CPC Coquitlam

We are Coquitlam comrades, working hard to make our community, country & the world a better place. Socialism is our hope.

[Alex Boykowich @ABCommunist]

Canadian state TV news describes the merger of Honda and Nissan, i.e. growing monopolization, as improving "competitiveness", and it "could be" good for both workers and consumers!

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

A new study has found that almost half of children in Gaza wish to die, as a result of the trauma they have been forced to endure.

Every single supplier of arms to Israel has blood on its hands — and the world will never forgive them.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

In a few hours, I leave Cuba after two weeks in a land that seems to hover above time.

Cuba is anachronistic in both directions — towards both past and future. It exists in the past, because it has inherited the burden of underdevelopment. Like much of the world, it is haunted by the many shadows of colonial domination. Its cars are old. Its roads need mending. Its concessions to the world it inhabits tug at its people from different directions. Its northern neighbor — even in its advanced state of rot — refuses to lift its knee from Cuba’s neck. The longest-standing sanctions regime in human history is now compounded by the crippling and absurd designation of Cuba, a state-sponsor of hope, as a state-sponsor of terror.

It exists in the future, because it has built a project that, for most of us, remains in the realm of imagination. The 1959 Cuban Revolution overthrew the shackles of colonialism and, from the devastation it inherited, eliminated illiteracy; guaranteed free healthcare, housing and food for all; transformed the structure of land ownership; and built the most prosperous society in one of the world’s most overexploited regions.

Cuba has more hospitals than banks. It has more doctors than policemen — and has dispatched them to help as many nations as the United States has sanctioned. Cuba supported liberation movements from Angola to Bolivia, and played a major role in ending apartheid in South Africa. Today, it stands firmly with the Palestinian resistance against the Zionist genocide. For six decades, the Cuban people have held the aspirations of the Third World on their shoulders. They are, to paraphrase a poem, exiles from the future, cast into an old world unprepared for their fellowship.

That old world has tried to expel Cuba as if it were a cancer. But it has failed, because the old world is the cancer; Cuba is the cure. The world of the colonizer and imperialist is the parasite that feeds on the body of humanity to sustain its grim futurelessness. The so-called Western world is the aberration — an anomaly so far past its due date, so deeply panicked, that it is prepared to kill children.

The genocide in Gaza and the blockade of Cuba represent violence different in form but identical in intent: to eradicate the very dream of defiance. They are warnings, commanding us to lower our chins and turn our eyes to the ground lest we catch a glimpse of the future from which the struggles for liberation visit us. But take a walk along the streets of Havana or Ramallah and you will see that the people of Cuba, like the people of Palestine, hold their heads up high. They are people who, to quote the Soviet soldier and poet Nikolai Mayorov, “rendered the word ‘humanity’ into flesh”.

Because they have not surrendered, we keep fighting.

[TheMuslimLawyer @faisalkutty]

This is un******* believable!

So basically one of two things happened:

1) Canada knew that Israel was going to kill people in violation of international law and kept silent about it; or

2) Canada did not know and Israeli was okay with possibly killing Canadians at the Embassy.

Which one is it @JustinTrudeau and @melaniejoly @CanadaFP?

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Of course it is not. Israel is starving Palestinians intentionally. Mountains of aid sit outside the open prison's fences. And inside children and adults are starving to death. It is NOT complicated. It is Israeli policy.
https://t.co/RmlKyCQsRb

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

When a group of soldiers armed to the teeth stopped the car I was in, he said to me “what’s your problem” to which I answered “you.”

He & his armed battalion of soldiers then decided to hold us up at their own will for absolutely no reason other than a show of power like some teenager on a fit except with a gun held to our faces.

[Pamphlets @PamphletsY]

1917

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel went from claiming it doesn’t target hospitals to literally dropping bombs and obliterating every single one of the 36 hospitals in Gaza.

And not a peep from mainstream media.

[Pelham @Resist_05]

🚨You don’t accidentally kill over 15,000 children…

🚨You don’t accidentally target refugee camps…

🚨You don’t accidentally kill over 100 journalists and over 250 aid workers…

🚨You don’t accidentally attack 35 hospitals…

🚨You don’t accidentally destroy over 350,000 houses…

🚨You don’t accidentally displace 2 million people…

THIS IS A TARGETED GENOCIDE..🇵🇸💔

[CODEPINK @codepink]

BREAKING: More disruptions of USAID's Samantha Power's afternoon testimony in the House.

