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December 24, 2019
2019 Photo Review
Taking Bold Stands in Defence
of the Rights of All and to
Make Canada a Zone for Peace
August
 In this
issue of TML Daily, CPC(M-L) continues
its month-by-month photo review of 2019 with
events in August.
Public sector
workers in Alberta continued to mobilize in
workplaces across the province against the
Kenney government's anti-social offensive that
attacks workers' rights to collectively bargain
their conditions of work through Bill 9, while
the government appealed a court injunction which
prevented it from enforcing the law.
In BC, as the
crisis in the forestry sector continued to
deepen with mill closures and curtailments in
forestry-based communities across the province,
workers took stands to defend their interests
and those of their communities. In Mackenzie,
where some 400 jobs are effected by the crisis,
1,000 people took to the streets in a spirited
march under the banner "Mackenzie Matters: Our
Logs, Our Jobs." The theme that resonated
through the march and rally, and discussions
among participants was the need for the
empowerment of rural communities such that the
voices and expertise of forestry workers is
listened to and a long-term plan developed to
ensure community sustainability based on the
needs of workers and communities rather than big
corporations and top government officials. On
the BC coast and on Vancouver Island the strike
continued as workers said No! to the
massive concessions being demanded by Western
Forest Products, and mobilized support among
workers from other sectors of the economy.
August is the time
every year when CPC(M-L) marks important
occasions in the life of the Party. This
includes a gathering and ceremony at the Party's
monument in Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa to
honour the memory of the Party's founder and
leader, Hardial Bains and all of the other
comrades who have died. August 15 this year held
special meaning as it was the 80th anniversary
of Hardial Bains' birth and a conference was
organized on the occasion to deliberate on the
significance of his work as a man of
revolutionary action. This year was also the
30th anniversary of the Party's historic meeting
in Chertsey, Quebec, where Comrade Bains
elaborated on the nature of this period. This
prepared the revolutionary forces by analyzing
precisely what was unfolding nationally and
internationally at that crucial turning point.
This analysis has continued to serve the Party
in good stead during this period of
retrogression, which is marked by the grave
dangers posed by Anglo-American imperialism and
the great tragedies that have been unleashed on
the world's people by U.S. imperialism, with
numerous wars, invasions, coups d'état and
medieval violence against the peoples striving
for independence and social progress.
August 10-19
Information
pickets carry on in Alberta cities and towns as
workers express their resounding No! to the
Public Sector
Wage Arbitration Deferral Act, which
violates the right of workers to negotiate
collectively their terms of employment.
Cold Lake
Yellowhead
Lethbridge
https://cpcml.ca/ru19003/#4
(Photos:
AUPE)
August 13
Program in Ottawa
celebrates 93rd anniversary of the birth of
Fidel Castro.
 
(Photos: Minrex)
August 17
Monthly pickets
reiterate the just demand for an end to the U.S.
blockade against Cuba.
Vancouver
Ottawa
(Photos: VCSC, Ottawa Cuba
Connections)
August 17
The Hardial Bains
Resource Centre organizes a conference in the
Outaouais on the significance of the work of
Hardial Bains, the founder and leader of
CPC(M-L) until his death. The conference takes
place on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of
his birth. A dinner and concert follow.
 
 
August 18
A ceremony and
gathering at CPC(M-L)'s monument in Beechwood
Cemetery in Ottawa pays special tribute to
Comrade Hardial Bains, the Party's founder and
leader, on the 80th anniversary of his birth,
and to all Party comrades who have passed away.  
 
August 21
Information picket
in front of the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa denounces
the Trump administration's latest attacks on the
Venezuelan people, aimed at punishing them
and removing the constitutionally elected
government of President Nicolás Maduro.
August 22
A thousand people
march and hold a spirited rally in Mackenzie,
BC, concerned about the future of their
community with the downturn in the forest
industry. Their slogans include: Our Logs, Our
Jobs! Save Our Jobs! United We Stand! Keep Our
Logs in Mackenzie! Our Voices Need to Be
Heard!
  
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlw2019/W49025.HTM#5
(Photos:
PPWC, Stand Up for the North)
August 24
The 24th annual
Toronto-Cuba Friendship Day is marked at Toronto
City Hall. Cuban Ambassador Josefina Vidal
Ferreiro gives the main remarks, which highlight
the important role played by Cuba solidarity
organizations. The event concludes with a
flag-raising ceremony in Nathan Philips Square,
a symbol of the friendship between
Havana and Toronto.
 
(Photos: Minrex)
August 28
Rally on the steps
of the Alberta Legislature protests government
interference in the renewal of school curricula
and the government having arbitrarily ended,
earlier in August, an almost three-year
collaboration with teachers in updating the
outdated curricula.
https://cpcml.ca/ru19016/#5
August 29
Monthly pickets
continue in Toronto outside of the offices of
the NATO Association of Canada denouncing NATO
as an aggressive alliance that threatens the
security and well-being of the entire world and
calling for Canada to withdraw from NATO and for
the alliance to be dismantled. The monthly
pickets are organized to counter NATO's
celebration of its 70th anniversary and "We Are
NATO" campaign.
 
https://cpcml.ca/ru19005/#3
August 29
Forestry workers,
members of USW Local 1-1937, strike against
Western Forest Products plants on the BC Coast
and Vancouver Island. Below, three members of
the USW Local 1-1937 bargaining committee
picket.
 (photo: USW 1-1937)
August 30
Information picket
against Bill 9 at Misericordia Hospital in
Edmonton.
  
https://cpcml.ca/ru19003/#1
(Photos: AUPE)
August 31
Protest at the
Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto opposes
the use of the event to promote war and
militarism. Protesters call for an end to the
Canadian International Air Show, which
highlights U.S. and Canadian fighter jets that
have been used by Canada to wage war on other
nations.
https://cpcml.ca/ru19005/#2 (Photo: VOWP)
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