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VOTE COMMUNIST FOR REAL CHANGE ON OCTOBER 19!
On October 19, voters will elect a new B.C. government. For many, the ballot will be disappointing at best, or terrifying at worst: a choice between four more years of achingly limited reforms from politicians who pour billions into the fossil fuel industry, or far-right politicians who promote bigotry and corporate profiteering. But in some…
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People’s Voice Walkathon 2024
The annual People’s Voice Walkathon will take place Sunday, August 25, 2024. Join us for a walk through Bear Creek Park in Surrey. We will meet at 140th St. at 10:30 before taking off on our light walk, returning for a potluck lunch at 12pm. From 12:30pm onward there will be entertainment and raffle prizes.…
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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…
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With the province on fire, the NDP must change course now!
Emergency Resolution, BC Committee CPC, August 19, 2023 Yet again this summer, wildfires are ravaging Canada, dramatic new proof of climate change directly related to human economic activity – carbon emissions in particular. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health, and there is…
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF BC PLATFORM for the June 24, 2023 by-elections VOTE KIMBALL CARIOU (Vancouver-Mount Pleasant) and TYSON RIEL STRANDLUND (Langford-Juan de Fuca)
TAX THE WEALTHY Increase annual provincial revenues by $3 billion, by rolling back the huge tax breaks granted to the wealthy & corporations by the Gordon Campbell Liberals. Abolish provincial income tax on earnings under $40,000. CLIMATE JUSTICE, NOT CARBON BOMBS Cut hydrocarbon emissions now! Stop the Site “C” dam, LNG/Coastal GasLink fossil fuel project,…
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POLICE ATTACKS WILL ONLY DEEPEN THE HOUSING CRISIS
Statement issued April 7, 2023 The BC Provincial Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada has issued the following statement condemning the Vancouver Police Department raid against homeless residents of the tents on Hastings Street, and City Council’s policy changes which led to this violent action on April 5: As feared by homeless people…
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DISMANTLE THE C-IRG, END SUPPORT FOR RESOURCE CORPORATIONS
Statement by the Communist Party of BC Provincial Committee, Jan. 14, 2023 The revelation that almost $50 million has been spent over the last five years by a special RCMP squad assigned to shut down grassroots opposition to energy and forestry projects in British Columbia is the latest proof that the BC and federal governments…
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The big picture behind the political crisis in B.C.’s ruling party
Statement by the Communist Party of BC Provincial Executive, October 24. 2022 The disqualification of Anjali Addapurai from the governing NDP’s leadership race has set off political turmoil in British Columbia. Given the ups and downs of politics, it is far too early to make predictions about the impact on the NDP’s next electoral campaign.…
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Victoria club statement on Housing demands
Sept. 19, 2022 The Scotty Neish Club of the Communist Party of Canada condemns the ongoing failures of local governments within the Capital Region District to protect the right to housing. Instead of providing housing for all, the local governments consistently avoid taking responsibility and instead choose to confront the unhoused with violence. Local government…
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BCGEU reaches tentative deal with Horgan NDP
People’s Voice Vancouver Bureau After nearly two weeks of limited but highly effective strikes, the BC General Employees’ Union’s (BCGEU) had reached a tentative three-year agreement with the government’s Public Service Agency. The deal covers 33,000 bargaining unit members working in direct government service. While it has not been ratified at PV press time, the union…