"Over 14,000 children are dead because you are bribed!"

[Ray J Politics @RayJPolitics1]

A LESSON FROM THE ABSOLUTE OBLITERATION OF THE UKRAINIAN STATE 🇺🇦👉🚫

This should be a devastating lesson for generations to come:
1️⃣ Never allow a foreign nation to enact a regime change in your nation and control your government from abroad.
2️⃣ Never allow a foreign nation to goad you into a war with the largest nation on Earth which possesses the largest armored and artillery forces, and who just happens to be your next door neighbor.
3️⃣ Never fight a shooting war against the largest land army on Earth on welfare from foreign nations which can be cut at any moment due to petty politics.

WHY??? 🤷‍♂️
Why…..would Ukraine be stupid enough to enter a shooting war without the proper amount of tanks, artillery, air defense systems, drones, air assets, intelligence assets, ammunition, and virtually any naval vessels against a behemoth like Russia? Ukraine has to be aware that it will never posses the military budget or population to stand up against the armed forces and population size of Russia. Russia does not even have to transport its military assets thousands of miles as the US did in Iraq. All that Russia has to do is run over a border guard shack with a T-72 tank and they are in Ukraine.

WARS ARE NOT WON IN THE MEDIA…🎙️👉⚔️
You can’t win a war in the shitstream media or with NAFO trolls on social media being funded by the CIA. NATO is a organization which fights its wars in the media, not on the battlefield. Ukraine has allowed itself to be sucked into a losing war of destruction against its gargantuan neighbor by foreign warmongering psychopaths. Ukraine being whored out by NATO will go down as being in the top 5 of the biggest blunders in world history! 🤦‍♂️

#KievWillFall🇺🇦👉🔥

[Yves Engler @EnglerYves]

In 28 weekend in a row of mass protests more than 2000 marched in Montréal today to oppose Israel killing international aid workers, trying to ignite a massive regional war with Iran & committing a holocaust against Palestinians in Gaza

[Pelham @Resist_05]

If we can allow over 15,000 children to be slaughtered in 184 days, while choosing to stay silent, because you might be labeled “antisemitic”…

Then we are creating a world where a child’s life holds no value..🇵🇸💔

[Alex Boykowich @ABCommunist]

I have never heard, not even once, a single voice on Canadian state TV news, in any report or panel discussion, advocating for a decrease in military spending, or even speaking against an increase. Remarkable unanimity! Who are they working for?

[sarah @sahouraxo]

14 years ago today, Julian Assange released a video showing US Forces firing on Iraqi civilians, including children. Now he faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing it.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

“I saw in Auschwitz that if a dominant group wants to dehumanise others, as the Nazis dehumanise me, the dominant group must first dehumanise themselves, the same holds nowadays for Israel.

I am appalled about how hateful, how dehumanised, that they do not see any human aspect in any Palestinian anymore.

The Zionists have no right whatsoever to use the Holocaust for any purpose, they have given up everything which has to do with humanity and with empathy”

Rest in Power Hajo Meyer

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Relevant:

[CODEPINK @codepink]

We will never forget the horrors inflicted upon Palestinian people.

And we will never forget who stood by and supported this.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

In 1916, the British and French secretly conspired to split the "Possesions" of the Ottoman empire between them. And did so.

In 1935 the British, French and Italians secretly agreed the Hoare Laval pact to allow Italys fascist leader to invade Ethiopia. And they did so.

In 1953, the British and Americans secretly conspired to overturn the democratic Government of Iran and did so.

In 1953 the British also sent forces to crush the democratically elected government of British Guiana. And they did so

In 1953 the British and Americans overthrew the legitimate Governemnt of Guatemala. And they did so

In 1956 the British secretly conspired to overthrow the Nationaist Goverment of Syria.

In 1956, the British, French, and Israelis secretly conspired to invade Egypt and sieze control of the Suez canal. And they did so.

The British, Americans, and French conspired to overthrow dozens of other legitimate democratic governments across the globe, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and democracy shattered.

They are the secret architects of the Ukrainain conflict, the War in Syria, the destruction of Libya and Iraq, and the destabilisation of Taiwan, the British alone involved in 42 separate illegal Coups since 1945, also funding pro British terror squads to execute Irish Catholic civilians on my country.

Remember this the next time they tell you Russia, Iran and China are the enemies of your "Freedom"