>Forward from Comrade mart. >From: Communist Party of Canada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: May 1, 2000 11:29 AM >Subject: May Day greetings > > >Dear Comrades and friends, > >MAY DAY GREETINGS FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA! > >On behalf of the Central Committee of our Party, we wish to extend warmest >May Day greetings to all of our members, supporters and friends in the >labour and people's movements. > >We enclose below the official May Day message, as published in the current >issue of People's Voice. > >Best regards, > >Central Executive Committee, >CPC >http://www.communist-party.ca >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >********************************* > >A WORLD FOR PEOPLE, NOT PROFITS! > >May Day 2000 Statement >Central Executive Committee, >Communist Party of Canada > >ON EVERY CONTINENT, and in nearly every country, May Day 2000 is witnessing >an upsurge in working class struggles. A powerful global resistance to >capitalist globalization is beginning to emerge. Millions of working people >are in action against the neoliberal agenda of the transnational >corporations, demanding policies for people, not profits! That call will >also be heard at May Day actions across Canada this year. >This new stage in the fightback was signalled last fall by the historic >Battle in Seattle. Over the last decade, workers and their allies have >battled against corporations and governments, not only to defend wages and >working conditions, but to stop the sell-off of public assets and the >destruction of social programs, and to defend the sovereignty and >independence of their homelands. >In recent months, working people have conducted major strikes and other >struggles in countries as far apart as Ecuador, Bolivia, Costa Rica, India, >and South Africa. The brutal state repression against anti-IMF/World Bank >protesters in Washington shows once again how the ruling class fears a >united, militant, people's resistance. >Canadian workers are also on the move this spring, as seen by the strikes >of Toronto municipal workers and school support staff in British Columbia. >The fight for genuine democratic and antimonopoly reforms, and ultimately >for working class political power, is still carried out primarily within >each country. But as the interests of workers at the local, national and >international level become increasingly linked, we need to forge >coordinated regional and global forms of struggle. >One important step in this direction has been the building of new alliances >of trade unions, women's movements, environmental groups and many other >forces against the dictatorial institutions of global capital, such as the >"free trade" deals, the MAI, the FTAA, the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF. >The World March of Women 2000 is uniting women of all countries against >poverty and violence, and the Jubilee 2000 campaign has put tremendous >pressure on imperialist governments to cancel the huge debts which shackle >Third World countries. >Another key advance this year is the tremendous expansion in the scope and >size of May Day actions planned by the labour movement and its allies. The >Canadian Labour Congress played an important part in this development. >Delegates at the 1996 CLC convention called on the International >Confederation of Free Trade Unions to declare May 1, 2000 as a Day of >Action for International Working Class Solidarity. This initiative was >taken up around the world, not only by ICFTU affiliates but by the World >Federation of Trade Unions and other labour bodies. >But to go on the offensive against the power of international capital, >working people urgently need an international democratic and >anti-imperialist front or alliance, forged around an alternative program >that puts people before corporations. Such an alliance should be based on >the principles of peace, non-aggression, and global disarmament; respect >for the sovereignty of all states, for the equality and rights of all >nations, large and small, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; >fair and balanced trade and economic cooperation; respect and promotion of >cultural diversity; and protection of the global environment. >Within Canada this May Day, the working class movement faces several >critical issues: the defence of Medicare, education and other social >programs against the privatization drive by right-wing governments; the >fight for the shorter work week and other measures to reduce unemployment; >the need to unite working people in the First Nations, Quebec and >English-speaking Canada against our common enemy, Canadian and >international big capital. >On this May Day, the Communist Party of Canada declares that the tragic >reversals suffered by socialism have not changed the historical direction >of our epoch. Anti-imperialist awareness and militancy is growing again, >and a political revival is maturing. The 21st century will see the >revolutionary forces regroup to mount a decisive counterattack against >international capital, and to win socialism in Canada and around the world. >For the sake of humanity, world peace and our global environment, there is >no alternative! >*************************************** >Communist Party of Canada >290A Danforth Ave., >Toronto, Ont. M4K 1N6 >416-469-2446 (voice) >416-469-4063 (fax) >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.communist-party.ca > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >High rates giving you headaches? The 0% APR Introductory Rate from >Capital One. 9.9% Fixed thereafter! >http://click.egroups.com/1/3010/0/_/30563/_/957203890/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Cuba SI - Imperialism NO! >Information and discussion about Cuba. >Socialism or death! Patria o muerte! 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