Dec. 2007 Central Committee Docs

Unite to Block GM Closure

Statement issued June 9 by the Communist Party of Canada (Ontario), calling on the federal and provincial governments to immediately intervene to block the planned closure of the GM truck plant in Oshawa

GM has just signed a legally binding agreement with the CAW that prohibits the closure of this plant; an agreement that has the force of law and that the provincial government must enforce.
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Justice for Aboriginal Peoples! Support May 29 protests!

Statement from the Central Executive Committee and Aboriginal Peoples Commission of the Communist Party of Canada

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.
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Justice pour les peuples autochtones! Appuyez les manifestations de protestations du 29 mai!

Déclaration du Comité exécutif central et de la Commission des peuples autochtones du Parti communiste du Canada

Dans le contexte du renforcement des mouvements autochtones de base, l'Assemblée des Premières Nations (APN) a convoqué une deuxième "Journée nationale d'action" annuelle pour le 29 mai.  Cet appel de l'APN reflète les justes revendications des nations ayant le statut d'autochtones relativement aux réserves.  Cette Journée représente pour nous l'occasion très attendue de soutenir l'appel de l'APN et de soulever un débat plus profond et plus large au sujet de tous les peuples dont le statut d'autochtones est reconnu ou non de ce pays appelé "Canada".
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Against capitalism's crises and wars, build a united fightback!

May Day Greetings from the Communist Party of Canada

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.
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Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) - Parti Communiste du Canada (Ontario)
290A Danforth Avenue, Toronto ON M4K 1N6 Tel: 416-469-2446

April 27, 2008

For Immediate Release

Contact: Elizabeth Rowley – 416-469-2446 office; 416-820-2932 cell

Defeat Back to Work Legislation!
Defend Free Collective Bargaining and the Right to Strike!

Communist Party (Ontario) leader Elizabeth Rowley today condemned Liberal legislation to send striking TTC workers back to work, and called on the NDP to vote against the legislation and to defend the right to strike in Ontario.

“Local 113 of the Amalgamated Transit Union is one day into a legal strike. There is absolutely no justification for back to work legislation, and we call on the government to withdraw the legislation and on the opposition parties to vote against it,” said Rowley.
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Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) - Parti Communiste du Canada (Ontario)
290A Danforth Avenue, Toronto ON M4K 1N6 Tel: 416-469-2446

April 26, 2008

For Immediate Release

Contact: Elizabeth Rowley – 416-469-2446 office; 416-820-2932 cell

Withdraw OPP from Deseronto Now! Just Settlement of Aboriginal Land Claims!

Communist Party (Ontario) leader Elizabeth Rowley sent the following message to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty in the early hours Saturday morning April 26th, concerning the OPP attack on Mohawks at Deseronto:

Mr. Premier:
We call on you to act immediately to withdraw the police and military who at this moment are attacking unarmed Mohawks at Tyendinaga.
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Good Enough To Work! Good Enough To Stay!

Bill C-50 was written by the Tories for the employers, and the large national and trans‑national corporations. The Bill is about giving the Immigration Minister and Cabinet arbitrary and sweeping new powers to slash immigration and to grow a giant pool of temporary foreign workers, effectively eliminating labour laws and protections for an ever‑larger part of the working class.
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RELEASE OMAR KHADR NOW!

Statement by the Central Executive Committee
Communist Party of Canada
April 17, 2008
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FIGUEROA LOOKS BEHIND TURMOIL IN PARLIAMENT

People's Voice interview with Miguel Figueroa, leader of the Communist Party of Canada
People’s Voice,
March 16-31, 2008 issu
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Unite Against Harper's War Agenda!

March 15th, 2008 Day of Action Statement from the Communist Party of Canadea in pdf
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Condemn Colombia’s Aggression against Ecuador!
End Uribe’s “reign of Terror” against the Colombian People!
No to U.S. imperialist aggression in the region!

