JANUARY 2008
January 15, 2008 - No. 1
• Organize the
Necessity for Change! Uphold the Perspective of the Human Factor/Social
Consciousness
• The Manufacturing Crisis and the
Question of Perspective – K.C. Adams
January 16, 2008 - No. 2
• Overcoming Bad
Reports
• Net Job Losses in December
January 17, 2008 - No. 3
• Homelessness
and Gross Poverty in Canada, the U.S. and Europe
Quebec
• Militant Demonstration in Quebec
City: Respect the Rights of the Homeless — Resolve the Causes of
Homelessness!
• FRAPRU Proposes Five Year Plan
for Social Housing Revival – FRAPRU
Ontario
• Stratford Activists Fight for
Affordable Housing
United States
• Mortgage Crisis Hits States and
Cities Hard – Voice of Revolution
• Foreclosure Filings up 68 Per
Cent in November over Same Month Last Year
France
• Rue de la Banque Homeless Win
Victory
• Homelessness in France
January 18, 2008 - No. 4
Consequences of Neo-Liberal Agenda in U.S.
• Promised Trickledown Prosperity
Turns into Trickledown Homelessness
• New Orleans: Struggle for the
Right to Housing Goes Forward in the Face of Tasers, Pepper Spray, and
Arrests – Bill Quigley, BuzzFlash.com
For Your Information
• Data and Anecdotes of
Homelessness and Poverty in the United States
January 21, 2008 - No. 5
Failure of the Capitalist Economy
• Quebecor World Files for
Bankruptcy – K.C. Adams
Venezuela
• Call for "Year of Solutions" to
Persistent Problems – Gregory Wilpert, Venezuelanalysis.com
• Chavez Promises Food Sovereignty
for Venezuela – Chris Carlson, Venezuelanalysis.com
• Founding Congress of New
Socialist Party of Venezuela – Kiraz Janicke and Federico
Fuentes, Venezuelanalysis.com
• Chavez Calls for Non-Military
Solution to Colombian Conflict – Kiraz Janicke,
Venezuelanalysis.com
January 22, 2008 - No. 6
Another World Is Possible!
• Victorious Full Slate Vote
Expresses Cuban People's Unity of Action
• Results of Full Slate Election
• Cuban Ambassador Holds Press
Conference on Cuban Electoral System
• National Assembly Sets Work for
2008
• Cuban President Fidel Castro's
Message to National Assembly
• It Is the Responsibility of All
Cubans to Make the Revolution Stronger – Speech by
Raúl Castro to National Assembly
January 23, 2008 - No. 7
Economic Failure in United States and Canada
• Workers are Producers Not
"Consumers"! – K.C. Adams
Harper Plan for Forestry and Manufacturing
• Reject Harper's Blackmail with
the Contempt It Deserves! – Normand Chouinard
• Blackmail and Fraud Highlight the
Necessity for Change – Gabriel Girard-Bernier
New Brunswick
• Support Miramichi Workers' Demand
to Expropriate UPM Mills – Pierre Chenier
• Restigouche County Workers and
Community Oppose Closures of Paper Mill
• Interview – Sonny Perry,
Citizen's Coalition to Save the Mill in Dalhousie
January 24, 2008 - No. 8
• People of Gaza
Take Decisive Action to Liberate Themselves — Long Live the Palestinian
Resistance!
• Facts about the Siege on Gaza
– Palestine House
• UN Rights Official Slams
'Cowardly Israeli War Crime' in Gaza – Agence France Presse
• UN Security Council Fails to
Agree on Draft Statement on Gaza Crisis – China Daily Online
• NAM Condemns Israeli Attacks on
Palestinian Civilians in Gaza – Prensa Latina
• Economic Warfare in Gaza
– Yossi Wolfson, Challenge Magazine
• Calendar of Events in Support of
Palestinian People
SUPPLEMENT
• 2008 — 60 Years of Al Nakba
• A Year of Activities to
Commemorate 60 Years of Al Nakba
• Declaration in Support of the
Palestinian People
• 4th Annual Israeli Apartheid
Week— February 3-10, 2008
Calendar of Events
• Commemorating 60 Years of Al
Nakba: The Refugees Will Return!
January 25, 2008 - No. 9
On the Eve of the Opening of Parliament
• Canadians Unite in Action in
Defence of the Rights of All!
• Join in Actions to Oppose Bill
C-3, Renewed Security Certificate Legislation!
• Ottawa: Canada's First 9/11
Rendition to Torture: An Evening with Benamar Benatta
• Montreal Solidarity Concert: Two
Years Too Many — Status for Kader Now! –
www.soutienpourkader.net
• January 26: Day of Action in
Support of U.S. War Resisters – War Resisters Support
Campaign
• Actions against Imperialist War
and Occupation
• End the Siege of Gaza –
Update and Calendar of Events
• World Social Forum 2008: Day of
Action and Mobilization
Public Meetings of the MLPC and PMLQ: A New Direction
for Quebec and Canada
• January 26, Gatineau, Quebec
• January 27, Edmonton, Alberta
January 28, 2008 - No. 10
• Our Security
Lies In Our Fight in Defence of the Rights of All! No to Indentured
Labour! – Peggy Morton
• Harper Government Expands
Anti-Worker Program of Indentured Labour
• Albeta Federation of Labour
Report on Conditions of Temporary Foreign Workers
• Harper Government's
‘Double-Doubling' of Foreign Worker Program – Karl Flecker,
Briarpatch Magazine
January 29, 2008 - No. 11
• Ontario
Regional Committee of CPC(M-L) Monthly Public Forum on McGuinty
Government's Throne Speech and Its "Ontario Way"
• Reject McGuinty's "Ontario Way"!
Stop Paying the Rich! Increase Investments in Social Programs!
– Steve Rutchinski
• Ontario Announces $3 Billion in
Handouts to the Monopolies – Steve Rutchinski
• New Documents Reveal Soaring
Costs and Capacity Cuts in New Brampton P3 Hospital – Ontario
Health Coalition
For Your Information
• Ontario Economic Outlook 2007
January 30, 2008 - No. 12
Independent Panel on Canada's Future Role in
Afghanistan
• Pro-War Manley Report — Crude
Propaganda Tool of Ruling Elites
• Reject the Manley Report!
Organize For An Anti-War Government! – Philip Fernandez
• Canada Must Get Out of
Afghanistan Now! – Christine Dandenault
• The Need for Utmost
Vigilance by Canadians – Pierre Chenier
• Manley Committee's Pre-Determined
Recommendations — Announcement of Public Hearings – Collectif
Échec à la guerre
For Your Information
• Recommendations of the
Independent Panel on Canada's Future in Afghanistan
• Key Recommendations from the
Manley Report – Shane Dingman, National Post
SUPPLEMENT
Manley Report: In the Background
• Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike a Key
Option, NATO Told – Ian Traynor, The Guardian
• NATO Hears 'Noise before Defeat'
– M.K.Bhadrakumar, Asia Times Online
• U.S. War on Terror Moves East
– Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service
January 31, 2008 - No. 13
Whose Economy? Our Economy!
• National Steel Car Workers
Concerned for Their Future
Stop Paying the Rich!
• ArcelorMittal Pays Mittal
Family-Empire $795.13 Million – K.C. Adams
• U.S. IBM Workers
Defend Their Rights and Dignity
• For Your Information: Wage Cuts
at IBM
British Columbia
• Consequences of Neo-Liberal
Agenda: Death on the Canada Line Construction Site
• Honouring A Labour Martyr on
Vancouver Island
FEBRUARY 2008
February 1, 2008 - No. 14
Our Security Lies in Our Fight for the Rights of All
• No to the Arrest of Mohamed Harkat! Down with Security Certificates and State Impunity! Oppose Bill C-3, Renewed Security Certificate Legislation!
• Mohamed Harkat, Security Certificate Detainee Unjustly Arrested in Ottawa – Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee
• Montreal Muslim News Denounces Harkat Arrest
• Statement by Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
• Canadian Border Services Agents and Ottawa Police Arrest Mohamed Harkat
• No to Bill C-3! – Christian Legeais
• Coalition Renews Call for Inquiry into Actions of CSIS in Charkaoui Case – Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui
Palestine
• Continued Resistance Sets Stage for Negotiations and Further Struggle
• Smooth Talks in Cairo – Hiyam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice
• Worldwide Demonstrations in Support of People of Gaza Denounce Zionist War Crimes
February 6, 2008 - No. 15
Renewed Security Certificate Legislation
• No to Bill C-3! Fight for a Modern Conception of Rights!
• Self-Serving Arguments of Harper Government
• Bar Deeply Divided About Legitimacy of 'Special Advocate' – Cristin Schmitz, The Lawyers Weekly
• Vigorous Actions Demand Abolition of Security Certificates and Bill C-3
• Adil Charkaoui Demands Secret Service Be Held Accountable
• Mohamed Harkat Released Back to House Arrest
• Call to Continue Actions against Bill C-3
February 7, 2008 - No. 16
U.S. Steel Issues 4th Quarter Report
• The Passion of Monopoly Capital – K.C. Adams
• For Your Information: Increased Iron Ore Production
February 8, 2008 - No. 17
Expansion of Temporary Foreign Worker Programs
• Take a Bold Step in Defence of the Rights of All! No to Indentured Labour!
• No to Second Class Status — Oppose Citizenship and Immigration Canada's "Canadian Experience Class" Proposal – Jim Nugent
• Interview: Fast Tracking of Temporary Foreign Worker Programs
• BC-Philippines Contract Labour Agreement
• Human Toll of Temporary Foreign Worker Programs
• Join Filipino Youth Across to Commemorate Death of Deeward Ponte and Call for Scrapping of Live-in Caregiver Program
• Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program — A "Blanket of Immunity" to Abuse Workers
• Anti-Labour Schemes to Increase Exploitation in Meat Packing Industry
Europe
• Land Without Refugees – www.german-foreign-policy.com
February 11, 2008 - No. 18
Ontario Community College Workers
• Whitaker Report Is Unacceptable! Rights for College Part-timers Now! Increase Funding for College Education! – Dave Starbuck
• Bargaining Units for College Part-Timers — What's Appropriate? Let College Employees Decide for Themselves – Sudbury Marxist-Leninist Party Club
• Necessity to Discuss Whitaker Recommendations to Defend the Rights of All
• Management Proposal for New Arrangements in Ontario Community College Collective Bargaining
• Recommendations of Whitaker Review
(excerpt)
• Chronology: Struggle of Part-Time Ontario College Workers for Recognition of Their Rights
• Organizing Part-Time College Staff: Notes from the Front-Line – Organizer (name withheld) in campaign to unionize Ontario part-time college workers
• Will McGuinty Keep This Promise?
– James Nugent, The Guardian Newsletter (CUPE 3902, U of T Education Workers)
February 12, 2008 - No. 19
• Oppose Harper Government's Attacks on Science
Alberta Election Called for March 3
• "Change" the Buzzword in Alberta Election
• MLPC Forums Discuss Upcoming Provincial Election
February 13, 2008 - No. 20
• Beware of "Green Energy" Brookfield Projects
• Confessions of a Parasite: Brookfield Asset Management's 4th Quarter Financial Report
• Annexation of Air Canada
• Organizing to End the Business Cycle with a Synthesis of Its Contradictory Parts – K.C. Adams
February 14, 2008 - No. 21
Bill C-3 Becomes Law
• Down with New Security Certificate Legislation! No to Secret Trials, Secret Evidence, Indefinite Detention and Deportation to Torture! Step Up Our Fight in Defence of the Rights of All!
• Judge Releases Mohamed Harkat to Harsher Confinement under House Arrest
Views
• Stockwell Day, Belligerent to the Bitter End on Bill C-3 – Montreal Muslim News
• Bill C-3 Doesn't Deliver Justice – Ziyaad Mia
• Rushing Injustice through the Senate – Maude Barlow, Roch Tassé and Sameer Zuberi
February 15, 2008 - No. 22
• Politics of Assassination
• Only the Resistance Can Uphold Palestinians' National Rights Before the Entire World – Gary Zatzman
• Palestinian Resistance to Siege of Gaza Continues
• Army Siege on Azzoun Village in West Bank – International Solidarity Movement
• The Strangulation of Gaza – Saree Makdisi, The Nation
• Apartheid Israel: Carving Up the Palestinian Capital: The Israeli Ring Road Around Occupied East Jerusalem – Palestinian Liberation Organization Negotiation Affairs Department
February 18, 2008 - No. 23
• AbitibiBowater Merger — Huge Legalized Theft of Natural Resources and Social Product
Closures and Still More Closures by AbitibiBowater
• Times are Calling Out for an Alternative! – Pierre Chénier
• AbitibiBowater Workers in Quebec Say: Concessions Are Not Solutions! – Gabriel Girard-Bernier
• Interview – Frank Everett, President, USW) Local 1-424, Northern BC
• Politics or Not: Harper Aid Plan Still Amounts to Nothing – CEP
February 19, 2008 - No. 24
Stop Paying the Rich — Increase Funding for Social Programs!
