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Featured Articles from the print edition of Focus On Socialism (still under construction, check back regularly - last updated December 29, 2010) The Political Journals Focus On Socialism (FOS) is the political journal of Canadians for Peace and Socialism (CPS). Focus On Socialism follows Focus Newsletter (FNL) and Focus On Marxism-Leninism (FOML) which were first published in 1979 by the Committee of Canadian Communists (CCC) under the editorship of William (Bill) Beeching. Focus Newsletter was the organizational and news organ of the CCC. FNL Volume One, Number One appeared May 1979. Focus On Marxism-Leninism was the theoretical journal of the CCC. FOML Volume One, Number One was published in September 1979 following the 24^th Convention of the Communist Party of Canada. Following the expulsion of William Beeching from the Communist Party of Canada by the Central Executive Committee for the publication of “Yours in the Struggle – Reminiscences of Tim Buck” the Committee of Canadian Communists (CCC) was formed. The CCC was not a political party. An undated (estimated around December 1977) correspondence to “All members of the Communist Party of Canada” stated, Beeching was removed for “defying the decisions of the Central Executive Committee” in disregard of “democratic centralism”. As the letter, signed as the “Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada”, stated: “The CC decided to suspend comrade Beeching as a member of the Central Committee and comrade Phyllis Clarke as an alternate member of the Central Committee for ‘grave violation of democratic centralism in defiance of a decision of the Central Executive Committee’. “In addition to these disciplinary measures taken by the Central Committee against two of its members, the CEC is taking steps to receive an accounting from other comrades associated with the publication and promotion of "Yours in the Struggle", and will take whatever disciplinary measures it deems necessary in accordance with the outcome of the said accountings.” The necessity to form an organization outside of the Communist Party of Canada by lifelong communists was precipitated by CEC taking “whatever disciplinary measures it deems necessary”. The “necessary” disciplinary actions where to expel the National Organizer of the CPC, Don Currie, and the Chairman of the Young Communist League, Chuck McFadden. In response to this action by the leadership of the Communist Party the Committee of Canadian Communists was formed. The CEC labelled Beeching as a “leftist” and “anti-party”, dissolved the Saskatchewan Provincial Committee and appointed and unknown candidate from Toronto with no knowledge of Regina East as the CPC candidate. As was stated in Focus Newsletter Volume 1 Number 2 August 1979: “Those of us who organized the Committee of Canadian Communists only did so after a long period of struggle and only after a number of us were expelled, suspended and isolated from the membership of the Party, objects of monstrous lies and gossip. While the formation of the CCC was a criticism of the Communist Party it was not an anti-Communist act as the present leadership would have the membership believe. CCC members would prefer to be members of the Communist Party which we did not voluntarily leave. “The CCC is not a political party. We based our call for support to the Communist Party of Canada in the recent federal election on a political assessment of what was at stake for the working class. The CCC will continue to base its political positions on what it considers to be in the interests of workers and farmers. At this time, we reaffirm our support for the Communist Party of Canada and its program. We are not seeking the permission or the approval; of the present leadership of the Communist Party to make such a declaration. The Communist Party is not the property of its leadership. It is the creation of the Canadian working class and all workers and farmers have the right to express themselves in support of the Party individually, collectively or in any fashion they choose.”
	Volume 1, Issue 1, May 1979 Volume 1, Issue 2, August 1979 Volume 2, Issue 1, February 1980 Volume 2, Issue 2, September 1980 Volume 2, Special Supplement, November 1980 Volume 3, April 1981 Volume 3, Issue 1, June 1981
	Volume 1, Issue 1, September 1979 Volume 2, Issue 1, April 1980 Volume 2, Issue 2, December 1980
	Volume 4, Issue 1, Special Edition, January 1982 Volume 4, Special Edition, April 1982 Volume 4, Issue 2, March 1983 Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1984 Volume 5, Issue 2, May 1984 Volume 5, Issue 3, August 1984 Volume 5, Issue 4, November 1984 Volume 6, Special Edition, January 1985 Volume 6, Issue 1, June 1985 Volume 7, Issue 1, August 1986 Volume 8, Special Edition, January 1988 Volume 8, Issue 1, September 1988 Volume 8, Discussion Bulletin, November 1988 Volume 8, Issue 2, December 1988 Volume 9, Issue 1, March 1989 Volume 9, Issue 2, September 1989 Volume 9, Issue 3, October 1989 Volume 10, Issue 1, January 1990 Volume 10, Issue 2, May 1990 Volume 10, Issue 4, September 1990
	Volume 3, Issue 1, October 1981
	Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2004 Volume 24, Issue 2, March 2005 Volume 24, Issue 3, June 2005 Volume 24, Issue 4, September 2005 Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2006
	Volume 25, Issue 2, November 2006 Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2007 Volume 26, Issue 2, May 2007 Volume 27, Issue 1, February 2008

