At this important time, we join with all those demanding his immediate
release. We call upon all democratic and progressive youth in Canada
to join with the Free Mumia campaign.
(YCL-LJC CEC, March 28)
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racism
on March 21 2008, the YCL joins with all those demanding an end to
racist wars, environmental destruction, inequality, and attacks on
civil and democratic rights.
March 21 marks the anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, when
police used low-flying jet fighters and armored vehicles to attack a
non-violent demonstration of over 7,000 South Africans against
Apartheid's passbook laws. The attack killed 67 people and wounded 186
protestors.
Racism in Canada
Being born non-white is not a crime. But in Canada, it usually means
you are sentenced to a lifetime of systemic racial oppression.
This cannot be understood as simply a matter of individual prejudice.
In the grand sweep of our country's history, genocide, colonization,
national oppression, racism, sexual assault and sexism, discrimination
against immigrants, homophobia and other forms of oppression have and
continue to play a major role in the functioning of Canadian
capitalism.
The ideology of sexism and racism are also used as a rationale and
enforcer of the most brutal polices of our government – including
Canada's participation in coup and occupation of Haiti, the war in
Afghanistan, and Canada's support of for the ongoing Israeli
occupation and oppression of Palestine.
Equality and youth
There can be no peaceful co-existence with racism and with the
violence it invariably spawns. The ideology racism is not abstract. It
is used to divide and defeat the working class.
We demand respect for and call for the defense of civil and democratic
rights, including the elimination of racial profiling by the police
and the civilian and community control of police and prisons; reform
to immigration and refuge laws; strengthening and enforcement of hate
laws; support of black-focused schools; and the enacting and enforcing
equality in education, employment, healthcare and housing as a
priority.
We express our solidarity with the young anti-racist activists, one of
who was a Communist Party election candidate, whose home was recently
fire-bombed by neo-Nazis during the Alberta election.
We note with alarm the growing racism campaign against immigrants and
racialized communities including 'anti-Islamic racism' or
'islamophobia,' a new label for an old form of racism that is today
viciously used to justify oppression and imperialist policy.
We demand an end to the national oppression and racism Aboriginal
peoples (including First Nations Inuit, and Metis peoples) face;
immediate action for just and early settlement of Aboriginal land
claims; Treaty implementation; solidarity with Aboriginal struggles
including Sun Peaks BC, Grassy Narrows and Caledonia,
Ontario; recognition of self-determination and self-government;
implementation of the Kelowna accord at a minimum and the signing of
the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Canada;
support of the Native Youth Movement and their opposition to the 2010
BC Olympic games profiteering; removing the current federal cap on
core funding to First Nations; and an end to the Canadian government's
policies of suicide, genocide and assimilation.
We demand that everyone should have the right to dignity, life and
justice, and access to employment, labour rights, education, health
care, sports, culture, and technology.
Anti-racist struggles
To push back racism and sexism will take a mighty and united struggle.
Together we can beat it by uniting all races, ages, and genders.
The capitalists will never end racism on their own because it serves
their economic self-interest. For youth & students, the working class
and the people as a whole, racism holds back our demands for a better
future. Racism is not an advantage to white youth. There are only
setbacks when there is no unity.
Sexism, racism, and class exploitation are inseparably linked and
impact all our lives, but through unity and militancy we can defeat
this system of oppression. In the longer term, socialism is a historic
necessity if humanity is to win that battle and reach the stage of
real democracy. The struggle to defeat racism not a distraction from
the struggle for socialism, it is part of that struggle, and continues
after socialism has been won. Socialism creates conditions to
profoundly deepen the anti-racist struggle.
It is not only possible to bring an end to racial oppression and
inequality in our country, it is a dire necessity.
The Young Communist League condemns recent rough-handling of peaceful
student protestors by the campus police of the University of Toronto
this past week, and stands with all those condemning this shameful
violence on campus. We view this as a grave and serious attack on the
civil and democratic rights of the students, and an outrageous
silencing of free speech and academic freedom on campus.
