivity with the supposed
common benefit for workers and capitalists alike. It spoke of the inevitable
economic crisis in all the capitalist economies. It predicted the crisis, the
inevitability of a deep and sudden sharpening of all social contradictions and
intra-imperialist ones.
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KKE: New demonstrations of PAME against the
slaughter of people's gains on May 6
May
7, 2010
The only solution
is the escalation of the class struggle of workers, self-employed poor farmers,
women and young people for the rupture and the overthrow of monopolies’ policy
and power, declared thousands of people who participated in the demonstrations
of PAME.
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KKE: PAME May 5, 2010 General Strike
May
6, 2010
Unprecedented
participation of tens of thousands of people in the demonstrations of PAME in
Athens and 68 cities. KKE denounces the provocations that sought to strike
a blow at the people’s struggle for the death of 3 people. On 5th of May
the nationwide strike of All Workers Militant Front (PAME) froze every
productive activity in the country. Factories, construction sites and stores,
ports and airports, universities and schools paralysed.
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KKE protests NATO Conference in
Greece
February 19, 2010
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International
CP of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov: “The Epoch of Stalin in facts and figures
2/4/2010
Despite all the efforts of anti-Soviet, anti-communist propaganda, the interest to the personality and activity of Joseph Stalin has unusually increased recently. During numerous meetings with our voters and supporters, I constantly heard the following appeals: in disputes with the anti-Soviets one should use more facts and figures, but nowadays few are able to find and collect the ones. Could you help?
Labour
WORLD FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS (WFTU) - Plan of Action 2010
3/23/2010
The year 2010 will be an important year for the global working class. The international financial crisis creates significant problems for workers worldwide. Unemployment and poverty are growing. In 2010 we celebrate 65 years since the foundation of WFTU (1945-2010). This year is also the year of preparation for the 16th World Trade Union Congress, therefore our tasks are major and serious.
Peace
THE PARADOX OF NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
5/8/2010
The latest federal budget request submitted to Congress by President Obama includes a large increase in spending for nuclear weapons. Such an increase contradicts Obama's speech in Prague last April when he seemed to signal a commitment to significant nuclear disarmament. Now it's a question of whether Congress will reject the Obama budget request - a strategy it used more than once to keep President George W. Bush from pursuing new nuclear weapon programs.
NATO AND CANADA’S PEACE MOVEMENT
3/14/2010
This past week the Finish and Swedish governments have been hosting a ‘seminar’ in Helsinki to discuss NATO’s New Strategic Concept, termed a Comprehensive Approach to Crisis Management. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in his opening speech, said NATO must "instil a new understanding of the need for better civil-military co-operation, build closer co-operation between all major institutions and NGO’s at all levels, and increase NATO’s connectivity with the wider world."
Against British Piracy
2/25/2010
The Movement for Peace, Sovereignty and Solidarity Among Peoples (Mopassol) strongly condemns the latest act of theft committed by Britain and called the Falklands our popular forces to act actively in defense of our sovereignty and natural resources belonging to the Argentine people.
Marxism-Leninism
V. I. Lenin: Ninth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.)
4/5/2010
Comrades, we are opening this present Congress of the Party at a highly important moment. The internal development of our revolution has led to very big and rapid victories over the enemy in the Civil War, and, in view of the international situation, these victories, we find, are nothing more nor less than the victory of the Soviet revolution in the first country to make this revolution—a very weak and backward country—a victory over the combined forces of world capitalism and imperialism.
Statement Canadians for Peace and Socialism, Challenge Prime Minister Harper’s Extra-Parliamentary Rule
June 30, 2010
Statement Canadians for Peace and Socialism
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Challenge Prime Minister Harper’s Extra-Parliamentary Rule
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Full Support for Convening an Emergency Meeting of the Parliamentary Public Safety Committee and the House of Commons National Security Committee
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Put CSIS and the RCMP under the Control of the Elected Members of Parliament
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Stop 21st Century McCarthyism in its Tracks
June 30, 2010
The June 28th call of Miguel Figueroa, Leader of the Communist Party of Canada for a public investigation into police violence during the G8-G20 mass demonstrations in Toronto was taken up on June 29th by Liberal Security critic Mark Holland and on June 30th by NDP Parliamentary Caucus Security critic Don Davies (see below). Both opposition parties are calling for the immediate convening of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Safety and for a full debate in the upcoming House of Commons National Security Committee. These statements follow a rising chorus of outrage by the labour, peace and democratic movements decrying police violence directed at participants in street demonstrations.
Canadians for Peace and Socialism Email to MPs
May 1, 2010 1:37 PM
We call upon all elected members of parliament, provincial and territorial
legislatures to immediately require all off shore drilling and production
companies to present a public quality assurance report on current practices,with particular attention to whether or not these companies have automatic,remotely controlled shut off capability on drilling and production
facilities.