Focus On Socialism: Articles Posted to the FOS from CPS Authors

Title	Author	Date Published
New Year’s Statement – 2011	Canadians for Peace and Socialism (CPS)	12/27/2010
Open Letter to the Members and Supporters of CPS and CPC on the 12th IMCWP	Don Currie, Chair CPS	11/30/2010
CPS Information Page - Yes to Peace No to NATO	CPS	11/29/2010
Focus On Socialism (FOS) Editorial Board Public Statement	FOS Editorial Board,CPS	11/28/2010
Statement – Canadians for Peace and Socialism on Rising Tensions on the Korean Peninsula	Canadians for Peace & Socialism, CPS	11/23/2010
US-NATO Decree: Continue Canadian Military Commitment to the War in Afghanistan	WC O'Casey, CPS	11/14/2010
From the Editors Desk	Don Currie, Editor FOS, CPS	11/14/2010
Our Fight for Independent National Policies is Our Fight for Peace	Wc O'Casey, CPS	11/5/2010
A Brief Background on Afghanistan	Don Currie, Chair CPS	11/4/2010
Israeli Occupiers of Palestinian lands attempt to make everyone complicit in their crimes	Don Currie, Chair CPS	10/24/2010
For a Canadian Foreign Policy of Peace!	Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	10/17/2010
NATO Meets to Plan Expansion, Repression and Future Wars	Don Currie, Chair CPS	10/17/2010
An Urgent Appeal to the Canadian Communists: Stop US-Israel Attempts to Start War On Iran	Don Currie, Chair CPS	8/27/2010
The Way I See It!	Don Currie, Chair CPS	7/8/2010
Statement: Canadians for Peace and Socialism	Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	6/30/2010
Canadian Banks and the Canadian Economy – The Big Hoax Prime Minister Harper Will Foist on the G8 and G20	Don Currie, Chair CPS	6/23/2010
VI Lenin 140 Years	CPS Editor	5/31/2010
Canadians for Peace and Socialism Comments on the Israeli Government Attack on the Gaza Flotilla	Canadians for Peace and Socialism (CPS)	5/31/2010
The Cheonan - Another Gulf of Tonkin?	Cathy Fischer, CPS	5/30/2010
65th Anniversary of VE Day	CPS	5/23/2010
The 65th Anniversary of the Allied Victory Over Nazi Germany!	Don Currie, Editor FOS, CPS	5/5/2010
Open Letter to Heather Mallick on the Distortions of the Role of Stalin in the Defeat of Hitler Germany	Don Currie, Chair CPS	5/5/2010
Email to all Members of Parliament on the BP Oil Rig Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico	Don Currie, Chair CPS	5/5/2010
The 60th Anniversary of VE Day	Don Currie, Chair CPS	5/4/2010
No BP Disaster on Any Canadian Coastal Waters!	Don Currie, Chair CPS	4/30/2010
What State Secrets Can the Canadian People Not be Trusted to See?	Don Currie, Chair CPS	4/29/2010
Open Letter to the Canadian Peace Congress	Don Currie, Chair CPS	4/26/2010
On the Occasion of the 140th Anniversary of the Birth of Lenin	Don Currie, Editor FOS, CPS	4/22/2010
Draft Resolution - Canadian Peace Congress Extraordinary Convention	Authored By Don Currie, CPS	4/21/2010
May Day Statement Canadians for Peace and Socialism	Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	4/17/2010
A Note on the Pravda article on recent events in Ukraine	Don Currie, Chair CPS	4/17/2010
Call for a May Day 2010 Coalition	John Beeching, Honorary Chair, CPS	4/17/2010
The Liberal Party “Thinkers Conference”	Don Currie, Chair Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	4/12/2010
An Open Letter to Alex Atamanenko, NDP MP BC Southern Interior	Don Currie, Chair Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	4/7/2010
The Harper-Flaherty March 4th 2010 Federal Budget	Don Currie, Chair CPS	3/9/2010
International Women’s Day	Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	3/5/2010
International Women’s Day March 8th 2010	Don Currie, Editor Focus on Socialism, CPS	3/5/2010
The 2010 Speech from the Throne	WC O'Casey, CPS	3/4/2010
Harper, Flaherty, Carney, Day: The Gang of Four	WC O'Casey, CPS	2/28/2010
The Harper Minority Government Supports NATO Plan to Supplant the United Nations	Focus Commentary, CPS	2/22/2010
Attack on Workers Unprecedented, Silence is Not an Option	WC O'Casey, CPS	2/20/2010
The Way I See It - Afghanistan Revisited	Don Currie, Chair of CPS	2/16/2010
Proposal for a New International	Don Currie, Chair CPS	2/15/2010
Honduras Coup – Mining Companies Regain Lost Concessions	CPS Regina Branch	2/13/2010
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	Don Currie - Chair CPS	1/31/2010
