JANUARY 2009
January 1, 2009 - No. 1
50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
• Letter of Greetings to Comrade
Fidel Castro
• Statement of the Canadian Network
on Cuba
• 50 Years on... And the Same
Challenge of Making a Revolution – Lázaro Barredo
Medina, Granma International
January 2, 2009 - No. 2
50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
• Waging the Powerful Weapons
Embodied in Fidel's Leadership, We Have Learned How to Transform Our
Dreams into a Reality – Speech of Cuban President Raúl
Castro at the Commemoration 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
• When We Work Together in a United
Way and in Solidarity, the Fruits of the Effort Are Multiplied
– Speech of Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz to
the National Assembly
January 5, 2009 - No. 3
• Palestinian
Resistance Confident of Success Against Israeli Ground Offensive
Demonstrations Across Canada
• End the Attack on Gaza Now! End
the Occupation Now! Resistance Is a Right! Palestine Will Be Free!
January 6, 2009 - No. 4
• Steadfast
Palestinian Resistance
• Peoples of the World Rise Up for
Gaza
January 7, 2009 - No. 5
• Halt the
Massacres in the Gaza Strip! Canada Must Demand an Immediate UN
Investigation into Israeli War Crimes – Petition, Palestine
House, January 6, 2009
Gaza, We Are with You!
• Calendar of Events
• Demonstrations in Lebanon, India,
Pakistan and Thailand
Update on Gaza
• This Brutality Will Never Break
Our Will to Be Free – Khalid Mish'al, Head of Hamas Political
Bureau
• Palestinians Killed and Wounded
in Gaza Holocaust – Palestinian Information Center
• Even Gaza Hospitals Are Not Safe
– Ola Attallah, IslamOnline.net
• Israel Rains Fire on Gaza With
Phosphorus Shells – Sheera Frenkel and Michael Evans
• Israel's Propangada War:
Reporters Banned From Gaza – Arthur Max, Associated Press
SUPPLEMENT
• Views and Comment
January 8, 2009 - No. 6
• The Economic
Crisis Finds Two Programs in Combat
• Anti-Social Letter from U.S.
Steel CEO John Surma – K.C. Adams
Ottawa
• Support the Just Demands of OC
Transpo Drivers, Maintenance Workers and Dispatchers for Humane Working
Conditions!
January 9, 2009 - No. 7
• Uphold the
Dignity of Labour! All Out for Union Certification!
• Labour Board Orders Vote for
Part-Time and Sessional Faculty – Part-Time Times
• Organizing Part-Time College
Staff: Notes from the Front Line – Christine Nugent
Letters to the Editor
• Uphold the Dignity of Labour
• Bullying and Intimidation of
College Workers
For Your Information
• Letter to Part-Time Academic and
Sessional Employees from College Compensation and Appointments Council
January 12, 2009 - No. 8
• Peoples of the
World Stand Firmly with Palestinian Resistance
January 13, 2009 - No. 9
• UN Human Rights
Council Condemns Israeli Military Operation in Gaza – Press
Release
• Canada's Shame: Conservative
Government Votes Against Human Rights – Canadian Peace Alliance
• The Israeli Occupation Has Failed
in Its War on Gaza — Khaled Mishaal
• Fierce Resistance in Gaza
• U.S. Seeks Ship to Move Arms to
Israel
• Arab Doctors Cross into Gaza
• Egyptian MPs Demand a Halt to Gas
Exports to Israel
• Recall of Jordan's Ambassador to
Israel
• Israel Bans Participation of Arab
Parties in Upcoming Election
• Demonstrations in Palestine,
Lebanon, Philippines
SUPPLEMENT — For Your Information
• Plans for Redrawing the Middle
East: The Project for a "New Middle East"
– Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Global Research, November 18,
2006
January 14, 2009 - No. 10
• Farmers Vote to
Strengthen Canadian Wheat Board
• Government Fails in Bid to Steal
CWB Elections — Huge Victory for Farmers – Press Release,
National Farmers Union
• Did the Conservative Party in
Power Break the Law?
For Your Information
• National Farmers Union Takes
Mailing Questions to RCMP – Press Release
• Probe Launched into Claims Tory
MPs Interfered in Wheat Board Vote
Submission to UN High Commission for Human Rights
Periodic Review of Canada
• Canada's Anti-Terrorism Laws in
Violation of International Human Rights Standards –
International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group
January 15, 2009 - No. 11
Israel's Criminal Campaign of Death and
Destruction — Long Live the Palestinian Resistance!
• Death and Destruction in Gaza City
• Criminal Bombing of UN
Headquarters
• Unprecedented Crimes Committed
by Occupation Forces
• My Message to the West — Israel
Must Stop the Slaughter – Ismail Haniyeh
• Hamas: IOF Troops Must Get out of
Gaza, Siege Must Be Lifted
• Emergency Session of UN General
Assembly Convoked
• Suit Filed in the Hague for
Crimes against Humanity
• Israel May Face UN Court Ruling
on Legality of Gaza Conflict
• Bolivia Cuts Ties with Israel
• Canadian Jewish Activists Condemn
Attempts to Smear Critics of Israeli Atrocities
• Possible Israeli War Scenarios
on Gaza and Lebanon
• Demonstrations in Palestine,
Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Cuba
January 16, 2009 - No. 12
Elections in El Salvador
• No to U.S. Interference!
• Tensions as Municipal and
Legislative Campaigns Close in El Salvador – CISPES
• Operation Disrupt Democracy in El
Salvador – Erica Thompson, Zmagazine
• A Year of Progress in
Latin America and the Caribbean – Nidia Díaz, Granma
International
January 19, 2009 - No. 13 - Morning Edition
On the Eve of Obama's Inaugural and Forthcoming
Canadian Visit
• Energy Blackmail of the Rich –
Gary Zatzman
For Your Information
• Agenda for Obama's Meeting with
Harper
Who Said What
• Ottawa Must Harmonize
Environmental Plan with One Proposed by Obama Administration –
Toronto Star
• Transition at the Top: Obama's
Green Team – Globe and Mail
January 19, 2009 - No. 14 - Afternoon Edition
• Cross Canada
Rallies Condemn Harper Government's Defence of Israeli War Crimes
January 20 - No. 15
Israel-U.S. Memorandum of Understanding
• U.S. Preparing African Military
Interventions under Obama
• Field Update on Gaza from
Humanitarian Coordinator – UN Office for Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs
•International Outrage Against
Israeli War Crimes and Impunity
For Your Information
• Text of Israel-U.S. Memorandum of
Understanding – January 16, 2009
January 21, 2009 - No. 16
Claiming a Social Consensus on the Budget
• What Is the Ruling Class Up To?
• Obama's Ascension to
Power – U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization
Main Street vs Wall Street
• Populist Economic Concepts and
Jargon – K.C. Adams
January 22, 2009 - No. 17
Discussing, Organizing and Mobilizing for a
Pro-Social Program
• A Pro-Social Federal Budget
• Join the Discussion to Elaborate
a Pro-Social Program – K.C. Adams
• Disintegration of Financing for
Public-Private-Partnerships (P3s)
• Changing Establishment Politics
• Ignatieff's Budget Position
Quebec
• Oppose Anti-Worker and
Anti-People Assaults by Domtar and Charest Government Against
Lebel-sur-Quévillon Workers and Community! – Gabriel
Girard-Bernier
• Smash the Silence on Layoffs in
the Lower Saint-Lawrence — A New Direction for Quebec is Needed! –
TML Correspondent
Letter to the Editor
• No to Militarization of the
Economy!
January 23, 2009 - No. 18
• Obama's Visit
to Canada and
"Energy Security" – Peggy Morton
• Quebec's Mineral Strategy —
"Points to Consider" – Serge Patenaude
For Your Information
• Information and Capital-Centred
Views on the Economic Crisis in the U.S. and the Weakness of the
British Pound Sterling
Calendar of Events
• Cross Canada Actions in Support
of Gaza
January 26, 2009 - No. 19
• The
$200-Billion Federal Budget
• Combating the Economic Crisis
– K.C. Adams
• Letter to the Editor: The Demand
for Social Consensus
For Your Information
• Spending Announced
January 27, 2009 - No. 20
• Anti-Worker
Outlook Permeates Conservative Party in Power
• Massive Job Losses under Guise of
"Cutting Costs"
Latin America
• Cuba Renews Demand to Close U.S.
Base at Guantanamo
• El Salvador: People's Forces Make
Significant Gains in Legislative and Municipal Elections
• Bolivia: New Constitution
Consolidates the People's Claims on the Nation
• Is the U.S. About to Treat the
Rest of the World Better? – Johann Hari, The Independent/UK
SUPPLEMENT
• For Your Information: Budget 2009
— Canada's Economic Action Plan
January 28, 2009 - No. 21
• CPC(M-L)'s
Position on the Federal Budget
Letters to the Editor
• Harper Budget
• "Protecting the Vulnerable"
• A Look at Government Schemes to
Train Unemployed Workers
• Forest Monopolies
$170M — Forest Workers Zero!
• The Need to Put an End
to the Destruction of Quebec's Industrial Potential and the Plunder of
Human and Natural Resources by the Monopolies and the Charest Government
– Gabriel Girard-Bernier
January 29, 2009 - No. 22
• Harper's Budget
and the Crisis in the Financial Services Sector – K.C. Adams
January 30, 2009 - No. 23
Ontario Colleges Part-Time and Sessional Faculty
• All Out for Certification! –
Steve Rutchinski
• Organizing Part-Time College
Staff: Notes from the Front Line Part VII : "F" Is for Failure Mr.
Sinclair – Christine Nugent
• Inspired Voters Make Week One a
Success – Part-Time Times
Letters to the Editor
• Denying Workers the Right to Vote
• Creating a Legacy of Equity
• Refusal to Spend on Programs
York University Strike
• Ontario Must Adequately Fund
Post-Secondary Education
• Negotiations Farce — Government
Sides with York
FEBRUARY 2009
February 2, 2009 - No. 24
Preparing for NATO's 60th Anniversary
• "Security Prospects in the High
North": NATO Takes Over in the Arctic
• The Arctic in NATO's Crosshairs
– David Brian, Voice of Russia
• Munich "Security"
Conference
For Your Information
• Energy War: NATO Meddling in
Sudan to Block China – Ali Cordoba, World Futures
• The Great Dragon Awakens: China
Challenges American Hegemony – José Miguel Alonso
Trabanco, Global Research
• NATO: the Imperial Pitbull –
Prof. Edward S. Herman, Z Magazine
February 3, 2009 - No. 25
• Crisis in the
Oil Patch – Peggy Morton
• Alberta Government Royalty
Agreement with Syncrude: Another Pay the Rich Scheme
• Alberta's Carbon Capture and
Storage Plans – A Science Educator in Alberta
For Your Information
• Upgrader Alley Projects Toppling
like Dominoes: Oil Tanks Rust as Sites sit Idle, Construction Plans
Halted – Calgary Herald
February 4, 2009 - No. 26
• Who Should
Decide the Budget and Other Government Policy?
• Harper/Ignatieff Budget and
Public Healthcare – K.C. Adams
For Your Information
• Equalization Still Shrouded in
Secrecy – Stephen Maher, Halifax Chronicle Herald
• Pay-Equity Changes That Upset
Opposition in Fall Update Set to Pass with Budget – Gloria
Galloway, Globe and Mail
February 5, 2009 - No. 27
• The
Harper/Ignatieff Budget and the Crisis of Unemployment
• Nothing for Construction Workers
in Harper/Ignatieff Budget – Jim Nugent
• More Layoffs for Workers in Nova
Scotia's Annapolis Valley: More Indifference from the State and the
Monopolies – Ena Boutilier
February 6, 2009 - No. 28
• World Campaign
in Favour of Cuban Five
• Solidarity Remains Essential
• Lawyers of the Five Appeal before
the U.S. Supreme Court – Organization of Solidarity of the
Peoples of Africa, Asia
and Latin America
• Petition to President Obama for
Visas for Families of the Cuban Five – www.freethecuban5.com
Case of U.S. Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles
• Posada Trying to Take His Case to
the Supreme Court – Jean-Guy Allard, Granma International
• Posada Grand Jury Has Cost
Millions – Jean-Guy Allard, Granma International
February 9, 2009 - No. 29
Ontario Part-Time College Faculty Unionization
Campaign
• Count the Votes!
• The Votes Are in the Box: Getting
Them Counted Is the Next Challenge – Part-Time Times
• Notes from the Front Lines –
Christine Nugent
Ontario
• Autoworkers Are Not a Labour
Cost, They Are the Producers of the Value They Claim – K.C.
Adams
Quebec
• "Continuity Agreements" and
Secret Deals between Alcan, Rio Tinto Alcan and the Charest Government
– Serge Patenaude
• Aluminum: Yearly Subsidies of
$336,000 Per Job over 30 Years – Jean-Thomas Bernard and
Gérard Bélanger,
Department of Economics, Laval University, Quebec, January 2007
February 10, 2009 - No. 30
The Labour Market Is Obsolete
• A Radical Change of Direction Is
Required – K.C. Adams
For Your Information
• Canada Labour Force Survey
January 2009
• U.S. Lost 598,000 Jobs in
January, Unemployment Rate Jumped to 7.6% – RGE Monitor
• U.S. Employment Situation January
2009 – U.S. Department of Labor
February 11, 2009 - No. 31
• The U.S. and
the Rule of Law – Voice of Revolution
• Close Torture Loopholes,
Physicians' Group Urges – William Fisher, Inter Press Service
• Obama Administration Should
Renounce Unconstitutional Policy of Indefinite Detention –
Constitution Project
• Justice Demands that We Now
Repatriate Omar Khadr
• Canada Unlikely to Try Khadr,
Experts Say
For Your Information
• Executive Orders Concerning
Guantánamo – Voice of Revolution
February 12, 2009 - No. 32
• La Caisse
Managers, Charest Government and U.S. Empire Must Be Held to Account
• La Caisse Managers Did Not Know
What They Did Not Want to Know – K.C. Adams
• For Your Information
February 13, 2009 - No. 33
• Xstrata
Devastates Sudbury — Force Xstrata to Live Up to Its Commitments!
• What the Workers Have to Say
Quebec
• End the Destruction of Industrial
Potential and the Plunder of Human and Natural Resources –
Gabriel Girard-Bernier
For Your Information
• What the Finance Minister Said
• Renfort Program
February 16, 2009 - No. 34
Venezuelan Constitutional
Amendment Approved
• Decision of Historic Significance
• Venezuelans Vote Peacefully over
Whether to Amend Constitution – James Suggett and Tamara
Pearson, Venezuelanalysis.com
• Media's Double Standards
– Steve Rendall and Isabel Macdonald, Common Dreams
Canada
• ACA Co-Operative Workers "Rally
for Fairness"; Fraud Looming on the Horizon – Ena Boutilier
• Globe and Mail's Labour Cost
Obsession – K.C. Adams
February 17, 2009 - No. 35
• Oppose the
Criminalization of Dissent! Defend the Rights of All!