We call upon the University of Toronto President's office to recognize
and implement the students demands, publicly investigate these
actions, drop the motion to increase students' fees from the
Universities upcoming board meeting, and allow dissent on campus!
We also join with Quebec students in condemning the injunction issued
last week by the University of Quebec At Montreal administration,
banning all political protests and leafleting from within 100 meters
of campus, threatening $50,000 fines and jail. This follows the
November 2007 police attack on a peaceful student occupation of Cégep
du Vieux-Montréal (declaring a 'People's University') that left over 50
students wounded and 102 students in prison. Student occupations in
Quebec have not been terrorized like this for over a decade. This
dangerous anti-democratic trend shows the fear of ruling-class circles
about student protest.
Police forces regularly engage in brutal assaults against Aboriginal
peoples, people of colour, immigrants, demonstrators, trade unionists,
and so‑called "troublemakers." Across Canada, "investigations" of such
abuse are often sham. But a growing chorus of demands is calling to
end this impunity. The Young Communist League supports these demands,
as part of a wider range of measures to establish full civilian
oversight and control of police forces.
It is particularly alarming that these assaults are being increasingly
carried into our campuses. Freedom of expression and action by
students and faculty members must be a cardinal principle of
democratic, quality education – as is accessibility. Paternalistic and
hostile attitudes towards students by administrators and governments
must be replaced with full recognition of the right of youth and
students, including organizing free from administration and outside
restrictions, interference and any form of police harassment.
Young Communist League joins with all those celebrating International
Women's Day 2008, and saying that much more must be done in the fight
for real equality.
Imperialist policies of war and ecological crisis hit women and girls
hardest. The Harper Tories claim Canada fights in Afghanistan to help
women, but as suspended young parliamentarian Malalai Joya says,
"under the nose of NATO and Canadian troops, the situation of women is
getting worse."
Millions of Canadian women are caught in part-time, temporary, or
home-based jobs difficult for union organizing. Women working full
time make 70.5% of men. This is worse for women of colour, and
Aboriginal women. The Federal government refuses to establish
universal, public child care (yet Quebec has a $7 a day system).
Harper instead gives tax breaks to the wealthy, deepening inequality.
Rape, sexual harassment, psychological and emotional abuse, and the
regular disappearances of women (especially aboriginal women) is a
cross-Canada crisis. Because of the murders of young women along road
in northern Canada, it has been re-named the "Highway of Tears."
Only capitalists 'win big' from systematic oppression of women. Sexism
is a tool of capital to divide working people, thereby
weakening it. Some men think they benefit, but their wages, working
conditions, civil and democratic rights are also dragged down. Yet an
alarming and sophisticated ideological offensive by big business and
the capitalist state tries to convince young women and girls to accept
this 'double burden' of patriarchy and capitalism as normal, and tells
young men and boys that they benefit.
Despite these attacks on women – often affecting youth from childhood
– unity and struggle for women's equality gains supporters everyday.
Peace and disarmament, pay equity, higher minimum wages, increased
funding for women' programmes, affordable childcare and housing, and
the elimination of violence against women, are now demanded with
continued determination by women, youth, labour and other progressive
movements.
The racism in schools, work places, and sports against young Canadian
Muslim women who wear head scarves is increasing, but there is also
resistance – including by the young women team mates who've stood with
Muslim athletes ejected from competitions by referees promoting
hatred. Canadian movies like "Juno" discourage abortion, and women's
right to control their bodies. But as we celebrate the 20th
anniversary of abortion's decriminalization, anti-abortion groups are
being confronted on campuses. More young people reject our
anti-choice, anti-queer, and anti-women school curriculum. Students
join with teachers, demanding more women faculty, and eliminating all
barriers to public education.
Mobilization, awareness and organization must strengthen on many
fronts in the struggle for women's equality – essential in the
revolutionary process for peace, democracy and a socialist Canada. It
is in the interests of all youth to unite on these issues: a better
future is to be gained by all. Let's make sure that the future for
every woman and girl is bright!