The Lessons of January 23, 2010	Don Currie - Editor FOS, CPS	1/24/2010
Once More on the Harper Cabinet Shuffle	Don Currie - Editor FOS, CPS	1/22/2010
A True Canadian Patriot and National Visionary	WC O'Casey, CPS	1/22/2010
Block the US Auction of Whistler Blackcomb	CPS	1/20/2010
Kevin Page Wallops Flaherty – With the Truth!	Don Currie - Chair CPS	1/16/2010
The Way I See It – Statement on the Crisis in Haiti	Don Currie - Chair CPS	1/15/2010
Organized Labour and the Politics of the Class Struggle Today	Don Currie - Chair CPS	1/6/2010
The Way I See It! - Some Critical Comments	Don Currie - Chair CPS	1/6/2010
2009 Labour Day Statement of Canadians for Peace and Socialism	Don Currie, Chair CPS	9/5/2009
Canadian Workers Labour 5 Years for Free	WC O'Casey, CPS	7/12/2009
From Resistance to Counter Offensive!	Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	6/21/2009
For Principled Solidarity with Working Class and Left Revolutionary Democratic Forces in Iran	Don Currie, Chair CPS	6/19/2009
Oust the Harper Conservatives on Friday June 19th	Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	6/15/2009
Back to Buck, Forward to Socialism	Don Currie, Chair CPS	6/14/2009
May Day Statement	Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	5/1/2009
CAW Embattled - Solidarity and Support	Don Currie, Chair CPS	4/22/2009
Fascism & the 21st Century	John Beeching, Honorary Chair, CPS	4/1/2009
WORLD PEACE COUNCIL CELEBRATES 60 YEARS OF WORKING FOR PEACE	CPS - Regina Club	3/26/2009
Canada and the G20 - State-Monopoly Capital Fights for Advantage as Global Capitalism Slides into Depression!	Don Currie - Chair, CPS	3/26/2009
For the Record:	Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	3/24/2009
NATO'S 60 YEARS AND THE THREAT OF WAR	Regina Club - CPS	3/23/2009
Lift the ban on George Galloway: Kenney Proves Harper is a Hypocrite!	Don Currie, Chair CPS	3/20/2009
The Way I See It - Prime Minister Harper Preaches to the Converted	Don Currie, Chair CPS	3/10/2009
Statement Canadians for Peace and Socialism - International Women's Day	Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	3/8/2009
For a Labour Summit Now! Government is failing the People! Labour Must Lead!	Don Currie, Chair CPS	3/4/2009
Talking to US Workers about President Obama s Visit to Canada	Don Currie - Chair CPS	2/23/2009
The Economic Crisis and the Role of the Progressive Left as the Country Heads for the 41st Federal Election!	Don Currie, Chair CPS	2/9/2009
Some Observations on President Barack Obama s Inaugural Speech	Don Currie, Chair CPS	1/25/2009
The January 27th Conservative Budget! Stimulus or Another Gold Plated Conservative Bamboozle?	Don Currie, Chair CPS	1/24/2009
US President Barack Obama Visits Canada	Don Currie, Chair CPS	1/15/2009
For a New Government of Labour, Peace and Economic Renewal!	Don Currie, Chair CPS	1/1/2009
Statement: Canadians for Peace and Socialism (CPS) on the Israeli Bombing of Gaza	Don Currie, CPS Chair	12/28/2008
Statement - Canadians for Peace and Socialism: No Backroom Lib-Con Deals!, Reject Any Conservative Budget!, Oust the Harper Conservatives!	Don Currie, Chair CPS	12/16/2008
Reprint: Canadians for Peace and Socialism Contribution to the Pre-Convention Discussion, 35th Central Convention Communist Party of Canada, February 1-4, 2007	Don Currie, Chair CPS	12/5/2008
The Way I See It! - The Parliamentary Lockout	Don Currie - Chair, Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	12/5/2008
CPS Statement - Organized Labour and a Liberal-NDP-Bloc Coalition Government	Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	11/29/2008
On the Occasion of the 80th Birthday of Cathy Fischer	Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	11/28/2008
Commentary on the Question of Labour and the Environment	Don Currie - Chair, CPS	11/25/2008
Statement of Canadians for Peace and Socialism on the International Meeting of Communist and Worker s Parties, Sao Paolo Brazil, November 21-23, 2008	Don Currie, CPS Chair	11/18/2008
Foreign Military Bases	Don Currie - Chair CPS	11/6/2008
The Way I See It The Outcome of the 40th Federal Election	Don Currie - Chai,CPS	10/15/2008
Developing the Home Market in the Face of a Coordinated Attack	William O'Casey, CPS	10/13/2008