• No to P3 Schools in Alberta!
• Alberta Expands Flawed P3 Plan for Schools: Fourteen New Schools to Be Built Following More Expensive Private Model
– CUPE Alberta
• Top Architect Dumps Montreal P3 Hospital – CUPE
Ontario
• Oxford County Public Health Workers Prepare for Strike to Fight Age Discrimination – CUPE
Quebec
• Teachers Demand Better Working and Learning Conditions – Geneviève Royer
• On the Road to Halting the Reform
– Pierre Germain, President, Fédération autonome de l'enseignement
• Call for Moratorium on Pedagogical Renewal – Halt the Reform Coalition, November 21, 2007
• Letter to Parents – Fédération autonome de l'enseignement, November 8, 2006
February 20, 2008 - No. 25
Long Live the Cuban People and Their Revolution!
• Message from Cuban President Fidel Castro
• Join in the Work to Free the Cuban Five! Demand the Extradition of Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela!
• International Call to Action: Prepare for the Cuban Five Court Decision: Organize "Day After" Protests & Press Conferences! – U.S. National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
• Free the Five Billboard Unveiled in Los Angeles
• Women's Petition for Visiting Rights of the Cuban Five Families – Canadian Network on Cuba & Cuba Table de concertation solidarité Québec-Cuba
• FBI Turned to Perjury to Protect Posada – Jean-Guy Allard, Granma International
• Coming Events
SUPPLEMENT
• The Case of the Cuban Five: Where We Go from Here – Roberto Gonzalez Sehwerert
February 21, 2008 - No. 26
• The Essential Air Canada: Workers and Means of Production – K.C. Adams
Venezuela
• Chavez Calls for Defence of Oil Sovereignty – Chris Carlson, Venezuelanalysis.com
• Call for Exxon to Resume Arbitration Process – Kiraz Janicke, Venezuelanalysis.com
• Fact Sheet: Arbitration between ExxonMobil and Venezuela – Embassy of Venezuela in U.S.
February 22, 2008 - No. 27
Israeli Apartheid
• Rights and Responsibilities in Political Discussion on Campus: Who Speaks for McMaster? – United for Student Rights
• Canadians Oppose Mendacity of Israeli Ambassador to Canada
• Montreal Filmmaker Quits Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québecois Jury
• Israeli Apartheid Week: International Actions Call for End to Seige of Gaza, Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions
• Israel Declares Impunity to Commit Further War Crimes
• Coming Events
February 25, 2008 - No. 28
Not a Single Youth for Imperialist War!
• Quebec Students Oppose Military Recruitment — Funding for Education, Not War!
• New Military Ads to Promote "Compassion"
Education Is a Right!
• Quebec Students Militantly Demand Massive Reinvestment in Education
• Reject Minister Courchesne's Ruse of "Limiting" Ancillary Fee Hikes
• Université de Montréal Students Demand Moratorium on Fee Hikes – AGEEFEP
• No to the Criminalization of Dissent!
February 26, 2008 - No. 29
Our Security Lies in Our Fight in Defence of the Rights of All!
• Abolish Security Certificates! No to Secret Trials, Secret Evidence, Indefinite Detention and Deportation to Torture!
• Montreal Emergency Protest Against Security Certificates – Rassemblement populaire contre l'injustice sécuritaire
• Rights Groups Vow to Challenge New Security Certificate Law
• Charkaoui Responds to New Certificate – Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui
• New Allegations, Same Old Secret Trials: An Update Following Friday's Character Assassination – Matthew Behrens, Campaign To Stop Secret Trials in Canada
Egypt
• Use of Military Tribunals Against Civilians
• One Month Delay in Verdict Against Muslim Brotherhood Members
February 27, 2008 - No. 30
Cuban People Elect New Leadership
• The Cuban People and Their Leadership Can Count on the Support of the Canadian Working Class and People
• Inaugural Session of Cuban National Assembly
• Key Address by Comrade Raul Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers
February 28, 2008 - No. 31
February 29
• Call to Action: Third International Day in Solidarity with the People of Haiti! – February 29th Organizing Committee
• Human Rights Situation in Haiti Deteriorating – Canada Haiti Action Network
• How CIDA's NCHR-Haiti Cleverly Promoted then Covered up Atrocities – Richard Sanders, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
• Failure of Human Rights Watch in Venezuela and Haiti – Joe Emersberger, HaitiAnalysis
February 29, 2008 - No. 32
In the Parliament
• Canadian Troops Out of Afghanistan Now! Down with Canada's Pro-War Government!
• Two-Day Debate in Parliament: "Bi-Partisan" Approach to Justify Extension of Occupation of Afghanistan
• Canada's "3D International Policy" in Action
• Montreal Public Hearings Demand Immediate Withdrawal of Canadian Troops from Afghanistan
For Your Information
• Revised Motion on Canada's Mission in Afghanistan
MARCH 2008
March 3, 2008 - No. 33
• Health Care Unions and BC Government Reach Agreement on Bill 29
• Significance of Supreme Court Ruling Against BC Government and Bill 29
• Privatization: Health Authority Slashed Hospital Cleaning by 15 Per Cent – HEU Newsletter
For Your Information
• Excerpts from Supreme Court Decision
March 4, 2008 - No. 34
• Federal Budget Calls Attention to Necessity for Democratic Renewal
• Comments from Across the Country on 2008 Federal Budget
March 6, 2008 - No. 35
Alberta Election
• 35 Per Cent Participation Underscores Need for Democratic Renewal – Peggy Morton
BC Throne Speech
• Unprecedented Usurpation of Power
– Barbara Biley
• Wedding Monopoly Right to Colonial Privilege – Donna Petersen
• BC's Green One Nation Green Global War on Carbon and Carbon Emitters – By the militant anti-science green guy Gordon Hawpaw
March 7, 2008 - No. 36
International Women's Day 2008
• Fight to Defeat Canada's Pro-War Government! Elect an Anti-War Government! – Statement of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• All Out for International Women's Day 2008! Calendar of Events
• Some Facts on Working and Living Conditions of Women in Canada
United States
• Open Declaration: March 8th Against the War! – GABRIELA Network
• International Women's Day: A Salute to Women's Resistance – International Women's Day '08 Coalition (New York City)
• Petition: Visiting Rights for the Families of the Cuban Five
March 10, 2008 - No. 37
Stop Paying the Rich — Increase Funding for Social Progams
• What Is to Be Done in the Face of Recession? – K.C. Adams
• Canadian Economic Accounts for December 2007 – Excerpts from Statistics Canada Report
• Government Claims $109.6 Million Less from Higher Telus Revenue
International Women's Day
• Actions from Around the World
• United States: Some Facts on Conditions of Life and Work for Women
March 11, 2008 - No. 38
• March 15: 12th International Day Against Police Brutality – Collective Opposed to Police Brutality
• Harassment of Montreal Homeless Must Stop!
• Beware — The Police Torture and Kill with Tasers! It Happened Close By ... – Collective Opposed to Police Brutality
• Further Incident of Police Brutality Involving Tasers
• Calendar of Events
For Your Information
• List of Persons Deceased After Being Tasered
SUPPLEMENT
• Incarceration Rates in Canada and U.S.
March 12, 2008 - No. 39
All Out for March 15 Day of Action Against Imperialist War and Occupation!
• All Out to Defeat Canada's Pro-War Government! Elect an Anti-War Government! – Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Canada's War in Afghanistan: Don't Extend It. End It. Bring the Troops Home Now – www.endit.ca
• "Democracy Begins at Home" – Open Letter to Canadian Parliamentarians
• Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan! – Canadian Peace Alliance and the Collectif Échec à la guerre
• Toronto MLPC Forum Militantly Rejects Justifications to Extend Afghanistan Mission
• Integration of Canadian Military with U.S. Forces in Iraq
United States
• Actions to Mark 5th Anniversary of War in Iraq – United for Peace and Justice
• March 13-16: Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan – Iraq Veterans Against the War
• March 19: Massive Day of Action in Washington, DC
to Mark Fifth Anniversary of War in Iraq – United for Peace and Justice
March 13, 2008 - No. 40
45th Anniversary of the Founding of the Internationalists
• Long Live the Legacy of The Internationalists and their Founder, Comrade Hardial Bains!
Review of Canada Elections Act
• Marxist-Leninist Party Brief to Senate – Sandra L. Smith and Anna Di Carlo
March 14, 2008 - No. 41
Discussion on Neo-Liberal Green Politics
• The Need to Humanize the Social Environment to Humanize the Natural Environment
• Pseudo-Economic Science and the Neo-Liberal Green Agenda
• Environment Commissioner Highlights Federal Failure
• Weather Warfare: Beware the U.S. Military's Experiments with Climatic Warfare – Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research
March 17, 2008 - No. 42
• Brazen Use of Public Funds to Pay the Rich
• Bank of Canada Pays the Rich
• Letter to the Editor
For Your Information
• Statement of the G10 Central Banks
• News and Comment from Monopoly-Controlled Media
• Bill Cara Commentary – billcara.com
March 18, 2008 - No. 43
Worsening Economic Situation Demands a Working Class Perspective
• Our Security Lies in Our Fight for the Rights of All!
• Private Chartered Banks Are Anachronistic – K.C. Adams
• Wall Street Fears for Next Great Depression – Margareta Pagano, The Independent
For Your Information
• Industrial Capacity Utilization Rates – Statistics Canada
• Canadian Banking System
March 19, 2008 - No. 44
5th Anniversary of U.S. Invasion of Iraq
• International Actions Demand an End to Imperialist War and Occupation
March 25, 2008 - No. 45
Discussion
• The Economic Crisis and Its Solution – K.C. Adams
• The Neo-Liberal Green Agenda — On the Report "Pricing Carbon: Saving Green" – Anne Jamieson
March 31, 2008 - No. 46
• CPC(M-L) Celebrates Anniversary of Its Founding by Stepping Up Preparations for Its 8th Congress
• March on to Build the Mass Communist Party! – K.C. Adams
• The Significance of the Party as It Celebrates Its 38th Anniversary – Peggy Morton
• "There Is Such a Party" – Charles Boylan
• The Crucial Need of Our Time – Georges Côté
APRIL 2008
April 1, 2008 - No. 47
• ArcelorMittal Wrecking of Canadian Steel Production Must Not Pass! – K.C. Adams
• An Act of Anger and Displacement: The Alternative Is Vigorous Collective Resistance to the Anti-Social Offensive – Anne Jamieson
• Monsanto, Canada and Brazil – Jack East
Cuba's Heroic Internationalism
• Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro: The Detachment Returns, Undefeated
April 2, 2008 - No. 48
• Militant Actions Across Europe Denounce NATO and Imperialist Aggression
April 3, 2008 - No. 49
Zimbabwe Elections and Results
• Hands Off Zimbabwe!
• A Country Fighting for Change
• Observation Team Plays Down Chances of Fraud – Angola Press
• Mandate of the Electoral Observer Mission
Interview
• Zimbabwean Ambassador to Canada Florence Zano Chideya
For Your Information
• "Defend Your Independence" -- Call of President Mugabe – Zimbabwe Herald
• Statements from the Office of the Canadian Prime Minister
April 7, 2008 - No. 50
In Memoriam
• Kathy Bergen
British Columbia
• Drop the Charges Against UBC Students! No to Police Criminalization of Student Political Demonstrations! – BC Committee of CPC(M-L)
• Police Brutality at Knoll Aid – Students for a Democratic Society, UBC
• Monday, April 7: Demonstrate to Defend Public Education
• Call for a Province-Wide Rally of Parents and Concerned Citizens – LANDS! (Let's Agree Not to Dispose of Schools!)
Zimbabwe
• Court to Rule on Election Result
• Poll Results — UK's Hidden Hand Exposed – Caesar Zvayi, The Herald (Harare)
Haiti
• Thousands Protest Over Growing Hunger – Bill Van Auken, World Socialist Web Site
April 8, 2008 - No. 51
British Columbia
• Annul the BC Energy Plan! No to Annexation of BC Rivers and Water! There Is an Alternative: Public Power, Public Education, Public Health Care!
• Struggle to Save BC Rivers from Private Power Developers Makes Headway – BC TML Correspondent
• Statement of Save Our Rivers
Alberta
• TransCanada Pipeline Encroaches on Aboriginal Territorial Rights – Kate Harries, Indian Country Today
United States
• Jobless Figures: The Specter of a New Depression – David Walsh, World Socialist Web Site
April 9, 2008 - No. 52
• Free First Nations Political Prisoners! Oppose the Criminalization of the Affirmation of Rights!
• Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug Leaders Jailed for Defending Their Lands and Defying Colonial Justice
• Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug Press Release
• McGuinty Government's "New Relationship" with First Nations Based on Defence of Monopoly Right
• Support for Just Stand of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation Grows across Canada
• Open Letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty: Stop the Injustice; Overhaul Ontario's Mining Laws and Policies
April 10, 2008 - No. 53
Bush to Address Nation on Iraq
• Bush to Address Nation on Iraq, but Not in Prime Time – Ed Henry, CNN
• It Was Supposed to be a "Cakewalk": The General and the Trap – Prof. Ira Chernus, Asia Times Online
• Petraeus Testimony to Defend False "Proxy War" Line – Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service
• Coalition Forces Lose Control in Iraq – Voice of Russia
• More than 1,000 in Iraq's Forces Quit Basra Fight – Stephen Farrell and James Glanz, New York Times
• U.S.-Backed Iraq Assault on Mahdi Army Fails – John Catalinotto, Workers World
• Shia Battles Spread to Baquba – Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service
• A Little Too Tense to Be Truce – Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service
April 11, 2008 - No. 54
• "Steel, Not Steal!" — Former CEO Courtney Pratt's New Book: "Into the Blast Furnace: The Forging of a CEO's Conscience" – News Release, Rolf Gerstenberger, President, USW Local 1005
• Steelworkers at Dofasco... A Learning Experience – Sam Hammond, People's Voice
• No to Indentured Labour! Status for All!: Alberta Government Receives 800 Complaints from Temporary Foreign Workers – Peggy Morton
Venezuela
• Steel Company to Be Nationalized in Wake of Labor Conflict – James Suggett, Venezuelanalysis.com
United States
• "An Extreme Depressive State" -- Migrant Detention in South Texas – Greg Moses, Counterpunch
• Mass Deportations Coming for Jailed Illegal Immigrants – James Pinkerton, Houston Chronicle
April 14, 2008 - No. 55
• Risky Geopolitical Game: Washington Plays 'Tibet Roulette' with China – F. William Engdahl, Global Research
• The Olympic Torch Relay Campaign
– wwww.german-foreign-policy.com
• Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro: The Chinese Victory
SUPPLEMENT
• China Daily Online -- Commentaries and News Analysis
April 15, 2008 - No. 56
• No to Secret Trials, Indefinite Detention and Deportation to Torture!
• Federal Court Holds Third Hearing for Security Certificate Detainees Under New Legislation – Christian Legeais, Spokesperson, Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee
• Secret Hearing to Determine Conflict of Interest for Special Advocates
• Secrecy Piled on Secrecy: Democracy Day in Secret Trials Land – Matthew Behrens, Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada
• Independence Controversy Swirls around New Special Advocates – Cristin Schmitz, The Lawyers Weekly
• Private Member's Bill Tabled to Amend Security Certificate Legislation
• New Security Certificates Law Escapes Both Public Scrutiny and Democratic Dissent – Wade Deisman and Mike Larsen
• Join the Caravan to End Canadian Involvement in Torture, Toronto-Ottawa, May 1-9, 2008 – Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada
United States
• Charges Against Mohammed Kamal Elzahabi Dropped
Europe
• Court of Human Rights Bans Deportation to Torture
April 16, 2008 - No. 57
Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit, New Orleans, April 21-22
• Stop the Security and Prosperity Partnership, Tool of U.S. Annexation, Fascism and War!
• Agenda for the North American Summit – Andrew G. Marshall, Global Research
• April 19: Cross Canada Day of Action Against the SPP
April 17, 2008 - No. 58
Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit, New Orleans, April 21-22
• All Out to Support New Orleans: No to SPP! Yes to Rights of All! – stopthespp.wordpress.com
• Declaration Against the SPP Summit – Second Continental Conference Against Free Trade and Privatizations
• Toronto Rally Demands Binding Referendum on Canada's Participation in the SPP
• Spending for SPP Five Times Higher than $29 Million Quoted in Budget
• Governments Ask Monopolies to Wage Public Relations Offensive to Promote SPP
• April 19: Cross Canada Day of Action Against the SPP
• April 20: Second North American Meeting of Energy Sector Organizations from the U.S., Canada and Mexico – Common Frontiers-Canada
• April 9-20: New Orleans Film Festival Defends Rights, Opposes SPP – wwww.summitneworleans.org
• April 21-23: The People's Summit – www.summitneworleans.org
New Orleans
• Half of Poor Permanently Displaced: Failure or Success? – Bill Quigley, truthout.org
• Indian Shipyard Workers Accuse Employer of Human Trafficking and Forced Labor – Damien Ramos and Robert Caldwell Tuesday, New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice
April 18, 2008 - No. 59
Budget Implementation Bill C-50
• Scrap the Changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act! Oppose Abuse of Power and Political Blackmail
• Scrap the Changes to the Immigration Act – Jim Nugent
• Letter to Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Prime Minister - Wayne Hanley, National President, United Food and Commercial Workers
• Migrant Justice Organizations Nationwide Denounce Bill C-50
• Proposed Changes to IRPA Are Bad for Immigrants and for Canada – Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants
• Statement of No One Is Illegal-Toronto on Bill C-50
• Interview – Macdonald Scott, Immigration Consultant, Carranza Barristers and Solicitors
• Vancouver: Women's Advocacy Group Raises Concerns over Live In Caregiver Program to Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration – Grassroots Women
• Côtes-des-Neiges, Montreal: Status for All! March for Immigrant Justice and Against Poverty, Racism and Racial Profiling – Solidarity Across Borders
Britain
• Deeply Chauvinist Ethos of the Rich — Defend the Rights of All! – Workers' Daily
April 21, 2008 - No. 60
Korea
• Resolutely Oppose U.S.-Organized Provocations to Sabotage Korean Reunification!
• 96th Anniversary of Birth of Comrade Kim Il Sung
• Hail the 60th Anniversary of the Heroic Jeju Island Popular Uprising! – Philip Fernandez
• Foreign Ministry Denounces Anti-DPRK "Resolution" – Korean Central News Agency
• DPRK Vows More Powerful Preemptive Attack Against South Korea's "Preemptive Attack" – China Daily Online
• Conclusion of Peace Agreement Urged in South Korea – Korean Central News Agency
• All Koreans Urged to Remain True to Three Principles of National Reunification – Korean Central News Agency
• Calls to Implement October 4 Declaration – Korean Central News Agency
• DPRK Slams U.S.-South Korea Joint Military Exercises – China Daily Online
For Your Information — Six Party Talks
• Oppose U.S. Duplicity and Disinformation about Six Party Talks
April 22, 2008 - No. 61
• International Solidarity Begins at Home
Resistance to ArcelorMittal Global Restructuring
• France: Restructuring-Resistance-Reaction in Lorraine
• Romania: General Strike at ArcelorMittal
• Kazakhstan: ArcelorMittal Death Mines
• U.S. Steel Chief Executive's Annual Claim — Stop Paying the Rich!
April 23, 2008 - No. 62
• Ontario Provincial Police Invade Peaceful Mohawks at Tyendinaga — Another Caledonia-Style Developer "Cash-Out" Scam – Kahentinetha Horn, Mohawk Nation News
• OPP Brings in Fully Armed SWAT Team – Mohawk Nation News
• Hollow Victory: Shawn Brant Acquitted of Threat Charges – Tyendinaga Support Committee
Second Anniversary of Defeat of Armed Invasion of Kanenhstaton
• Two More Years of Resistance to Colonial Injustice and Defence of the Rule of Law
• Celebration at Kanenhstaton
For Your Information
• Speech given by Six Nations Spokesperson to the Law Society of Upper Canada – August 21, 2007
April 24, 2008 - No. 63
National Farmers Union
• Message from President Stewart Wells
Pseudo-Economic Science and the Neo-Liberal Green Agenda
• The Capacity of Finance Capital to Control the Global Food Supply – K.C. Adams
Haiti
• Foreign Interference at Root of Hunger and Political Upheaval – Media Release, Canadian Haiti Action Network
• Anti-Hunger Protests in Haiti – Nazaire St. Fort and Jeb Sprague, Haitianalysis.com
Venezuela
• Extraordinary ALBA Summit Begins in Caracas
For Your Information
• Global Food Crisis: Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World – Stephen Lendman, Global Research
April 25, 2008 - No. 64 - Morning Edition
• Defend the Rights of the First Nations! No Pipeline through Lubicon Land without the Consent of the Lubicon Nation!
• Statement of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation
• Decades of Resistance by Lubicon Nation in Defence of their Rights
April 25, 2008 - No. 65 - Afternoon Edition
April 28: Day of Mourning for Workers Killed or Injured on the Job
• Workers Renew Their Pledge to Make Governments Enforce the Right to Safe and Healthy Working Conditions for All Workers!
• Interviews
For Your Information
• Some International Facts and Figures on Workplace Health and Safety
• Deaths and Injuries in Ontario Workplaces
April 28, 2008 - No. 66
April 28
• Day of Mourning for Workers Killed or Injured on the Job
Interviews
• Alberta Pipeline Worker
• Bryon DeBaets, President, CAW Local 100, Railway Workers
• Joe Choscinsky, USW Local 1005, Joint Health and Safety Committee, Hamilton Steel
• Brenda Laslo, Regional Education and Organization Officer, CUPW, Ontario Region
• Kathi Walker, CUPW, Toronto Local
• George Kean, President, USW Local 5795, Iron Ore Company of Canada, Labrador
• Frank Everitt, President, USW Local 1-424, Forestry Workers, Northern Interior BC
• Steve Mantis, Secretary, Ontario Network of Injured Workers
• Stan Raper, UFCW, Canada Agricultural Worker Coordinator
• Scott Jackson, International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, Dst. 78
• Denis Matteau, President, USW Local 6887, Xstrata Copper Refinery, Montreal
• Richard Goyette, Quebec Federation of Labour-Building Trades
• Michel Boudreau, President, New Brunswick Federation of Labour
• Barbara Rowell, Executive Member, COPE Local 343 (Hamilton)
• Pierre Saint-Georges, President, Maintenance Workers Union, Montreal Transit Corporation
• Andy Summers, Ontario Nurses' Association, Vice-President, Region 3
April 29, 2008 - No. 67
Toronto
• Down with Back-To-Work Legislation Against TTC Workers! No to Criminalization of Workers and Their Demands! – Statement of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Oppose the Anti-Worker Hysteria in Toronto
• Essential Service?: McGuinty's Anti-Worker Anti-Social Attack on TTC Workers – Steve Rutchinski
• Toronto Transit Commission and Its Workers Are Not a Cost to the City or Province – K.C. Adams
British Columbia
• Campbell Government Moves to Further Privatize Health Care – Barbara Biley
Hamilton
• Stop the Spray – Julie Gordon, Hamilton Resident
April 30, 2008 - No. 68
• May Day Pledge to Renew the Working Class Movement – Workers' Centre, CPC(M-L)
• Crisis in Manufacturing Production and Nation-Building — How Do We Respond? – K.C. Adams
• Migrant Workers — A Story of Modern Day Slavery – Philip Fernandez
• Calendar of Events: Halifax • Montreal • Ottawa • Toronto • Hamilton • Winnipeg • Regina • Edmonton • Calgary • Vancouver • Courtenay
United States
• All Out for May Day 2008 – Voice of Revolution
• Longshoremen to Close Ports on West Coast to Protest War – Jack Heyman
• San Francisco Labor Council Backs ILWU May Day Action in West Coast Port
• Vermont AFL-CIO Calls on Workers to Support West Coast May Day Work Stoppage
• Proposal for Sacramento City Council Proclamation (Resolution) in Support of May 1, 2008, International Workers Day
• Call-Outs for May Day Actions Across the U.S.
MAY 2008
May 2, 2008 - No. 69
May Day 2008 Around the World
• Militant Actions Against Attacks on Workers' and Peoples' Rights and in Defence of the Right to Be
May 3, 2008 - No. 70
Right-Wing Revolt Threatens Bolivia
• "The Imperialist Project Is to Carve Up Bolivia and Carve Up South America" – Federico Fuentes, Green Left Weekly
• Worldwide Support for Evo Morales Government
Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro
• An Acid Test – April 30, 2008
• Our Spirit of Sacrifice and the Empire's Blackmail – April 24, 2008
Paraguay
• Lugo Pledges to Serve His Country
– Prensa Latina
• Paraguayan Election Could Tip the Scale Towards Venezuela – Nikolas Kozloff, Venezuelanalysis.com
May 5, 2008 - No. 71
Hamilton
• Hamilton Steelworkers Protest Massive Loss of Manufacturing Jobs
• Only the Workers Can Find a Solution to the Problems of the Economy! – Joint May Day Statement of USW Locals 1005 (Stelco) and 7135 (National Steel Car)
• Interviews
Toronto
• Day of Action for the Rights of All
Montreal
• March Against Capitalism
• All Together for Health Care!
