Delegates to the 31st Ontario Convention of the Communist Party of Canada united in their condemnation of the ongoing US campaign to destabilize Cuba. They unanimously agreed to demand an end to the US blockade which is strangling the country and creating undue hardship.
CPC (Ontario) Provincial Committee Report – May 2020
The burden of the crisis cannot be put on the shoulders of working people with the least ability to pay. The labour and peoples’ movements are at a crossroads: people before profit. Or profit before people.
The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) condemns the Niagara Region Municipality’s resolution condemning Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel as racist. The BDS campaign is targeted at those who are complicit with Israel’s human rights abuses, not the Jewish people or even Israel as a state.
It is quite rich that the Niagara Region government pretends to be sensitive to anti-Semitism when two Regional Council members were caught on camera making Nazi-salutes in the middle of an official meeting of the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA) in January, 2017. The response by the chair of the NPCA, who moved the motion in Niagara Regional Council to condemn BDS as racist, was to delete the salutes from the public record. (more…)
Thursday, March 13 7:30 pm GCDO Hall 290 Danforth Ave. just west of Chester stn.
The imperialist drive to launch a military attack on Syria, which was rapidly accelerating only weeks ago, has been temporarily forced back. This is a victory for the forces of peace and solidarity, but the danger of escalation and direct intervention remain very high. The Communist Party of Canada calls on all peace and anti-war organizations to continue organizing and mobilizing to prevent aggression against Syria.
The US-led effort to blame the Al-Assad government for chemical attacks against civilians, and to use the incident as a pretext for launching direct military action, could not gain traction in the UN Security Council. These efforts failed, in part, through a combination of global public opposition, the commitments of Russia and China to block any approval for military strikes, and the rapid international isolation of the United States and the small handful of its allies, including Canada, which favoured a military strike. (more…)