The heavy hand of administration at McMaster University has displayed
an outrageous disregard for freedom of speech and academic freedom
alike.
Will McMaster University Provost, Busch-Vishniac, ban Nelson Mandel or
Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu, who compare Israeli oppression of
Palestinians with that of South African blacks under apartheid, or US
ex-president Jimmy Carter, who wrote Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid?
The gross inequality experienced daily by Palestinians in Israel and
the occupied territories has appalled the world, – but not Provost
Busch-Vishniac.
Israel has two government-appointed Chief Rabbis. One proposes moving
Palestinian citizens of Israel to the Sinai Desert. The other has
called them rats. In Gaza, a territory smaller than the city of
Toronto, with 1.4 million living in an open-air prison under siege,
Israel controls the boarders, airspace and even how much UN food aid
is allowed in.
The occupied West Bank is divided into sections reachable from each
other only through Israeli check-points and dotted with extremist
settlements of gun toting racist thugs. About half of West Bank is
effectively annexed by a several hundred mile-long and 25 foot high
wall, fortified with razor wire and electric fencing.
Since Wednesday, 14 Palestinian civilians, among them eight children,
have been killed by Israeli missile strikes.
Just as whites and blacks came together to oppose South African
Apartheid, so too have Jews and Arabs united to appose the genocide in
Palestine. Equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is false.
That an attempt to silence debate on this question, in of all places a
University campus, is an glaring attack on the democratic rights of
students, freedom of speech, and the principle of academic freedom.
Schools should give us both facts and analytical skills. Freedom of
inquiry by students and faculty members must be a cardinal principle
of democratic, quality education – as is accessibility. Paternalistic
and hostile attitudes towards students by administrators and
governments must be replaced with full recognition of the right of
youth and students, including organizing free from administration and
outside restrictions and interference.
The YCL joins other decent young Canadians in demanding McMaster
Provost Busch-Vishniac restore free speech!
The rising number of deaths involving Taser assaults by police has led
a wide range of organizations to call for a full federal public
inquiry into the widespread use of this weapon, and a moratorium on
its use by police. The Communist Party of Canada and Young Communist
League supports these de-mands, as part of a wider range of measures
to establish full civilian oversight and control of police forces.
On Oct. 15, Robert Dziekanski died within seconds of a brutal and
unprovoked Taser attack and take-down by four RCMP officers at
Vancouver airport. His death was the 18th involving police use of
Tasers in Canada since July 2003; an estimated 280 similar deaths have
occurred in the United States since 2001.
The Dziekanski case is a tragic illustration of the misuse of this
deadly weapon. The RCMP and airport au-
thorities initially tried to downplay the key role of the police in
Mr. Dziekanski's tragic death, but the attack was carried out in full
view of witnesses, one of whom filmed the entire episode.
The video footage shows that the officers used their Taser as the
first option to deal with the Polish immigrant, who had become
emotionally distressed after being stuck for many hours in the
airport. After Tasering Mr. Dziekanski, the police held him down with
extreme force and used the weapon a second time, a tactic which ended
in his death within seconds.
Some expert observers have correctly stated that the RCMP officers
involved in this badly botched opera
tion did not follow proper procedures for dealing with a disturbed
individual, particularly since Robert Dziekanski threatened no one.
The list of police errors is horrifying: they took no time to assess
the situation or to speak with bystanders who tried to tell them that
he did not speak English; instead of beginning with less forceful
measures, the police immediately used the most violent tool available;
instead of helping their helpless victim to sit upright after the
first Taser attack, the police continued their physical assault. The
officers who committed this assault must face serious criminal charges
for their utterly reckless actions.
There should also be a full investigation of the role of privatised
airport operations in this case.
But this incident is much more than one case of police misconduct or
inadequate training. In the name of "law and order" and worshipped by
the corporate media, police forces in reality are a powerful tool of
the state, imposing the discriminatory prejudices of the ruling class
with impunity. Limited inquiries into the circumstances of
Dziekanski's death will never reveal the full scope of the problem.