No BP Disaster on Any Canadian Coastal Waters!
Don Currie, Chair Canadians for Peace and Socialism
April 30, 2010
A corporate capitalist crime of unprecedented proportions is underway in the Gulf of Mexico off the south-east coast of the USA. The crime has been committed against 11 workers who died on an explosion on a Transocean Limited Deep Water drilling rig. Transocean Limited, the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor and was drilling on contract to British Petroleum (BP) on the Macondo project in the Mississippi Canyon 252 area approximately 40 miles off the Louisiana coast when the explosion occurred sinking the rig and triggering the disaster. BP owns 65% of the project with partners Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Mitsui & Co. holding smaller stakes.
On the Occasion of 65th Anniversary of VE Day!
The 65th Anniversary of
the Allied Victory Over Nazi Germany!
The Way I See It
Don Currie: Editor FOS
May 5, 2010
A quick read of the propaganda of the corporate controlled mass media about the impending May 8th 65TH Anniversary of the Allied Victory over Nazi Germany, the uniformed are invited to believe that the military forces of every country involved in WW2 defeated Hitler’s Armies except the Soviet Union.
On the Occasion of the 140th Anniversary of the Birth of Lenin
Don Currie, Chair CPS
April 22, 2010
Today it has become fashionable, for neo-Marxists to speak of Marxism without Lenin. Not only is that wrong in principle, it is impossible in practice. Marx, Engels and Lenin are a continuum of the science of dialectical and historical materialism that armed the workers and their allies with a reliable theoretical guide to confront capitalism through all of its stages of development.
What State Secrets Can the Canadian People Not be Trusted to See?
Don Currie
April 28, 2010
The April 27th ruling of House Speaker Peter Milliken was less a victory for the supremacy of the elected Parliament of Canada than it was for the supremacy of the unelected power of the state? The Liberals and the NDP are wrong to hail the Milliken decision as a victory for the supremacy of Parliament. It was nothing of the sort.
Peter Milliken provided all parties in the House of Commons a way to continue to exclude the Canadian people from asserting their supremacy and sovereignty over the state. The state; the courts, the police, the internal security forces, the military high command, the Bank of Canada, the real instruments of economic and political power, are being protected and will continue to reign supreme and act independently of the oversight of the elected Parliament of the people of Canada.
Left Turn Canada!
The Harper-Flaherty March 4th 2010 Federal Budget
Capitalism Still in Crisis – Again!
Time to Consider Socialism!
Don Currie, Chair Canadians for Peace and Socialism
March 8, 2010 (Updated March 10)
The March 4th 2010 Harper – Flaherty Conservative Federal Budget is based on a consensus among all of the Parliamentary political parties including the NDP that regardless of how deep and ruinous the economic crisis of the capitalist system becomes for the majority of Canadians who rely on wages and salaries to live, no alternative to the private profit system will be discussed.
According to this unspoken consensus, the Harper-Flaherty vision of Canada becoming a bigger player within the global capitalist system, dominated by the G7, in which US imperialism armed to the teeth plays the dominant role, will not be seriously challenged by the Liberals, the NDP or the Bloc. While vigorously and effectively criticizing the obvious pro-corporate bias of the Conservative budget the leaders of the opposition parties and the organized labour movement express no fundamental disagreement with Prime Minister Harper’s boundless faith in the supremacy of the private profit system.
Harper, Flaherty, Carney, Day: The Gang of Four
The Reopening of Parliament means Mobilizing to Defeat the Harper Regime Anti-Worker Policies
WC O’Casey February 28, 2010
After two months of barring the Canadian people from government, Harper and his gang of ministers, along with his personal clique of assorted overpaid administrators, intellectuals, pundits, advisors, “experts”, observers and handlers will all assemble in the halls of parliament to reluctantly remove the padlocks and chains from the doors of the house.
The opening of the 3rd session of the 40th parliament will begin on March 3rd 2010. The following day Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will bring down the federal budget. By all indications the Flaherty budget will be prepared in a manner that will attempt to hide high unemployment and growing child poverty, the looming pension crisis, the planned looting of the federal treasury, the cost of Canadian involvement in the US-NATO war in Afghanistan and the sell-out of Canadian energy and natural resources which are opening up Canada to even greater foreign control and plunder.
The 2010 Speech from the Throne – The Harper Doctrine
WC O'Casey, March 3, 2010
The anti-people minority government of Steven Harper today outlined their dark and ominous vision for the Canadian people. Playing to his narrow and reactionary support base, Harper sketched his government’s plans for a continued assault on organized labour and the working people of Canada. The Throne Speech to the 3rd session of the 40th Parliament of Canada is a continuation the Harper doctrine which began in 2004 with the rise of the united right-wing in Canada.