• RCMP Announces "Anti-Terror" Unit
for Alberta – Peggy Morton
• Unanswered Questions about the
EnCana Bombings –
TML Correspondent
• Wimpy Montreal Cops Seek God-Like
Status — Anti-Insult Laws to Protect Their Tender Egos –
Mohawk Nation News
• For Your Information:
Criminalizing Dissent in Montreal and BC
February 18, 2009 - No. 36
• War President
Obama Visits Ottawa
Letters to the Editor
• The Message from Obama: Step Up
the Occupation of Afghanistan
• The Essence of Canada-U.S.
Relations
• Global Auto Crisis and
the Response of the Working Class
• For Your Information: Some
Details of Obama/GM/Chrysler/UAW Loan Agreement
February 19, 2009 - No. 37
Obama's Visit to Canada
• For Us, Accountability Begins
at Home!
Letter to the Editor
• Down with Gods of Plague!
Views
• Nuke, Nuke, Who's There? Obomb
Dem? Bigger and Bolder Is His Mantra – Mohawk Nation News
• Contradictions Between the
Politics of Obama and Ethics – Fidel Castro
• Obama's War on Terror May
Resemble Bush's in Some Areas – New York Times
Review of Ignatieff's Promotion of Empire
• Liberal Leader Repents on Iraq,
but Not on the Underlying Philosophy – Bradley Willis
February 20, 2009 - No. 38
Bicentennial ofLincoln's Birth
• Justifying the Genocide of First
Nations to "Nobly save the last best hope on earth"
• Beware "Rahnatakias" — Cure for
Obama Fever Is "Indian" History – Mohawk Nation News
• Obama's Address on Lincoln's
200th Birthday
• Divining Obama Secretly "Damning"
Indigenous Water – Mohawk Nation News
• Background Notes on Water
Diversion – Mohawk Nation News
February 23, 2009 - No. 39
• The
Possibilities of a New Direction for
Canada
Quebec
• The Green Paper on Forests:
Charest Government Reform to Pay the Forestry Monopolies –
Gabriel Girard-Bernier
Ontario
• Another Fraudulent Report on
Youth Violence — No to the Criminalization of Youth! – Frank
Chilelli
• National Day of Action for Social
Justice for Filipino Youth and the Community –
Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance/Ugnayan ng
Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada
United States
• Jailing Kids for Cash
– Amy Goodman, TruthDig.com
February 24, 2009 - No. 40
• Globe and
Mail's Labour Cost Obsession, Part Two – K.C. Adams
• Dispatches from the Front Lines
of Economic Crisis – Stephen Lendman, Countercurrents.org
February 25, 2009 - No. 41
The Crisis Facing Beef Producers
• Support the Alternative Proposed
by the National Farmers Union!
• National Farmers Union (NFU)
Issues Report on the Farm Crisis and the Cattle Sector
• For Your Information: Who
Controls the Canadian Beef Industry?
Defend the Rights of Farm Workers!
• Inquiry into Kevan Chandler
Fatality Recommends More Protection for Farm Workers
• End the Harvest of Death!
Farmworkers Deserve Safety Protection – Alberta Federation of
Labour
• End the Harvest of Death! –
Open Letter to Premier Ed Stelnach from Wayne Hanley,
National President UFCW
February 26, 2009 - No. 42
• War Criminal
George W. Bush Not Welcome in Canada! All Out to Oppose Bush's Visit!
– Statement of the Alberta Regional Committee of CPC(M-L)
• Calgary Says No to Bush's Visit!
• Lawyers Against the War Says Bush
Should Be Barred from Canada or Prosecuted
In Defence of Rights
• Security Certificate Regime
Suffers Another Blow – Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui
• Tortured Canadians Sue Government
– Canadian Press
• Ottawa Imposes another Hurdle for
Abdelrazik – Globe and Mail
February 27, 2009 - No. 43
• The Martin
Luther King You Don't See on
TV – Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen, Shunpiking
Magazine, February/March 1999
• Martin's Second Martyrdom
– Mumia Abu-Jamal, January 7, 2007
• Beyond Vietnam — A Time to
Break Silence – Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967
MARCH 2009
March 2, 2009 - No. 44
Fifth Anniversary of Coup d'Etat in Haiti
• Calendar of Events
• Foreign Occupation Troops Out of
Haiti! Freedom and Justice for Haiti! – Canada Haiti Action
Network
• Foreign Occupation Increases
Suffering – Roger Annis, Green Left Weekly
• The Lessons of Haiti –
Yves Engler
• The Rebirth of Konbit in Haiti
– Kevin Pina, Haiti Information Project
• Haiti: Racism and Poverty
– John Maxwell, www.haitiaction.net
United States
• Stop Deportations of Haitians!
Legalization Now! – Voice of Revolution
• U.S. Discriminatory Practices
Towards Haitians – Stephen Lendman, Global Research
March 3, 2009 - No. 45
Canada-U.S. Relations
• From Deep Integration to Formal
Annexation
March 4, 2009 - No. 46
Sudbury, Ontario
Workers Demand Xstrata Be Made to Fulfil Its Commitments
• Whose Canada? Our Canada! Whose
Resources? Our Resources! Whose Jobs? Our Jobs!
Oakville, Ontario
• A Simple Letter – Kerry
Hinzman
Ontario Colleges Certification Vote
• Background to OLRB Delay in
Counting Votes
• Notes From the Front Lines
– Christine Nugent
• Selling Ontario's
$10 Billion Deficit Budget – Steve Rutchinski
Quebec
• Selling AbitibiBowater's
Hydro-Electric Installations: Hydro-Electric Potential Must Be Taken
Away from the Monopolies! – Gabriel Girard-Bernier
Nova Scotia
• Still More Public-Private
Partnerships to Be Imposed? – Ena Boutilier and Tony Seed
March 5, 2009 - No. 47
Shutdown of Steelmaking at Former Stelco's Two
Remaining Mills
• Manufacturing Yes!
Nation-Wrecking No!
• U.S. Steel's Press Release
Announcing Further Wrecking of Stelco
• British Columbia and
Nation Building
• Preparing for 2009 Provincial
Election and Referendum on STV – Barbara Biley
• Fifth Anniversary of Opening of
BC Citizens' Assembly — BC-STV Conference
March 6, 2009 - No. 48
International Women's Day 2009
• No Means No! Stop Paying the
Rich; Increase Funding for Social Programs! – Communist Party
of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist)
• Women in the Forefront for a New
Direction for Quebec – Marxist-Leninist Party of Quebec
(PMLQ)
• All Out to Support the Struggles
of Women in Defence of the Rights of All!
Federal Government's Attacks on Women
• Step Up the Work of Settling
Accounts with Anachronistic Arrangements! – Christine
Dandenault
• Rights — the Missing Word
– Dagmar Sullivan
• Attacks on Women's Collectives —
Attacks on the Collective of Women – Janice Murray
• Women, Poverty and the Need to
Strengthen Public Enterprise – Hilary LeBlanc
SUPPLEMENT
• Condemn Harper Government's Record
on Women's Rights
March 9, 2009 - No. 49
• U.S. Steel's
Empire-Building Negates Canada's Nation-Building – K.C. Adams
• Northern Ontario
Sustainable Communities Partnerships – STRONG
• For Your Information: Northern
Ontario Community Forest Charter – Northern Ontario
Sustainable Communities Partnership
Korean Peninsula
• DPRK Troops Reported to Be on War
Alert
• Cancel the Aggressive U.S. War
Exercises! U.S. Troops Must Be Withdrawn!
Afghanistan
• War Coordination –
www.german.foreign.policy.com
March 10, 2009 - No. 50
• Canada's
Failure to Meet Commitments under the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination Against Women – PSAC Letter to UN
Commission on the Status of Women
Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act
• Legalizing Discrimination Against
Women – Peggy Morton
Report on International Women's Day 2009
• Women's Dignity Lies in the Fight
for the Rights of All!
March 11, 2009 - No. 51
• Interview
– Rolf Gerstenberger, President, USW Local 1005
• Stelco Steelworkers and Their
Allies Confront Monopoly Right and U.S. Imperialism – K.C.
Adams
• Join Local 1005's Weekly Pickets
• Tribute to All U.S. STEEL/STELCO
Laidoff Workers, and to Laidoff, Unemployed Workers Everywhere
– Video
• For Your Information
March 12, 2009 - No. 52
Temporary Foreign Workers Under Attack
• An Injury to One is an Injury to
All! – Peggy Askin and Peggy Morton
• "Worn Out Their Welcome" — A
Shameful Headline! – Yessy Byl, Edmonton Journal
• Stop Scapegoating Immigrants for
the Economic Crisis – United Food and Commercial Workers
Canada
• Human Resources and Social
Development Canada Announces Change to Temporary Foreign Worker Program
March 13, 2009 - No. 53
• Who Should Fill
Stelco's Orders? – K.C. Adams
• Letter to the Editor –
Hamilton Spectator
• Aradco and Aramco Workers Defend
Their Interests and Dignity of Labour
13th International Day Against Police Brutality
• No to Police Impunity! Fight for
a Society that Recognizes the Rights of All!
• Filipinos Call for Independent
Investigation of RCMP and Accountability for Racial Profiling
• Note: "Top 5 Police Brutality
Videos"
Quebec
• Government Must Immediately Adopt
an Anti-SLAPP Law – Serge Lachapelle
International Women's Day
• Photos from Around the World
• Cuban Women's Federation Holds
8th Congress
March 13, 2009 - No. 54 - Afternoon Edition
46th Anniversary of the Founding of The
Internationalists
• Long Live the Legacy of The
Internationalists and their Founder, Comrade Hardial Bains!
• The Internationalists —
Reflections of Hardial Bains
• Thinking about the Sixties,
Volume I – Publisher's Note
March 16, 2009 - No. 55
• War Criminal
George Bush Persona Non Grata! No to War Crimes, Crimes Against the
Peace and Crimes Against Humanity!
• Overwhelming Opposition to Bush's
Visit to Calgary
• No to the Criminalization of
Dissent! Defend the Rights of All!
• Lawyers Against the War Letter to
RCMP War Crimes Section
• Message from Former U.S. Attorney
General Ramsey Clark
March 17, 2009 - No. 56
• Defend Stelco
Pensions! Fight for the Dignity of Active and Retired Steelworkers!
• Keep Stelco Mills Producing
– K.C. Adams
For Your Information
• Moody's Puts U.S. Steel Credit
Ratings under Review – Associated Press
• From the Party Press
March 18, 2009 - No. 57
Join the Rally to Defend Workers' Rights and
Dignity!
• Autoworkers Picket Windsor Plants
to Defend Their Rights and Dignity
13th International Day of Action Against Police Brutality
• Oppose the Fascization of the
State! – Serge Lachapelle
• Communiqué from the
Collective Opposed to Police Brutality
• My Testimonial on the March 15
Demo
Election Results in El Salvador
• Historic Opportunity to Embark on
a New Direction
March 19, 2009 - No. 58
Windsor, Ontario
• Aradco/Aramco Workers Force
Company to Pay Severance and Back Pay
Montreal, Quebec
• Air Canada Machinists Demonstrate
against Theft of Pensions
• Workers and the Rule
of Commercial Law – K.C. Adams
Air Canada
• Air Canada Could Be Forced into
Bankruptcy — UBS
• Milton's AirAsia X Buys 10 More
Planes
• Painful Lessons Courtesy of Air
Canada – Andy Wilson
• Rumours of Bankruptcy — Who Will
End the Plunder of Air Canada? – New Horizons
• No to Concessions! –
New Horizons
• Letter to New Horizons
March 20, 2009 - No. 59
Sixth Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
• Calgary Says War Criminal Bush Go
Home!
• Civilians Enforcing War Crimes
Act Arrested While Criminal Gets Away
• Six Years After the Illegal U.S.
Invasion of Iraq, When Will Foreign Control End? – Collectif
Échec à la guerre
United States
• Bring ALL the Troops Home Now!
End War and Occupation — Iraq, Afghanistan & Palestine! Money for
Human Needs — NOT War! March on the Pentagon — March 21 –
Troops Out Now Coalition
• All Out for Anti-War Actions!
– U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization
• Anti-War Forces Call for National
and Local Actions
• Vigorously Oppose U.S. War
Hysteria
• Americans Do Not Want or Need a
War Budget
• Facts on War Budget
• Where the Money Goes –
Norman Solomon
• Photos from
Demonstrations Around the World
March 23, 2009 - No. 60
Hamilton Mass Rally and March
• Yes to Manufacturing! No to
Nation-Wrecking! Keep Stelco Mills Producing!
• Layoffs, Bailouts and Shutdowns
Are Not Solutions! – Rolf Gerstenberger, President, USWA
Local 1005
• Condemn the Decision
to Bar George Galloway from Entering Canada!
March 24, 2009 - No. 61
NATO Summit
• Canada and NATO Out of
Afghanistan! Demonstrate on April 4! – Canadian Peace Alliance
and Collectif Échec à la guerre
• Don't Extend It (Again). End It.
On April 4th Protest Against Canada's Afghan Surge – Canadian
Peace Alliance
• No to War — No to NATO Declaration
– www.no-to-nato.org
• Stop Ottawa Arms
Bazaars! – Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
(COAT)
• Major Military Deployment from
Valcartier – Alexandre Vidal and Normand Beaudet
• The Abolition of Military Bases:
Ending Imperialist Intervention – Nidia Diaz, Granma
International
• U.S. Bases Abroad
March 25, 2009 - No. 62
60th Anniversary of NATO
• NATO Game Over 2009: Peace
Activists Demonstrate at NATO Headquarters in Belgium –
www.vredesactie.be
• Commemoration of
10th Anniversary of NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia
• Strategic Concepts (I)
– German-foreign-policy.com
G20 Summit
• Call to Protest April 1 and 2
– Stop the War Coalition, Britain
March 26, 2009 - No. 63
• Producers of
Wealth, Providers of Services Both Working and Unemployed — Unite to
Solve the Economic Crisis through Nation-Building
• Letter to Minister of Industry
Tony Clement – Ken Neumann, National Director, United
Steelworkers
Letter to the Editor
• How the Issue of Saving Workers'
Severance Poses Itself
Sixth Anniversary of Iraq Invasion — Demonstrations in
U.S.
