Ars longa, vita brevis. Pour le compositeur et militant grec Mikis Theodorakis, décédé le 2 septembre dernier à l’âge de 96 ans, l’oeuvre est indissociable de sa vie marquée par la lutte contre le nazi-fascisme, contre la dictature des colonels et pour les aspirations démocratiques et sociales non-abouties du peuple grec comme de tous les peuples dans les dernières années.
On June 6th, 2021, Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and their allies convened at Queen’s Park in Toronto. The week prior, the remains of 215 children were found in an unmarked grave at the former site of Kamloops Indian Residential School.
On May 21st, YCLers attended IfNotNow’s Rise Up Shabbat against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto. Days later, on May 24th, a memorial for Regis Korchinski-Paquet was held.
Celebrating 100 years of the CPC-PCC / Célébrons les 100 ans du CPC-PCC
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911—1984) was a communist, a staunch internationalist, and one of the most celebrated poets of the Urdu language.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Communist Party of Canada
Shimon Nepom (1882—1939) was a member of the “Proletarian Poets,” a Toronto-based communist Yiddish poetry group. Before his death, he published multiple volumes of his writings, much of which touched on his autobiographical experience as a Jewish worker and his socialist aspirations.
“‘Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China’ is thoroughly worth reading for anyone interested in late twentieth century Chinese history.”
CLIFF 2020 features 18 short films from around the globe, and all screenings are free to attend!
This article was originally published in People’s Voice, Canada’s leading socialist newspaper.