Kevin Page Wallops Flaherty – With the Truth!
Workers are going to be pressured by the federal government and corporate bosses for years to come to defer wage demands, work longer hours and pay higher taxes to pay down a war induced federal structural deficit. In spite of government denials, cuts to social spending are a certainty after the March 4th 2010 federal budget is tabled. Cuts will be hidden in baffle gab but they will occur.
It is becoming clearer everyday why Harper prorogued Parliament. The economy is in dire straits and the government doesn’t want to answer for its pro-corporate policies.
The January 13, 2010 Report of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page estimates that the Harper Conservatives have burdened Canadians workers with a huge structural deficit well into 2013. (Structural means it is permanent). The debt is largely due to government transfers of public money to the banks to prop up a sagging stock market during the global financial crisis, to pay for the US-NATO war in Afghanistan and the half-a-trillion dollar Canada First Defence Strategy. The CBC reported that Page estimated in October 2008 that the war would had cost taxpayers $18 billion by 2011. All of the opposition parties including the NDP avoid talking about the war as a major factor in budget deficits.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty cheerily predicted a year ago that the government in 2008 would post a structural surplus of $13.8 billion compared to the PBO’s more realistic $3.2 structural surplus prediction. The latest PBO study shows that both were wrong and from an essentially balanced position in 2008 the country is headed for a structural deficit of $18.9 billion by 2013-14. That is on top of the statement of the government last September that the country was wallowing in a $59 billion fiscal deficit that would take ten years to discharge providing there was an estimated annual growth of 2.5 %.
Lebanese CP - Monthly Bulletin No. 11
G8/G20 Imperialist Summit Toronto, ON June 26, 2010
Police Charge Patriotic Canadian Youth
KKE May 15, 2010 Massive Rally
The Latest From FOS:
- International
The Way I See It - Afghanistan Revisited
Those of us who support CPA, including the members of CPS assert that anti-Sovietism was and continues to be pro-war and anti-peace. During the darkest days of the cold-war when the threat of nuclear war loomed over the planet, the Soviet Union was the main force of restraint over the worst of the US imperialist reactionary forces thirsting for war.
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- Marxism-Leninism
Proposal for a New International
The proposal last November 2009 to organize a new international having the support of left-socialist revolutionary parties in Latin America, on the initiative of Hugo Chavez, is an important development in the anti-imperialist movement urgently in need of credible communist analysis.
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- Federal Politics
Prime Minister Harper (Assisted by Jim Flaherty and Peter Van Loan) Leads the Whole World Forward To the New “Enlightened Sovereignty” of the 21st Century
Prime Minister Harper’s address to the World Economic Forum (WEF)[1] in Davos Switzerland January 28, 2010 can’t be dismissed as just unctuous and vapid; it was worse than that. Harper adopting his familiar and grating patronizing manner underwhelmed the elite audience of capitalist intellectual luminaries, by suggesting that minority Conservative Government economic policies under Harper’s leadership is the example the nations of the world must follow to emerge triumphant from the worst capitalist depression since the market crash of October 1929.
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- Federal Politics
Organized Labour and the Politics of the Class Struggle Today
A Convention of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) is always a significant event in the struggle of the working class to defeat capitalism and replace it with socialism. Only the Communists strive to take responsibility for the whole revolutionary process underway in our own country and globally. Every revolutionary class conscious worker is concerned that the Communist Party becomes strengthened and more effective in fulfilling its historic responsibilities to the working class of Canada and all of its peoples and for the victorious outcome of the cause of the International Communist Movement.
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- Federal Politics
The Way I See It! - Some Critical Comments
The main link that can move the entire political process forward is a clearly articulated and unambiguous revolutionary working class program to confront US-Canadian corporate power and its stranglehold on Parliament, the State, the military and the economy. That task must be the main theme of the upcoming 36th Convention of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC). From the convention an appeal that reaches out to all of organized labour and the democratic forces of our country with a plan to unite electorally to defeat Harper, and decisively, will be influential within labour and garner widespread appeal with Canadian workers. That is a concentration task and if it is solved, the organizational tactics to achieve it can be worked out.
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VI Lenin - Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
“As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will be utilised not for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in profits for the capitalists, but for the purpose of increasing profits by exporting capital abroad to the backward countries.”
Mother's
Day Proclamation 1870
By Julia Ward Howe
Arise then...women
of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.
News
and Statements from:
The Communist Party of Canada
Communist Party of Canada May Day Statement 2010
Unite to Demand a People's Recovery!
