Uphold
Hereditary and Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples of Canada
Organize Broad Support and Public Opinion for the Just Struggle of the Wet'suwet'en People!
Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, January 4, 2020, gather as they evict
Coastal GasLink from
their hereditary lands.
Stand with the
Wet'suwet'en Land Defenders!
Our future lies in the fight for the rights of all!
The working class must boldly stand with the
Indigenous peoples who are fighting for their rights. TML
Weekly calls on all workers and their organizations to
organize broad support and public opinion for the Wet'suwet'en people
in northern BC who are courageously defending their territories from
imperialist encroachment and state-organized violence and
criminalization. The Wet'suwet'en people, on the basis of their own
judgment, have not given their free, prior and informed consent for a
supranational cartel called Coastal GasLink (CGL) to invade their lands
and construct a pipeline.
 In defiance of
the people's ancient governance system and Wet'suwet'en customary law,
Anuc 'nu'at'en, CGL has engaged in wanton destruction of Wet'suwet'en
hunting and foraging areas, historical trails and sacred burial and
other sites central to the material, spiritual and cultural well-being
of the Wet'suwet'en people. In response to this illegal attack on their
territory, all five Wet'suwet'en clans issued and enforced an expulsion
order on January 4, evicting CGL's workers from their territory.
The federal Liberal government and the BC NDP/Green coalition
government, representing the supranational private interests of CGL and
associated global energy and financial cartels, are using their
political authority, the courts and the RCMP to negate the rights of
the Wet'suwet'en people and their lawful jurisdiction over their
territory. The BC Supreme Court has issued an injunction against the
Wet'suwet'en people criminalizing and ordering them to give up their
actions in defence of their rights. Armed officers of the RCMP have
been sent to the Wet'suwet'en territory to enforce the illegal colonial
injunction. The RCMP has set up a blockade of the CGL construction zone
blocking Wet'suwet'en people and their allies from entering their own
territory. The federal Parliament, BC Legislature, the courts and the
RCMP seek to criminalize with colonial injustice and brute force the
defence of the Wet'suwet'en people's rights, their territory, customary
law, governance system and economic development under their control and
which they decide favours their interests.
 Colonial laws and
governance systems established through the oppressive racist Indian
Act of 1876 have been used to criminalize and outlaw the
Indigenous peoples and negate their rights from coast to coast to
coast. The Canadian and Quebec working class does not accept the
negation of its own rights or those of the Indigenous peoples. The
working class rejects with utter contempt the racist nonsense of BC NDP
Premier Horgan who, in slavish devotion to the narrow private interests
of a supranational energy/financial/construction cartel, dismisses with
the usual colonial arrogance the rights, customary law and traditional
governance systems of the Indigenous peoples. With regard to the
Wet'suwet'en people evicting CGL from their territory, Horgan has given
a green light to the RCMP to unleash yet more colonial violence against
the Indigenous people, as he did one year ago, saying, "This project is
proceeding, and the rule of law needs to prevail in BC."
The working class has become quite familiar with the rule of law of the
imperialists that negates workers' rights to defend their claims on
what they produce, to negotiate their terms of employment, oppose the
anti-social offensive and organize for a new pro-social direction for
the economy. Workers do not accept a rule of law that criminalizes the
struggles of the people in defence of their rights. The future of this
country and all its peoples lies in the fight for the rights of all!
Workers and their organizations should discuss this attack on the
Wet'suwet'en people, which is an attack on all of us, and pass
resolutions upholding the rights of Indigenous peoples, send messages
of support, and organize actions to demand the federal and BC
governments, the courts and the RCMP back off and allow the
Wet'suwet'en people their right of free, prior and informed consent,
according to their own judgment, to any activity on their territory.
Denounce the
State-organized Attacks on the Wet'suwet'en People and Their Territory!
Stand with the Wet'suwet'en Land Defenders!
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 1 - January 25, 2020
Article Link:
: Organize Broad Support and Public Opinion for the Just Struggle of the Wet'suwet'en People!
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
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