Every election there is at least one issue that social democratic supporters of the electoral system claim is a reason for every member of the progressive camp to participate in voting for the “lesser evil” so as to get the Conservatives out of power at any cost. The truth, of course, is that supporters of the NDP and the electoral circus will always find some excuse—some supposedly crucial issue—to endorse the system as a whole: these issues are always MacGuffins used to justify an ideology of systemic support. This is not to …
A website dedicated to the 2015 Boycott the Elections! campaign is now online. With material in both English and French languages, the website presents articles and other documents related to the campaign and dealing with issues at stake like those of people’s democracy and struggle for equality and liberation. Material to reproduce and circulate is also available (see the “Media” section). Supported by the PCR-RCP, the website is warmly open to all organizations, networks, collectives and individuals who want to take part in the boycott campaign. All of them are invited to post their reports and other contributions, and especially …
Saturday, September 12th at 2pm Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
252 Bloor Street West, Room 5280
Toronto
–> Facebook event.
Join us on Saturday, September 12th as the Revolutionary Student Movement prepares to launch its boycott campaign against the Canadian federal election. This event functions primarily as an open forum for discussing the campaign, but will also serve to help organize the upcoming National Boycott Day of Action on Sunday, October 18th.
At this event, representatives from the RSM will be holding a presentation and answering questions from community members regarding the federal election, the principles behind an active …
– An invitation from the Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee – Ottawa.
Monday, September 7th at 7pm Moon Dog Pub & Grill
238 Laurier Ave. East, Ottawa
–> Facebook event.
As we enter into the second week of the 2015 federal elections, we can see now more than ever that real political change for the oppressed and exploited does not come from the capitalist state. This is why we aim to organize an active boycott; while the working class and oppressed peoples commonly see that elections accomplish nothing for them and individually boycott the elections, we want to gather and mobilize …
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NEW ISSUE OF THE RED FLAGMAGAZINE ON THE ELECTION BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN
The next issue of the Red Flag magazine, which will mainly cover the federal election boycott campaign, will be available in a few days. It will be available in Montréal at the Maison Norman Bethune and in all bookstores that circulate the PCR-RCP publications.
You can order copies for circulation in your area by calling the Maison Norman Bethune (514 563-1487) or e-mailing the editors. The number of copies requested will be shipped as soon as the magazine will be hot off the press! …
With an early declaration of an election campaign by the Harper government, we find ourselves at the beginning of a 78-day campaign period in the lead-up to the October 19 federal election. In fact, before it was even officially called, the parties vying to administer the capitalist state had already been campaigning for several weeks. Their hope may be that, with such a long campaign, they will convince us that this election is a “special moment in Canadian democracy.” For most of us, though, it’s a waste of time!
The electoral circus exploded in full force on August 6, with the first televised leaders debate of the election hosted by Maclean’s and Rogers. While most of the bourgeois media and party hacks argue over who won the debate, the debate’s losers are clear: the working class and oppressed peoples of Canada.
Each of the four party leaders present committed to continuing a program of austerity for the workers of Canada. Harper committed to maintain a balanced budget in the face of another recession, an ironic promise given his record of running budget deficits. Trudeau and the Liberals, on the …
Join the newly-formed Revolutionary Communist Party Organizing Committee – Hamilton for a talk about the class struggle in Canada, the work of revolutionary communists across the country, and the Maoist perspective on making revolution a reality!
Comrades from the RCP(OC) will present on these topics and an open discussion will follow on the prospects for building the revolutionary movement in Hamilton.
Take the first step in the long road to revolution an join the fight!
Saturday, August 22 @ 4:30pm
Meeting at Augusta’s Winking Judge – upstairs…
In a totally cynical manner, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced this morning the official opening of the circus that will unfold across the country up to October 19, the date set for holding the federal election. The gangters in power in Ottawa will once again try to convince us that by filing a paper in the ballot box, we will “decide” the future of Canada. They hope this will give an appearance of legitimacy to a fundamentally illegitimate system—a system and a state they manage for the only benefit of the wealthy few. Rather than construct illusory strategies to revamp …
A Call from the Proletarian-Revolutionary Action-Committee Ottawa.
In Northern Kurdistan, 30 of our comrades—socialists, communists, anarchists and Kurdish freedom fighters—fell in an Islamic State bombing. These militants coming from various organizations involved in revolutionary struggle in Turkey were meeting in the city of Suruç to plan the reconstruction of Kobanê, where Kurdish resistance won an important battle for a free and socialist Rojava. The bombing was committed with the complicity of the Turkish state, which has been providing support to the Islamic state in order to crush the Kurdish people’s liberation struggle …