Police forces regularly engage in brutal assaults against Aboriginal
peoples, people of colour, immigrants, demonstrators, and so-called
"troublemakers". Right across Canada, "investigations" of such abuse
are con-
ducted internally or by other police forces, with the unsurprising
result that such criminal actions are almost always whitewashed.
It is little wonder that many police officers assume that they can use
extreme force in virtually any
situation without facing consequences. There is now a growing chorus
of demands to end this impunity. Police officers who commit crimes
must not get a free pass after farcical internal "reviews"; they must
face the same legal standards and processes of investigation as the
rest of society. The consistent pattern of
racism which underlies much police brutality must be ended, with the
swift removal of any officers who commit racist acts or statements.
Not least, there must be a full federal inquiry into the use of
Tasers. Instead of relying on company "reports"
which deny the deadly effect of this weapon, there must be a complete,
unbiased scientific study of Taser deaths, and swift implementation of
the necessary recommendations. In the interim, Parliament should order
an immediate moratorium on the use of Tasers.
Dear the Young Communist League of South Africa:
The Young Communist League of Canada - la Ligue de la jeunesse
communiste du Canada salutes the Young Communist League of South
Africa, the League of Joe Slovo and Chris Hani, on the occasion of
your 85th Anniversary!
The YCLSA's dedication to the struggle is know by many. Your work is
impressive and important in the campaigns Education for All, the fight
against HIV and AIDS, combating unemployment and poverty, overcoming
illiteracy, speaking out against human rights abuses as well as
corruption and, together with the ANC Youth league, uniting youth
organizations, articulating the views and interests of the youth.
The YCL-LJC joins with others in condemning the recent attack and
attempt to murder your National Secretary, Comrade Buti Manamela.
Imperialism and reaction may try by cowardly terrorist methods, but
they can not stop the future!
The mass democratic movement of the peoples, including the youth, of
South Africa has inspired the world with your overthrow of the
Apartheid regime. The destruction of Apartheid is especially important
for the peoples of Canada. Many years ago, a delegation from the South
African ruling class visited our country to study the Canadian "Indian
Act" and "Reserve system" and national oppression of the Aboriginal
peoples, in order to develop the special type of racist and national
oppression of the Black people of South Africa that became Apartheid.
In the 1960s, 70s and 80s, across Canada, people rallied against that
system, demanding in solidarity the end of Apartheid.
The YCL-LJC was founded in the same year as the YCLSA, 1922. We also
began our re-organization in the same year as well, 2003. This year we
celebrated our 24th Central Convention, and our 85th anniversary.
We stand with you in your struggle to consolidate and take the
victories of your democratic revolution further, fighting for a better
life for all, and to smash capitalism and win a socialist South
Africa!
Warm Revolutionary Greetings!
Amandla Ngawethu!
Long live International Solidarity!
YCL Central Executive Committee
Young Communist League of Canada
October 27th 2007
The continued occupation of Afghanistan by Canadian troops has been
repeatedly rejected by the majority of the Canadian people. Daily
reports in the media about Afghanistan tell of bloodshed, rising child
mortality rates, and war-lord governments, and higher casualties by
the Canadian military.
The cost to Canada: seventy-two dead Canadians, a bill of $1.3 million
every day according to CBC News, and another people's blood on our
hands. The cost to Afghanistan: over 5,000 dead this year alone, and a
society in ruins with over 70% unemployment.
We cannot 'bomb the Afghan people into liberation.' The war is
worsening the situation. Continued military intervention in
Afghanistan will not make anything better.
The occupation of Afghanistan, and Iraq, is imperialist. Imperialism
and the war in Afghanistan are both driven by a cancer-like hunger for
profits and domination of markets. Imperialism has no interest in the
rights of the people or in the environment.
