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The Spark! Number 24 Sneak Preview!

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These photos are taken from an article in Spark 23, about the internment of members of the Communist Party during WWII.

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NEW ISSUE OF THE SPARK!      Issue 22 of The Spark!, the Marxist theoretical and discussion journal of the Communist Party of  Canada, is now on sale.      This issue feature...

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Dear comrades & friends, We are pleased to announce that issue #21 of The Spark!, theoretical and discussion journal of the Communist Party of Canada, has recently been published. The current ...

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EDITORIAL On June1st NDP MP Pat Martin stood up in the House and said, “When I announce that I am a socialist, I guess it is no surprise because we are all socialists now. We just bought ...

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Dan Goldstick As this is being written, good-paying unionized manufacturing jobs in Canada are being lost, the international devaluation of the United States dollar continues, and stock mark...

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Stephen Von Sychowski Ever since the theory of scientific socialism was first articulated by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, and subsequently proven correct by history, there have been those ...

http://thesparkjournal.blogspot.com/2008/08/consumer-or-class.html

Brief to the Minimum Wage Board Presented by Darrell Rankin Leader, Communist Party of Canada – Manitoba May 17, 2001 The Provincial Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada �...

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Jane Bouey "Sports Franchise Sold for Record Amount" ... "City Parks and Recreation Budget Cut Again" ... "Star Athlete Signs Unprecedented Contract" ... "Obesity Rates In Children On the Rise" ...

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Victor Trushkov, Doctor of Philosophy, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (International Correspondence, no.2, 2001) Despite the dramatic event...

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Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998, xxi + 274 pages. Reviewed by: Geoffrey Reaume In July, 2001, John Manley, then Canad...

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Pierre Bibeau Translated from Le Point communiste, September 2001 The primacy given to the free enterprise market economy, the pompous speeches of the bourgeois class, the ever more invasive ad...

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Patrick Theuret On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the creation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), its General Secretary; Jiang Zemin, make a speech that has since become the most...

http://thesparkjournal.blogspot.com/2008/08/china-ideological-debate-classes-party.html

John Foster (The Communist Review, London, Autumn 2001) How should we put the case for communism? Today. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union. At a time when the working class move...

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JIM SACOUMAN In the last quarter century, the class structure of the capitalist world has changed substantially. Capitalist concentration and centralization, unfettered by a collapsed socialist ...

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June 11, 1999 Evergreen State College Commencement Address MUMIA ABU-JAMAL WELCOME, STUDENTS of Evergreen, and thank you for this invitation. On the MOVE. Long live John Africa. I feel ...

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C.J. Atkins Just as China’s socialist market economy is today dismissed by many in academia and the bourgeois press as a return to capitalism, it is important to recall that Lenin too faced ...

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By Ray Bobb Member, Seabird Island Indian Band Vancouver, B.C. In a treaty process that is strictly circumscribed by the federal government’s Comprehensive Land Claims Policy, Indian ...

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By James J. Brittain, Acadia University Barb Moore, Acadia University and CUPE Jim Sacouman, Acadia University This November, the International Labour Organization (ILO) released a...

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McKay, Ian. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2006. Reviewed by Mauricio Martinez There’s an old joke (told more or less famously by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek1), that goes something li...

http://thesparkjournal.blogspot.com/2008/08/rebels-reds-radicals-rethinking-canadas.html

Ed. Colin Mooers. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006. Reviewed by Mauricio Martinez In 1550, the Spanish city of Valladolid (which was itself a Moorish city until the tenth century, bu...

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Roger Perkins “People for the most part (99% of the bourgeoisie, 98% of the liquidators, about 60-70% of the Bolsheviks) don’t know how to think, they only learn words by heart.” – V.I....

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THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO: BACK TO THE FUTURE BY MARVIN GLASS A century and a half after its publication, what is there to be said about the first joint political work of that dynamic duo of s...

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Darrell Rankin The early 1990s marked a stagnation of working class struggles in Canada. The intensity of the corporate offensive was one of the main reasons contributing to the decline. A pe...

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by James West* The qualities of resiliency and revolutionary patience are integral to communism and Communists. Recovery from setbacks and defeats, overcoming difficulties and obstacles and risi...

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