• All U.S. Troops Home Now! End
U.S. Imperialist Wars and Occupations Now!
March 27, 2009 - No. 64
Manufacturing Yes! Nation-Wrecking No!
• What Is Canada's Government Up to?
• Stelco Scrap Quietly Shipped to
U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh — Report
• All Levels of Government Duped by
U.S. Steel – Media Release, USW Local 1005
• Demand Picks up at U.S. Steel
Gary Works
Air Canada
• Department of Finance Pension
"Consultations" – New Horizons
• Hands off Our Pensions, Mr.
Brewer! – New Horizons
March 30, 2009 - No. 65
33rd Anniversary of Land Day
• Long Live the Palestinian
Resistance!
• Boycott Israel! Make It Account
for Its Crimes in Gaza! – Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions
National Committee
(Palestine) Statement
• Israel's Ethnic Cleansing Policy
and Land Day: Palestinian Uprising and Resistance – Ahmad
Jaradat, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
• Turkey's Fallout with Israel
Deals Blow to Settlers – Jonathan Cook
• Deir Hanna Commemorates Land Day
• Quebec Festival Drops "Tolerance"
Award – Malcolm Guy
• Hamas Win in UNRWA Elections
– Palestinian Information Center
• Background: Day of the
Land
SUPPLEMENT
• Incriminating Evidence of Israeli
War Crimes in Gaza – Stephen Lendman, Palestine Chronicle
March 31, 2009 - No. 66
International Conferences on Afghanistan
• Canada Out of Afghanistan Now!
Dismantle NATO!
• Conference in The Hague
• Conference in Moscow
• Role of Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation Highlighted at Conference on Afghanistan – Hai
Yang and Liu Yang, Xinhua
• Obama Team Outlines
'New Realism' for Afghanistan – Ian Traynor, Guardian (UK)
• A New Afghanistan Nightmare
– Ramzy Baroud, Palestine Chronicle
• Afghanistan: U.S., NATO Wage
World's Largest and Longest War – Rick Rozoff, Global Research
APRIL 2009
April 1, 2009 - No. 67
G-20 Summit in Britain
• Mass Demonstrations Demand
Human-Centred Alternatives to the Crisis
• Global Economic Crisis and
Disequilibrium within the Imperialist System of States
• Note: External Debt of the U.S.
and Others
News and Views
• China Quietly Extends its
Currency's Global Reach – BusinessWeek and Associated Press
(excerpts)
• World Leaders Lay Out Tests for
Obama – Wall Street Journal
• At Economic Summit Meeting, a
Change in U.S. Talking Points – New York Times
• The G20 Meetings: The European
Union is in Tatters – Eric Walberg, Global Research
April 2, 2009 - No. 68
G-20 Summit in Britain
• Mass Actions Denounce Finance
Capital, War and Environmental Destruction
• Defend the Dignity of
Autoworkers!
For Your Information
• Gross Domestic Product by
Industry, January 2009 – Statistics Canada
April 3, 2009 - No. 69 - Morning Edition
G-20 Summit in Britain
• G-20 Summit Refuses to Face
Reality and Take Measures to Defend the Well-Being of the Peoples of
the World
• Medvedev Resurrects Replacing
Dollar as Reserve Currency – New York Times
• The G-20 Piles Folly on Folly
– Chan Akya, Asia Times Online
(excerpt)
• Venezuela's Chavez Slams Results
of G-20 Summit
April 3, 2009 - No. 70 - Afternoon Edition
Worldwide Demonstrations Against NATO Summit:
Canada and NATO Out of Afghanistan!Dismantle NATO!
• NATO Summit Gets Underway
• Five Reasons to March this
Saturday – Canadian Peace Alliance
April 8, 2009 - No. 71
• Worldwide Actions
Oppose NATO Summit, War and Occupation
NATO Summit Supplements
• No. 1: The
Afghanistan Agenda – April 3, 2009
• No. 2: Black Sea: Pentagon's
Gateway to Three Continents and the Middle East– Rick Rozoff,
Global Research
• No. 3: NATO at 60
• No. 4: NATO Expansion
• No. 5: Eastern Partnership: The
West's Final Assault on the Former Soviet Union – Rick Rozoff,
Stop NATO, February 13, 2009
• No. 6: Complex and Deep Changes Are
Taking Place in the International Scenery – Soccoro Gomes,
Speech to International Conference: NATO, the Malvinas Islands and the
Reactivation of the U.S. Fourth Fleet
April 9, 2009 - No. 72
• Obama to the
World: "Do as I say, not as I do." Obama to Americans: "Listen to my
words, pay no heed to my deeds."
• DPRK Successfully
Launches Experimental Communications Satellite
• Iran Decries Obama's
Comment on Nuclear Threat
• Spying 'May Dampen'
Anti-Terror Effort – Li Xiaokun and Peng Kuang, China Daily
For Your Information
• Obama's Ersatz Capitalism
– Joseph E. Stiglitz, New York Times (excerpts)
April 10, 2009 - No. 73
Letter to the Editor and Commentary
• The Contradiction Between Authority
and Condition
April 13, 2009 - No. 74
• Rumours of GM
Bankruptcy and Chrysler Shutdown
• Ontario Government Admits
Socially Irresponsible Management of GM Pension Fund
CAW Press Conference
• Ontario Must Protect Workers'
Pensions
• Interview – Len
Harrison, Chair, CAW Retired Workers Executive
• Fight for a
Human-Centred Restructuring of Industry – K.C. Adams
• Labour Force Survey,
March 2009 – Statistics Canada
April 14, 2009 - No. 75
Hamilton National Steel Car Workers on Strike
• Force National Steel Car to
Withdraw its Demands for Concessions and Stop Its Blackmail against
Workers! – Pierre Chénier
• Interview – Gary
Pedron, President, United Steelworkers Local 7135
• ArcelorMittal Announces Quebec
Shutdown
Forestry
• An Alternative Is Necessary to
Face the Collapse of the AbitibiBowater Monopoly! – Gabriel
Girard-Bernier
Ontario
• Oppose Attacks on Immigrant
Workers! – Philip Fernandez
• Torontonians Demand Justice for
Immigrant Workers
April 15, 2009 - No. 76
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
• V Summit of the Americas
• IV Peoples' Summit of the Americas
• ALBA Summit in Caracas
• South American Nations Meet in
Venezuela to Lay Foundation for Bank of the South – James
Suggett, Venezuelanalysis.com
• Outcry Renewed as U.S. Military
May Want to Occupy Vieques Again – Yuliana Gomez, Latina
• Evo Morales Suspends Hunger
Strike; Congress Approves New Electoral Law – Granma
International
• Venezuelans Celebrate 7th
Anniversary of Coup Defeat – Zachary Lown,
Venezuelanalysis.com
SUPPLEMENTS
• No. 1: Documents of the V Summit
of the Americas and the IV Peoples' Summit of the Americas
• No. 2: Empire and Latin America in
the Obama Era
April 16, 2009 - No. 77
V Summit of the Americas
• The Elephant in the Room in Port
of Spain – Manuel E. Yepe
• Bolivia to Demand End to Blockade
at Americas Summit
• Letter to Prime Minister Stephen
Harper Re: Summit of the Americas – Isaac Saney, Canadian
Network on Cuba
• Fidel Castro: The Unseen Guest at
the Vth Summit of the Americas – Norman Girvan, Agencia
Latinoameicana de Informacion
Reflections of Comrade Fidel Castro
• Does the OAS Have a Right to
Exist? – April 14, 2009
• Days that Cannot Be Forgotten
– April 14, 2009
• Not a Word about the Blockade
– April 13, 2009
• Walking on Solid Ground
– April 5, 2009
• Why Is Cuba Being Excluded?
– April 4, 2009
Anniversary of Cuba's Victory at the Bay of Pigs, April
20, 1961
• First Defeat of Imperialism in
America – Aixa Alfonso Guerra, El Habanero
SUPPLEMENTS
• No. 3: Obama's
"New Partnership for the Americas" –BarackObama.com
• No. 4: No U.S. Troops in Mexico!
April 17, 2009 - No. 78
V Summit of the Americas: Canada's Americas
Strategy
• The Revolution Will Not Be
Destabilized: Canada's "Democracy Promotion" in Venezuela –
Anthony Fenton, The Dominion
• Colombian Parliamentarians Ask
Canada Not to Sign FTA – Jorge Enrique Robledo Castillo, et
al, Congress of the
Republic of Colombia
• Call to Action on the
Continuing Suppression of Democracy in Haiti - Canada Haiti
Action Network and the Haiti Action Committee
• Canada to Participate in U.S.
UNITAS Naval Exercise
• Americas Strategy Includes
Military Drug Ops – Michelle Collins, Embassy
• TILMA: Putting Investors First
and the Public Last – Council of Canadians
• America First Will Mean Canada
Last – Barbara Yaffe, Canwest News
SUPPLEMENT
• No. 5: From the Party Press — OAS
Inter-American Democratic Charter
April 20, 2009 - No. 79
• Monopolies and
Their Political Representatives Versus the Canadian People
Letter to the Editor
• The Fight for Dignity as Active
or Retired Workers Concerns Us All
April 21, 2009 - No. 80
USW Local 1005 Press Conference, April 16, 2009
• Local 1005 Proposes Action Plan
and Emergency Measures to Solve the Current Problems Facing the
Canadian Steel Industry and Economy
• What the Workers Had to Say
Durban Review Conference
• UN Protects Israel from
Racism Charges – Nora Barrows-Friedman, IPS
• High Commissioner for Human
Rights Shocked by U.S. Withdrawal from Review Conference and Urges
States to Focus on Racism Not Politics – Durban Review
Conference Website
April 22, 2009 - No. 81
Air Canada
• Neither the Status Quo nor
Decertification — Unity in Action to Defend Our Interests! –
New Horizons
• New Horizon's Reader's Forum
• No More Concessions! –
Luc Savoie, Letter to la Presse
• For Your Information: Pensions
– New Horizons
April 23, 2009 - No. 82
• Defend the
Pensions We Have! Fight for Pensions for All! – Statement of
the Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist)
• Ontario Pension Benefits Act
Reforms: Government Has a Social Responsibility to Guarantee the Rights
of All – Steve Rutchinski
Letters to the Editor
• Who Pays for Big Three Pensions?
• Steelworkers Have Got It Right!
April 24, 2009 - No. 83
20,000 Strong Pension Rally Delivers United
Message
• Monopolies and Governments Must
Live up to Their Social Responsibilities: Pensions and a Dignified Life
for All Retired People!
• What the Workers Had to Say
Alberta Federation of Labour 46th Convention
• Whose Economy? Our Economy! Who
Decides? We Decide! – Peggy Askin
Toronto
• War Criminals Not Welcome —
Protest May 29 Visit of Bush and Clinton!
Petition Against May 13 Visit of Condoleezza Rice to U.
of Calgary
• Illegal War Is Not Good Policy
April 27, 2009 - No. 84
• Governments and
Companies Must Fulfill Their Social Responsibilities – K.C.
Adams
April 28
• 25th Annual Day of Mourning for
Workers Killed or Injured on the Job
— Calendar of Events
April 28, 2009 - No. 85
25th Annual Day of Mourning for Workers Killed or
Injured on the Job
• Today More than Ever, Workers
Demand that Governments Enforce the Right to Safe and Healthy Working
Conditions for All Workers!
• Interviews
For Your Informaton
• Work Related Deaths Increase in
Canada
• International Work-Related
Fatalities
April 29, 2009 - No. 86
• Mass Rally at
Queen's Park to Save Local Hospitals – Ontario Health Coaltion
• Ontario Budget Will Not Help Save
Hospitals from Closure, Cuts, Mass Layoffs – Ontario Health
Coalition
Letter to the Editor
• How to Pose the Issue of "Fair
Funding"
• Beware CANSEC 2009 —
Canada's Largest Arms Bazaar Is Coming to Ottawa's Lansdowne Park!
– Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
• CPP Invests in Canadian Missile
Firm Tied to Cluster Bombs – Richard Sanders, Coalition to
Oppose the Arms Trade
April 30, 2009 - No. 87
May Day 2009
• Reject Tripartism in Economic and
Political Affairs!
• Public Control of Wholesale Trade
• For Your Information: Wholesale
Trade, February 2009 – Statistics Canada
MAY 2009
May 1, 2009 - No. 88
May Day 2009 — Day of International Working Class
Unity and Struggle
• Workers and Oppressed Peoples
of All Countries, Unite! – Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist)
May 4, 2009 - No. 89
May Day 2009 Photo Review
• Workers and Oppressed Peoples
of All Countries, Unite!
May 5, 2009 - No. 90
May 5, 2009: 191st Anniversary of the Birth of
Karl Marx
• There Is Only One High Road of
Civilization, One Way Foward
• Speech at the Graveside of
Karl Marx – Frederick Engels, March 17, 1883
• The Three Sources and Three
Component Parts of Marxism – V.I. Lenin, 1913
May 6, 2009 - No. 91
May Day 2009
• Steelworkers Hold May Day Rally
and March in Hamilton
• No One Is Illegal May Day March
in Toronto Demands Justice and Rights for All!
• UFCW Holds Migrant Worker Speakout
• Picket and Rally in Calgary
• Old Dutch Foods Workers Fight for
Their Rights and the Public Good
• Old Dutch Workers Are Defending
the Public Good: Support the Demand for Sick Pay and a Food Safety
Clause – Peggy Askin
• Cubans Stage Patriotic March in
Havana
• The Inalienable Decision to Build
Socialism – Speech by Salvador Valdés Mesa, CTC
General
Secretary
May 7, 2009 - No. 92
• Industry
Minister Sends Demand Letter to U.S. Steel
Air Canada
• What Is "Doing Our Part"?
– New Horizons, April 26, 2009
• Nortel and Air Canada Retirees
Facing Pension Cuts – Martin C. Barry, Senior Times
(Montreal)
Quebec
• Reject the Employment Pact! For a
Modern Economy that
Satisfies the Needs of All! – Christine Dandenault
For Your Information
• Conditions of the Working Class
Internationally
May 8, 2009 - No. 93
• Mexico: The
Influenza Epidemic and Self-Sufficiency in Health Care –
Teixitiani
• Reflections on the Swine Flu
Epidemic – Fausto Paz, APIA Virtual
Letter to the Editor
• Flu Pandemic or Pandemic of
Manipulation?
