The class party -- or the political organisations which precede it -- comprises the most conscious part of the proletariat who are organised to defend the programme for the emancipation of the entire working class. Using the tools of Marxism, it draws on the political lessons of the historical experience of the class in order to elaborate this programme and define a strategy and tactics consistent with it.

Celebrate Black History Month by Keeping Gary Freeman in Canada! Stop an Unjust Extradition to the United States!

[From http://www.freemandrum.org]
(Details on how you can help at the end.)

TORONTO, FEBRUARY, 2006 -- It seems that Black History Month is an appropriate time to reflect on the case of one Douglas Gary Freeman (the former Joseph Coleman Pannell, Jr.), a 56-year-old African American man who has sitting in a Canadian jail for almost two years as he fights extradition to the United States.

[From http://www.freemandrum.org]
(Details on how you can help at the end.)

Is it necessary to deny people their most elemental human rights to "guarantee" national security?

Detained for years without charge, held on secret evidence that the accused does not have access to, threatened with deportation and torture, this is the situation for five men from Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Within the next month, four of these five men will be transferred, far from their families, to an isolated wing of the Milhaven maximum security prison, just outside of Kingston, Ontario. This recent addition to the prison has been built specifically to house those detained under the controversial security certificates.

PUBLIC CONSULTATION
Thursday, 16 March, 7 pm
Atwater Library
1200 Atwater (corner Ste. Catherine; Atwater metro)

The PEOPLE'S COMMISSION is being launched to provide a means for our communities to examine the issue of "security certificates" and other immigration security policies in depth and identify ways to address the problem. A series of Public Consultations is taking place across Quebec and Canada in order to explain the project, seek public feedback, and encourage broad participation in the Commission. Come out and join in!

Consultation publique
Jeudi le 16 mars 2006, 19h00
Bibliothèque Atwater
1200, rue Atwater (coin Ste.-Catherine, métro Atwater)

La COMMISSION POPULAIRE est mise de l'avant afin d'offrir à nos communautés un moyen d'examiner la question des «certificats de sécurité» ainsi que les autres enjeux liés aux politiques de «sécurité » en Immigration et d'identifier des moyens de résoudre les problèmes qui en découlent.

Con lleno total se llevo a cabo el Recital de Mujeres en Contra de la Guerra en Irak y en apoyo a las mujeres norteamericanas, este 4 de marzo en el Centro de Arte La Estancia. El evento, que sirvió de marco para la jornada de recolección de firmas en contra de la guerra, contó con la presencia de más de 200 mujeres y hombres de distintas organizaciones sociales como el Movimiento de Mujeres Clara Zetkin, Movimiento de Mujeres Manuelita Sáez, Fuerza Bolivariana de Mujeres, Inamujer, Trabajadoras de la Radio Nacional de Venezuela, Unión de Mujeres Negras, Colectivo Mujer tenía que Ser y el Foro Itinerante de Participación Popular, entre otras. Destacaron las intervenciones de Helena Salcedo, Presidenta del Circuito Radio Nacional de Venezuela, quien señaló la importancia de estar "alerta contra las amenazas y las agresiones del imperialismo, porque lo que pasa en Irak puede pasar mañana también aquí", Elena Linares, del Movimiento Clara Zetkin quien hizo un llamado a la cohesión del movimiento de mujeres y a estar atentas a la corrupción, Mercedes Aguilar, quien felicitó la a actividad en nombre del Inamujer y señaló que ya van recogidas más de un millón de firmas y Nora Castañeda, presidenta del Banco de la Mujer, quien dijo que este "banco, así como muchas otras instituciones del proceso revolucionario, es un instrumento del pueblo, de las mujeres, para la construcción del socialismo".

The 1905 Russian Revolution was a preparation for 1917 in the sense that the revolutionary programme which led to 1917 emerged strengthened from the earlier battles. There is no guarantee today that there will be such an episode of generalised, insurrectionary conflict which, although resulting in the immediate defeat of the class, also strengthens revolutionary forces.

Saturday, March 11, at 2:30 p.m.
Centre St-Pierre, Room 202
1212 Panet,
Montréal
(near Métro Beaudry)

The Socialist Equality Party (Canada) will hold a public meeting in Montreal, Saturday, March 11 on the theme “Socialism and the struggle against social reaction and imperialist war.

Samedi le 11 mars à 14h30
Centre St-Pierre, Salle 202
1212 Panet,
Montréal
(près du Métro Beaudry)

Le Parti de l’égalité socialiste (section Canada) tiendra une réunion publique à Montréal, samedi le 11 mars, sur le thème « Le socialisme et la lutte contre la réaction sociale et la guerre impérialiste ».

On commence à nous préparer...!

Un ancien ministre canadien de la Défense et ex-député sous le règne de Pierre Trudeau a rejoint les rangs de trois organisations non gouvernementales pour demander au Parlement du Canada pour tenir des audiences publiques sur les Exopolitiques, concernant les «ET».