Canada's foreign policy should be independent, and based on peace and
disarmament, not US wars. The money that is spent on war should be
put towards the future of this country – eliminating tuition fees,
establishing public, universal and accessible childcare, building more
schools, homes, hospitals, public transit, parks and recreation
facilities, and good paying jobs.
Instead of militarizing society through aggressive army recruitment in
high schools and military research in universities, we should
guarantee a real, sustainable future for youth.
The question is forcing the government to have the political will to
implement our agenda, and not the big business agenda. This question
can be answered through strong, broad public pressure – and if those
in power won't carry out a people's agenda for peace and democracy
they should get out of the way and let the people rule, not the
capitalists.
The Young Communist League of Canada demands that the Harper
Conservative government set the date for troop withdrawal. Troops Out
Now! We call upon all progressive, revolutionary and democratic youth
to join the Peace Protests on October 27 2007 and continue to show
visible resistance to this dirty war, and solidarity with all
oppressed people's of the world.
YCL Canada
www.ycl-ljc.ca
ycl_ljc@ycl-ljc.ca
Car une gamme "bold" et forte des célébrations de fierté se produisent
à travers le Canada cet été, il y a beaucoup à célébrer dans la lutte
pour la pleine égalité de milles -- et beaucoup plus à aller !
Les mois d'été sont le moment pour des célébrations de fierté parce
que juin 27, 1969, un soulèvement historique s'est produit à l'auberge
de Stonewall à New York City. Le soulèvement, en réponse aux
incursions de barre et aux attaques par la police, a été mené par le
gay de classe ouvrier, la lesbienne et les personnes de transgender.
C'est devenu un point de rassemblement pour des personnes de LGBTQ aux
Etats-Unis, Canada et autour du monde.
Aujourd'hui les luttes de LGBTQ sont une partie principale du
mouvement pour défaire l'ordre du jour de corporation de droite
putréfié, commençant par les Conservateurs de Harper. Les gains
historiques récents pour le mariage de même-sexe juste au Canada,
l'Europe et plusieurs états des ETATS-UNIS indiquent le chemin à un
futur l'où le choix des formes de famille sera libéré des pressions
économiques et des normes sociales qui font à la famille nucléaire
patriarcale le seul modèle "acceptable" dans la société de
capitaliste.
Nous avons gagné une victoire dans les cours de mariage. Pourtant les
ennemis de l'égalité appellent maintenant des écoles d'Etat leur
prochain "champs de bataille". À travers le Canada, la haine contre
les étudiants étranges et interrogeants, et les polarisations de
heterosexist dans les programmes d'études et les attitudes, sont
encore répandues dans beaucoup d'écoles. Étrange-frapper doit finir.
Nous invitons tous les administrateurs, administrateurs et professeurs
d'école à suivre l'exemple des panneaux qui ont montré la conduite sur
cette question en soutenant la législation dans les écoles qui
inviteront des panneaux d'école à jouer un principal rôle dans la
discrimination de fin en enseignant la tolérance pour des étudiants de
LGBTQ.
Cette année marque la 26ème année de l'épidémie de HIV/SIDA.
Aujourd'hui, des millions de personnes sont encore niés l'accès aux
drogues de sauvetage et l'aide médicale en raison des sociétés
profiter-conduites de drogue.
Dans nos écoles, dans nos lieux de travail et dans des nos rues, des
personnes de LGBTQ sont confrontées à la discrimination, à la haine et
à la violence. Des droites d'adoption ne sont pas garanties. L'ennemi
public du numéro un est les conservateurs de Harper, les prisonniers
heureux de la homophobie.
Leur but dangereux, ainsi que beaucoup de libéraux, est de transformer
le Parlement en arme contre des droites reproductrices et l'égalité de
LGBTQ, servant les intérêts de corporation qui visent à détruire des
droites démocratiques, à rouler en arrière l'égalité de genre,
programmes sociaux d'intestin, à privatiser toute la richesse
nationale, et à briser le système d'école d'Etat, tous dans leur
commande pour des bénéfices.