• Status for All! March for Immigrant Justice and Against Poverty, Racism and Racial Profiling
Halifax
• Unity, Resistance, Dignity
• Speech by the Halifax May Day Committee
For Your Information
May Day Statement of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Workers Must Take Up Political Renewal
to Extricate Society from the Crisis!
May 6, 2008 - No. 72
• Congratulations to Ontario's Part-Time College Workers! Shame on the Ontario Liberals and the OLRB! – David Starbuck, Sudbury Marxist-Leninist Party Club
• OPSEU Petition to Ontario Legislature
• Notes from the Front Line: Part-Time College Workers and Organizers Step up Their Campaign to Defend the Rights of All! Our Security Lies in Our Fight! Beware Upcoming Government Legislation! – Part Three,
Organizer (name withheld)
• College Support Staff Negotiations: Liberals Throw Down the Gauntlet! College Workers Respond by Fighting for the Rights of All
• Schizophrenia and Ontario Colleges – An Ontario College Worker
• Letter of College Compensation and Appointments Council to Part-Time College Employees
May 7, 2008 - No. 73
• 6th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba Scheduled for Late 2009 – Granma International
• Revolutionary Government Decides to Increase Social Security and Assistance Pensions – Granma International
• Counterrevolutionary Provocation Fails – Granma International
• Statement Issued by Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (against U.S. Interests Section Provocations) – April 23, 2008
• Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro: The Living and the Dead
• Statement from Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denounces Bush's Complicity with Posada Carriles – April 16, 2008
• "The Risk that Our Cuban Five Brothers Face in Prison" – U.S. National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
• Campaign to Grant Visas for Wives of Cuban Five Heroes
Events
• Calgary Rally and Fiesta Fundraiser Held to Free the Cuban Five
• Montreal May 8 Picket
May 8, 2008 - No. 74
Statscan Report on Wealth Distribution
• Esclating Transfer of Wealth Produced by Working Class to Hands of Rich Minority
• Gross Domestic Product Declines in February
– Statistics Canada Report (Excerpts)
• Record Hike for U.S. Steel Prices –
Excerpts from MEPS
For Your Information
• Viewpoint on the Current Economic Crisis from an Independent Stock Broker (Semi-Retired) – Bill Cara's Community Chat
May 9, 2008 - No. 75
Israel at 60: Six Decades of Ethnic Cleansing Is No Cause for Celebration
• Harper's Hateful Denial of Israeli War Crimes
• Join in Actions to Oppose 60 Years of Zionist Occupation and Affirm the Right of Return of the Palestinian People!
• Palestinian Citizens of Israel Commemorate Nakba in the Face of State Repression
• Israelis Betrayed by Their Government – Stéphane Hessel, Libération
• Israel at 60: Six Decades of Ethnic Cleansing Is No Cause for Celebration – Press Release from Press Conference on 60 Years of Nakba, Palestine House
• Sixty Years of Resistance
— We Will Return! - Palestine House Press Conference
• 60 Years of Dispossession, 60 Years Closer to Return – Canadian Arab Federation
• No Time to Celebrate: Jews Remember the Nakba – Statement and Pledge of Action, U.S. and Canada
• Remembering the Palestinian Nakba: Israel at 60 – Nasser Barghouti and Bassemah Darwish
• Israeli Occupation Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
For Your Information
• The Right of Return — A Basic Right Still Denied – Al Awda Factsheet, September 12, 2006
Lebanon
• Opposition Blocks U.S./Zionist Efforts to Liquidate the Heroic Resistance
May 12, 2008 - No. 76
Militant Rallies Mark 60 Years of Al Nakba
• Montreal March Declares We Will Never Forget! We Will Return!
• Toronto Rally Affirms Palestine Will Be Free!
• Vancouver March Condemns Violation of Palestinian Rights
Anti-Israeli Apartheid Campaign
• Postal Workers Take Firm Stand to Support Palestinian Workers – CUPW Convention Media Release
• Students Against Israeli Apartheid – ASSÉ
United States
• Progressive Jews Expelled from Israel's Birthday Event and Banned from Benaroya Hall – Seattle Jews for a Free Palestine
Palestine
• World's Largest Key? Right of Return in Aida Refugee Camp – Munjed Jadou, Palestine News Network
May 13, 2008 - No. 77
• Justice for the Toronto 18!
• A Day-Long Vigil to End a Common Canadian Form of Torture, and to Release Three Young Men from Two Years of Enforced Isolation
• Hands Off Steve Chand!
• Powerful Demonstration in Brampton in Support of the Toronto 18 — We Are One Humanity!
• Feels Like June 2nd All Over Again
– Toronto18.com
For Your Information
• The Case of the Toronto 18
United States
• Mistrial Is Declared for Six Men in Sears Tower Terror Case
SUPPLEMENT
• Sacrificing Rights in the War on Terror: The José Padilla Case
May 14, 2008 - No. 78
• Basque Refugee Ordered Deported on Basis of Torture Information
• Urgent Action Appeal for Roma Refugee Ordered Deported
India
• International Day of Action to Free Binayak Sen and Demand Repeal of Black Laws
Cuba
• Declaration of the Committee of Relatives of the Victims of the Bombing of the Civilian Airliner in Barbados – Granma International
• Bush Is Desperate – Prensa Latina
• Wanted Terrorist Honored in Miami – Carol J. Williams. Los Angeles Times
May 15, 2008 - No. 79
Mississauga, Ontario
• Oppose the Gestapo-Style Raid Against "Undocumented" Workers in Mississauga!
• Hysteria about "Illegals" in Canada – Pierre Chenier
• No to the Immigration Raids! – Jim Nugent
• Oakville Ford Autoworkers Reject Concessionary Agreement
Mexico
• "The Oil Is Ours! We Will Not Be a North American Colony but a Free and Independent Country!"
Canadian Nickel Companies in Guatemala
• Heads They Win, Tails You Lose – Dawn Paley, Upside Down World
May 16, 2008 - No. 80
Lebanon
• Hands Off Lebanon! No to Outside Interference in Lebanon's Affairs! – Jamilé Ghaddar
• There Is No Civil War in Lebanon; There Is a War against the Resistance – Nadia Hasan, Palestine Think Tank
• The Ball of Violence in Lebanon Is Growing – Abdul Bari Atwan
Myanmar
• In the Shadow of Catastrophe – german-foreign-policy.com
SUPPLEMENT
• The March to War: Israel Prepares for War against Lebanon and Syria– Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Global Research
May 19, 2008 - No. 81
Patriots Day 2008
• Long Live the Quebec Patriots! Long Live Their Nation-Building Project! A New Direction for Quebec!
May 20, 2008 - No. 82
Let Us Together Take a Bold Step in Defence of the Rights of All!
Join in Actions to Oppose State-Organized Racist Attacks! An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!
• Montreal, May 23: People's Camp in Park Extension – Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui
• Constitutional Challenge to Special Advocate Regime
• How Suresh Haunts Bill C-3 and Section 2 of the Charter – Diana Younes, The Court
Extraordinary Renditions
• Quebec Human Rights Organizations Join in Call to Bring Montreal Man Home – www.peoplescommission.org
May 21, 2008 - No. 83
• The Right to Be Is Inviolable! No to Silencing of the Palestine Solidarity Movement!
– Jamilé Ghaddar
• Israeli Apartheid Posters Approved at McMaster University – McMaster Solidarity with Palestinian Human Rights
• Censorship at Montreal-Area College: Administration Cancels Workshop Critical of Canadian Support for Israel
– Presse Release, ASSÉ, CALEB and Tadamon!
• Jews Speak Out to Condemn Censure - Independent Jewish Voices Montreal
• Suppression of Student Groups at University of Western Ontario – Steve D'Arcy, London Indymedia
• Was UWO PIRG's Support for Palestinian Human Rights a Factor? – Edward C. Corrigan, London Indymedia
• Should the University of Western Ontario Be Supporting a Racist Organization? – Edward C. Corrigan, www.altlondon.org
• Ryerson University: Solidarity with Palestinian Human Rights Condemns Terrorist Attack
United States
• Statement in Support of Professor Thomas Abowd
• Jewish Labor Committee Attempts to Shut Down Boston Conference on Zionism – New England Commitee to Defend Palestine
• San Francisco: 20 Jews Arrested in Protest of 60th Anniversary Event – notimetocelebrate.wordpress.com
Middle East
• Israel's Right to Terrorism – Ghali Hassan, Countercurrents.org
• A Defeated Policy, Not a Defeated People – Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada
May 22, 2008 - No. 84
A Modern Society Guarantees the Right to Housing as a Basic Human Right!
Quebec
• Camp and March for Housing to Greet the 400th Anniversary of Quebec City
• Housing Crisis: Guaranteeing the Right to Housing Must Be the Starting Point – Serge Lachapelle
• Place l'Acadie and Place Henri-Bourassa – Paying Dearly for Negligence – FRAPRU
• Increasing Rents in Quebec
• Significant Increase in Dwelling Repossessions
• Dwelling Repossession: Hundreds of Tenants Turned out by Housing Board – RCLALQ
• Montreal, June 26: Demonstration against Public Transit Fare Increases
Alberta
• Dramatic Increase in Homelessness
May 23, 2008 - No. 85
• Long Live the Cuban Revolution! Defend the Right of Self-Determination! – Statement of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Cuba Challenges U.S. to Respond to Serious Accusations
• Links Proven between U.S. Diplomats and Terrorists
• Chief of U.S. Interests Section Channeling Money from Terrorists in Miami to Mercenaries in Cuba – Alberto Nuñez and Pedro De La Hoz, Granma International
Reflections of Comrade Fidel Castro
• Marti's Immortal Ideas – May 22, 2008
May 26, 2008 - No. 86
• Canadian Labour Congress Holds 25th Constitutional Convention
• Call to CLC Trade Unionists to Empower Workers Through Organizing – Workers' Centre of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist- Leninist)
• Oppose the Wrecking of Canada's Manufacturing Base! Converge Around a Program of Nation-Building! – K.C. Adams
May 27, 2008 - No. 87
• All Out to Support the Fight of Postal Workers against Deregulation and Privatization!
• Support the Campaign to Defeat Bill C-14!
• Tasks and Challenges Facing the Postal Workers in the Coming Period – Interview, Denis Lemelin, National President, Canadian Union of Postal Workers
• "Modernization" Plans of Canada Post – Organization Committee, CUPW Ottawa Local
• In the Parliament: Who Said What on Bill C-14, An Act to Amend the Canada Post Corporation Act
May 28, 2008 - No. 88
Northern British Columbia
• Forestry Communities Rally Against Mill Closures
• Situation of Mackenzie Workers Shows the Necessity to Restrict Monopoly Right – Charles Boylan
• For Your Information
Quebec
• MDF Uniboard Workers in La Baie Block Transfer of Chips to Other Uniboard Facilities
• Letter to the Editor – Alan Simard, Saving the Region of Ontario North Group (STRONG)
May 29, 2008 - No. 89
• Organize Workers' Collective Self-Defence in Every Workplace
• Union-Busting in Alberta and Renewal on the Basis of Defence of the Rights of All – Peggy Morton
• USW Local 1005's Resistance to Stelco's Bankruptcy Fraud — It Can Be Done!
• The Need to Fight for a Working Class Perspective on the Economy – K.C. Adams
May 30, 2008 - No. 90
Update: Justice for All First Nations!
• Note to Our Readers
• Rally Kicks Off Four Days of Action for Indigenous Rights in Ontario
• Protecting Mother Earth: Chiefs Address the Press, May 27
• Seven Aboriginal Protesters Released by Ontario Appeal Court
• Why We Are in Jail – Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation
• Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug Seek International Support at United Nations – Wawatay News Online
Grassy Narrows First Nation
• 1,850 Km Walk to Protect Native Land
Six Nations
• More Charges Laid: Clampdown Intensifies -- Support Tyendinaga Mohawks! – Tyendinaga Support Committee
• Shawn Brant's Arrest – Statement by Sue Collis, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
• Update from Quinte Regional Detention Centre – Tyendinaga Support Committee
• Brantford: Solidarity Rally
• "Spagetti Legs" Fantino Walks in on Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chief's Meeting at 6 Nations — He Was as Lost as Columbus – Kahentinetha Horn, Mohawk Nation News
• Akwesasne "Sagging Saga" Will Soon End! Genuine Sovereignty to Be Asserted on May 31, 2008 – Kahentinetha Horn, Mohawk Nation News
JUNE 2008
June 9, 2008 - No. 91
GM Wrecking in Ontario: Autoworkers Reject Closure and Blockade GM
• Uphold the Dignity of Autoworkers!
