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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…
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SOLIDARITY WITH B.C. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES!
Statement by the Communist Party of BC Provincial Committee, April 9, 2022 This spring’s round of collective bargaining talks between the main union representing provincial employees and the Horgan government has reached an impasse, according to the BCGEU, which says the latest offer from the NDP is effectively a wage cut. The BC Provincial Committee…
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The Horgan government’s priority must be public health, not corporate profits
Statement by the Communist Party of BC Provincial Committee, Jan. 15, 2022 As 2022 begins, the Horgan government’s shift away from the promises which helped them win elections in 2017 and 2019 has become even more evident. Recent months have highlighted several key areas where the NDP has retreated further in the face of pressures…
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