In an illegal incursion into Ecuador on 1 March, Colombian troops murdered 17 combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), including Comandante Raúl Reyes, a long-time military commander and member of the FARC-EP’s Secretariat. Among the other victims was the well-known revolutionary song-writer Julian Conrado.
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DEFEND EQUALITY RIGHTS, DEFEAT THE TORIES
IWD 2008 statement from the Communist Party of Canada

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.
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COMMUNIST PARTY-ALBERTA CONTESTS MARCH 3 ELECTION

Two women Communist candidates are on the ballot for Alberta’s March 3 election.
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CPC OPPOSES LAIBAR SINGH DEPORTATION

Issued by Central Executive Committee
Communist Party of Canada
Jan. 11, 2008
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CANADA'S DEBACLE IN BALI: NOW, DEFEAT THE HARPER ECO-CRIMINALS!

By resisting progress towards desperately‑needed world action against the impact of catastrophic climate change, the Harper Conservatives are rapidly giving Canada a global reputation as a country governed by eco‑criminals. It is no exaggeration to state that by attempting to sabotage the United Nations Climate Change Conference (held in Bali from Dec. 3 to 14), PM Harper and Environment Minister John Baird were committing a grave crime against humanity. Fortunately, a massive outpouring of anger by Canadians and the international community compelled Baird to withdraw formal objections to the conference call for 25 to 40 per cent cuts in greenhouse‑gas (GHG) emissions by wealthy countries by the end of the next decade.
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Communist Party of Canada Central Committee Meeting - December 8 - 9, 2007

The political whirl often slows down in December, but not this year. The eyes of the world were on Venezuela and Russia on December 2, and then on Bali, where the UN Climate Change Conference kicked off the next day. Here in Canada, the big news included Karlheinz Schreiber's scandal testimony in Ottawa, and the Dec. 7-8 CAW Council meeting in Toronto, where the union leadership's controversial deal with Magna was endorsed despite some sharp opposition during a day-long debate
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Justice For John Graham

This meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada condemns the Dec. 6 extradition of Aboriginal activist John Graham to the United States as an appalling violation of his civil liberties and legal rights, and an unacceptable attack on the sovereignty of Canada and of Aboriginal peoples.
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Reject "Security Certificates" - Defeat C - 3

The Communist Party of Canada condemns the Conservative government's Bill C‑3 as a move to reintroduce "security certificates," one of the key so‑called "anti‑terrorism" procedures which trample on civil liberties and democratic rights in Canada..
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The Choice Today: Socialism or Extinction

Communist Party of Canada Leader Miguel Figueroa's intervention at the World meeting of Communist and Worker's Parties, November 3 - 5, 2007, Minsk, Belarus.
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PUT DOWN THE TASERS - END POLICE BRUTALITY

The rising number of deaths involving Taser assaults by police has led a wide range of organizations to call for a full federal public inquiry into the widespread use of this weapon, and a moratorium on its use by police. The Communist Party of Canada supports these demands, as part of a wider range of measures to establish full civilian oversight and control of police forces
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On the Ninetieth anniversary of Great October

Ninety years ago, the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 gave birth to a new society in which humanity’s most advanced dreams of peace, equality and democracy began to flourish and become reality. The revolution signalled the opening of the epoch of the transition to socialism, a society which would end exploitation, plunder and war, and construct a whole new kind of social relations based on cooperation, not competition, and based on social justice, not social, national or gender inequalities and oppression. Capitalism’s unchallenged rule over the world was over.
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Canadian Troops Out Of Afghanistan Now!

Communist Party of Canada leaflet for October 27th International Day of Action for Peace .
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Afghan Panel a “stacked deck”, Communists say

The Harper government’s appointment of a five-member panel to review Canada’s role in Afghanistan is a cynical, transparent ploy designed to cover its intentions to extend Canada’s occupation of that country beyond the February 2009 deadline for withdrawal, says Communist Party of Canada in a statement issued today.
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International Communist and Workers Parties Speak Against an U.S. Invasion of Iran

We the undersigned parties express our grave concern with the heightening tensions in the Persian Gulf region emanating from the US militaristic and hegemonic stance in its conflict with Iran (including Bush’s latest statement on September 12th 2007).
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Congratulations to the Communist Party of Greece!
Sept 17th, 2007

On behalf of the Central Committee and all members and supporters of our Party, we wish to congratulate your Party for your tremendously successful campaign in the recent Greek parliamentary elections.
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Communist Party condemns xenophobic, racist campaign around ‘voting rights’ issue
Sept 12th, 2007

