CPC 100

7 Minutes

Climate and environment Labour

CPC centenary: The struggle for working-class environmentalism

PV April 30, 2021

Dave McKee Marxists have long understood the link between capitalist expansion and environmental degradation. As Frederick Engels wrote in 1876, “What cared the Spanish planters in Cuba, who burned down forests on the slopes...

5 Minutes

Canada

CPC Centenary: The Communist Party, Norman Bethune and the fight for healthcare

PV March 11, 2021

Canadian media and politicians claim that this country’s public healthcare system is “what separates us from the Americans.” Social democrats have baptized Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)/ New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Tommy Douglas as...

8 Minutes

Women and Gender

CPC centenary: 100 years in the struggle for women’s equality!

PV March 5, 2021

In 1917, International Women’s Day in Russia helped to launch the Russian Revolution, which ended up inspiring working people around the world. This included many working women in Canada, several of whom helped found...