The October 14th Federal Election and the Global Capitalist Crisis	CPS	10/13/2008
Harper Exposed: The Leaders Debate - A Failed System and More Promises	William O'Casey, CPS	10/5/2008
Fear Grips Party Leaders as System Heads for Depression	William O'Casey, CPS	10/5/2008
Liberal Thinkers and the Crisis on the Left	William O'Casey, CPS	10/5/2008
Bamboozled Part II: Fighting a Carbon Neutral Clean Fuel War	William O'Casey, CPS	9/28/2008
New Democratic Party Election Program Moves Left - Electoral Support is Building	Don Currie - Editor FOS, CPS	9/28/2008
Harper's Plans for a Non-Election Derailed	FOS, CPS	9/28/2008
The Working Class: A Class for Capitalism or a Class for Itself?	Don Currie - Chair CPS	9/28/2008
The Way I See It! - Guarantee Full Security for Family Incomes - Not Bank Losses!	Don Currie - Editor, FOS, CPS	9/28/2008
The Way I See It! - Green Shift or the Green Shaft?	Don Currie - Editor, FOS, CPS	9/20/2008
What Was Said and When We Said It!	CPS	9/20/2008
Science, Human Progress, and Marxism	CPS	9/20/2008
An Opening for the Left - The 40th Canadian Federal election is not the 39th	CPS	9/20/2008
Go Along for the Ride Or Fight to Get Rid of the System	CPS	9/20/2008
The “Left” Bamboozled Again!	William O'Casey, CPS	9/14/2008
Canadian Electricity Generation by Fuel Type	FOS, CPS	9/14/2008
Canadians Got It Right. The Media Moguls Got It Wrong!	FOS, CPS	9/14/2008
It's the "Stupid Economy"	FOS, CPS	9/14/2008
Talking About Wage Earners Acting For Big Business	Don Currie - Chair CPS	9/14/2008
The Bob and Weave Harper Neo-Cons and the McCain-Palin Connection	Don Currie - Chair, CPS	9/7/2008
500 Ducks? A Worker s Response to Harper s Election Playbook of War, Hyper-Profit, Resource Sell-Out and Labour Intensification	William O'Casey, CPS	9/7/2008
Left Turn Canada Election 2008: The Canadian and the US Elections The Energy Connection	FOS Editorial Board, CPS	8/31/2008
Left Turn Canada Election 2008: Labour and Peace Central to the Defeat of Harper Neo-Cons	FOS Editorial Board, CPS	8/31/2008
Left Turn Canada Election 2008: Labour, the NDP and the Left	FOS Editorial Board, CPS	8/31/2008
CPS- Labour Day Statement 2008	CPS	8/27/2008
The Way I See It! - An October Federal Election?	Don Currie - Chair CPS	8/27/2008
State, Government and the Working Class	Don Currie, Chair - CPS	8/19/2008
CPS Viewpoint on the Canadian Labour Congress 25th Constitutional Convention	Don Currie, Chair - CPS	5/23/2008
The Way I See It! - Statement on Autoworkers	Don Currie, CPS	5/13/2008
Viewpoint - Labour and Peace: Alberta and the Attack on Organized Labour	Sean Currie - Edmonton Peace Council, CPS	3/24/2008
CPS Statement on International Women s Day	CPS	3/8/2008
Prime Minister Harper Calls for More War!	CPS	2/21/2008
Part Two Labour and the Nation: The Changes in the Composition of the Working Class and the Fight Back Against the Deindustrialization of Canada	Don Currie - Chair CPS	2/17/2008
Letter to the Editor on Afghan War and Manley Report	Don Currie, Chair CPS	2/17/2008
Open Letter to Stephane Dion	Don Currie - Chair CPS	2/9/2008
Send A Message to Ottawa!	CPS	1/22/2008
Canadian Imperial Ambitions and BMD The Energy Connection	Sean Currie Edmonton Peace Council, Member of Canadian Peace Congress, CPS	1/15/2008
Viewpoint Labour and Peace, The Way Forward for Organized Labour	Sean Currie - Edmonton Peace Council, CPS	1/15/2008
Open Letter to NDP Caucus	Don Currie - CPS Chair	1/12/2008
The Way I See It! - Organized Labour and Working Class Communities Compel Prime Minister Harper to Call First Minister Meeting to Consider Job Loss	Don Currie, Chair CPS	1/10/2008
CPS New Year Greeting - Left Turn Canada	Don Currie, Chair Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	1/6/2008
Organized Labour Unlocking the Potential for Political Action The Sources of Unity and Militancy Today	Don Currie - Chair CPS	12/24/2007
The Saskatchewan Provincial Elections More Than A Changing of the Guard (Part One)	Don Currie, Chair CPS	12/20/2007
Canada Headed for a New US-NATO War?	CPS National Centre	11/24/2007
Asset Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) Moral Bankruptcy and a Possible Recession	Don Currie - Chair CPS	11/24/2007
