Category: NDP
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CPC BC Statement: Stop the Attacks on DRIPA!
The Provincial Executive of the Communist Party of BC condemns the escalating attacks on DRIPA by the major political parties in Victoria. On Monday, December 8th, interim leader of the BC Conservatives, Trevor Halford, called on NDP Premier David Eby to reconvene the legislature to repeal the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act…
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BC’s Bill 31 a pretext for US takeover of Canada’s minerals
On October 20, BC Premier David Eby introduced Bill 31, The Energy Statutes Amendment Act. The legislation is being touted as a necessary measure to speed up “nation building projects” in the face of threats to Canada’s sovereignty from US President Donald Trump. When looked at in the larger context of Canada’s economic restructuring, however, the bill…
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Eby Government Violates Indigenous Rights to Protect Resource Sector Profits
After narrowly winning a provincial election in which his party campaigned as defenders of Indigenous peoples, Premier David Eby’s NDP has quickly broken its solemn commitments to uphold the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Instead, the NDP is following the same natural resource extraction and export agenda promoted by the new federal…
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STATEMENT: Public Service Bargaining and the BCGEU’s Trade Union Struggle
The BCGEU represents 95,000 members across British Columbia, including over 34,000 employed directly by the provincial government under the Main Public Service Agreement. This agreement, which functions as a wage and working conditions benchmark across the province in multiple sectors, expired at the end of March 2025. After nearly seven months of bargaining, the Union…
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NDP Firing of Victoria School Trustees – Another Step on the Pro-Police Road
Statement from the BC Provincial Committee, Communist Party of Canada, Feb. 3, 2025 On January 30, BC’s NDP government fired the Greater Victoria School Board (District 61), a move that was loudly cheered by the Conservative opposition. The government claims that the Board “endangered the safety of students” by cancelling the school police liaison officer…
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May Day 2024: Unite and Fight for Peace, Jobs, and Rising Living Standards
May Day 2024 marks the rising struggle of workers against low wages and falling living standards, after years of austerity, high prices and gargantuan profits by the biggest national and transnational corporations. A year and a half of high interest rates by the Bank of Canada has enabled the big banks, landlords, developers, loan sharks…