Social Justice and Equality
Commentary by the Communist Party
Every issue of People's Voice gives you the latest on the fightback from coast to coast in the struggle of Aboriginal peoples, women and youth. Check out the latest peace news the corporate media won't print here.
Social justice and equality
- Recognize the national rights of Aboriginal peoples and Quebec to self-determination, up to and including the right of secession, and draft a new constitution based on an equal and voluntary partnership of the Aboriginal peoples, Quebec, and English-speaking Canada
- Legislate full pay and employment equity
- Provide abortion and reproductive rights services in every province and territory
- Enact mixed-member proportional representation and the right to recall MPs
- Repeal the Anti-Terrorism Act and abolish secret detention without trial, “national security” certificates, the “no-fly list” and other security state laws which target the Muslim and South Asian communities, aboriginal peoples, and the civil rights of all Canadians
- Reverse Tory changes to the Immigration Act (C-50)
- Adopt a Labour Bill of Rights to guarantee the rights of workers to organize, bargain collectively, take political action, and strike
Justice for Aboriginal Peoples!
Reflecting the rising strength of grassroots Aboriginal movements, a second annual “National Day of Action” has been called on May 29 by the Assembly of First Nations. The AFN’s Call reflects the just demands of Treaty-status nations on reserves. For us, the Day is a welcome opportunity to support the AFN’s Call and to raise a larger discussion involving all Aboriginal peoples in the land called Canada, status and non-status alike.
Harper out ... of Ottawa!
It's time for Queer Canadians to out Harper. To be clear: we really need to get Stephen Harper and his crowd out of Ottawa!!
International Women's Day 2008
For almost a century, IWD has been a day to unite and mobilize for the right to vote, reproductive choice, labour rights, protections against violence, improved social programs, and opposition to homophobia, racism and xenophobia. But today, decades of hard-won gains are under fire from profit-hungry corporations, fundamentalist groups, and right-wing governments. The defence of women's equality rights is an essential part of the struggle to stop the Tory/corporate attack on working people and to defeat the Harper government at the polls.
Release Omar Khadr Now!
As more light is shed on the case of Omar Khadr, it becomes increasingly obvious to the world that the Pentagon’s prosecution of this young Canadian “child soldier” is a sickening violation of international legal standards and human rights.
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Oppose Laibar Singh Deporation
The Communist Party of Canada, which has a long and proud history of opposition to this country's racist and antidemocratic immigration and refugee policies, gives full support to the struggle to allow Laibar Singh to remain in Canada.
Against capitalism’s crises and wars, build a united fightback!
This May Day – the international day of working class solidarity and struggle – working people across Canada and around the world face immense challenges. The systemic crisis of global capitalism has entered a new phase, one that increasingly threatens the very future of humanity and the liveability of our planet.