The Magna-CAW Framework of Fairness Agreement (FFA)	Don Currie, Chair Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	11/13/2007
Viewpoint: Energy Superpower Superpower Military Budgets, A New Canadian Imperialism	Sean Currie - Financial Secretary, Edmonton Peace Council, CPS	11/11/2007
The Way I See It! Parliamentary Collusion! Corporate Agenda IN! Labour s Agenda OUT!	Don Currie, Chair Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	10/31/2007
Parliament is Supreme! Not Non-Elected Power Elites.	Don Currie - Chair CPS	10/12/2007
The Way I See It! - The Opening of Parliament and the Opposition Parties!	Don Currie - Chair CPS	9/28/2007
A Dangerous Demagogue	Statement by Canadians for Peace & Socialism, CPS	9/24/2007
Open Letter to Opposition Leaders - No Deals Defeat the Harper Neo-Cons!	Don Currie, CPS	9/24/2007
CPS Calls for Urgent Action to Work Towards a National Conference for an Alternative Economic Program of Peace	CPS National Centre	7/16/2007
NDP Submits Motion to Standing Committee on International Trade Calling for Suspension of Security and Prosperity Partnership	CPS Edmonton	7/15/2007
Imperialism and Socialism in the 21st	CPS	7/4/2007
Imperialism and Socialism in the 21st Century	CPS	7/4/2007
The Way I See It - Bush/Putin G8 Summit	Don Currie, CPS	6/6/2007
The Way I See It! - NDP April 24th Parliamentary Blunder	Don Currie, CPS	4/25/2007
Open Letter to Jack Layton on Not Running a Canidate in Central Nova	Don Currie - Chair CPS	4/14/2007
CPS Greetings to 24th Central Convention of the Young Communist League of Canada	CPS	3/27/2007
The Quebec Elections Part 2 - The Shift to the Right in Quebec on March 26th and Why It Happened!	Don Currie, CPS	3/27/2007
Save The Canadian Wheat Board - CPS Statement	CPS	3/6/2007
International Women's Day - 2007	CPS	3/5/2007
AFL Asks - Whose Oil?	CPS	3/5/2007
Class Approach to the Environment and Oil Sector	CPS	3/4/2007
The Charest-Harper Plan to Betray Quebec Labour	CPS	2/24/2007
The Central Issue is the Afganistan War	Canadians for Peace and Socialism, CPS	2/21/2007
Political Journal	CPS	2/18/2007
The Imperial PMO and the Four "Truths"	CPS	2/14/2007
Role & Place of NDP	CPS	2/13/2007
CN Workers Stike	CPS	2/13/2007
CPC 35th Pre-Convention Highlights	CPS National Centre	2/8/2007
35th Central Convention Communist Party of Canada	Don Currie, Chair Canadians for Peace and Socialism (CPS)	2/8/2007

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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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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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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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V.I. Lenin State and Revolution – 1916 – Volume 25 page 410 Progress Publishers Moscow 1964.

“Imperialism – the era of bank capital, the era of gigantic capitalist monopolies, of the development of monopoly capitalism into state monopoly capitalism – has clearly shown an extraordinary strengthening of the “state machine” and an unprecedented growth in its bureaucratic and military apparatus in connection with the intensification of repressive measures against the proletariat both in the monarchial and in the freest, republic countries.”

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.”

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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.

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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 36^th Central Convention Main Political Resolution

Build Solidarity with the Striking Sudbury Miners at Vale Inco
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Militant May Day Greetings 2010
April 30, 2010
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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.

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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.

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25th Central Convention of the YCL-LJC
September 24-26, Toronto ON

DISCUSSION BULLETIN #1
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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,