La libération totale des sexualités opprimées et de toutes les
personnes viendra avec la libération de la classe ouvrière le
capitalisme et du Canada socialiste. Nous nous tenons dans la
solidarité avec nos soeurs et frères de LGBTQ dans le combat pour la
pleine égalité.
Nous exigeons une extrémité à la violence et la discrimination contre
des personnes de LGBTQ dans nos écoles, lieux de travail et
communautés. Nous serons marchants, rassemblants et célébrants cet été
dans des défilés de fierté à travers le pays. Nous invitons toute la
jeunesse de classe ouvrière pour nous joindre dans la lutte pour
l'égalité de LGBTQ. Pleine égalité -- MAINTENANT !
For Pride 2007, Communists demand:
Defend and expand LGBTQ rights!
Drive out Harper!
As a bold and strong range of Pride celebrations happen across Canada
this summer, there is much to celebrate in the struggle for full
equality -- and many more miles to go!
The summer months are the time for Pride celebrations because on June
27, 1969, an historic uprising occurred at the Stonewall Inn in New
York City. The uprising, in response to bar raids and attacks by the
police, was led by working-class gay, lesbian and transgender people.
It became a rallying point for LGBTQ people in the United States,
Canada and around the world.
Today LGBTQ struggles are a key part of the movement to defeat the
rotten right-wing corporate agenda, beginning with the Harper Tories.
The recent historic gains for same-sex marriage rights in Canada,
Europe and several U.S. states point the way to a future in which the
choice of family forms will be freed from economic pressures and
social norms which make the patriarchal nuclear family the only
"acceptable" model in capitalist society.
We have won a victory in the marriage courts. Yet enemies of equality
are now calling public schools their next "battleground". Across
Canada, hatred against queer and questioning students, and
heterosexist biases in curricula and attitudes, are still prevalent in
many schools. Queer-bashing must end. We urge all school trustees,
administrators and teachers to follow the example of boards which have
shown leadership on this issue by supporting legislation in schools
that will urge school boards to play a leading role in ending
discrimination by teaching tolerance for LGBTQ students.
This year marks the 26th year of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Today,
millions of people are still denied access to life-saving drugs and
medical help because of profit-driven drug corporations. In our
schools, in our workplaces and in our streets, LGBTQ people are faced
with discrimination, hatred and violence. Adoption rights are not
guaranteed.
The number one public enemy is the Harper Conservatives, the happy
prisoners of homophobia. Their dangerous goal, together with many
Liberals, is to turn Parliament into a weapon against reproductive
rights and LGBTQ equality, serving the corporate interests which aim
to destroy democratic rights, roll back gender equality, gut social
programs, privatize all public assets, and splinter the public school
system, all in their drive for profits.
Total liberation of oppressed sexualities and all people will come
along with the liberation of the working class from capitalism and a
socialist Canada. We stand in solidarity with our LGBTQ sisters and
brothers in the fight for full equality. We demand an end to the
violence and discrimination against LGBTQ people in our schools,
workplaces and communities. We will be marching, rallying and
celebrating this summer in Pride Parades across the country. We invite
all working class youth to join us in the struggle for LGBTQ equality.
Full equality -- NOW!
Joint statement by the Young Communist League USA and the Young
Communist League of Canada – La Ligue de la Jeunesse Communiste du
Canada.
August 2007
On August 20-21, at the invitation of the Canadian government, the
leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada are meeting behind
closed doors at Chateau Montebello, Quebec, for the third Annual
Security and Prosperity Partnership Leaders Summit. US President
George W Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Mexican
President Felipe Calderon will be joined by thirty powerful CEOs from
the US, Canada, and Mexico who make up the key advisory body of the
SPP, an all-business group called the North American Competitiveness
Council.
The Young Comunist League USA, and the Young Communist League of
Canada - La Ligue de la Jeunesse Communiste du Canada, joins with the
young peoples in Canada, the US and Mexico in resisting the SPP.
