Alex McDonald

[Communist Party of Canada @compartycanada]

We condemn Minister @AnitaAnandMP's recognition of Morocco's occupation plan for Western Sahara.

Canada must stand with the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination and not accept a fig leaf for perpetual occupation.

Statement https://t.co/kOcq4DJxO3

[Alex Boykowich @ABCommunist]

Insane Green, Anglican, wine-mom racism/xenophobia.

[Communist Party of Canada @compartycanada]

Canada’s response to the US blockade on Cuba is a disgrace. @AnitaAnandMP has refused to condemn Trump's drastic escalation of economic genocide.

Action is needed now! Send oil, aid, strengthen trade, resume flights & break the siege.

Full statement: https://t.co/QeUdXOgxTc

[Dr. William J. Ripple @WilliamJRipple]

The Guardian just published a story on our paper "The Risk of a Hothouse Earth Trajectory" regarding a potential point of no return. You can read it for free here:
https://t.co/LFCCApwCJ4

[Alex Boykowich @ABCommunist]

Oil for Israel (committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza) instead of oil for Cuba: US imperialism at work.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

As expected, many of the reactions to Jimmy Lai's condemnation by Western officials and media are absolutely shameful and grossly biased.

If someone had done the same thing as Lai did in any Western country, there is absolutely zero doubt he would rot in prison too.

The most shameful part is that it was all extremely transparent: it was an open trial (meaning anyone could attend) and the verdict - running 855 pages with detailed reasoning on every evidentiary point - is publicly available for anyone to read here: https://t.co/1rLgIvh7OV Lai himself testified for 52 days in his own defense, assisted by world-class lawyers, all publicly in court.

Meaning that those qualifying Jimmy Lai's trial as a "sham", "an affront to freedom of speech" or even calling him a hero, have no excuse: they have all the elements to know that what Lai did, yet they deliberately choose not to (or, more likely, lie through their teeth).

So what was he condemned for? 3 things:

1) Personally lobbying foreign governments to impose sanctions on his own country, including personally meeting with the US Vice President, Secretary of State, and National Security Advisor to request sanctions

2) Coordinating campaigns aimed at achieving - in his own words - "China's implosion," meaning the collapse of his own country

3) Using his media empire as an instrument of that campaign

How would the U.S. government react if the owner of the New York Times personally met with senior Russian or Chinese officials, lobbying them actively to bring down the U.S. government, coordinating active campaigns to achieve "U.S. implosion" and using the NYT as an institutional tool for all this - all clearly documented in his own messages? Does anyone seriously believe he wouldn't rot for the rest of his life in a federal prison?

That's incidentally almost the exact analogy the judges used in their concluding remarks (https://t.co/1rLgIvh7OV): they said Lai's case was "analogous to the situation where an American national asks for help from Russia to bring down the US Government under the guise of helping the State of California."

That's not even remotely related to "press freedom": last I checked press freedom doesn't include the right to conspire with foreign governments to destroy your own country's government and economy. No country on earth would accept that.

[Dr. Robert Rohde @RARohde]

Is wind turbine waste a real concern?

Yes, by one estimate, in 2050 the world will generate ~3 million tonnes of wind turbine waste per year.

But for perspective, the world currently landfills ~500 million tonnes of coal combustion residues (coal ash) every year.

[Alex Boykowich @ABCommunist]

11,000-year-old Indigenous settlement on the North Saskatchewan River! https://t.co/5PSzZ64p5M

[Communist Party of Canada @compartycanada]

Imperialist strategies offer no alternative for the working class!

Read the Communist Party's analysis on Carney's speech at Davos 🔗https://t.co/p1y56sH8VO

[Communist Party of Canada @compartycanada]

The CP of Canada condemns the U.S. imperialist attack on Venezuela that claimed the lives of 32 Cuban internationalist combatants. We stand in unwavering solidarity with Cuba against the blockade & aggression.

Solidarity Letter to @PartidoPCC 🔗https://t.co/w6iXRKdUBR

[David Pugliese @davidpugliese]

MacKinnon @markmackinnon , Fife @RoberFife and Chase report Canadian Forces members have received death threats. Well join the club. As I told these Globe journalists my family has received threats as well, which has required the intervention of police. They didn’t report that.

[Labour for Palestine @PalestineLabour]

VICTORY: Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), Canada’s Largest Federation, Adopts a Hot Cargo Resolution. #canlab #Solidarity 🧵

[Communist Party of Canada @compartycanada]

108 years ago today! The October Revolution marked the world’s first socialist revolution.

For the first time, workers took control to build a society free from exploitation. The USSR achieved historic social gains, overcoming unemployment, illiteracy, and poverty.

[Communist Party of Canada @compartycanada]

They're telling us we can't afford our public postal service.

But Canada Post gave its lucrative parcel business to Purolator, which is making big profits.

This is a plan to starve & privatize. Stand with @CUPW to save & expand our public post office!
🔗https://t.co/BKZ1iWjEUR

[David Pugliese @davidpugliese]

Canadian Embassy Hosted Ukraine’s Azov Brigade This Summer https://t.co/TwZO26oWER

[Communist Party of Canada @compartycanada]

Begging for a "certain trade environment" within the USMCA framework is doubling down on integration with the US.
We need to nationalize auto and build a Canadian car now!

[Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) @ONCommunists]

We need fundamental change. We demand:
- Repeal Bill 6
- Build 200,000+ units of public social housing
- Legislate rent rollbacks & expand rent control
Housing is a human right!
(3/3)

[Communist Party of Canada @compartycanada]

We welcome the ceasefire, but the US "peace" plan is a further denial of self-determination.

It is time Ottawa sided with justice and backed a real, lasting peace for Palestine by putting real pressure on Israel through concrete action.
🔗https://t.co/QA6MdzScHx

[Communist Party of Canada @compartycanada]

Full solidarity to protect our public postal service!

"In response to the Government’s attack on our postal service and workers, effective immediately, all CUPW members at Canada Post are on a nation-wide strike."

[Geoff Bickerton @gbickerton398]

Andrew Coyne said “This, I think, will be the 13th national postal strike in several decades”.
In the last 40 years there was national postal strikes in 6 rounds of bargaining.
He also complained about high postage rates. Canada has one of the lowest postage rates in the world