The corporate‑owned mass media greet us daily with upbeat economic reports about how the global economic crisis is over and that ‘recovery is now well underway’. This is all very comforting, but it’s also a gross perversion of the truth.
In reality, there is no recovery for most working people in this country. Unemployment and job insecurity remain high, with over 1.5 million (8.2%) out of work according to official statistics; real unemployment is closer to 12%. Since 2003, more than half million well‑paying manufacturing jobs been wiped out, 290,000 in the past two years alone. Soon EI benefits will be running out for hundreds of thousands of these unemployed workers.
Nor is there any recovery for young people trying to find work or to complete their education. Or for Aboriginal peoples who continue to suffer systemic joblessness and grinding poverty. Or for new immigrants and their families trying to build a better life. Or for pensioners and others on fixed income.
So what kind of recovery is this? It’s a recovery for the profits of the biggest banks and corporations, and for those who own and control them.
The Communist Party of Canada has issued the Main Political Resolution coming out of the 36th Central Convention February 2010. Canadians for Peace and Socialism will be commenting on the document in the coming weeks and months. It is an essential document for all workers to read, discuss and distribute.
From the Keynote Address to the 36th Central Convention by Comrade Miguel Figueroa:
“The second and final point I wish to make refers to the centrality of our theoretical and ideological work. Of course, we have a clearly delineated theoretical perspective and world-view – Marxism-Leninism – which is reflected in our Party program, our strategy & tactics, and our daily work as Communists. We all remember Lenin’s famous dictum: “without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement”. But the theoretical basis of our Party – and that of the Communist movement internationally – can never be neglected or taken for granted, for without its constant development and application to ever-changing conditions, our theoretical basis, and with it our movement itself, would wither and perish.
"As important as this question always is, it could rightly be argued that it is even more critical today, for it is undeniable that as the class struggle intensifies, so too does the ideological struggle – the ‘battle of ideas’ – sharpen. It is hardly coincidental that it is precisely now, when the crisis of capitalism is deepening, that we witness an increased ideological offensive from our class adversary in the form of a revival of anti-communism, ‘philosophical’ attacks on the concept of socialism, and crude attempts to falsify or re-write the history of our movement in Canada and around the world.
CPC 36th Central Convention Main Political Resolution
Build Solidarity with the Striking Sudbury Miners
at Vale Inco
March 5, 2010
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Militant May Day Greetings 2010
April
30, 2010
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Rebel Youth Magazine Blog:
75,000 Quebec Workers March!
March 20, 2010
A few days after the expiry of collective agreements for employees of public and parastatal sectors, thousands of people, members and friends of the Common Front SISP-CSN-FTQ from all regions of Quebec, marched in the streets of Montreal to remind the government that the solutions to improve public services go through the negotiation.
Speech by Johan
Boyden, YCL-LJC General Secretary
To the 36 Central Convention Communist Party of Canada
Three years ago, the YCL stood at this podium giving greetings on the eve of our re-founding convention. New delegates may not know this, but in a deliberate and calculated attempt to attack the Communist Party of Canada thirty years ago, a campaign was initiated to destroy, terminate, liquidate the revolutionary youth around the Party. Some members who fought against that attack are here today.
25th Central
Convention of the YCL-LJC
September 24-26, Toronto ON
DISCUSSION BULLETIN #1
DISCUSSION BULLETIN #2
DISCUSSION BULLETIN #3
YCL Central Convention Announcement
June 23, 2010
NEW DATES : September 24-25-26
Dear comrades and friends,
As you no doubt have heard, due to unexpected circumstances the Central Committee of the YCL-LJC was forced to postpone our 25th Convention, originally scheduled for May. We are now pleased to announce the new dates of the convention: Friday September 24 to Sunday September 26, to be held in Toronto. We are re-issuing the original convention call, below, which can also be found online, together with registration.
The Central Committee encourages all clubs and members to continue to meet this summer to discuss the main documents, the pre-convention discussion, and nominate delegates. As we enter an extended period of ideological mobilization, clubs and committees should compare their concrete political realities of struggle with the framework of the main convention documents and deepen discussion of the documents.
We also encourage all clubs and committees of the YCL-LJC to re-enforce their activities building the convention financially, organizationally and politically, and to broaden and deepen our engagement with friends and allies regarding the convention.
The Central Committee has struck a special committee to review and discuss the YCL-LJC Constitution as an additional item of business for the Central Convention. The committee will be reporting by early September as a special discussion bulletin.
The deadline for convention discussion bulletin #4 is July 1, 2010.
With the additional time to organize, let's make this convention an exciting moment for the YCL-LJC and the youth struggle!
In
solidarity and comradeship,