• Political Lies and
Media Disinformation Regarding the Swine Flu Pandemic –
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research
• Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory
Farms – F. William Engdahl, Global Research
May 12, 2009 - No. 94
Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Down with U.S. Imperialist
Killings and Displacement of Civilians! Canada Out of NATO! NATO Out of
Afghanistan! Dismantle NATO!
• Pragmatism: A Philosophy of
Monopoly Capitalism, Fascism and War
• Stop CF-18 Warplanes from Being
Deployed to Afghanistan – Stephen Staples, Ceasefire.ca
• Demonstrations Denounce Mass
Killings of Afghan Civilians by U.S. Air Strikes
• More Than One Million Refugees
Flee Northwestern Pakistan
• Canadian General Oversees
Doubling of NATO Air Forces in Afghanistan
May 13, 2008 - No. 95
• War Criminal
Condoleezza Rice Not Welcome in Calgary!
• U.S. Senate Committee Reveals
Direct Role of Condoleezza Rice in
Approving Torture
• Condi, War Crimes & the Press
– Robert Parry, Consortium News
• Stanford Organizes to Hold Bush
Administration and Condoleezza Rice Accountable
• Stanford Antiwar Alumni and
Students Call for Condi War Crimes Probe – Marjorie Cohen
Reference
• U.S. Justice Department Releases
Torture Memos
May 14, 2009 - No. 96
The Measure of a Revolution: Cuba 1959-2009
• Scholars from 15 Countries Gather
to Discuss Significance of Cuban Revolution
May 15, 2009 - No. 97
61st Anniversary of Al Nakba
• Long Live the Palestinian People
and Their Resistance! End the Occupation! Uphold the Right of Return!
• Al Nakba Week Memorials Take
Place in Central Gaza Strip Camps
• Resistance to Continued Blockade
of Gaza
• More Illegal Demolitions and
Settlements Underway in East Jerusalem
• Bil'in Village Brings Lawsuit
Against Canadian Construction Firms
• UN Probes Gaza Crimes Despite
Israeli Fury – Press TV
• Israel Must Be Judged at the
International Criminal Court — Universal Petition
For Your Information
• U.S. General Builds a Palestinian
Army – Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation
May 18, 2009 - No. 98
Quebec Patriots Day 2009
• Long Live the Nation-Building
Project of Today's Quebec Patriots!
• 206th Anniversary of
Haitian Flag Day
• Gwangju People's
Uprising Belongs to All Humanity!
May 19, 2009 - No. 99
• No to Foreign
Interference in Haiti! Get Canada Out of Haiti!
• Electoral Farce Continues in June
of 2009 – Wadner Pierre, HaitiAnalysis.com
• Lavalas Flexes Its Muscles in
Haiti – Kevin Pina, www.haitiaction.net
• Popular Initiative Calls for
Removal of Bush Appointee – Kevin Pina, www.haitiaction.net
• Canada's Ambassador to Haiti: The
Elections Were Legitimate – Canadian Haiti Action Network
• U.S. Development Plans for Haiti
Ignore Most Haitians – Ansel Herz, HaitiAnalysis.com
May 20, 2009 - No. 100
• What Is
Canada Really Doing in Haiti? The "Ottawa Initiative on Haiti":
Humanist Peacekeeping or Racist Imperialism? – Jean St-Vil
May 21, 2009 - No. 101
Forest Industry in Crisis
• Forestry Workers Demand Emergency
Measures and a New Direction
• Forest Workers Launch National
Fight-Back Campaign with Montreal Rally
• Closure of Fraser Paper Mill in
Thurso, Quebec: Oppose All Anti-Worker Forest Industry Monopoly
Justifications! – Gabriel Girard-Bernier
• Towards a New Direction for the
Forest Industry – K.C. Adams
May 22, 2009 - No. 102
Oppose the Agenda for Annexation, Fascism and War!
• Calgarians Say War Criminal Rice
Out of Calgary! No to the Hijacking of Public Institutions for
Annexation and War!
• University of Calgary Students
Oppose Condoleezza Rice's Visit to Calgary.
• Government Continues Unjust
Exclusion of Its Citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik
• Bring Omar Khadr Home Now!
• New Trend Emerges with Federal
Court's Khadr Ruling – Lee Berthiaume, Embassy
United States
• Court of Appeals Rules Detainees
Are Not "Persons" in Guantánamo Torture Suit – Centre
for Constitutional Rights
May 25, 2009 - No. 103
41st Anniversary of the Reorganization of the
Internationalists
• An Important Event in the
Political Life of Canada
• Paying First-Rate Attention to
the Need of the People for Consciousness and Organization –
Hardial Bains
Quebec
• Charest Government Agency Pays
the Monopolies — Société générale de
financement Acquires Vast Tract of Forest Land – Gabriel
Girard-Bernier and K.C. Adams
May 26, 2009 - No. 104
• CANSEC Arms
Fair Out of Ottawa! Funding for Social Programs Not for War! Fight for
an Anti-War Government!
• DFAIT Funds CADSI's Efforts to
Promote the International Arms Trade – Coalition to Oppose
the Arms Trade
• Canadian Military Exports to
Countries at War, 2003-2005 – Richard Sanders, Coordinator,
Coalition to Oppose the
Arms Trade
Denounce Bush and Clinton in Toronto May 29
• Demonstrate Against Both the
Natural and Hereditary Aristocracy – K.C. Adams
May 27, 2009 - No. 105
• Hands Off
Korea! U.S. Imperialists Are the Biggest Threat to
World Peace!
• DPRK Conducts Underground Nuclear
Test
• DPRK Condemns South Korea
Membership in Proliferation
Security Initiative
• U.S. Hostile Policy toward DPRK
• U.S. Invariable Ambition for
World Domination – Korean Central
News Agency
• Lee Myung Bak Group Dances to
Tune of U.S. – Rodong Sinmun
• Abe's Reckless Remarks Agitating
Reinvasion of Korea – Minju Joson
• Lee Myung Bak — Hands Off the
Movement for Korean Reunification!
• Opposition to Suppression of
Pro-Reunification Organizations
• Violation of Human Rights in
South Korea – Open Letter from Korean Democratic Lawyers
Association
• Declaration of Solidarity with
the Cause of Reunification of the Korean People – CILRECO
May 28, 2009 - No. 106
• Canadians and
Their Economy – K.C. Adams
• June 2 National Day of Protest:
Forestry Workers Fight Back – Communications, Energy and
Paperworkers Union
• Forestry Workers Occupy MPs'
Offices
• Steelworkers Launch a Campaign to
Save Québec's Steel Industry — The Steel Beam Mill: We Want it
Now! – United Steelworkers Press Release
• Letter from USW Local 1005
Political Action Committee to Tony Clement and Stockwell Day
• Workers Rally in Oshawa and
Windsor
May 29, 2009 - No. 107
• Bush and
Clinton Out of Toronto! War Criminals and Zionist Reactionaries Are Not
Welcome in Canada!
• Open Letter to Prime Minister
Stephen Harper and Top Ministers: Bush Must Be Barred or Prosecuted
– Lawyers Against the War
• Double Standards in Prosecution
of War Crimes
• Never Again – Robert
C. Koehler
For Your Information
• War Crimes Law Applies to U.S. Too
– Walter J. Rockler, Former Prosecutor at Nuremburg
War Crimes Tribunal, May 23, 1999
• Clinton: Postmodern War
Criminality
• Jerusalem's Museum of In-Tolerance
– Richard Silverstein, Tikun-Olam
JUNE 2009
June 1, 2009 - No. 108
• Canadians
Demand the Arrest of War Criminals Bush and Clinton in Toronto
No to Armed Border Guards at Akwesasne!
• Forty-One Year Legacy of Mohawk
Resistance at Akwesasne Border – Mohawk Nation News
• United Opposition to Arming of
Border Guards Continues
• UN Asked to Stop Guns at
Akwesasne Border – Mohawk Nation News
• Stratford, Ontario,
June 1: No Olympics on Stolen Land, No Gentrification in Uptown
Stratford — Protest and Tent City – Stratford Action for
Social Equality
• Petition to Replace the Name of
Amherst Street with Domagaya Street – Geneviève Royer
United States
• Congress Proposes Legislation to
Criminalize Native Tobacco Sales
June 2, 2009 - No. 109
• Fight for the
Dignity and Well-Being of Forestry Workers and Their Communities! –Statement
of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
June 3, 2009 - No. 110
OAS Crisis of Legitimacy
• Down with OAS Agenda for
Imperialist Annexation! End the U.S.
Blockade of Cuba!
• ALBA Countries Demand End to U.S.
Blockade of Cuba
• Behind the News: Clinton and Her
"Goodwill" – Deisy Francis Mexidor, Granma Daily
• Israel to Sell 'War on Iran'
Plans at OAS? – Press TV
June 4, 2009 - No. 111
• The Shameful
History of the OAS –
Oscar Sánchez Serra, Granma International
June 5, 2009 - No. 112
Forestry Workers National Day of Protest
• Forestry Workers Increase
Pressure on Harper Government to Protect Them and Their Communities
• Interviews: Forestry Workers
Speak Out
• Quebec Superior Court Allows
AbitibiBowater to Suspend Payments Covering Pension Shortfalls
Steel Not Steal!
• Clement Is Playing Games with
People's Lives
• Cambridge Holds
Discussion on Economic Crisis
June 8, 2009 - No. 113
Dismantle the OAS! End the U.S. Blockade of Cuba!
• Cuba's Historic Vindication at
the OAS
• Unanimous OAS Decision Overturns
Anti-Cuban Resolution
• No to Canada's Promotion of
Imperialist "Democracy" in the Americas!
• Declaration of the Revolutionary
Government of Cuba
• Reflections of Comrade Fidel
Castro: The Trojan Horse
For Your Information
• OAS General Assembly Resolution
on Cuba
• U.S. Stand on OAS Resolution
Lifting Ban on Cuba's Participation
June 9, 2009 - No. 114
Nova Scotia Elections 2009
• There Is an Alternative!
• Atlantic Gateway: the Politics of
Pragmatism and the Elephant in the Room – Tony Seed
• "Real Life": Democracy 251 and
the "Devotion" to "A Mature Democracy"
• The Nova Scotia Election and the
Bard Dan Alec MacDonald — "tonight, she walks the streets with Yankees"
– Tony Seed
• The Michelin File: No More Deals
— Nova Scotians Must Reject the Politics of "Pragmatism" –
Ena Boutilier and Tony Seed
For Your Information
• Michelin's "Exemplary Citizenship"
• Michelin Drive to Empire
June 10, 2009 - No. 115
Oppose Annual Meeting of International Economic
Forum of the Americas! Alvaro Uribe Not Welcome in Canada! No to the
Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement!
• Montreal Rally Against Annual
Meeting of International Economic Forum of the Americas
• No to the Canada-Colombia Free
Trade Agreement!
• Uribe Is NOT Welcome in Canada
– Colombia Action and Solidarity Network
• Human Rights Campaign Stalls
Harper Bill on Colombia Free Trade – La Chiva Collective,
Pueblos en Camino and Mingas-FTA
June 11, 2009 - No. 116
• City of Toronto
Must Withdraw Its Dictate for Concessions from City Workers! Defend the
Right of Toronto City Workers to Fight for Their Just Demands!
• Toronto Municipal Unions Announce
Strike Deadline, Tell Employer It's Time to Get the Job Done
– Press Release, CUPE Locals 79 and 416
LCBO Workers Ready to Strike
• No to LCBO's Plan for a
Completely Casual Workforce!
• For Your Information: Summary of
Opening Positions of LCBO and LBED in Bargaining, March 9, 2009
– OPSEU Website
• Good Jobs for All! —
June 13 Rally and March in Toronto – CLC
• The Steel Beam Mill: We Want it
Now! - June 14 Demonstration in Contrecoeur, QC – United
Steelworkers (FTQ)
June 12, 2009 - No. 117
Lebanon Votes 2009
• Stalemate Continues in the Face
of Hollow Claims of Victory – Jamilé Ghaddar
Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro
• Obama's Speech in Cairo
June 15, 2009 - No. 118
9th Anniversary of June 15 North-South Joint
Declaration — Korea Is One! Oppose Retrogression of Lee Myung Bak
Regime! No to U.S. Nuclear Blackmail!
• 9th Anniversary of Historic
North-South Joint Declaration
• Korea Is One! Oppose the
Retrogression of Lee Myung Bak Regime! No to U.S. Nuclear Blackmail!
• South Korean Society Demands an
End to Lee Myung Bak's Retrogression
• Withdraw UN Security Council
Resolution 1874! Hands Off Korea!
• Committee for the Peaceful
Reunification of Korea Denounces South Korea Joining Proliferation
Security Initiative
• U.S. Urged to Give up
Hide-and-Seek over Nuclear Issue – KCNA
• Top U.S. Diplomat in Asia
Dictates Terms to DPRK
• U.S. Policy Toward North Korea
Fails to Engage – Ronda Hauben, OhmyNews
For Your Information
• Text of June 15, 2000
North-South Joint Declaration
June 16, 2009 - No. 119
U.S. Supreme Court Decision Not to Review Case of
Cuban Five
• Free the Cuban Five! Hands Off
Cuba! No to U.S. Terrorism Against the Peoples of the Americas!
• The Cuban Five: Defending the
Right to Exist – Interview with Isaac Saney, Co-chair,
Canadian Network on Cuba
• Declaration of the Presidency of
Cuba's National Assembly
• President of Cuban Parliament
Warns of New Manoeuvre to Divide the Five and Calls on Obama to Release
the Five
• International Association of
Democratic Lawyers Passes Resolution in Support of Cuban Five
• Cuba Denounces Case of Cuban Five
at UN Human Rights Council
• Posada Carriles' Trial Delayed
• And When Will Miami's Terrorist
Nest Be Cleared Out? – Jean-Guy Allard, Granma International
June 17, 2009 - No. 120
Contrecoeur, Quebec
• Vigorous March and Rally Demand
Steel Beam Mill
• Steel Beam Mill in Contrecoeur,
We Want It Now! – Marxist-Leninist Party of Quebec
(PMLQ)
Windsor, Ontario
• Mass Rally and March in Support
of City Workers: Oppose the Dictate
for Concessions!
• What the Workers Had to Say
• Veteran Cab Drivers on Strike
Toronto, Ontario
• Workers Demand: "EI Is Our Money!
Good Jobs for All!"
Sudbury, Ontario
• June 20: 25th Annual Workers'
Memorial Day
June 18, 2009 - No. 121
Fight for the Dignity of Labour! Our Security
Lies in Defence of the Rights of All! Concessions Are Not Solutions!
Hands Off Ontario Municipal Workers!
• Defend the Toronto City Workers!
