Ottawa Youth Rally Against Mass Renovictions
On November 25th, Ottawa comrades attended the Rally Against Renovictions at the Smart Living Properties (SLP) headquarters. Since July, Osgoode tenants have been asking SLP to meet and negotiate.
Current Events
As Windsor Faces Worsening Drug Epidemic & Homelessness, Police Forcibly Evict Tent City
On a cool Tuesday morning in November, Windsor Overdose Prevention Society (OPS), Family Services Windsor-Essex, YQG Cares, and members of the YCL-LJC Windsor-Essex club took part in a brief demonstration to raise awareness that the City of Windsor was planning to forcibly evict those in the local tent city.
Communist Party of Greece met with unprovoked police violence at memorial demonstration
On Tuesday 17th November, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) were met with physical violence from the police force during a demonstration in memory of the 1973 Athens Polytechnic Uprising.
Jean Coutu et Métro : ennemis de classe du mois!
Au cours des six derniers mois, les 20 patrons les plus riches du Canada ont accumulé une fortune de 37 milliards de dollars, soit près de 2 milliards chacun – comme quoi la pandémie n’affecte pas la lutte des classes…
UofT Faculty of Law Dumps Human Rights Lawyer Over Defence of Palestine
Over the past few months, a scandal has erupted around the Dean of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, after he rescinded an offer given to legal scholar Valentina Azarova to lead the faculty’s International Human Rights Program.
Progressives in Toronto Reject the Bolivian Coup Regime
Canada was one of the first countries to support the Bolivian coup government, and continues to allow mining companies to do business in Bolivia despite atrocities committed by Áñez’s regime.
Toronto’s Roehampton Hotel, COVID-19, and the War on the Homeless
The Roehampton Hotel near Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton opened up as a shelter on July 3rd, 2020, and has been the subject of significant controversy.
BC Elections: A Review of John Horgan
By Tyson Riel Strandlund, Communist Party of Canada candidate for Langford-Juan de Fuca.
Release the Colorado Anti-Racist Political Prisoners now!
The YCL-LJC takes up the call for international solidarity with the political prisoners in the United States, arrested on September 17th, for organizing in the anti-racist movement and demanding justice for George Floyd, Elijah McClain, and other victims of racist police brutality in the United States.
The YCL-LJC stands in solidarity with Filipino Youth against the Duterte Administration
The Young Communist League of Canada echoes the call of progressive Filipino youth for national democracy and peace, and against the extrajudicial killings and vicious attacks on land and human rights defenders in the Philippines by the Duterte regime.