August 2008 Central Committee

Meeting Summary
(Issued Sept. 12th 2008)

The Central Committee of the Communist Party met in late August 2008 to consider a number of important international and domestic issues, to review Party work since our previous CC last December, and to chart our work for the period ahead.

In anticipation of the coming federal election (which has now been called for October 14, 2008), and given the central importance of this issue to the immediate and long-term interests of our class and to the people of Canada as a whole, the Central Committee discussed and adopted a special position paper entitled “For a People’s Energy Plan for Canada”.

The centrepiece of the People’s Energy Plan is public ownership through nationalization, and the democratic, popular control of energy resource extraction, production and distribution.

It is around this pivotal question that the most intense battles will be fought. But its achievement will be decisive in breathing real content into the entire plan:

(1) because nationalization and the resulting access to the enormous wealth it generates are necessary to publicly finance the other investments and transformations elaborated in the plan;

and (2) only through the sweeping nationalization of Canada’s energy resources will it be possible to break the economic and political power of the giant monopolies – the fiercest enemies of energy democratization.

This important document outlines our Party’s policy position on a number of crucial interrelated matters on energy and the environment. It incorporates and builds upon longstanding Party policy on these issues, and addresses new questions which have emerged in recent years.

The Central Committee also adopted several other special resolutions during its August session, outlined below.

 

• Peoples Energy Programme page
• Special Resolutions (pdf)
  • Support War Resistors - Stop the Deportations
  • Salute the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
  • Justice for Victims of Police Violence and Racism
  • End Tory Coruption
  • No to NATO Expansion
  • Solidarity with the walk for Justice