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A Brief Background on Afghanistan
Re-Print: July 2007 - Don Currie, Chair CPS
A Brief Background on Afghanistan
Don Currie
Canadians for Peace & Socialism
Reprint from July 2007
The following is reprint of a presentation made to the Nelson Peace Coalition in July 2007. It is being presented as part of the FOS contribution to the call by the World Peace Council for a response to NATO's Summit in Lisbon Portugal Nov 21 2010. YES TO PEACE! NO TO NATO! (Editor)
Afghanistan emerged from a feudal state late in its development. Most people were semi-literate. Literacy today is about 40%. Tribal society was roughly divided among Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Turkmen in the North and the Pushtans in the South. The Pushtan traditional territory straddles Southern Afghanistan and Pakistan while the Tajiks, Uzbeks and Turkmen populations inhabit the North.
Afghanistan shares a large western border with Iran, a large south and eastern border with Pakistan a large northern border with the former Soviet Republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. It shares a small border with China in the North.
New! December 29, 2010 From (Solidnet)
Stop the imperialist interference in Ivory Coast internal affairs!
Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (PADS)
Solidarity with patriot and progressive people struggle in Ivory Coast in order to break the chains of neo-colonialism!
Foreign troops, get out!
PADS déclaration sur la Côte d'Ivoire
December 29, 2010
Updated! - December 28, 2010
Ivory Coast Elections
As reported in the Globe and Mail on November 19th, 2010, Canadian foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon called for the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo and hand power over to Alassane Ouattara. Focus On Socialism presents two articles from the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PCRCI). The PCRCI said:
“The Revolutionary Communist Party of the Ivory Coast (PCRCI) is convinced that a civil war would be disastrous since it would only aggravate the situation of the popular masses and of the whole country, and strengthen imperialist domination. It is of the greatest importance that everything be done so that the popular will is accepted by all the protagonists. For our part the PCRCI will make every effort to avoid a reactionary civil war that is on the horizon. All actions that attempt to divide the people of the Ivory Coast, to incite them to tribal and racial hatred and xenophobia must be fought and rejected.”
APPEAL BY PCRCI TO THE
PEOPLES OF COTE D'IVOIRE TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT FOR THE TRIUMPH OF THE DEMOCRATIC
REVOLUTION
Revolutionary Communist Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PCRCI)
The Central Committee October 2, 2010
(Translated by Google)
The crisis of the neo-colonial system in Côte d'Ivoire continues to deepen every day. The economic base of the country has been destroyed throwing thousands of workers out of work and in the street. Youth unemployment and poverty grows. Political power was confiscated in 2005. Mismanagement, theft of public funds, the disruption of economic and administrative structures, and the impunity of political and economic crimes are the salient features of the management of power by the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI).
The Foreign Policy of the Iranian Regime, a Serious Threat to the National Interest
Tudeh Party of Iran
The inappropriate, and in some cases dangerously provoking statements and actions of the leaders of the Iranian regime in the international arena during the recent weeks, though might not have been widely reflected domestically, but could not but raise the appropriate reaction of the progressive and popular political forces because of the impact these actions and statements could have on the future developments in our country.
It appears that particular circles in the highest decision making levels of the theocratic regime of the Supreme Religious Leadership are consciously and intentionally focusing all their efforts to push Iran into an adventurous international posture, and to provoke the dominating war seeking powers in the capitalist world to a confrontation.
News From the Communist Party of
Israel
Ten thousands protest loyalty oath bill and racist laws in Tel-Aviv
Communist Party Israel (CPI)
October 18, 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.
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.”
Reliance on our great heritage is the worthy and honest choice
An open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
December 21, 2010
Gennady Zyuganov, Chair of the CC CPRF
Dear Mr.President,
Bad news has become the constant background to Russia’s life. Rampant crime in the village of Kushchevskaya in the Kuban area and the youth riot in Manezh Square in Moscow have been added to the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Power Station, the fire at the “Lame Horse” nightclub in Perm and the explosion at the Raspadskaya coal mine, the flagship mine in Kuzbass. All these are no mere accidents. Each of these events is like a tocsin, a warning and a call for radical change.
The incompetence of power continues to engulf Russia. People capable of tackling the most complicated and responsible tasks are sorely in short supply at all the levels of power. Meanwhile, key offices continue to be held by those whose names are closely associated with an endless string of failures and setbacks. Kudrin’s financial policy is bleeding the economy and the Russian regions white, smothering agriculture and science, small and medium-sized business. The army and navy have been placed at the mercy of Serdyukov who is humiliating the Armed Forces and creating unemployment by throwing out into the street hundreds of thousands of officers and warrant offices.
The World Peace Council
Speech by Socorro Gomes for
the Secretariat meeting of the World Peace Council
October 10-12 2010
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Socorro Gomes, President of
the World Peace Council Demands that NATO be dissolved
Pravda - September 9, 2010
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Statement of Portuguese
Council of Peace and Cooperation
Campaign for the defence of peace and against the NATO Summit in Portugal
June 25th, 2010
Read...
Statement of World Peace
Council (WPC) on the condemnation of the brutal Israeli attack on solidarity
mission to Palestine
May 31st, 2010
Read...
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.”
Read...
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.
Read...
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.
Read...
KKE protests NATO Conference in
Greece
February 19, 2010
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US-NATO Decree: Continue Canadian Military Commitment to the War in Afghanistan
November 13, 2010 - WC O'Casey
US-NATO Decree: Continue Canadian Military Commitment to the War in Afghanistan
The Harper Regime and Executive Power
By WC O’Casey
November 13, 2010
Canadians were delivered the US-NATO decision to extend Canada’s “mission” in Afghanistan on November 11, 2010 by Prime Minister Harper. The timing of the announcement coincided with Prime Minister Harper’s visit to the G20 meetings in Seoul South Korea, Remembrance Day in Canada and where 60 years earlier under the mantra of “collective security” the Cold War government of Louis St. Laurent announce plans to re-arm the Canadian Forces and collaborate in US imperialist aggression in North Korea.
Our Fight for Independent National Policies is Our Fight for Peace
Yes to Peace – No to NATO!
WC O'Casey
November 5, 2010
“Economic planning operated in a capitalist country falls far short of the possibilities of planning under socialism when the working people have political power but, even with the limitations of private ownership, it can be used to produce results for the people until they can establish their political supremacy”
Tim Buck – Put Monopoly Under Control, Progress Publishers, Toronto, 1964, pp 25
For the Canadian people who in their majority are dependent on wages, an expanding economy to provide jobs, income and social and retirement security is vital. A growing economy means jobs and income – it means guarantees for the future of working families. Regional, national and foreign policies of governments are central to that aim. Government policies can benefit workers or exclude them from the productive capacity of the nation, providing benefits exclusively to the narrow profit motive.
The primary factors in determining the level of national income and which sectors of the Canadian economy contribute to and benefit from that goal is the national policy of the nation. Determining the direction, content and whose interests government policies serve, in Canada, is a fight for control over our nation, to place all national resources and its full productive capacity in the service of the Canadian people first.
The importance of this task confronts all working Canadians. The task is of first rate importance, one which will compel the nation to choose a course of independent action or to remain locked into the economic imperialist policies of US monopoly capital.
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
30,000 Say Yes to Peace! No to NATO!
Lisbon Nov.21, 2010
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.
Read more...
- 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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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.”
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,