• A Power to Deprive – K.C. Adams
• GM Wrecking in Ontario
• June 1 Rally: Ontario Workers Affirm
"Manufacturing Matters"
• More on the Real Reason Behind High Oil Prices – F. William Engdahl
June 10, 2008 - No. 92
Shameful Decision of Atlanta Court of Appeals
• Free the Cuban Five!
• 11th Circuit Court Upholds Convictions of the Five – Granma International
• Response to Court Ruling on Cuban Five Appeal
– International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five
• Leonard Weinglass: "There Are 40 Pages of Ideological Prejudice in the New Ruling from Atlanta" – Arleen Rodriguez Derivet, Granma Daily
• Politics Motivated Decision in Cuban Five Case – National Lawyers Guild
• Decision in the Cuban 5 Case a Politically Motivated Travesty of Justice – International Association of Democratic Lawyers
• June 5-7: Worldwide Demonstrations Demand
"Free the Five Now!"
Coming Events
• Toronto, June 21: Rally for the Cuban Five – Toronto Forum on Cuba
• Cuban Workers Federation Announces International Campaign to Free the Five
June 11, 2008 - No. 93
The Global Crisis: Food, Water and Fuel
• Three Fundamental Necessities of Life in Jeopardy – Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research
June 12, 2008 - No. 94
Ontario Colleges Collective Bargaining Act 2008
• McGuinty Liberals Seek to Impose Limits on Collective Bargaining Rights of College Employees
• Notes from the Front Lines — Part Four
– Part-Time College Worker, Name Still Withheld Pending Legislation Allowing for Rights
Cuba
• IFCO/Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan — Solidarity Not Charity!
Free the Cuban Five!
• Cuban Parliament Approves Declaration on Cuban Five
• Canadian Federation of Students Passes Resolution
• Hamilton Friendship Association with Cuba Holds First Annual General Assembly
80th Anniversary of Che Guevara's Birth
• Vancouver Two-Day International Conferece: Che Guevara Thinker and Fighter
• Che Remembered on his 80th Birthday
– Agencia Cubana de Noticias
• The Eighty Years of Che Guevara
– Yeniela Cedeño, CubaNow
June 13, 2008 - No. 95
• Vigourously Support the Korean People's Struggle for Reunification!
• South Korean People Demand the Resignation of President Lee Myung Bak
• Candlelight Protests Gain in Scope in South Korea – Korean Central News Agency
• Statement of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League
• Great Force for Independent Reunification, Peace and Prosperity – Song Yong Sok, Rodong Sinmun
• Patriotic Era Full of Vitality with Bright Future – Choe Chol Sun, Rodong Sinmun
• DPRK-U.S. Negotiations Prove Successful
For Your Information
• Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland
June 16, 2008 - No. 96
Fight for the Dignity of Labour!
• Autoworkers Fight for Job Security
• Photos from June 12 Solidarity March and Rally at GM Headquarters
• CAW Convention Passes GM Truck Plant Emergency Resolution
• News on Judge's Ruling on Injunction against Blockade of GM Headquarters
For Your Information
• Providing Product Allocation for the Oshawa Plant Beyond 2011 with a Guarantee: CAW-GM Agreement
June 17, 2008 - No. 97
GM Workers'Just Cause
• The Importance of Outlook – K.C. Adams
• The Capital-Centred Outlook and GM's Dictate to Close the Oshawa Truck Plant
June 18, 2008 - No. 98
No to Secret Trials, Secret Evidence, Indefinite Detention and Deportation to Torture! Abolish Security Certificates!
• Adil Charkaoui Brings Habeas Corpus Motion to Federal Court
• Update on Adil Charkaoui's Legal Campaign – Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui
• People's Camp in Park Extension: Report and Funding Appeal – Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui
• Conseil central du Montréal métropolitain (CSN) Supports Charkaoui
• College Teachers' Federation Passes Resolution
June 19, 2008 - No. 99
Housing Is a Right and Must Be Provided with a Guarantee!
• "4 Less" Camp in Quebec City
• June 26-28 "4 Less" Camp: Invigorated by Support from Numerous Public Personalities, FRAPRU Will Occupy Land in Downtown Quebec City – FRAPRU
• July 1 Moving Day in Quebec Anticipated to Be Difficult
• 2006 Census: Rent Hikes Prevented Quebec Tenants from Improving Their Lot – FRAPRU
• A Provincial Housing Code: A Necessity, Not Just a Need – RCLACQ
• Montreal Demonstration against Social Cleansing
• Stratford, Ontario: Homeless Park Takeover and Tent City Action – Stratford Action for Equality
(SAFE)
June 20, 2008 - No. 100
• Air Canada Fires Workers and Cuts Production
• Fuel Costs and Individual Taxation at Air Canada – K.C. Adams
• CUPE to Cannon: Will You Step in on Behalf of Air Canada Workers, Consumers?
Puerto Rico
• Free the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners!
• Puerto Rican Grand Jury Resisters
• Non-Aligned Movement Demands Independence for Puerto Rico at UN – Agencia Cubana de Noticias
• UN Calls on U.S. to Expedite Self-Determination of Puerto Rican People
June 23, 2008 - No. 101
Oppose Assault of Native Elders and Clan Mothers
• State-Sanctioned Violence Has to Stop!
• Interview with Frank Horn
• Bail Hearing for Katenies
• Canadian Attack on Mohawk Nation News at Cornwall Border Crossing – Ieriwa'on:ni, Mohawk Nation News
• Harper's "Apology": Canada Confesses to Part of Its Crimes against Humanity — There Has Finally Been an Official Apology for "Murder," Rape... – Kahentinetha Horn, Mohawk Nation News
For Your Information
• Why Katenies Will Not "Walk the Line" – Kahentinetha Horn, Mohawk Nation News, January 5, 2007
June 24, 2008 - No. 102
Vancouver to Ottawa Walk4Justice for Canada's Missing Women
• Walk4Justice for Canada's Missing Women Starts in Vancouver
• Walk4Justice Demands Public Inquiry into 3000 Missing Women in Canada – Donna Petersen
• Some Ways in Which the "Missing Women" Issue Poses Itself – Charles Boylan
June 25, 2008 - No. 103
58th Anniversary of the Korean War
• Hail the Historic Victory of the Korean People! U.S. Imperialism Out of Korea Now!
• Chilling to the Bone – John Cherian, www.alternatives.ca
For Your Information
• Report of the Investigation Team of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers on the Crimes Committed by the United States in Korea – March 31, 1952
• A New Look at the Korean War
– John H. Kim, Veterans for Peace, 2000
June 26, 2008 - No. 104
Post Office
• An Injury to One is an Injury to All — All for One and One for All!
• Postal Workers Speak Out!
• Actions of Scarborough Postal Workers in Defence of the Rights of All Workers
• Toronto Picket against Manulife
June 27, 2008 - No. 105
Korean Reunification
• Toronto Meeting Hails 8th Anniversary of Korea's Historic North-South Joint Declaration
• June 15 Meeting for National Reunification Held in Korea
• Appeal to Koreans at Home and Abroad Published
• Letter to Teaching Unions in Canada Appealing for Solidarity with Canadian and Other Foreign Teachers Working in South Korea – Teachers of English Abroad in Korea (TEA-KOR)
• Correction
News and Comment
• KCNA Rebukes U.S. Poor Political Charade – Korean Central News Agency, June 19, 2008
• Joint Air Military Exercise Blasted
– Korean Central News Agency, June 17, 2008
• Shaken Korean Leader Promises New Beginning – Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, June 12, 2008
June 30, 2008 - No. 106
• Oppose Attempts to Use Quebec City's 400th Anniversary for the War Preparations of Bush and Harper! No to the Militarization of Culture and Public Space! – Marxist-Leninist Party of Quebec (PMLQ)
• 400 years of Militarism Must Cease! From Quebec to Kabul, No Army in Our Cities! – Guerre à la guerre
• Rimouski Says No to Military Ceremony
• Militant Opposition to Warships in Port of Quebec City
• Visit of Henry Kissinger: Montreal Is Not a Haven for War Criminals!
• House of Commons Recommends U.S. War Resisters Receive Permanent Resident Status
• CANSEC Weapons Fair: All Out for an Anti-War Government! – Pierre Soublière
• Protest Against Lockheed Martin's Involvement with the Canadian Census – Vivelecanada.com
• Note to Our Readers
JULY 2008
July 7, 2008 - No. 107
• Declare 2007 Barley Plebiscite Null and Void! Anti-Wheat Board Bills Must Be Withdrawn!
• Gag Order on Canadian Wheat Board Ruled Illegal
• Harper Government's Gangsterism
• Federal Court Upholds Farmer Control of Canadian Wheat Board — Government Ruled in Violation of Charter of Rights and Freedoms – Canadian Wheat Board
• Anarchy in Canada: Harper Government Breaks the Law, Again – National Farmers Union
For Your Information
• Excerpts from June 19 Ruling of Justice Roger
Hughes
July 11, 2008 - No. 108
• Liberal Party Tax on Carbon-Based Products
2008 G-8 Summit, Hokkaido, Japan
• Militant Actions Denounce Imperialist Domination of the World's Peoples
SEPTEMBER 2008
September 1, 2008 - No. 109
Labour Day 2008
• Uphold the Dignity of the Working Class! Fight for the Rights of All!
• Abolish the Temporary Foreign Workers Program! No One Is Illegal!
• Election Talk — Let the Discussion Begin!
• Remove the Conservatives with All the Contempt They Deserve! – Pierre Soublière -
2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver, Colorado, August 25-28
• The Photos You Didn't See on TV
September 2, 2008 - No. 110
Toronto, Labour Day 2008
• Workers Demand an End to Destruction of Manufacturing and Nation-Wrecking
Quebec
• Artists Hold Rally against Conservatives' Cuts to the Arts
• Artists Will Continue to Be Seen and Heard – Press Release, Mouvement pour les arts et les lettres
• Letter to the Editor
• Deadly Bacterial Outbreak
September 3, 2008 - No. 111
• Cuba's Heroic Hurricane Relief
Recuperation Phase
• Tackling the Damage Caused by Gustav Is a Task for the Whole of Cuba – Carmen Oria, Agencia Cubana de Noticias
• Housing, the Greatest Challenge
• Relief Measures on the Isle of Youth
• Not One Life Lost
Reflections of Comrade Fidel Castro
• The Hurricane – August 31
• A Nuclear Strike – September 2
• 4th Annual Day of Friendship with Cuba – Program
September 4, 2008 - No. 112
U.S. Dollar Hegemony
• Falling Value of U.S. Dollar
September 5, 2008 - No. 113
• October 14 General Election
• Dysfunctional Parliament
• Culture Will Be at the Heart of the Election Campaign
• The Hunter May Be a Sharpshooter, but He Is Somewhat Deaf – Robert Lepage
• Another War Government? It Must Not Pass! — No Harbour for War!
Not a Single Youth for Imperialist War!
• October 18 Pan-Canadian Day of Action: End the War in Afghanistan! Bring Canadian Troops Home Now! – Canadian Peace Alliance and Collectif
Échec
à la guerre
September 8, 2008 - No. 114
Ontario
• Public Hearings on Bill 90
• Notes from the Front Lines - Part V
– Part-Time College Worker (Name Still Withheld Pending Legislation Allowing for Rights)
• Ontario College Support Staff Reach Tentative Agreement
For Your Information
• OPSEU on Bill 90: Big Changes Needed
• One Step Forward — Two Steps Back
– Submission of Workers' Centre of CPC(M-L) to the Standing Committee on General Government of the Ontario Legislature
September 9, 2008 - No. 115
Elections 2008
• What Kind of Leadership?
• Liberal Green Shift Is a Fraud
• Workers of British Columbia Need Their Own Representatives in Parliament
More Nation-Wrecking in Southern Ontario
• John Deere to Close Welland Plant
• A Necessary Response to John Deere and Linamar – K.C. Adams
United States
• Boeing Workers Demonstrate Their Strength of Numbers and Determination
Cuba
• Statement by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Appeal for Assistance for Hurricane Gustav Relief for Cuba – Cuba Hurricane Relief Fund Committee, Canadian Network on Cuba
September 10, 2008 - No. 116
• Harper Gang, Out of Quebec! – Claude Brunelle
• Say No to Corporate Tax Evasion! Say Yes to Manufacturing and Nation-Building! – K.C. Adams
• Quebec: Monopoly Right in Health Care
• Alberta Meeting Endorses MLPC Program to Empower the People
United States
• U.S. Government Rescues Financial Oligarchy — Largest Pay-the-Rich Scheme in History – K.C. Adams
• Paulson's Pay-the-Rich Scheme and China
• Information from the Mass Media on the Paulson Pay-the-Rich Bailout
September 11, 2008 - No. 117
7th Anniversary of September 11
• Our Security Lies in the Fight for the Rights of All!