Anti-Labour Concessions Are Not Solutions!
• City Marching Us toward Strike
with Concession Demands – Toronto Civic Employees Union Local
416
• Anti-Social Offensive Against
Ontario Municipal Workers
• Arbitration Not a Four-Letter Word
– Sid Ryan, Ontario President, CUPE
• Toronto-Dominion Centre Workers
Locked Out – Interview with Zoran Grgar, National
Representative, CEP
June 19, 2009 - No. 122
Militarization of the Arctic
• Canada: Battle Line in East-West
Conflict over the Arctic – Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO
June 22, 2009 - No. 123
Militarization of the Arctic — Scandinavia and
the Baltic Sea
• NATO's War Plans for the High North
– Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO
June 23, 2009 - No. 124
• Support the
Toronto and Windsor City Workers!
• City Workers Defend the Rights of
All – Pierre Chenier
• Concessions Are Not Solutions to
Toronto's Financial Problems nor Its Future Prosperity! – Steve
Rutchinski
• CUPE Local 416 and 79
Communiqué
Contrecoeur, Quebec
• 11,928 Signatures on Petition for
Steel Beam Mill – United Steelworkers (FTQ)
United Nations
• Conference on Global Financial
Crisis
June 24, 2009 - No. 125
• Long Live the
Quebec People's National Day! Long Live the Quebec Nation! –
Serge Patenaude
Hands Off Korea!
• U.S. Efforts to Provoke War Are
Crimes Against the Peace
• Vigorous Support for Korean
Reunification at Toronto Public Forum
"All Puerto Rico for Puerto Rico!"
• Mass Demonstration in Defence of
Workers and the Nation
• Rally Defends Puerto Rican
Patriots
• Statement of the Six Puerto Rican
Protesters
June 25, 2009 - No. 126
59th Anniversary of the Korean War
• Hail the Historic Victory of the
Korean People! U.S. Troops Out of Korea Now!
• U.S. Imperialists, Provoker of
Korean War – Korean Central News Agency
• U.S. Can Never Evade Blame for
Present Crisis on Korean Peninsula – Korean Central News
Agency
• U.S. Massive Deployment of
Forces in Waters Around Korean Peninsula – Korean Central
News Agency
For Your Information
• We Accuse — Excerpts from Report
of Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) –
Korea, May 16-27, 1951
• Women's International Democratic
Federation Letter to UNO President and UNO Security Council –
June 11, 1951
June 29, 2009 - No. 127
• No to the Coup
in Honduras! Restore the Honduran People's Democratically Elected
President Manuel Zelaya! – Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist)
• Reflections by Comrade
Fidel Castro: A Suicidal Mistake
• News on the Coup
• Commentary and Updates:
Venezuelan Journalist Eva Golinger
For Your Information
• Statement by Minister of State
Kent
June 30, 2009 - No. 128
Ontario Municipal Workers Persist in Their Just
Struggle
• Toronto City Workers Say "Fight
Back! No to Concessions!"
• Defeat the Anti-Worker,
Anti-Social Plots! – Pierre Chenier
• Speak Out in Defence of Toronto
City Workers! – Dagmar Sullivan
• This Crisis Calls for Real
Solutions Not Scapegoating Municipal Workers!
– Steve Rutchinski
• What Striking Toronto City
Workers and Their Supporters Have to Say
JULY 2009
July 2, 2009 - No. 129
• Honduran People
Step Up Resistance to Coup d'Etat
• Suspension of Civil Rights
– Eva Golinger
• The Fascist Coup d'Etat Against
President Zelaya Is an Insult to All the Peoples – Cuban
President Raúl Castro Ruz
• Why Zelaya's Actions Were Legal
– Alberto Vallente Thorensen
• Kent's Presidential Return
Omission Criticized – Michelle Collins, Embassy
For Your Information
• ALBA Declaration
• Declaration of UN General Assembly
July 3, 2009 - No. 130
Civic Workers' Strike
• Windsor Star's "Business
Perspective" and Fascist One-Nation Politics
July 6, 2009 - No. 131
• Honduran
Military Thwarts President Zelaya's Attempt to Land in Tegucigalpa
• Rallies Denounce Military Coup
and Demand Immediate Restoration of Zelaya Government
• Open Letter of Latin American
Solidarity Network-Toronto
• Coup d'Etat an Attack on Even the
Possibility of Democratic Renewal
July 7, 2009 - No. 132
20th Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba July
3-August 3, 2009:Hands Off Cuba! End the U.S. Blockade of Cuba! Free
the Cuban Five!
• Hands Off Cuba! End the U.S.
Blockade of Cuba!
• Help Cuba Rebuild After the
Hurricanes – IFCO/Pastors for Peace
• Worldwide Demonstrations Denounce
U.S. Supreme Court Decision and Demand Freedom for the Cuban Five
• Alarcón: We Should
Redouble Efforts in Favour of the Cuban Five
• Message from René Gonzalez
• International Committee to Free
the Cuban Five Press Statement
• Venceremos Brigade Statement
For Your Information
• A Brief History of the U.S./Cuba
Friendshipment Caravan Campaign – IFCO/Pastors for Peace
July 9, 2009 - No. 133
• All for One and
One for All! Defend the Toronto and Windsor City Workers! The Cities
Must Withdraw their Dictate for Concessions!
• Mass Picket of Workers and
Residents Supports Toronto City Workers
• There Is an Alternative to this
Anti-Worker, Anti-Social Offensive – Steve Rutchinski
• Interviews: Workers Speak Out in
Defence of Rights and Humane Working Conditions
For Your Information
• The Facts about Sick Days
– CUPE Local 79 and Local 416
July 9, 2009 - No. 134
• Yes Mayor
Miller, Enough Is Enough — It's Time You Supported Toronto's Working
Class!
• The Necessity of Social
Solidarity in Defending New Hires: Part Two of Windsor Star's
"Business Perspective" and Fascist One-Nation Politics
Forestry
• Harper's New Plan to Help the
Monopolies and the Forestry Industry – Gabriel Girard-Bernier
• Toronto Rally: Uphold
the Rights of Migrant Workers!
July 10, 2009 - No. 135
• All Out to
Support the Honduran People and Their President!
• Mediation Talks Underway in Costa
Rica: Oppose Any Attempt to Legitimate the Coup!
• Anti-Coup Movement Grows
• Honduras and the "Twin-Track"
Policy of the United States – Hugo Morliz Mercado, Granma
International
• Harper Government Isolated as
Opposition to Coup in Honduras Grows – Yves Engler
• The Concept of Democracy at Stake
– Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
• The Role of the International
Republican Institute (IRI) in the Honduran Coup – Eva
Golinger, Postcards from the Revolution
July 13, 2009 - No. 136
• Support Vale
Inco Workers' Just Strike!
• Vale Inco Workers Reject
Concessions, Launch Strike Struggle to Defend Their Livelihoods and
Their Community
• It Is Sudbury That Is Sustainable
and Monopoly Right That Is Not! – David Starbuck
• New Pressure for Further
Monopolization of World Mining
• For Your Information
SUPPLEMENT
• Consolidation of World Mining
July 14, 2009 - No. 137
• Oppose Racist
Travel Restrictions on Mexico and Czech Republic
• More Workers Arrested in Another
Immigration Raid – UFCW
• Oppose Canada's Secret
Deportations of Filipino Live-in Caregivers – SIKLAB-BC,
Philippine Women Centre of BC, Grassroots Women-BC, West Coast Domestic
Workers' Association
• Scrap Canada's Live-in Caregiver
Program: End Violence Against Filipino Women! – National
Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada
• Petition Campaign: Protect the
Rights and Welfare of Filipino Live-in Caregivers!
July 15, 2009 - No. 138
Report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship
and Immigration
• Nation-Wrecking and the
Privitization of Immigration – Peggy Askin and Peggy Morton
• Response of Canadian Labour
Congress and United Food and Commercial Workers to Standing Committee
Recommendations
July 16, 2009 - No. 139
• The Coup Dies
or Constitutions Die – Fidel Castro
• Washington and the Coup in
Honduras: Here is the Evidence – Eva Golinger, Postcards from
the Revolution
July 17, 2009 - No. 140
Honduras
• What Must Be Demanded of the
United States –
Fidel Castro
• President Zelaya en Route to
Honduras as Resistance to Coup Gathers Strength
• Massive Repression by Coup Regime
• Telesur and Venezuelan TV
Journalists Arrested in Honduras – Tamara Pearson,
Venezuelanalysis.com
• Shame on Canada, Coup Supporter
–
Ashley Holly, TheTyee.ca
• Hugo Llorens, U.S. Ambassador to
Honduras: An Eloquent Pedigree – Jean-Guy Allard, Granma
International
• U.S. Continues to Train Honduran
Soldiers – James Hodge and Linda Cooper, National Catholic
Reporter
• Honduran Oligarchy: "The War Is
Against Chavez" – Ricardo Daher, Aporrea
July 20, 2009 - No. 141
• Vale Inco
Workers' Just Strike Raises Important Issues
Honduras
• Coup Regime Rejects Proposed
Solution to Crisis – Eva Golinger, Postcards from the
Revolution
• Hondurans Step Up Resistance
• UN Ignores Honduras Coup Leaders
July 21, 2009 - No. 142
No to Demands for Concessions — Victory to Vale
Inco Workers!
• July 17 Rally at Vale Inco's
Copper Cliff Smelter
• Vale Insists All Units Must Be
"Cash-Flow Positive" – K.C. Adams
July 22, 2009 - No. 143
Toronto
• Public Forum Declares "Daycare Is
a Right!"
• Access to Childcare
• Highlights of the Community
Discussion on Childcare
• Speech of Sultana Jahangir at the
Community Childcare Forum
Honduras
• Tension Grows as Crisis Goes on
July 23, 2009 - No. 144
Industry Minister Seeks Federal Court Order
Against U.S. Steel
• U.S. Steel Must Pay Compensation
for Damaging the Canadian Economy and Social Fabric!
• Industry Minister Seeks Federal
Court Order against U.S. Steel
For Your Information
• Industry Canada Press Release
• Steelworkers Union Press Release
• Application of Attorney General
of Canada in Court Case against U.S. Steel
July 24, 2009 - No. 145
• Sudbury Workers
Condemn Federal Minister of Industry
• USW and Brazilian Union CUT Join
Forces to Support Vale Workers
• U.S. and British Banks Increase
Holdings in Vale
• Vale Eyes Take Over of More
Canadian Potash
For Your Information
• What Tony Clement Said
• Workers Call for Clement's
Immediate Resignation – United Steelworkers
• Letter from Sudbury Mayor to
Industry Minister Tony Clement
• Industry Minister Must Explain
the Inexplicable – Sudbury Star
• What Vale Said About Inco and
Sudbury in 2006
July 28, 2009 - No. 146
56th Anniversary of Attack on Moncada Barracks
• Long Live the Cuban People and
Their Revolution! Free the Cuban Five! – Communist Party of
Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Moncada Day Celebration: Cubans
Called on to Step Up Hurricane Recovery and Agricultural Efforts
• Moncada Day Celebrations Held
across Cuba
• Cuba's Revolution Day Celebrated
in Canada
For Your Information
• Moncada Day, Cuba's National Day
of Rebellion – Jamilé Ghaddar
July 29, 2009 - No. 147
• Xstrata and
Vale Inco Workers Hold Successful Rally in Copper Cliff
• Salt of the Earth –
Dave Starbuck
Windsor
• Congratulations to Windsor Civic
Workers for Their Courageous Defence of the Rights of All!
Canada-Mexico Relations
• Bitter Fruit of the FTA
– Pablo Moctezuma Barragan
• Visa Requirement for Mexicans and
the Destruction of Mexican Agriculture – National Farmers
Union (Canada)
July 30, 2009 - No. 148
Update on Honduras
• Honduras Coup Resistance Marks
One Month
• Jobs Yes, But with Dignity! –
Honduran Women's Collective (CODEMUH)
July 27
• President Zelaya Rules Out Talks
in U.S.
• Coup Dictator Publishes OpEd in
Wall Street Journal
July 25-26
• Zelaya Stays at Honduran Border
• The "Smart Power" Solution of the
Obama-Clinton Administration
• U.S. Permits Military Coup Leader
to Visit Miami
July 23-24
• Zelaya Enters Honduras Then
Returns to Nicaragua
• General Strike in Honduras
• Zelaya Follower Tortured and
Assassinated by Coup Regime
July 21-22
• The "Negotiations"
• Panama Recognizes Coup Regime
• Coup Regime Tries to Expel
Venezuelan and ALBA Diplomats
July 20
• U.S. Assistant Secretary of
State Says Honduras Coup a "Lesson" for Zelaya Not to Follow
Venezuela's Path
• European Union Suspends Aid
July 31, 2009 - No. 149
• Consequences of
Honduras' Coup for Latin America
• The 30th Sandinista Anniversary
and the San José Proposal – Fidel Castro, July 21, 2009
• A Nobel Prize for Mrs. Clinton
– Fidel Castro, July 23, 2009
• The Hired Gun of Roberto
Micheletti: History of the Torturer Joya Améndola –
Gennaro Carotenuto
• Honduras Coup: the U.S. Connection
– Nil Nikandrov
• From Arbenz to Zelaya: Chiquita
in Latin America – Nikolas Kozloff
Update
• Another Anti-Coup National Strike
in Honduras
AUGUST 2009
August 3, 2009 - No. 150
56th Anniversary of Korean Armistice Agreement
• Demand U.S. Sign Peace Treaty to
End Korean War!
• Call for U.S. to Sign Peace
Treaty with DPRK
• War Victory Day Celebrated in
DPRK
• Historic Victory in the
Fatherland Liberation War – Speech by Kim Il Sung to Korean
People's Army Unit 256, October 23, 1953 (excerpts)
Korea Is One!
• All Out to Support the Signature
Campaign for Korean Reunification!
Six Party Talks
• DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman
on Unreasonable Call for Resumption of Six-Party Talks
August 4, 2009 - No. 151
Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee Holds
7th Plenum
• Confronting Challenges Serenely
and with More Determination than Ever – Granma International
Free the Cuban Five!
• Call to Parliamentarians and
Peoples of the World – National Assembly of the Peoples' Power
of the Republic of Cuba
• Mercenary Consternation
– Manuel E. Yepe
August 5, 2009 - No. 152
7th Cuban Parliament Opens 3rd Session
• Consolidation of Revolutionary
Gains During Times of International Economic Crisis
• Cuban Deputies Analyze Housing
Recovery from 2008 Hurricanes
• General Comptroller Law Adopted
• Fidel and Raúl: Champions
of Cuban Heritage
For Your Information
• "They Did Not Elect Me President
to Restore Capitalism in Cuba or to Surrender the Revolution"
– Speech of Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz
August 6, 2009 - No. 153
64th Anniversary of Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki
• No More Hiroshimas! No More
Nagasakis!
