Ligue de la Jeunesse communiste du Canada
Young Communist League of
Central Executive Comittee,
Our Future, Our Fight!
Ligue de la Jeunesse communiste du Canada
Young Communist League of
Central Executive Comittee,
Our Future, Our Fight!
Editor, National Post
April 21st 2009
The continued slanderous disinformation campaign labeling anti-Semitic all those who condemn Zionism and Israeli’s occupation of
Johan Boyden,
General Secretary,
Young Communist League of
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www.ycl-ljc.ca
Statement by YCL Ontario
April 6, 2009
The elimination of the Women’s Studies programme by the
This is a deliberate, ideologically-motivated attack on small programs as well as women’s and student’s rights. It will save the University less than 0.17 percent of its deficit!
At the same time, the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Sciences has swept in ‘flat fees’ requiring incoming students to pay a set, five-course fee rather than per-course. This will restrict access to education for part-time students who are working and going to school. Does the university think our wages have suddenly increased? Just weeks ago, mass outcry stopped Premier McGuinty from halting an increase in minimum wage (and even with the increase, full time workers are at least $3,000 below the poverty line).
These decisions can be reversed by the pressure of students, faculty and staff together with labour and other peoples’ movements. Everyone should know that the
Behind closed doors
The funding crunch and broader economic crisis facing post-secondary institutions across
McGuinty’s latest budget gives
All students must get organized with our allies and fight-back to make the capitalists pay for this crisis – not the youth, workers, women, Aboriginal peoples, people of colour, and the poor. Reactionary forces are already working to mislead students in this battle. Alternative campus media and CBC news recently exposed that the Conservative Party is holding Canada-wide skills training sessions, with sitting MPs present, about infiltrating and liquidating student unions, the Canadian Federation of Students, and the Ontario Public Interest Research Groups.
The Young Communist League (
• Freezing, reducing and eliminating tuition fees
• Grants not loans
• Massive expansion of affordable housing on campus
• Quality, accessible childcare
• Free books
• Increasing student’s and worker’s representation in University administration
• Raising the minimum wage to $15
• Jobs not bombs; troops out now!
The fight-back of peoples’ movements necessary to win such measures could lead to more substantial demands, like nationalization of Canada’s energy and automotive industries, and banking. And that could open the door to a profound struggle to eliminate this sick and dangerous capitalist system of oppression and exploitation, which must ultimately be replaced by something radically better – guaranteeing people’s rights, livelihoods, and environmental sustainability – called socialism.
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We are a multi-ethnic organization of young workers, employed and unemployed, young women and men. We work in movements for peace and democracy and against racism, sexism homophobia, national oppression and destruction of our environment.
We work in our unions and workplaces for better wages, and in our high schools for democratic and equal education, our colleges, universities and trade schools for accesibility. We bring forth these viewpoints through our League's agitational magazine, Rebel Youth.
We work together for a Canada without exploitation where the workers hold all political, social and economic power. We recognize that since youth are the future, we must play a vital role in fighting for socialism.
The youth are the future. The future is socialism!
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