• Seventh Anniversary of September 11: War on Terrorism Solves No Problem — Empower the People to Solve Problems Facing Society – United States Marxist-Leninist Organization
• Reflections on 9-11 – Cindy Sheehan, www.cindyforcongress.com
• Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention – Chris Hedges
• Al-Arian — Another Sept. 11 Casualty – Ida Audeh, The Boulder Daily Camera
• Bush Quietly Seeks to Make War Powers Permanent – John Byrne, The Raw Story
• Mexico Drug Plane Used for U.S. 'Rendition' Flights
• Britain to Monitor All Communications
SUPPLEMENT
• Robocop: Professional Policing of Political Protest, an Insider's Viewpoint – William Cox, Global Research
September 12, 2008 - No. 118
September 12 International Day of Action
• 10 Years of Injustice — 10 Years Too Many! Free the Cuban Five Political Prisoners Held in U.S. Jails!
• Billboards in Vancouver Demand Release of Cuban Five
• Canadian Parliamentarians Sign Letter for Cuban Five – Canadian Network on Cuba and Table de Concertation de Solidarité Québec-Cuba Joint Statement
Cuba
• Statement by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• A Letter from Comrade Fidel Castro to Randy Alonso, Director of the Round Table TV Program
SUPPLEMENT
• Chronicle of an Injustice — Brief Summary of the Case of the Cuban Five – Leonard Weinglass
September 15, 2008 - No. 119
Our Security Lies in Defence of the Rights of All!
• Oppose Canada's Participation in the U.S. War on Terror! Bring Omar Khadr Back to Canada!: An Election Issue
• Doubts Raised about Khadr's Role in Firefight – Michelle Shephard, Toronto Star
• Universal Periodic Review of Canada: Report of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC)
– Lawyers Rights Watch Canada
September 16, 2008 - No. 120
60th Anniversary of the Founding of the DPRK
• Hail the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the DPRK! Support the Struggles of the Korean People!
• Toronto Public Forum on 60th Anniversary Launches Year of Activities
• New DPRK Ambassador to Canada Presents Credentials
• Resolutely Denounce U.S. War Exercises in Inchon!
• Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Six Party Talks
For Your Information
• Chronology of Korean Revolutionary History
• In the Spirit of Self-Reliance
– Jang Yong Un
• Smashing All Acts of Provocation
– Kim Tong Il
• Mass Movements Push Socialist Construction – Kim Tong Il
September 17, 2008 - No. 121 - Morning Edition
Take Back the Night
• Step up the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women by Fighting for a Society Which Recognizes the Rights of All! Defeat the Right! Elect an Anti-War Government!
September 17, 2008 - No. 122 - Afternoon Edition
September 17, United States Constitution Day
• Campaigning to Restore the Constitution – John Nichols, The Nation
• Did Bush Create the Most Secretive U.S. Government Ever? – William Fisher, Inter Press Service
• Unaccountable Secret Government: Most Serious Constitutional Crisis in American History – Sherwood Ross, Global Research
• What Illegal 'Things' Was the Government Doing in 2001-2004? – Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
September 18, 2008 - No. 123
• Major Bankruptcy in the United States — Harper Responds: All Is Well – K.C. Adams
• Harper's "Strong Economy" and "United Canada"
• The Harper-Hoover Connection: Block Harper! Don't Let Harper Take Canada down Hoover's Road of Depression and War
For Your Information
• Top Economist: Americans Should Worry About Bank Deposits if Congress Doesn't Act – Yahoo! Finance
September 19, 2008 - No. 124
• NDP's "Asymmetrical Federalism": Same Nonsense as Harper's "Open Federalism"
– Gabriel Girard-Bernier
• "Blindness and Pointless Obstructionism" of an Archaic Political System – Pierre Soublière
• Oppose Harper's Gross Interference in the Affairs of the Quebec People! – Pierre Chénier
• Becoming a "Block" to Unblock the Crisis of Renewal of Canada's "Democratic Institutions"
– Mathieu-Henri Jetté
• Quebec Folksong – Geneviève Royer
United States
• Bailout of the Rich Continues Unabated – K.C. Adams
September 22, 2008 - No. 125
• Block Harper's Privatization Plans
Quebec
• Artists Are Mobilizing!
• Artists' Video on Cuts to Arts and Culture and "Canadian Values"
• TV Artists Denounce Harper Government's Cuts and Step Up Their Struggle to Block Them
• Letter to the Editor: Conservative Idiocy
September 23, 2008 - No. 126
• Harper Promotes Economic Annexation
• U.S. Treasury Declares Force Majeure
For Your Information
• Scramble of the Parasites to Feast Off Big Government Bailout
• $700 Billion in Real Terms – David Stout, New York Times
• Text of Draft Proposal for Bailout Plan
• A Sample of Capital-Centred Criticism of the Bailout
September 24, 2008 - No. 127
Elections 2008
• The Toronto 18 — An Election Issue
• Healthcare Is a Right! Rally Opposes Opening of Private Medical Clinic in Calgary – Peggy Morton
Our Security Lies in Our Fight for the Rights of All!
• Calgary Rally Opposes State-Organized Racist and Fascist Violence
• Put the Blame for Racist and Fascist Violence Squarely on the Harper Government and the Canadian State! – Alberta Regional Committee of CPC(M-L)
• Quebec City March Commemorates One Year Anniversary of Death of Claudio Castagnetta
• Montreal: Justice and Truth for Freddy Alberto Villanueva! No to Police Impunity and Racial Profiling!
September 25, 2008 - No. 128
For Us, Accountability Begins at Home!
• Marxist-Leninist Party Fields 59 Candidates in Federal Election
• Harper's Competition Fetish
Quebec Day of Action Against Army Recruitment and War Propaganda
• Not a Single Youth for Imperialist War!
• Six Reasons Not to Enlist in the Army — What Recruiters Won't Tell You – www.antirecrutement.info
September 26, 2008 - No. 129
Harper's Hypocrisy on State Subsidies
• Fund the Process Not the Parties! – Sandra L. Smith
Alberta
• Outrageous Scheme to Pay the Rich — Secrecy Hides Theft from Public Treasury – Peggy Morton
• No to P3 Schools in Alberta! – Interview, Doug Luellman, President, CUPE Local 474
For Your Information
• Babcock Shares Slump as Lehman Collapse Spurs Concern – Bloomberg News
September 29, 2008 - No. 130
Economic Crisis Deepens
• Stop the Bailout of the Rich!
• Washington Mutual Failure
Fund the Process, Not the Parties
• More on Harper's Hypocrisy – Anna Di Carlo
Letters to the Editor
• The Need for Worker Politicians
• State Subsidies to Political Parties
• Prime Minister's Comments Regarding the Arts
September 30, 2008 - No. 131
Economic Crisis Needs Broad View for Its Resolution
• Harper's Narrow Focus on Getting Elected
• Monopoly Bailout Trumps Public Right
For Your Information
• Pension Savings Destroyed – Week in Review #39, www.billcara.com
• Hong Kong Investors in Lehman Protest Again – Associated Press
• The Rich Are Staging a Coup this Morning ...a Message – Michael Moore
• Popular Anger Puts Fat Cat CEOs on the Run – Agence France Presse
OCTOBER 2008
October 1, 2008 - No. 132
Leaders' Debates
• Dictatorship of the Business-Parties Enforced by State and Private Media – Pierre Chénier
Ontario — Bill 90
• McGuinty Liberals Set to Legislate Double Standard – Steve Rutchinski
• With Friends Like These...: Select Candidates from Amongst Our Peers – David Starbuck
• Public Hearing on Bill 90: Where Justice and Reason Do Not Prevail
October 2, 2008 - No. 133
• Leaders' Debate: Cartel-Party System in Action
Harper's Presence Vigorously Opposed in Val-d'Or, Quebec
• Abitibi-Temiscamingue Stands Up against Retrogression!
• What the People of Val-d'Or Had to Say
Harper Sneaks into Calgary
• What Is He Trying to Hide? – Peggy Askin
• Seniors Demand Increases to Government Pensions and Benefits
• Postal Workers Oppose Harper in Calgary
• Interviews: Why Postal Workers Protested Harper's Visit to Calgary
October 3, 2008 - No. 134
"Leaders' Debate"
• Deal Makers Blame Each Other for Bad Deal-Making
• What the Leaders Tried to Hide
• Risk-Taking for Private Gain – K.C. Adams
• Here's How Much More of Your Money the "Major Parties" Just Received
• Letter to the Editor: Politics of ElectoralCoups
Calgary
• No to the Privatization of Public Assets and Services
Quebec
• The Right to Housing — An Election Issue
• Loss of Housing Due to Conservative and Liberal Anti-Social Offensive – FRAPRU
October 6, 2008 - No. 135
Montreal Demonstration Rejects Policies of Harper Government
• No to Retrogression and Shame! Yes to the Defence of the Rights of All!
• What the People Had to Say
Edmonton
• Rally for the Arts Says: Block Harper! Vote Culture!
Our Security Lies in Our Fight for the Rights of All!
• Mobilize for Omar Khadr — Canadian Child Soldier!
October 7, 2008 - No. 136
Oppose Colonial Justice — Support the Just Struggle of the First Nations!
• MLPC Condemns Harper and Charest Governments for Treatment of Barriere Lake Algonquin — Vicious Attack by Quebec Police
• Barriere Lake Algonquins Peacefully Blockade Highway 117 in Northern Quebec – Barriere Lake Solidarity Collective
Economic Crisis
• The Economy Is Not Sound Mr. Harper
• Letter to the Editor
Vancouver
• Protest Political Censorship at Britannia Candidates' Forum!
SUPPLEMENT
• For Your Information: Notes on the Deepening Economic Crisis
October 8, 2008 - No. 137
• Harper's Corporate Tax Cuts Are a Factor in the Economic Crisis
• Oppose Racial Profiling and Division on the Basis of "Ethnic Votes" – Philip Fernandez
• The Kind of "Quebec Nationalism" of which the Conservatives Are "Natural Allies" – Pierre Soublière
Edmonton
• Support the Maple Leaf Workers!
• Abolish the Temporary Foreign Workers Program! Status for All! – Peggy Morton
October 9, 2008 - No. 138
• Harper Throws Gasoline on the Manufacturing Crisis
• Workers Hold Funeral Procession for Job Losses as Harper Presents "Platform"
• Tembec's Integrity in Question
– Al Simard, President, STRONG
• The Crisis in Forestry — An Election Issue – Gabriel Girard-Bernier
• Letter to the Editor: A Simple Question
• Toronto Rally for Canadian Culture
• Toronto Artists Organize Against Cuts
October 10, 2008 - No. 139
Have Private Banks Outgrown Their Usefulness?
• The Need to Establish a Public Banking and Credit System
Give Flaherty the Boot Campaign
• CAW Workers Take Thousands of Work Boots from Laid Off Workers to Flaherty's Campaign Office
Fighting for the Dignity of Labour
• CAW Workers Strike at Xstrata in Timmins
• Interview – Ben Lefebvre, CAW Local 599 Bargaining Committee Chair
Latin America
• Presidents Speak Out against U.S. "Bailout"
• The Cuban Revolution Will Continue Firmly Defending the Interests of the People – Granma International
October 13, 2008 - No. 140 - Morning Edition
All Out to Defeat Harper!
• Harper Issues Decree to Pay the Rich $25 Billion
• There Is an Alternative! Stop Harper from Paying the Rich!
• Organize for an Alternative Public Not-for-Profit Banking and Credit System – K.C. Adams
For Your Information
• Capital-Centred Comments and Views on the Economic Crisis
• Statement of Department of Finance Canada
October 13, 2008 - No. 141 - Afternoon Edition
Plans for Canada's Annexation Hatched in Secret — Annexation No! Sovereignty Yes!
• What Is Behind Harper's Talk of Restricting Bitumen Exports? – Peggy Morton
Canadian Wheat Board
• Farmers and Farm Activists Fight for Public Monopoly
• Farmers' Right to Collective Bargaining — A Union Factsheet – www.savemycwb.ca
Northern Ontario
• Curb the Multi-Nationals! Uphold Canadian Sovereignty – Interview, Al Simard, President, Saving the Region of Ontario North Group (STRONG)
• No Need to Dismantle Tembec: Smooth Rock Falls Revitalization Task Force
October 14, 2008 - No. 142
Elections 2008
• What Will "Business as Usual" Mean This Time Around?