The Communist Party of Canada expresses deep dismay at the attempts to whip up racism and xenophobia around the rights of veiled Muslim women to vote in upcoming federal by-elections. Unlike the Harper Tories and the other parties represented in Parliament, which have all jumped on this issue in an opportunist manner, the Communist Party condemns the bigots who are waging this campaign, and defends the right of Muslim women who choose to wear the veil to cast their ballots..
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Figueroa blasts Montebello cover-up
Sept 9th, 2007

Communist Party leader Miguel Figueroa has denounced the "cover up" of police infiltration of the anti‑Summit protests in Montebello. He is demanding a full and independent public inquiry, and the criminal prosecution of all those responsible for this "dangerous, anti‑democratic action."
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No to Anti-Communist Repression in Europe and Internationally
Sept 7th, 2007

The Communist Party of Canada notes with grave concern the stepped up assault on the Communist and revolutionary forces across Europe in recent weeks. In Hungary, a state court is threatening to imprison the entire leadership of the Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party (HCWP) for having committed “libel in a public place”, while in The Netherlands, an exiled leading member of the Filipino Communist movement, Jose Maria Sison, has just been arrested on trumped up murder charges..
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Stop the extradition of John Graham to the U.S.!
Sept 7th, 2007

The Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada and the Aboriginal Peoples’ Commission of the CPC join with many other organizations across North America in opposing the impending extradition of John Graham to South Dakota, and in demanding that his appeal against the extradition be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Responding to the crisis: labour's challenge
Sept 3rd, 2007

Labour Day 2007 Message from the Central Trade Union Commission, Communist Party of Canada. This Labour Day, 2007, the non-corporate strata of the Canadian population, most of whom are working class, are poised on the cusp of a social haemorrhage potentially more terrible than the Depression and suffering of the 1930s. The emerging blueprints for social plunder on the drafting boards of neo-cons, inspired by US imperial corporate agendas and served by aspiring neo-pawns in Mexico and Canada, are a dire threat to our sovereignty, our jobs, our social programs and world peace. The over 250,000 manufacturing jobs lost since NAFTA (50,000 since January this year), and the loss of more than 20,000 forest-related BC jobs in the last twenty years, are merely an indicator, the tip of the iceberg of the social blood-letting on the agenda if the corporate plans are not derailed.
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Harper Alert! Smoke “Out” the Conservatives
May 16, 2007

Joint Pride Day Statement from the Communist Party of Canada and the Young Communist League of Canada. Together with our allies at dozens of Pride events across Canada this summer, lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, trans, two-spirited persons, queer and questioning youth are celebrating important struggles to achieve equality and social justice. These events are refreshing and important demonstrations of the unity which is essential to all the progressive movements of Canada.
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Choose to survive! Choose to act! May Day Message from the Communist Party
May 1st, 2007

When the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made their second report earlier this year in Paris, they laid out the stark realities of the destruction already wrought on our environment as a result of ever-increasing hydrocarbon emissions.
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Recent Developments Regarding the Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles
May 16, 2007

The May 8, 2007 decision of a Texas court to summarily drop all outstanding charges against Luis Posada Carriles for various immigration violations is but the latest indignity in this pitiful charade of justice.
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Unite Against War and Occupation
March 17, 2007

The protests across Canada today are crucial efforts to mobilize opposition against the unjust and illegal U.S.-led occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. By speaking out against our country’s bloody role in Afghanistan, Canadians are taking an important step towards defeating the Harper Tory government’s entire far right, pro-war agenda.
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Communists Hold 35th Convention
Feb 2nd, 2007

Canadian Communists returned to their roots on the Feb. 2-4 weekend, gathering near the University of Toronto for their 35th Central Convention. The event took place at the Steelworkers Hall, right across from "24 Cecil Street," the building which was home to the Communist Party of Canada for decades.
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International Womens Day 2007
March 8th, 2007

On International Women’s Day 2007, the Communist Party of Canada condemns the Conservative government’s cuts to women’s programs, and joins in solidarity all who oppose exploitation, violence, and oppression. The attacks on equality by the Harper Tories make it crucial to strengthen the resistance by women and their allies, especially within the labour movement, and to defeat this government at the polls.
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