Manufacturing Yes! Nation-Wrecking No!
• Rally Around Canadian
Steelworkers in Defence of Their Rights
• USW Press Release
• Resist U.S. Steel "Whacking"
Canada – K.C. Adams
For Your Information
• Inco, Stelco: The
Dark Side of Foreign Takeovers – Editorial, Orangeville
Citizen
• Lakeside Steel Files Motion to
Intervene in Federal Minister's Court Application on U.S. Steel
– Lakeside Steel Press Release
August 7, 2009 - No. 154
• Voisey's Bay
Workers Join Strike Against Vale Inco
• United Steelworkers' Letter to
Local Communities – USW Locals 6500, 6200 and 9508
• Brazil Mineworkers' Letter to
Vale Inco Canada Workers
• News in Brief
• Tremendous Productive Capacity of
Modern Sudbury Miners
August 10, 2009 - No. 155
• Note to Our
Readers
Quebec
• "Rule of Law" of the Mining
Monopolies – Gabriel Girard-Bernier
• Forest Regime Reform Favours the
Most Powerful – Rimouski Correspondent
• Charest Government's Northern
Plan: Making the Quebec Economy Even More Dependent –
Rimouski Correspondent
August 31, 2009 - No. 156
Day 50 of Vale Inco Strike
• One Day Longer! United We Stand!
The Fighting Spirit of Sudbury's Working Class
• Vicious, Arrogant, Lying
Exploiter — Oppose All Preparations by Vale to Resume Production
– Sudbury Marxist-Leninist Party Club
• Hands Off Pensions and Benefits!
– Sudbury Marxist-Leninist Party Club
• Vale Inco CEO Obliged to Speak to
Sudbury Municipal Council
News In Brief from Around the World
• Growing Resistance to Vale's
Monopoly Right
SEPTEMBER 2009
September 1, 2009 - No. 157
70th Anniversary of the Invasion of Poland by
Nazi Germany
• The Treachery of Repeating
Historical Falsifications
• Causes and Lessons of the Second
World War – Two Speeches by Hardial Bains, September 1989
September 2, 2009 - No. 158
Strategic Review of Canada Post
• Reject the Report of the Advisory
Panel! Stand with Postal Workers for a Truly Modern Post Office
• Canada Post President’s Forums —
Propaganda for Tripartism and One Nation Chauvinism
• Postal Workers Say: We Will Not
Be Silenced!
• Postal Workers Speak Out!
September 3, 2009 - No. 159
Forestry Workers Fight for the Dignity of Labour
and a Pro-Social Self-Reliant Economy
Manitoba
• Lock Out of Powerview-Pine Falls
Workers: Oppose the Tembec Dictate for Anti-Labour Concessions!
Northen Ontario
• "We Have to Find the Ways to Be
Able to Control What Is Being Done with Our Natural Resources"
– Interview with Al Simard, President, Saving the Region
of Ontario North Group
• "We Want to Assume Our Own Future"
– Interview with Rick Isaacson, Chair of Smooth Rock Falls Strategic
Task Force Committee
• September 7: Labour
Day 2009 Calendar of Events
September 4, 2009 - No. 160
• Oppose
Cadillac Fairview's Termination of Toronto Dominion Centre Workers!
• Support for Vale Inco and Toronto
Dominion Centre Workers
Justice for Injured Workers!
• "The Poverty of Injured Workers
Remains Our Main Concern" – Steve Mantis, Secretary, Ontario
Network of Injured Workers Groups
• Key Findings from Study of
Economic and Social Impacts of Workplace Injury and Illness
• September 7: Labour
Day 2009 Calendar of Events
September 7, 2009 - No. 161
Labour Day 2009
• Defend the Dignity of Workers and
Their Central Decisive Role in Nation-Building – Communist
Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist)
September 8, 2008 - No. 162
• Health Care Is
a Right! – Peggy Morton
• More than 500 People Attend
Meeting to Save Alberta Hospital Edmonton
• Letter to the Editor
• Nurses Say It's Outrageous to
Claim Improved Services with Less Staff and Resources – United
Nurses of Alberta
• Nurses Speak Out about Acute
Nursing Shortage
• Friends of Medicare Launches
Website and Campaign
September 9, 2009 - No. 163
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
• Hail the 61st Anniversary of the
Founding of the DPRK!
• UNSC "Resolution 1874": DPRK
Permanent Representative Sends Letter to Security Council President
• Oppose U.S. Plans for Production
and Deployment of Massive Ordnance Penetrator
• Koreans Demand Apology and
Compensation for Victims of Japanese Imperialist War Crimes and Human
Rights Violations – Philip Fernandez
• Lessons of History:
Anti-Communist Pressure to Isolate the DPRK – A Reader in
Nova Scotia
September 10, 2009 - No. 164
11 Years of Injustice for the Cuban Five
• U.S. Revenge-Seeking Will Never
Extinguish Cuba's Right to Resist — Free the Cuban Five Now!
• Interview with Attorney for Cuban
Five – Radio Havana Cuba
• The Untold Story of the Cuban Five
– Richardo Alarcón de Quesada, President, Cuban
National Assembly
September 11, 2009 - No. 165
8th Anniversary of 9/11
• Our Security Lies in our Fight
for the Rights of All!
Case of Omar Khadr
• Lawlessness of Harper's "Law and
Order" Agenda
• Ignatieff and the Rule of Law
• Supreme Court to Hear Khadr Case
– Gail Davidson, Lawyers
Against the War
• Government Admits
Evidence in Charkaoui's File Is "Insufficient" – Coalition
Justice for Adil Charkaoui
• September 24 to October 16:
Abousfian Abdelrazik Tours Canada to Speak for Justice –
Project Fly Home
United States
• "Closing" Guantánamo — No
to the Super-Jail and Government Impunity! – Voice of
Revolution
September 14, 2009 - No. 166
• BC Budgets Are
Empty Rhetoric
For Your Information
• BC and the Economic Crisis —
Excerpts and Comments from the Mass Media, Research Groups and
Government
September 15, 16,17, 2009 - Nos. 167, 168, 169
Claims on Added-Value and Modern Definition of a
State - K.C. Adams
• Part One: Introducing Data and
Basic Conceptions
• Part Two:Discussion of a Modern
Definition of Taxation
• Part Three:Discussion of a Modern
Definition of Banking, Credit and Insurance
September 18, 2009 - No. 170
• Join the
Discussion and Nation-Building Movement to Restrict the Monopolies
Alberta Labour Board Upholds Monopoly Right
• "Business as Usual" at Safeway
– Peggy Morton
• Edmonton Safeway Workers End
Six-Day Strike – Peggy Askin
Scarborough, Ontario
• Zellers Strike –
Interview, Stephen Moses, Chairperson, CAW Local 1000, Zellers
Warehouse, Scarborough
September 21, 2009 - No. 171
Hamonized Sales Tax
• BC Residents Mobilize to Defeat
the HST Poll Tax
G-20 Summit,Pittsburgh, September 24-25
• Oppose G-20 and Its "Solutions"
for the Global Crisis
• One Humanity, One Struggle!
– U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization
• National Call for Action
• State Repression Supports Finance
Capital
• G-20 Not Meeting April Promises
to Poorest Countries – Jubilee USA
• End the Occupation of Afghanistan
Now!
September 22, 2009 - No. 172
• Workers Must
Develop, Disseminate and Fight for Their Own Perspective on Taxes
Industrial Capacity Utilization Rates
• Let's Get Organized for a
Human-Centred Alternative! – K.C. Adams
• Industrial Capacity Utilization
Rates — Second Quarter 2009
September 23, 2009 - No. 173
Opening of Quebec Street Parliament
• Fight for a Modern Society that
Recognizes Rights by Virtue of Being Human! – Serge Lachapelle
Housing Is a Right!
• October 5, World Habitat Day:
Call to Action to Recognize Housing as a Right
• Montreal Municipal Elections:
Demands that Must be Addressed – FRAPRU
Education Is a Right!
• "Student Assistance Reform
Necessary" Says ASSÉ Spokesperson Christian Pépin
• Place of Private Sector in
Governance of Post-Secondary Institutions – Étienne
Simard, Université du Québec en Outaouais
• Tuition Fee Increase After 2012 —
One Hike after Another! – Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, L'Ultimatum
An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!
• Quebec Government Must End Racial
Profiling Now
• First Anniversary of Death of
Fredy Villanueva: March Reiterates Determination to Obtain Justice and
Truth for Fredy Villanueva and All Victims of Police Brutality
September 24, 2009 - No. 174
Pittsburgh, September 24-25, 2009
• G-20 Summit
• September 24: G-20 to Be Tried by
International Tribunal in Pittsburgh – G-20 People's Tribunal
XV Sao Paulo Forum, Mexico City, August 20-23, 2009
• Final Declaration
September 25, 2009 - No. 175
• Long Live the
Honduran People and Their Resistance!
Statements
• Latin American Canadian
Solidarity Association
• ALBA Member Countries in OAS
• Cuban Parliament
• Latin American Leaders
• São Paulo Forum
• Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade
• Update on Unfolding
Events
Reflection by Comrade Fidel Castro
• A Revolution Is Being Born There
• Coming Events
September 28, 2009 - No. 176
Vale Inco Strike
•Injunction Upholds Monopoly Right
to Use Anti-Worker Mercenaries with Impunity — No to Criminalization of
Vale Inco Workers' Right to Organize Effective Strike and Resist
Strikebreaking!
• International Solidarity with
Vale Inco Workers
Honduras
• National and International
Denunciation – National Front of Resistance against the Coup
d'État
• Stop the Use of Chemical Weapons
by the Armed Forces! – Juan Almendares, Honduran Peace
Committee
• Honduras Expels OAS Team and
Gives Brazil 10-Day Ultimatum
• Honduras Coup Leader Micheletti
Decrees 45-Day Suspension of Constitution – Al Giordano, The
Field
September 29, 2009 - No. 177
• The Employment
Insurance Political Football
September 30, 2009 - No. 178
• Canadian
Government's Theatrics at United Nations
• Opposition Mounts to
Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and Bill C-23
Honduras
• Demands at UN for Rule of Law
• Inter-American Human Rights
Commission Condemns Suspension of Rights
• OAS: Mass Violation of Human
Rights Would Justify Immediate Intervention
• October 2 — International Day of
Solidarity with the Honduran People: Against the State Coup, for the
Restitution of Democracy and the Constituent Assembly
OCTOBER 2009
October 1, 2009 - No. 179
• All Glory to
the Chinese People! Hail the Sixtieth Anniversary of the People's
Republic of China!
• Chinese President Calls for Unity
for Nation's Development
• Civilian Pageant Highlights
China's 60-Year Rise to World Stage – Xinhua
For Your information
• The Chinese People Have Stood Up!
– Mao Zedong, First Plenary Session, Chinese
People's Political Consultative Conference, September 21, 1949
(excerpts)
64th Session UN General Assembly
• Unite as One and Work for a
Bright Future – Hu Jintao, President, People's Republic of
China
October 2, 2009 - No. 180
Alberta
• Fight for a Government Which
Guarantees the Rights of All! – Peggy Morton
• Rallies Oppose Bed Closures and
Attacks on Right to Health Care
• Alberta Health Services
Announces Closure of a Full Hospital Worth of Beds – United
Nurses of Alberta
• Alberta's Continuing
Care Strategy: Understanding the Context and the Implications –
Carol Wodak, Seniors Action and Liason Team
Letter to the Editor
• We've Seen This Disaster Before
October 5, 2009 - No. 181
October 7 — 8th Anniversary of Invasion of
Afghanistan
• Organize in Your Community to
Bring the Troops Home Now – Canadian Peace Alliance
• U.S., NATO Poised For Most
Massive War in Afghanistan's History – Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO
October 6, 2009 - No. 182
Quebec Students Oppose Paying the Rich
• Reject Claims by Parties of the
Rich that Education Is a Privilege! Education Is a Right! –
Parti Marxiste-Léninist du Québec
• Vigorous Protest against Bills 38
and 44
Statements
• Association for Student Union
Solidarity
(ASSÉ)
• Quebec Federation of College
Students
• Quebec Federation of University
Students
• National Teachers Federation of
Quebec
• Student Association of
Jonquière Cégep
• Montérégie Student
Associations
October 7, 2009 - No. 183
8th Anniversary of Invasion of Afghanistan
• Canada Out of Afghanistan! End
the Occupation and Bring the Troops Home Now! Canada Out of NATO!
Dismantle NATO!
• If Afghanistan Is Its Test, NATO
Is Failing - John Feffer, Asia Times Online
• Thinking the Unthinkable: NATO's
Global Military Roadmap – Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO
October 8, 2009 - No. 184
Rally for Workers' Rights
• Victory to Vale Inco and Lake
Erie Workers!
• Bill 86, Labour Relations
Amendment Act
(Replacement Workers), 2008
Honduras
• Anti-Coup Forces Mark 100 Days of
Resistance
• Resistance Will Accept Dialogue
If Repressive Measures Suspended – Agencia Bolivariana de
Noticias
• Peasant Political Prisoners
Declare Indefinite Hunger Strike – HondurasResists
• Honduras Supreme Electoral
Tribunal Comes Out Against Coup Decree – Al Giordano, The
Field
October 9, 2009 - No. 185
• Hail the 64th
Anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea!
• Tokyo International Korean
Reunification Conference – Interview, H.P. Chung, Canadian
Delegate
• Great Successes in 150-Day
Campaign for Development of Economy
• DPRK's Intention to Build
Nuclear-Free World
64th Session UN General Assembly
• "The Foreign Policy of the DPRK
Is Committed to the Principles of Independence, Peace and Friendship"
– Speech by Pak Kil Yon, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs
and Chairman of DPRK Delegation to UN
October 13, 2009 - No. 186
Cuban Five Update
• Resentencing Hearing for Antonio
Guerrero
• 5th Montreal Day of Friendship
with Cuba
33rd Anniversary of the Cubana Plane Sabotage
• Cuba Demands Justice –
Granma International
• Official Statement of Venezuelan
Ambassador to U.S.
Honduras
• Resistance Warns Zelaya Must Be
Restored to Power Before October 15
• OAS: Only Solution to Crisis Is
Zelaya's Restitution
October 14, 2009 - No. 187
• U.S. Steel
Files Motions to Negate Steelworkers' Legal Rights and Uphold Monopoly
Right
• Further Court Action to Uphold
Monopoly Right
• For Your Information: U.S. Steel
Motion to Dismiss
• Toronto Anti-Scab Rally
Vale Inco — A Law Unto Itself
• Reinstate the Fired Workers!