• To Defend Quebec Is to Defend the Rights of All
• The Need to Organize for Democratic Renewal
• Predictions
Essence of Third-Party Spending Limits
• Ways in Which the Electoral Law Blocks the Effective Participation of the People on the Basis of Their Own Demands
– Anna Di Carlo, MLPC National Leader
October 15, 2008 - No. 143
Election Results
• The Need for Workers to Take an Active Approach to Their Empowerment
• Harper's "Strengthened Minority"
• False Notions of What It Means to Be Progressive
• The Shaky Foundation of "All Our Rights and Freedoms"
October 16, 2008 - No. 144
Pan-Canadian Day of Action to End the War in Afghanistan
• All Out For October 18! Organize for an Anti-War Government! Bring the Troops Home Now!
• No to Canada's Participation in U.S. War Machine!
• On October 18, 2008: End the War in Afghanistan! Bring Canadian Troops Home Now! – Canadian Peace Alliance and Collectif Échec à la Guerre
• Toronto Student Anti-War March
• End the Occupation of Afghanistan! – Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
• Emergency Vigil – Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
October 17, 2008 - No. 145
Canada-EU and Francophonie Summits
• More Secret Deals Hatched Behind the Backs of the People
• Conception of Rights of the Francophonie
For Your Information
• Harper's "Six-Point Economic Plan"
• Grim Forecasts Pile Pressure on Ottawa – Paul Vieira, Financial Post
• Canada-EU Free Trade Agreement
October 20, 2008 - No. 146
No to War and Occupation! Canada Out of Afghanistan!
• Canada-Wide Demonstrations Militantly Denounce Harper's War Government
• Letter from the Father of a Soldier
For Your Information
• What Goes on at the Longue-Pointe Military Base in Montreal?
• Private Security a Necessity in Kandahar Province – Tom Blackwell, Canwest News
October 21, 2008 - No. 147
Canadian Involvement in Torture and Civil Rights Violations
• Toronto, October 22: Caravan to End Canadian Involvement in Torture
• Decisions Made in Shadows – Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin
• Ivan Apaolaza Sancho Denied Right to Apply for Refugee Status, Deported to Spain – Freedom for Ivan Committee
• Seventh Anniversary of Hassan Almrei's Detention without Trial
"No-Fly Lists"
• Canada's "No-Fly List" Facing Constitutional Challenge – www.travelwatchlist.ca
• Civil Liberties Coalition Monitors Government Abuse of "Terrorist" Watch Lists
October 22, 2008 - No. 148
• No Olympics on Stolen Land! Spirit of Resistance Meets "Spirit Train"
• Criminalizing Indigenous Rights in Canada– David Parker, The Dominion
• Chiefs Decry Short Consultation on Mining Reforms – Jessica McDiarmid, Canadian Press
• Trick or Jay Treaty? Canada Border Assaults Remind Indigenous Women of Old Indian Story– Mohawk Nation News
Background
• Remember the Jay Treaty – Julie Gordon
• The Jay Treaty – Herb Joseph, Tuscarora of the Six Nations
October 23, 2008 - No. 149
• Harper's Class Priorities
• Economic Crisis Hits Steel Production
• Steel Monopolies and the Royal Prerogative – K.C. Adams
For Your Information
• Economic Crisis Affects Pension Plans
Uphold the Dignity of Wal-Mart Workers
• Wal-Mart Trumps Workers' Rights, Attacking the Dignity of All Canadian Workers
• Wal-Mart's Closure of Unionized Store in Gatineau is Another Attack on Workers – United Farm and Commercial Workers Union
October 24, 2008 - No. 150
Oppose Monopoly Right! Hands Off Steelworkers' Pensions!
• Remembering the Past, Analyzing the Present, Predicting the Future
For Your Reference
• U.S. Steel Seeks to Terminate Certain Sections of Pension Agreement "Too Big to Fail" — Theory of Monopoly Right and Empire-Building – K.C. Adams, TML Daily, September 27, 2007
• USW Local 1005 Firmly Opposes Any Change to the 2006 Stelco Pension Agreement Hands Off Steelworkers' Pensions! Uphold the Rule of Law! – Rolf Gerstenberger, President, USW Local 1005, September 26, 2007
Cuba
• Worldwide Call to Parliamentarians to Demand Unconditional End to U.S. Blockade – Presidency of National Assembly of People's Power, Republic of Cuba
October 27, 2008 - No. 151
No to Criminal U.S. Blockade of Cuba!
• Cubans Expect Overwhelming Support for Resolution Against Criminal U.S. Blockade
• Examples of Damages Caused to the Cuban People
• The U.S. Blockade: The Main Obstacle to the Development and Well-Being of Cubans and to the Recovery from "Gustav" and "Ike" Hurricanes – Cuban Foreign Ministry/Permanent Mission to the UN
• Most Americans Support Revision of U.S. Policy Towards Cuba
• The Internal Side of Solidarity Aid – Lourdes Pérez Navarro and Lázaro de Jesús, Granma International
• Donations Continue to Arrive in Hurricane Ravaged Cuba – Froilan Parra Suarez, Granma International
• Cuba and EU Re-Establish Cooperative Ties
• Building and Deepening Canada-Cuba Solidarity – Press Release, Canadian Network on Cuba
October 28, 2008 - No. 152
• Denounce the Lawless U.S. Military Attack on Syria!
• Self-Defence Does Not Include Raids on Sovereign Nations
For Your Information
• News Items on U.S. Attack
• U.S. War Funding Soars
• U.S. Weapons Sales Abroad
October 29, 2008 - No. 153
• Facing Up to Bad News with a Working Class Program of Resistance and Nation-Building
• U.S. Steel 3rd Quarter Report: No Public Accounts Issued for Annexed Stelco Steel Works and Iron Ore Mine
For Your Information
• Capital-Centred News Reports on Economic Crisis in Global Steel and Iron Ore Sector
October 30, 2008 - No. 154
• U.S. Elections and Threat of Martial Law
• Preparations for Domestic Counter-Insurgency: Northern Command Gets Combat Brigade
• U.S. Northern Command and "Fusion Centers"
• Why Is a U.S. Army Brigade Assigned to the "Homeland?" – Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
• 'Terrorism' Charges Levied Against RNC Protesters – Tyneisha Bowens, Workers World
U.S. Aggression Abroad
• Syria Sends Letter to UN, Calling for It to Assume Responsibility Towards U.S. Aggression – Syrian Arab News Agency
• New Doctrine Calls for Nation-Building
• Gates Expands U.S. Right to Defend Against Plots – Thom Shanker, New York Times
• Afghanistan Conflict Rapidly Worsening: U.S. Report
October 31, 2008 - No. 155
• Overwhelming UN General Assembly Vote Against Blockade of Cuba
• Cuba Will Never Be Defeated – Granma International
On the Eve of U.S. Elections
• Suppression of the Right to Vote
• Statements on Voter Registration Work – Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
• Michigan Voter Purge Program Violates Federal Law – American Civil Liberties Union
• Hate Propaganda on a Grand Scale
– Isabel Macdonald, CommonDreams.org
NOVEMBER 2008
November 3, 2008 - No. 156
U.S. Elections
• Searching for a Commander in Chief as Deus Ex Machina
November 4, 2008 - No. 157
U.S. Elections
• Change Once Again the Casualty in the U.S. – Voice of Revolution
• A Campaign for the Ages, Tilting Toward Democrats – Liz Sidoti, Associated Press
• Republicans Scrambling to Save Seats in Congress – Carl Hulse, New York Times
For Your Information
• Obama's Conception of Change
SUPPLEMENT
• Obama Endorsements
November 5, 2008 - No. 158
• An Obama Presidency and the Battle of Democracy
November 6, 2008 - No. 159
December 8 Quebec Election
• PMLQ to Participate in General Election
• Charest's Action Plan to Integrate Immigrants: Uphold the Right to Conscience! Down with "Loyalty Oaths"!
– Benoit Legros
For Your Information
• Press Release of Director General of Elections Quebec
November 7, 2008 - No. 160
U.S. Steel Issues 3rd Quarter Results
• Workers and their Allies Discuss Ways and Means to Gain Control over the Direction of the Socialized Economy – K.C. Adams
Japan
• Chief of Japan's Air Force Claims Right to Global Self-Defence of Imperialism
• For Your Information
November 10, 2008 - No. 161
Hurricane Paloma Strikes Cuba
• All Out to Step Up Hurricane Relief for Cuba!
• Renewed Request to Canadian Government for Cuban Hurricane Relief – Keith Ellis, Canadian Network on Cuba
• Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro: The Third Hurricane
• Fidel, Chief Inspiration for Cuban Medical Cooperation – Enrique Milanés León, Granma International
• 10th Anniversary of Cuba's Comprehensive Healthcare Program: Practicing What We Preach – José A. De La Osa, Granma International
• Toronto: Coming Events
November 11, 2008 - No. 162
Quebec Election 2008
• Premier's "Defence" of Quebec's Interests – Pierre Soublière
• Closure of the AbitibiBowater Plant in Donnacona: Blackmail, Secret Negotiations and Concessions: This Is Not a Solution for the Workers! – Gabriel Girard-Bernier
• Government Action Plan to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion: Concrete Measures, Not Empty Phrases! – Serge Lachapelle
U.S. Election Results
• Obama Emerges as Champion of the U.S. Ruling Circles – Voice of Revolution
• 2008 Presidential and Congressional Results
• Percentage of Voter Participation on a Par with 2004
• Votes for Independents and Third Party Candidates Increase
November 12, 2008 - No. 163
Quebec Election 2008
• Action Plan for the Economy — The Liberal Party Is Not Fit to Rule
• For a Worker's Opposition to the Anti-Social Agenda of the Charest Liberals! The Times Are Calling for a New Direction for Quebec and Renewal of the Democratic Institutions – Pierre Soublière
• Donnacona — A Clear Example of How Charest "Pilots" Quebec
• Parliamentary Commission on Homelessness: FRAPRU Denounces Anti-Social Character of Quebec Government Policies
November 14, 2008 - No. 164
• G-20 Washington Economic Crisis Summit
For Your Information
• Bush's Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy
• From Dollars to Euros (II) – german-foreign-policy.com
• Resist Protectionism, Support Open Markets, G-20 Business Leaders Say on Eve of Historic Summit – Canadian Council of Chief Executives
• Leaders of Europe and Asia Call for Joint Economic Action – Keith Bradsher, New York Times
• The G-20 and Financial Stability Forum – Websites
November 17, 2008 - No. 165
Quebec Election
• Charest's Anti-Social Obscurantism
For Your Information
• Why Obscure Issues of Healthcare and Social Services? – Lise Denis, Association québécoise d'établissements de santé et de services sociaux
U.S. "War on Terror"
• What Is NorthCom Up To? – Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
• The Omar Khadr Case: Redefining War Crimes – Audrey Macklin, The Jurist
• Military Oaths Confront the Constitution in the Omar Khadr Case – Floyd Rudmin, Global Research
November 18, 2008 - No. 166
• U.S. Empire and Triad Dictate the Status Quo Shall Prevail
Prison at Guantánamo Bay
• Plans to Move Guantánamo Prison to U.S. Mainland
• Guantánamo Bay: Obama's Options – Al Jazeera
November 19, 2008 - No. 167
• Charest's Grand Design for Northern Quebec – Pierre Soublière
• From the Forests to the Mines Charest Refuses to Address the Crisis: Join the PMLQ's Work to Resolve the Crisis — Provide a New Direction for Quebec! – Gabriel Girard-Bernier
Barriere Lake
• Second Peaceful Blockade of Highway 117 – Press Release, Barriere Lake Solidarity
• Supporters of Barriere Lake Algonquin Hold Demonstration Denouncing Violent Police Tactics on Peaceful Protesters
For Your Information
• Letter to Premier Jean Charest – Barriere Lake Algonquin
• Barriere Lake Algonquin Briefing Package
November 20, 2008 - No. 168
• G-20 Statement on the Economic Crisis — A Declaration of Monopoly Right – K.C. Adams
• Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro: The Birth of the Mount
For Your Information
• Statement From G-20 Summit
November 24, 2008 - No. 169
Speech from the Throne
• Conservatives Continue Attack on Quebec Nation
Quebec Election
• Quebec Doesn't Need a Salesman of the Monopolies as "Captain of the Ship" – Serge Lachapelle
British Columbia
• "Economic Plans" of Liberals and NDP: Anti-Consciousness in Service of the Status Quo – Anne Jamieson
Cuba's Fight Against Terrorist Attacks
• Officials Who Freed Posada and Accomplices Stand Trial – Jean-Guy Allard, Granma International
• International Campaign for the Right of Family Visits for the Cuban Five – www.thecuban5.org
November 25, 2008 - No. 170
Discussion
• Suggestions to Counteract the Economic Crisis
Speech from the Throne
• Conservative Party in Power Vows to Wreck the Canadian Wheat Board
Quebec
• Situation of Farmers on the Lower St. Lawrence
• Rich Countries Launch Great Land Grab to Safeguard Food Supply – Julian Borger, Guardian/UK
November 26, 2008 - No. 171
• Harper Throne Speech Attacks PSAC Workers
PSAC Tentative Agreements with Treasury Board's Imposed Wage Settlements
• Concessions Are Not Solutions! Fight for the Rights of All!
