LABOUR DAY 2018: TIME TO STEP UP THE FIGHTBACK!

Statement by the Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada On Labour Day 2018, the working class faces many crucial challenges: the growing chasm between rich and poor, the ongoing austerity assault against working people, a gender pay gap which never gets narrower, the twin threats of imperialist wars and […]

ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST TO SPEAK AT VANCOUVER & SURREY FORUMS

Responding to the constant drumbeat of threats against Iran by Donald Trump and his key foreign policy advisors, the Vancouver Peace Council warns that U.S. imperialism’s plans for new sanctions and military aggression pose an enormous danger to the peoples of the Middle East, and in fact to the entire […]

CANADA’S HYPOCRISY ON DISPLAY IN MIDDLE EAST

Statement by the Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada, Aug. 16, 2018 The ongoing diplomatic dispute between Canada and Saudi Arabia is a tragic reflection of the catastrophic abuses of human rights in our world today – but not in the way presented by Canadian political leaders and the […]

DISCONTENT CITY NANAIMO CONFRONTS FASCISTS AND RIGHT-WINGERS

By James Chumsa-Jones   On Sunday, August 5 a confrontation took place in Nanaimo outside the homeless camp known as DisconTent City between protesters wanting to dismantle the camp and counter-protesters. The group called Action Against Discontent City organized the protest on its Facebook page, which involved marching past City […]

PAST BC TEACHERS PRESIDENT SENTENCED FOR PIPELINE PROTEST

PV Vancouver Bureau The Supreme Court of BC continues to jail environmental activists for defying a court injunction criminalizing protests against expansion of the TransMountain pipeline. Many of those given week-long prison sentences for their actions are senior citizens who have blocked the gates of the company in Burnaby. Among […]