– Sudbury Marxist-Leninist Party Club
October 15, 2009 - No. 188
U.S. Steel's Constitutional Challenge
• U.S. Steel's Aim and the
Necessity of Parliament to Immediately Defend the Sovereignty and
Rights of Canadians – K.C. Adams
• False Identity of Respondents
Claiming to Be the Social Relation U.S. Steel Canada – K.C.
Adams
October 16, 2009 - No. 189
Health Care Is a Right!
• Rally Demands "Save Alberta
Hospital Edmonton!"
• Health Care Workers Speak Out!
• More Tricks and Deception from
Minister of Health – Peggy Morton
Honduras
• Resistance on Day 111 of the Coup
• Negotiations and October 15
Deadline for Restitution of President Zelaya Extended
• Communique No. 28 from the
National Front of Resistance against the Coup d'Etat
• After 517 Years the Resistance
Continues and Deepens – Civil Council of Popular and
Indigenous Organizations of Honduras
• The Sordid History of Lewis
Amselem, Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS
– Jean-Guy Allard, Granma International
October 19, 2009 - No. 190
• War Criminal
George W. Bush Not Welcome in Canada!
Statements and Open Letters
• Edmonton Coalition Against War
and Racism and Palestine Solidarity Network
• Letter to Edmonton Mayor Stephen
Mandel
• George W. Bush "Welcoming
Committee"-Saskatoon
• Collectif Échec à
la guerre
October 20, 2009 - No. 191
• Support Nortel
and Other Retirees in Their Just Demands! Pensions and Full Severance
Pay Are a Right! – Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Uphold the Security of the Person
— Pensions Are a Right! – K.C. Adams
• Call for October 21 Mass
Demonstration on Parliament Hill – Nortel Retirees and former
employees Protection Canada
• Petition to House of Commons
• Statement of Communications,
Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
• Statement of Teamsters Union
• Struggle of Flextronics Workers
in Montreal
• Toronto Queen's Park Demonstration
October 21, 2009 - No. 192
October 21 — Day 100 of Inco Strike
• Uphold the Dignity of Labour!
Victory to Vale Inco Workers!
• Rally at Smelter Picket Line –
USW Local 6500
Forestry
• Support the Struggle of the
People of Smooth Rock Falls in Defence of their Right to a Livelihood!
Honduras
• Dialogue Resumes Amid Tension
• UN to Investigate Human Rights
Violations
• ALBA-TCP Summit Approves
Declaration in Support of Honduras – Agencia Bolivariana de
Noticias
October 22, 2009 - No. 193
• All Out to
Oppose "Halifax International Security Forum"! No Harbour for War!
– Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Vigorously Oppose "Halifax
International Security Forum": All Out to Build the People's Movement
Against Imperialist War and Aggression! – Nova Scotia
Committee, Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist)
• Italy, Germany and Japan: Former
World War II Axis Nations Repudiate Bans against "Preparing for War"
– Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO
October 23, 2009 - No. 194
Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our
America — 7th ALBA Summit
• ALBA Alternative Is Developing
with Courage and Resolve
• Seventh ALBA Summit Prioritises
the Planet and Developing Nations – Tamara Pearson,
Venezuelanalysis.com
• Common Currency for Regional
Trade Operations Approved
Related News and Comment
• ALBA Strengthens Trade Alliance,
Ratifies Struggle Against the "Empire" – Latin American
Herald Tribune
• Latin American Leaders Agree on
New Currency, Sanction Honduras – Agence France Presse
• ALBA: A Relevant Model –
Noel Manzanares Blanco, Agencia Cubana de Noticias
October 26, 2009 - No. 195
October 28 UN General Assembly Vote against U.S.
Blockade of Cuba
• Sovereignty Yes! Annexation No!
End the U.S. Blockade of Cuba!
• Consequences of U.S.
Extra-Territorial Blockade on Canada-Cuba Relations: Cuban Ambassador
Holds Press Conference
• Cuba Denounces Difficulty in
Making Payments to Organizations in Switzerland – Granma
International
• African Support Against U.S.
Blockade
• Blockade Discussed at OAS Meeting
64th Session of UN General Assembly
• Speech by Cuban Minister of
Foreign Affairs
SUPPLEMENT
• Necessity of Ending the Economic,
Commercial and Financial Blockade Imposed by the U.S.A. against Cuba
– Report by Cuba on Resolution 63/7 of the United Nations
General Assembly
October 27, 2009 - No. 196
• George Bush,
Persona Non Grata!
• Who Was Behind George Bush's
Visit to Canada?
No to Police Impunity
• Ethics Committee Finds Police at
Montebello Incited Violence
• Tasers: A Moratorium Is Not Good
Enough! They Must Be Withdrawn! – Coalition pour le retrait
du Taser
Honduras
• The Plot Thickens: Coup Regime
and Landowning Elites Enlist Support of Foreign Paramilitaries
– Reed M. Kurtz, NACLA
• Communique Number 30 of National
Front of Resistance Against the Coup d'Etat
• Day 118 of the Coup: Dialogue
Ends without Result – Oscar, Quotha.net
• Bad Economy Getting Worse
– hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com
• Elections Boycott –
hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com
• Unrepentant Military Notes
Longstanding Role in Fomenting Coups –
hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com
October 28, 2009 - No. 197
Rally on Parliament Hill
• Workers Demand Government
Protection of Pensions, Severance Pay and Disability Payments
• Interview – Don
Sproule, Chair, Nortel Retirees and Former Employees Protection Canada
(NRPC)
Discussion on Pensions
• Defend the Pensions We Have;
Fight for Pensions for All! – Interview, K.C. Adams
Quebec
• Olymel Workers March in Defence
of Rights and Future of Food Industry
• Support Striking Olymel Workers
in St-Hyacinthe! Concessions Are Not Solutions! –
Marxist-Leninist Party of Quebec (PMLQ)
• A Fight for Human Dignity and in
Defence of the Rights of All – Normand Chouinard
• Interview – Yves
Dupont, UFCW/TUAC, Local 1991-P
• What the Workers Have to Say
October 29, 2009 - No. 198
• UN General
Assembly Overwhelmingly Denounces U.S. Blockade of Cuba
Discussion on Pensions
• Pensions Are a Necessary Modern
Social Program! – K.C. Adams
October 30, 2009 - No. 199
• Marxist-Leninist
Party of Canada Fields Candidate in Hochelaga By-Election
• Four By-Elections
Alberta
• Premier's TV Address: Dragging
Society Backward in the Name of "The Way Forward" – Peggy
Morton
• Significance of By-Election in
Calgary-Glenmore: The People Want Solutions! The Wildrose Alliance Is
Not an Alternative
Honduras
• Preliminary Deal on Crisis Denied
NOVEMBER 2009
November 2, 2009 - No. 200
• Ontario Fall 2009
Economic Statement – Discussion Led by Sudbury
Marxist-Leninist Party Club
November 3, 2009 - No. 201
UN General Assembly to Discuss Goldstone Gaza War
Crimes Report
• Stop Anglo-American and Zionist
Impunity Against the Palestinians! Punish Zionist Crimes Against
Humanity!
• Highlights of Goldstone Report
• U.S. and Israeli Obstruction of
Goldstone Report
• Goldstone Statement on UN Fact
Finding Mission
• Why Goldstone Matters –
Richard Falk, Al Ahram Weekly
• Petition
November 4, 2009 - No. 202
Quebec
• AbitibiBowater Monopoly Bent on
Continued Destruction of Production Capacity – Gabriel
Girard-Bernier
Mexico
• Fascization, Impunity, Protection
of Big Monopolies – Claude Brunelle
• Treaties and Mistreatment: The
Path to Sovereignty Is the Only Way Forward – Pablo Moctezuma
Barragan, MEXTEKI
November 5, 2009 - No. 203
Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec
• Workers and Their Communities
Fight for Their Rights and Future
Rouyn-Noranda
• Uphold the Dignity of Horne
Smelter Workers! – Pierre Chénier
• Interview – Marc
Bouchard, Coordinator, Association of Injured Workers in
Abitibi-Témiscamingue
• Interview – Jules
Lemieux, Injured Worker
• About the Bureau of Medical
Evaluation
Val-d'Or
• Sigma Mine Workers Demand Back
Payments
Malartic
• Call for Public Debate on Mining
Development – Interview, Jacques Saucier, Spokesperson,
Malartic Vigilance Committee
Amos
• "The Paper Mill Must Remain Open"
– Interview, Gilles Chapadeau, Regional Counsellor, Quebec
Federation of Labour
November 6, 2009 - No. 204
• Sudbury Workers
and Their Allies Fight for Their Rights and Future
• Long Live the Memory of the Great
October Socialist Revolution!
November 9, 2009 - No. 205
20 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
• From Europe Whole and Free to New
World Order – Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO
November 10, 2009 - No. 206
• No to U.S.
Bases in Colombia! Hands Off Latin America and the Caribbean!
Sovereignty Yes! Annexation No! – Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist)
• Reflection by Comrade Fidel
Castro: The Annexation of Colombia to the United States
• Venezuela Increases Security
Measures Due to U.S. Threat in Colombia
• Official U.S. Air Force Document
Reveals the True Intentions Behind the U.S.-Colombia Military Agreement
– Eva Golinger, Postcards from the Revolution
• Joint Declaration of Special
Meeting of UNASUR Council of Leaders
• Resolution on U.S. Military
Bases, Presence of U.S. Fourth Fleet and Militarization of the Region
of Latin America and the Caribbean – 15th Meeting of
São Paulo Forum
November 11, 2009 - No. 207
U.S. Escalates War Plans In Latin America
• U.S. Military: After Iraq, Latin
America – Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO
November 12, 2009 - No. 208
Ontario Reform of Forest Tenure and Pricing System
• Monopoly Right Must Not Trump
Public Right!
• Government Nonsense about
Competing Private and Public Sector Interests in Forestry –
Pierre Chenier
• Response to Tenure Reform
- Saving The Region of Ontario North Group (STRONG)
• Community Forests: A Tenure
Option for Sustainability in Northern Ontario — A Discussion Paper
– Northern Ontario Sustainable Communities Partnership
November 13, 2009 - No. 209
Ontario
• All Out to Condemn Arbitrary
Alteration of College Working Conditions!
• Ontario Colleges Looking to
Provoke Province-Wide Strike – Ontario Public Service
Employees Union
• Colleges Bargaining Team's
Nonsense About "Improved Terms and Conditions"
Honduras
• The Elections Will Not Be
Recognized, the Struggle Continues – National Front of
Resistance Against the Coup d'Etat, Communiqué No. 34
• Interview with President Zelaya
• Fraud of Obama Administration's
Policies Revealed (Yet Again) – Eva Golinger, Postcards from
the Revolution
• Foreign Minister Maduro Urges
International Community to Strengthen Position on Honduras
November 16, 2009 - No. 210
• All Out to
Oppose the Halifax War Conference
• Montreal, November 24: Conference
by Former Afghan MP Malalai Joya
• The Viking at the Head of NATO
– Sven Tarp, International Secretary, Danish Communist
Party
• Contradictions within NATO — The
New Germany – www.german-foreign-policy.com
For Your Information
• Agenda of Halifax International
Security Forum
November 17, 2009 - No. 211
• Vale Inco's
Latest Provocation
• Vale's Use of Anti-Worker
Mercenaries Upheld by Ontario Labour Board
• Steelworkers Demand Tony Clement
Defend Canadians' Interests
Discussion
• State Monopoly Capitalism
– K.C. Adams
Mexico
• Historic National Day of Action
in Defence of Rights and National Sovereignty
November 18, 2009 - No. 212
• Deficits and Debt
— Discussion of the 2009 Ontario Fall Economic Statement: Part Two
– Sudbury Marxist-Leninist Party Club
SUPPLEMENT
• From the Party Press: Work of
CPC(M-L) in Ontario Against the Anti-Social Offensive
November 19, 2009 - No. 213
• The Demand of
the People to Exercise Control Over Their Lives Is Greater than Ever
• Discussion with Party Secretaries
in Montreal
• Discussion at the Workers' Centre
in Toronto
From the Pages of the Party Press...
• There Is a Place for Theory
– Hardial Bains
November 20, 2009 - No. 214
Discussion on the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of
the Berlin Wall
• Defend the Advance of the Peoples
in the 20th Century — The Road of the October Revolution
• Contributions to Discussion on
the Fall of the Berlin Wall
November 21, 2009 - No. 215
Ontario
• Colleges Act With Impunity
Against College Employees Rights! – Interview, David
Starbuck, Cambrian College Faculty Member
• What Is This "New Power" the
Colleges Claim?
Letters to the Editor
• Re: Current Situation at the
Colleges
November 23, 2009 - No. 216
Working Class Policy
• BC Federation of Labour Meets to
Discuss Policy for the Working Class Movement
• Government Says "Economic
Foundation in BC Remains Strong" While Jobless Rate Rises Again
– Donna Petersen
• BC Paramedics Lead Resistance to
Ominous Anti- Worker Back-to-Work Legislation
November 24, 2009 - No. 217
Discussion on the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of
the Berlin Wall: The Content of the "New World Order" Established by
the Charter of Paris
• Meeting of Activists in BC
From the Pages of the Party Press...
• The Content of the "New World
Order" Established by the Charter of Paris – Hardial Bains
November 25, 2009 - No. 218
Whose Economy? Our Economy! Who Decides? We
Decide!
• A Human-Centred Alternative
• Deindustrialization Reflects the
Transient Nature of Capitalism – K.C. Adams
SUPPLEMENT
• Primitive Accumulation of Capital
November 26, 2009 - No. 219
Ontario: Vale Inco
• 6500 Support Rally November 27 at
Sudbury Courthouse
• Striking 6500 Workers Back in
Court Friday November 27
• Vale Inco Ups the Anti — Counsels
Scab "Right" to Cross Picket Lines
• Brazilian Senators Support
Steelworkers' Battle Vs Vale – News Release, Solidarity
Cadillac Fairview
• "Cadillac Fairview Has to
Reinstate the Workers. This is Elementary Justice!" –
Interview: Steve Craig, Shop Steward, Toronto Dominion Centre, CEP
Local 2003
Nation-Wrecking of Canada by U.S. Imperialism
• U.S. Steel Idles Stelco Steel
Production – K.C. Adams
November 27, 2009 - No. 220
Honduras
• No to Illegitimate November 29
Elections! No to U.S. Interference in Latin America and the Caribbean!