Thirteen US State governments have already passed resolutions
directing Congress to drop out of the SPP: Idaho, Georgia, Arizona,
Missouri, Illinois, Oregon, Montanna, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, and Virginia. The pan-Canadian
peace-loving and democratic forces, including the Canadian Labour
Congress, have denounced the SPP. This shows that people of all
countries believe unchecked corporate power has dangerous implications
for the entire continent.
The YCL USA and the YCL LJC of Canada commits to building the broadest
possible unity in opposing the SPP. We call upon all revolutionary and
democratic youth to join with the growing opposition. We declare our
intent to work together and seek out the participation of the
Communist youth of Mexico.
Described as "NAFTA on Steroids," the victory of the SPP secret
negotiations would make a serious defeat to the popular sovereignty of
the masses of the Canadian and Mexican peoples. The SPP negotiations
are much broader than the stated trade issues of boarder crossing
facilitation, standards and regulatory cooperation, as well as bulk
energy and water exports. They involve forging a corporate
constitution over the hard-fought for rights of the peoples. Topics on
the table include a single currency, which the head of Bank of Canada
has said "is possible"; integrating Canadian military units much
further into US command; and the NAFTA superhighway corridor – a
several hundred miles wide corridor including rail lines, freeways,
and pipelines from Mexico to the Canadian boarder, like a giant straw
sucking resources into the belly of imperialism.
The anti-democratic nature of these meetings is also seen in the
recent refusal by the US Army, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and
Sureté du Quebec, for a local civil society organization to rent a
community hall in the area. Château Montebello was also the host for
the 1983 NATO Nuclear Planning Group, and the 1981 G7 Economic Summit.
The talks are going on un-surrendered Mohawk land, near the Kanesatake
reserve, site of the famous resistance of the Mohawk people at Oka
against the Canadian military in 1990.
The Security and Prosperity Partnership will subordinate Mexican,
Canadian and US state and local governments to the economic, military
and political interests of big capital's world domination strategy.
The SPP agreement occurs in period when imperialism is increasing
exploitation, as well as the use of war and repression in order to
maintain and expand markets. The development of the SPP, the question
of US and Canadian imperialism's objectives in this agreement, and its
impact on the youth of Canada, the US and Mexico requires further
analysis and investigation.
Since the pretense of the tragic of September 11th, 2001, the world's
imperialist forces, with the United States government in the
frontline, have undertaken an aggressive and despicable offense,
indiscriminately trying to remove all obstacles on their way to
consolidate their global power. Canada, which is both a full
imperialist power and a junior ally and advisor to US imperialism, has
gone forward with this agenda and the SPP re-affirms the betrayal of
the peoples and nations of Canada, including the dominant
English-speaking nation, by the Canadian bourgeois. This
aggressiveness is by no means accidental. It stems from imperialism's
structural incapability to come up with solutions to the needs of the
vast majority of the world's population and at the same time to
perpetuate its existence.
On the other side are the youth with the people, including the
workers. The youth make up one of the most progressive, radical, and
dynamic forces of society. Continuously they are important catalytic
forces for social transformation and progress. For the ruling class it
is essential the people not to organize, question, think, discuss or
reflect and know its defeats – that are the victories of the workers
and people. Two main trends are confronting each other: on the one
side, imperialism with its interventionist and war policies and, on
the other the peoples who struggle for their inalienable rights. The
total failure of neo-liberal policies has been sharply felt in many
parts of the world and is being challenged by the huge ranks of youth
and students all over the world.
We commit ourselves to struggle for a world of peace, for a different
socio-economic system that holds the human being as a center and main
maker, a system based on social justice, national sovereignty,
independence, self-determination, democracy, security, friendship,
international solidarity and cooperation. We demand respect for and
call for the defense of human and youth rights, women's rights, sexual
and reproductive rights, sustainable development and the environment.
We demand that everyone should have access to employment, labor
rights, food and water, free, public and qualitative education, health
care, sports, housing, culture and technology.
We call on youth to join this struggle. We are confident that the
victory will be ours!
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