Canada Post Provokes Strike
• Union Serves Strike Notice to Canada Post
• Union of Postal Communications Employees (UPCE) Strike Bulletin
For Your Information
• Quotation from the Harper Throne Speech Attacking Public Sector Workers and Public Spending on Social Programs
• Final Offers Tabled with Bargaining Agents for the Core Public Administration – Treasury Board
• Message to All PSAC Members Employed by Treasury Board – PSAC
• PSAC, Treasury Board Settle – PSAC
• The Public Service Alliance of Canada – PSAC Website
November 27, 2008 - No. 172
December 10 — International Human Rights Day
• Let Us Together Take a Bold Step in Defence of the Rights of All!
• December 10: National Day of Action to Stop Secret Trials in Canada and End Deportations to Torture – Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada
• Call for Court Solidarity with Charkaoui Family – Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui
• The Dance of Disclosure – Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui
• Intrusive Questionnaire Targets Visitors and Immigrants from India
• Time for Justice on Rights Abuses
– Alex Neve, Khaled Mouammar, Sameer Zuberi, Faisal Kutty, Nehal Bhuta and Warren Allmand
United States
• Documents Reveal U.S. Knowingly Transfers Detainees to Countries That Torture – American Civil Liberties Union
November 28, 2008 - No. 173
All Out to Defeat Harper's Right Wing Agenda!
• All Out to Defeat Harper's Right Wing Agenda! It Must Not Pass! It's Time for an Alternative! Unite to Build Committees for Democratic Renewal! – Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
For Your Information
• Flaherty Tinkers While the Economy Burns – PSAC
• Conservatives to Penalize Women in the Federal Public Sector for Successful Pay Equity Complaints
–PSAC
DECEMBER 2008
December 1, 2008 - No. 174
• The Federal Election Fraud and Harper's Economic Update – K.C. Adams
Update on Political and Constitutional Crisis
• Harper Wrangles Week's Reprieve; PM Delays Confidence Vote to Dec. 8, Hopes Public Will Thwart Coalition
– Canadian Press, November 29
• Conservatives Truly Surprised by Opposition Parties' 'Furious' Reaction – Abbas Rana, Hill Times, December 1
• Coalition Deal Done? NDP-Liberal Plan Would See Ignatieff as PM: Insiders; Rae, LeBlanc Agree to Step Aside, Sources Say – John Ivison, National Post, December 1
• Coalition Faces Uncharted Territory; Harper Could Prorogue Parliament, but Efforts to Oust Tories Continue
– Linda Diebel, Toronto Star, December 1
• Coalition Would Be Guided by All-Star Economic Council – CTV News, December 1
December 2, 2008 - No. 175
For Your Information: Update on the Political and Constitutional Crisis
• Opposition Sets Coalition Terms; Dion Would Become Prime Minister until May, When His Successor Would Take over; NDP Pledges to Support Liberals for 30 Months, Bloc Pledges 18 Months– Globe and Mail, December 1
• Crisis on Parliament Hill: What Happens Next? – James Cowan, National Post, December 1
• Conservatives Expect Harper Will Attempt to Suspend Parliament – David Akin, Andrew Mayeda and Juliet O'Neill, Canwest News, December 2
Original Texts
• Liberal-NDP Accord for
"Cooperative Government to Address the Present Economic Crisis"
• Liberal, NDP and Bloc Québécois
"Policy Accord to Address the Present Economic Crisis"
• Letter from Liberal Leader Stephane Dion to Governor-General Michaëlle Jean
• Letter from NDP Leader Jack Layton to Governor-General Michaëlle Jean
• An Exceptional Situation Requires Exceptional Measures– Gilles Duceppe, Bloc Québécois
• No Mandate for Liberal-NDP-Separatist Backroom Coalition– Conservative Party of Canada
Media Response
• Harper, Dion Put Politics before National Interest – Globe and Mail, December 2
• Why It's Time for Stephen Harper to Go – Rob Granatstein, Toronto Sun, December 2
• Coalition Deserves Chance – Toronto Star, December 2
• The Liberal Party's Gift to Quebec's Separatists – National Post, December 2
December 3, 2008 - No. 176
Political and Constitutional Crisis
• Harper Out! Beware of Liberal Illusions! Develop the Independent Politics of the Working Class!
• Examining the Coalition's Economic Stimulus Package – K.C. Adams
Update on Political and Constitutional Crisis
• The Tories Strike Back – Tonda MacCharles, Bruce Campion-Smith, Richard J. Brennan, Toronto Star
• Going Where No Governor-General Has Gone Before – Michael Valpy, Globe
• Ten Options Harper May Be Considering – Andrew Steele, Globe and Mail
• NDP on Verge of Broadbent's Lifelong Dream – Steven Chase, Globe and Mail
• Ignatieff Warned off Coalition Cabinet Post – Jane Taber, Globe and Mail
• Composition of Coalition Economic Advisory Panel
Media Views and Editorials
• Harper Invokes Bloc Bogeyman – Toronto Star
• Harper's Attack on Bloc Risks Alienating Quebec – Brian Laghi, Globe and Mail
• What the Coalition's Foreign Policy Would Look Like – Jeff Davis, Embassy
• No Undoing PM's Historic Blunder – Don Martin, National Post
December 4, 2008 - No. 177
• Prorogation of Parliament Reveals Need for Democratic Renewal and a Modern Constitution
Examining the Coalition's Economic Stimulus Package
• Part Two: The 1993 Liberal "Red Book" of Illusory Promises Reappears – K.C. Adams
December 5, 2008 - No. 178 - Morning Edition
Quebec Election
• Caisse de dépôt Is an Election Issue
• Caisse de dépôt in Crisis
For Your Information
• Capital-Centred News Reports on Caisse de dépôt
• Caisse de dépôt Press Releases and Background Information
December 5, 2008 - No. 179 - Afternoon Edition
For Your Information
• There's No Hint Whether Prorogation Came with Strings Attached – Michael Valpy, Globe and Mail
• Harper Wrong on Democracy Claims: Experts – Jim Brown, Canadian Press
• Can Harper Defang the Coalition? – Steven Chase and Campbell Clark, Globe
• Rae Steps in as Coalition's Chief Salesman – Jane Taber, Globe and Mail
Media Views and Editorials
• Harper Won over the Governor-General, Now He Must Win over the Country – National Post
• Harper at a Crossroads – Toronto Star
• Competence and Trust in Question – Globe and Mail
• Parliament Shut Down/Up; Buying Time to Wise Up – Halifax Chronicle-Herald
For Your Information
• Canada's History of Unelected Governments – Michael Valpy, Globe and Mail
• Poll Results
December 10, 2008 - No. 180
December 10 International Human Rights Day
• Step Up the Struggle for Rights which Belong to Us by Virtue of Being Human
• Discrimination Against Women — UN Report
• Demand Justice for Mohamed Harkat and All People Whose Rights Have Been Stripped from Them by the Canadian Government – Justice for Mohamed Harkat Coalition
• Calendar of Events
Akwesasne
• Gang War by CBSA, RCMP, OPP and Mohawk Police Endangers Lives and Violates Haudenosaunee Jurisdiction
– Mohawk Nation News
Palestine
• Action, Not Words – Karen AbuZayd, UN Relief Works Agency
• Gaza: Silence Is Not an Option – Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on Situation of Human Rights on Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967
December 11, 2008 - No. 181
Layoffs Are Not Solutions! Whose Economy? Our Economy!
• It's Time to Organize for Economic and Democratic Renewal
Conditions of Life in the United States
• Massive Job Losses in U.S.
• Hunger Worsens as Government Food Programs Fail to Meet Needs
• U.S. Infant Mortality Rate Worsens Relative to Other Countries
December 12, 2008 - No. 182
Quebec Election
• With Just 23.75 Percent of the Popular Vote Charest Claims to Represent "All Quebeckers" — No to this Electoral Fraud!
Letters to the Editor
• Jean Charest's "Majority" Government
• The Liberal Party Is Not Fit to Govern
Barriere Lake Algonquin
• Quebec Judge Imprisons Algonquin Chief for Two Months for Peaceful Protest – Barriere Lake Solidarity
• Chiefs of Ontario Express Disaproval of Quebec Imprisonment of Barriere Lake Leader – Chiefs of Ontario
• Ottawa Fundraiser for Barriere Lake Algonquin – Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement-Ottawa
December 15, 2008 - No. 183
Vigorously Support Striving of Greek Youth to Provide Themselves a Bright Future
• Montreal Solidarity Rally with Greek Youth in Revolt
• Greek Youth Determined to Provide Themselves a Bright Future
• International Actions in Solidarity with Greek Youth
December 16, 2008 - No. 184
British Government Threatens Military Intervention in Zimbabwe
• Hands Off Zimbabwe! – Workers' Daily
• Behind the Crisis in the Congo Lies the Contention of the Big Powers – Workers' Daily
• China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM, America's New Military Command – F. William Engdahl, Global Research
December 17, 2008 - No. 185
Venezuela: Bolivarian Revolution Marches Boldly Forward
• Election Results Score Gains for Bolivarian Revolution
• Rally Celebrates 10 Years of Chávez Presidency
• Next Step Is Strengthening Venezuela's Communes, Says Chávez – Tamara Pearson, Venezuelanalysis.com
• Parliament to Approve Referendum on Presidential Term Limit
• Signature Collection for Constitutional Amendment Begins – Tamara Pearson, Venezuelanalysis.com
Commentaries
• Reflections of Comrade Fidel Castro: Total Transparency
• Foreign Intervention in the Venezuelan Elections – Eva Golinger, Venezuelanalysis.com
December 18, 2008 - No. 186
• Orientation of CPC(M-L)'s Pro-Social Program — People Have Rights by Virtue of Being Human – Sandra L. Smith
Hamilton
• USW Locals 1005 and 7135 Hold Information Picket
• Layoffs Are Not Solutions! – Rolf Gerstenberger, President, USW Local 1005
• USW Local 7135 Statement
• Poem: Layoffs Are Not Solutions – Bill Mahoney, USW Local 1005 Retiree
December 19, 2008 - No. 187
• CPC(M-L)'s Work to Build the Groups of Writers and Disseminators
• Strengthen the Groups of Writers and Disseminators to Organize the Workers to Uphold the Dignity of Labour and Open Society's Path to Progess – Pierre Chénier
December 22, 2008 - No. 188
• Join the Discussion on the Economic Crisis – K.C. Adams
• Pro-Social Suggestions on How to Respond to the Economic Crisis
Latin America
• ALBA Summit: In Search of Solutions for the South – Nidia Díaz, Granma International
• Continental Alert Network to Be Created – Jean-Guy Allard, Granma International
• Reflections of Comrade Fidel Castro: Stella Calloni
• Paraguay: The 100 Positive Days of Fernando Lugo – Joaquín Rivery Tur, Granma International
December 23, 2008 - No. 189
São Paulo, Brazil, November 21-23, 2008
• 10th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties
• São Paulo Declaration: Socialism is the Alternative!
• Resolution in Solidarity with Latin America and the Caribbean Peoples
December 24, 2008 - No. 190
• Necessity to Settle Scores with Capital-Centred Political Economy, Part 1 – K.C. Adams
December 25, 2008 - No. 191
Necessity to Settle Scores with Capital-Centred Political Economy
• Part 2: Necessity for Human-Centred Political Economy – K.C. Adams
December 26, 2008 - No. 192
Necessity to Settle Scores with Capital-Centred Political Economy
• Part 3: Modern Definition of a Socialized Economy – K.C. Adams
December 29, 2008 - No. 193
• No to Israeli
War Crimes! Hands Off Gaza! Long Live the Heroic Palestinian Resistance!
– Statement of Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Letter to Prime Minister Harper – Dr. Ismail Zayid, Canada Palestine Association
• 1000 People March in Toronto: Stop the Assault on Gaza, Free Palestine! – Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
• Halifax Rally Denounces Latest Zionist Assault on Palestinians' Right to Be
• Ottawa and Montreal
• Calendar of Events
• Israeli Attacks Rage on December 29, 345 Palestinians Killed, 1,450 Injured – Palestine News Network
• Palestinian Resistance Calls for Third Intifada in Defence of Gaza
• Worldwide Demonstrations Condemn Zionist War Crimes