Long Live the People's Resistance!
• National Front of Resistance
Against Coup d'Etat – Communiqué No. 36
• Day 159: Despite State Terror,
Resistance Continues – hondurasresists.blogspot.com
• Letter from Zelaya to Obama
• United States Backs Illegal
Elections – Tom Loudon, Quixote Center
• Coup Regime Declares New State of
Emergency Prior to Sunday "Election" – Al Giordano, The Field
• Dictatorship Recruiting
Right-Wing Extremists as "Observers" – Jean-Guy Allard,
Granma International
• Militarized Elections –
hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com
• Discrepancies in Tabulation of
Voters – hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com
November 30, 2009 - No. 221
• Down With
Unjust Supreme Court Judgement Upholding Walmart's Monopoly "Right" to
Attack Canadian Workers and their Collective Rights!
• Information on Struggle of
Walmart Workers
62nd Anniversary of Resolution on Partition of Palestine
• Long Live the Heroic Palestinian
Resistance!
Honduras
• People Reject Fraudulent Elections
• National Front of Popular
Resistance Against the Coup d'État Denounces Fiasco of Electoral
Farce
Afghanistan
• Obama's Decision Will Guarantee
Failure
DECEMBER 2009
December 1, 2009 - No. 222
CN's Unilateral Alteration of Collective
Agreement and Government's Back-to-Work Legislation
• All Out against the
Criminalization of CN Workers and Their Struggle! An Injury to One Is
an Injury to All!
• CN Working Conditions
Inextricably Linked to Safety of Entire People
• CN Locomotive Engineers Forced to
Initiate Strike Action – Teamsters Canada Rail Conference
• Criminalizing the CN Workers
– Pierre Chénier and Sandra L. Smith
Honduras
• Canada's Disgraceful Position in
Favour of a New Kind of Totalitarian Democracy
• Honduran Resistance Rejects
Dialogue with Lobo and Calls for Permanent Mobilization –
Telesur
• Zelaya Will Not Accept His Return
to Legitimize Elections – Telesur
• Bogus Honduran Elections
– Eva Golinger, Postcards from the Revolution
December 2, 2009 - No. 223
In Defence of the Rights of All!
• All Out For December 2 — National
Day of Action in Defence of Rights of Migrant Workers
• Justice for Migrant Workers!
– Callout for National Day of Action, No One Is Illegal-Toronto
• Withdraw Proposed Changes to
Temporary Foreign Workers' Program! Scrap the TFWP! Status for All!
• Auditor General Slams Canadian
Immigration: Migrants Left 'Vulnerable' by Ineffective CIC, HRSDC
Programs
– Dyan Ruiz, Philippine Reporter
December 3, 2009
- No. 224
AbitibiBowater's Bankruptcy Fraud: Forestry
Workers and Communities Determined to Fight for Their Right to a
Livelihood
• Accelerated Destruction of
Forestry Workers' Livelihood Cannot Be Called a "Solution" to Forestry
Crisis – Gabriel Girard-Bernier
• Federal Minister's Irresponsible
Action
• "Pensions Belong to Us — The
Government Should Guarantee Them" – Interview, Armand
Gauthier, President, Association of AbitibiBowater Retirees
Dolbeau-Mistassini, Quebec
• Support Workers and Their
Community to Reopen the Paper Mill – Pierre Chénier
• "The Mill Must Reopen, with or
without AbitibiBowater!" – Interview, Régis Lavoie,
Interim President, CEP Local 85
• AbitibiBowater Hides Its True
Motivation
Donnacona, Quebec
• "We Are Going to Do Everything We
Can to Reopen this Plant" – Interview, Robert Drolet,
President, Syndicat national des travailleurs des pâtes et papier
de Donnacona
December 4, 2009 - No. 225
Twenty Years After the Montreal Massacre
• No to Violence Against Women!
• Harper Government's Notion of
Stopping Exploitation of Women
• UN Committee on Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women 2008 Report on Canada
• Some Facts on Violence Against
Women in Canada
Violence Women Face through Deportation
• Women Demand "Shelter, Sanctuary,
Status"
National Day of Action in Defence of Rights of Migrant
Workers
• Torontonians Demand Withdrawal of
Proposed Changes to Temporary Foreign Workers' Program and Rights and
Full Status for Migrant Workers!
Letter to the Editor
• Re: Remarks of Nova Scotia MP
Gerald Keddy
Mexico
• Canadian Company Blamed for
Killing of Anti-Mining Activist
December 7, 2009 - No. 226
United Nations Climate Change Conference in
Copenhagen — COP 15
• Owners of Global Capital and
Their Anti-Social Outlook and Aim Hijack Copenhagen Conference
• Carbon Credits Bring Lakshmi
Mittal
£1bn Bonanza – Jonathan Leake and Bojan Pancevski, The
Sunday Times
Letter to the Editor
• Goldilocks and the Three Gores
Discussion
• There Is No 'Consensus' on Global
Warming — A Clear Attempt to Establish Truth Not by Scientific Methods
but by Perpetual Repetition – Prof Richard S. Lindzen
• Popular Activities During the
COP15
December 8, 2009 - No. 227
Cuban Five Update: December 8 Resentencing
Hearing for Ramón Labañino and Fernando González
• December 8 Resentencing Hearing
for Ramón Labañino and Fernando González
• Fifth International Colloquium
"For the Release of the Five Heroes and Against Terrorism" Declaration
and Action Plan
• Ibero-American Summit Supports
Extradition of Terrorist Posada Carriles to Venezuela
Bolivia
• Resounding Victory for Bolivian
People and Their President Evo Morales
Honduras
• More Revelations of Electoral
Fraud Compound Illegitimacy of Coup Regime
• Canadian Eye-Witnesses Dispute
Claims by Minister Kent Regarding Violence in Honduran Elections
December 9, 2009 - No. 228 - Morning Edition
Need to Humanize Social and Natural Environment
• The Cap and Trade Swindle
• Alberta and Harper Government Pay
Energy Monopolies to "Save the Environment" – A Science
Educator in Alberta
• Copenhagen's Hidden Agenda: The
Multibillion Trade in Carbon Derivatives – Washington's Blog
• Climate Change: Global Media
Presents Apocalyptic Scenario – Michel Chossudovsky, Global
Research
December 9, 2009 - No. 229 - Afternoon Edition
• The
Significance of Giving War President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize
• Nobel Committee Celebrates War as
Peace – Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO
• Obama and the Nobel Prize: When
War Becomes Peace, When the Lie Becomes the Truth – Michel
Chossudovsky, Global Research
December 10, 2009 - No. 230
International Human Rights Day
• In Solidarity with Striking Vale
Inco Workers – Sudbury Marxist-Leninist
Party Club
Kidd Creek Metallurgical — Timmins
• Stop Xstrata's Wrecking of our
Economy
• "We Are Not Going to Let This
Happen without a Fight" – Ben Lefebvre, Chair's
Report to Membership, CAW 599
U.S. Steel's Imperialist Logic
• Part One: Absolutist
Infallibility and Impunity – K.C. Adams
Sept-Îles, Quebec
• For a Moratorium on Uranium
Exploration and Mining
• Doctors' Letter of Resignation
• Doctors or Nuclear Energy?
– Press Release, Sept-Îles Sans Uranium
December 11, 2009 - No. 231
Oppose Obama's Troop Surge and Demand End to U.S.
Wars
• End Torture! End the War!
– Canadian Peace Alliance
• Canada Must Withdraw Troops from
Afghanistan Immediately – Malalai Joya
• Demonstrations in United States
Denounce Troop Surge and Demand End to U.S. Wars
• Bagram Prison: "Guantanamo's
Lesser-Known Evil Twin"
• NATO "Force Generation" Meeting
Formalizes Obama's Troop Surge
• The Numbers Behind the U.S. Troop
Increase in Afghanistan
SUPPLEMENT
• Obama's Westpoint Speech and
Related Matters
December 14, 2009 - No. 232
Forestry Workers Fight Monopoly Dictate and
Blackmail
• Powerview-Pine Falls Manitoba:
Locked-Out Workers Reject Tembec Dictate – Interview, Cam
Sokolowski, President, USW Local 3-1375
• Blackmail to Deprive Forestry
Workers of Severance Pay – Interview, Kim Ginter, Ontario
Region Administrative Vice-President, CEP
• "The Forestry Sector Is Being
Taken Back 40-50 Years" – Interview, Dan Maltais, Ontario
English Catholic Teachers Association, Northwest Unit
Public Services Workers on Strike
• Attacks by Private Employer on
DriveTest Workers
– Interview, Jim Young, President, USW Local 9511
• Serco DES Fails DriveTest
Employees – USW Local 9511 Website
• Museum Workers Demand Job
Security Against Contracting Out – Interview, Maria
Fitzpatrick, Regional Vice-President, National Capital, PSAC
Cuban Five Update
• Reduction of Unjust Sentences for
Ramón Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez
• Statement by Antonio, Fernando
and Ramón on Resentencing Process
December 15, 2009 - No. 233
Ontario
• Hands Off Public Sector Workers!
• "Home Care Is Not a Commodity
that Should Be Bought and Sold on a Market" – Interview,
Kelly O'Sullivan, President, CUPE Local 4308
• Concerns of Workers at Nursing
Homes and Homes for the Aged – Interview, Henry Giroux,
President, CUPE Local 146
• Situation Facing Hospitals
– Interview, Nathalie Mehra, Director, Ontario Health Coalition
• "The Ontario Budget Should Not Be
Balanced on the Backs of the Children!" – Interview, Jennifer
Kirby, CUPE Local 181-2
Quebec
• Negotiations for Renewal of
Public Sector Collective Agreements – Serge Lachapelle
December 16, 2009 - No. 234
Copenhagen Climate Summit News and Comment
• The Great Turn-of-the-Century
Horse Manure Crisis – Joseph Redpath
• Causes of Civil War in Africa:
The Colonialist Past and Imperialist Present, Not Climate Change
– Jeremy McCormick
• Copenhagen Climate Summit Update
• The Manipulation of Climate for
Military Use – Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research
• Fixing the Climate Data around
the Policy – Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research
• Worst Scientific Scandal of Our
Generation – Professor Christopher Booker, Telegraph
SUPPLEMENT
• Climate Science: Is It Currently
Designed to Answer Questions? – Prof. Richard S. Lindzen,
Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, MIT
December 17, 2009 - No. 235 - Morning Edition
Hamilton
• Steelworkers and Allies Demand
"Manufacturing Yes! Nation Wrecking No! Hands Off Our Pensions!"
• Update on National Steel Car
– Interview, Steve Weller, President, USW Local 7135, National Steel
Car
Ampatuan Massacre, Philippines
• Justice for the Victims! No to
U.S.-Sponsored State Terror and Violence of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Regime!
• Toronto Meeting Calls for Justice
for Victims of Ampatuan Massacre
• The Structure of Reactionary
Violence and Human Rights Violations in the Philippines –
Prof. José Maria Sison, Chairperson, International League of
Peoples' Struggles
• Further Information on the
Ampatuan Massacre – International League of the Peoples'
Struggles
• Today We Say, "Enough." –
National Union of Journalists in the Philippines
• Statement of Community Alliance
for Social Justice
• Statement of Law Union of Ontario
December 17, 2009 - No. 236 - Afternoon Edition
Mining and Metallurgy
• Vale Inco Strike Enters Sixth
Month: Vale Inco Must Return to the Bargaining Table Immediately and
Without Conditions
• Vale Letter Opts for Mischief and
Misrepresentation Rather than Unconditional Bargaining: Steelworkers
Call for Immediate, Unconditional Return to Negotiations – USW
• United Opposition to Closure of
Xstrata Smelter and Refinery in Timmins — An Injury to One Is an Injury
to All!
• "If Anybody Says the Closure Is
to Our Advantage Here in Rouyn-Noranda, They Are Totally Mistaken"
– Interview, Daniel Guimond, President, Syndicat des travailleurs de la
mine Noranda
Maintenance and Skilled Trades
• Toronto Dominion Centre Workers
Continue Actions for Reinstatement – Interview, Steve Craig,
Shop Steward, CEP Local 2003
Workers' Movement
• "No Matter How Big They Are,
Unions Can't Win This Fight by Themselves!" – Interview, Wayne
Gates, President, CAW Local 199, St. Catharines
December 18, 2009 - No. 237
Copenhagen Climate Summit
• Who Decides at the Copenhagen
Conference?
• Summit Update
December 21, 2009 - No. 238
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the
Americas
• 8th ALBA Summit Held in Havana,
Cuba
• Final Declaration
Cuba
• CIA Agent Captured in Havana
– Eva Golinger, Postcards from the Revolution
December 22, 2009 - No. 239
Workers' Movement: Speak Out in Defence of
Workers' Rights!
Quebec
• Owners of Capital and their
Elected Representatives Have No Business Dictating State Policy!
– Geneviève Royer
Ontario
• "Workers Are Being Deprived of EI
Money that Belongs to Them!" – Interview, Melanie Kelso,
President, Thunder Bay and District Labour Council
• DriveTest Workers: Oppose Serco's
Provocations to Break the Strike and Union
British Columbia
• Victory to the HandyDART Workers!
• Public Mass Transit Creates
Material Value
• What the Workers Have to Say
• For Your Information
December 23, 2009 - No. 240
Workers' Movement: Speak Out in Defence of
Workers' Rights!
Alberta
• Old Dutch Foods Workers Prevail!
– Peggy Askin
• For Your Information
December 24, 2009 - No. 241
First Anniversary of Israeli Invasion and
Military Assault on Gaza
• No to Israeli War Crimes! Hands
Off Gaza! Long Live the Palestinian Resistance!
• Anniversary of Palestinian
Resistance to Zionist Invasion of Gaza — "Operation Cast Lead"
– Gary Zatzman
• Oppose U.S. and Saudi
Bombings of Yemen — No to the Use of Force to Settle Conflicts!
Cuba
• National Assembly of People's
Power Approves State Budget and Discusses New Laws for 2010
Venezuela
• Netherlands and U.S. Planning
Military Aggression Against from Dutch Antilles: Chávez
– James Suggett, Venezuelanalysis.com
• U.S. Military Aggression Against
Venezuela Escalating – Eva Golinger, Postcards from the
Revolution
• Colombia Announces New Base on
Venezuelan Border
December 25, 2009 - No. 242
Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change
• Coup d'Etat Methods Rejected
• The Truth of What Happened at the
Summit – Fidel Castro
• Massive Fraud of Imaginary
Emission Cuts
• Global WARming –
Washington's Blog
