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Monthly Archives: June 2023
June 25, 1950: Anniversary of the Start of the Korean War
Demand U.S. Sign a Peace Treaty to End the Korean War! U.S. Troops Out of Korea Peninsula!
On June 25, 1950, the U.S. imperialists, under the aegis of the United Nations, launched a brutal illegal war of aggression against the Korean nation. The coalition involved troops from 16 other countries including Canada.[1]
Today, when the U.S. imperialists and their appeasers, such as Canada, are stepping up war preparations in the Asia Pacific, it is more important than ever to remember the terrible tragedies visited upon the Korean people during that war that must never again be permitted.
Filed under Asia, Canada, History, United States
Anti-war rally in Windsor
The Windsor Peace Coalition is calling on people to oppose Canada’s dangerous escalation of war in Europe and has issued the following statement explaining their position and why they’re calling on everyone to join the action in advance of NATO’s Vilnius Summit.
Canada has joined the U.S., Britain and other NATO members to launch a U.S./NATO war in Ukraine to confront Russia. From June 12-23 NATO is holding the biggest air war exercises in its history, involving aircraft and troops from 23 NATO members as well as from Sweden and Japan, with Germany playing host.
Filed under Canada
June 21 – Summer Solstice: National Indigenous Peoples Day
On June 21 the Indigenous Peoples lead celebrations across the country of the Summer Solstice, an occasion which from 1996 to 2018 was officially known as National Aboriginal Day and is now National Indigenous Peoples Day. The Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year has been a time for Indigenous Peoples to gather and commemorate since time immemorial.
Filed under Canada, History, Indigenous Peoples
June 24 – Quebec’s National Day
June 24 is celebrated as Quebec’s National Day. The Quebec people’s National Day celebrates the Patriots who fought for independence from Britain in the mid-19th century: Nelson, De Lorimier, Côté, Chénier, Duvernay, O’Callaghan and many others. They fought to establish an independent homeland and republic that vests sovereignty in the people. It includes celebrating all those who have espoused and those who continue to espouse the cause of the Quebec Patriots, in particular all those committed to elaborating a nation-building project commensurate with the needs of the times.
Filed under Canada, History, Indigenous Peoples
Merchants of death celebrate Israel’s ‘dream’ at Paris Air Show
Filed under Palestine
This day. Remember the Rosenbergs, murdered by the US ruling circles 70 years ago
On June 19, 1953, U.S. citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York on the false charge of conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union during the Second World War. The U.S. and Soviet Union were nominally allies against Nazi Germany at the time so the Rosenbergs were actually sentenced to death for passing secrets to a U.S. ally, which makes no sense. But the U.S. was a Soviet ally in name only. It is now well-known that the U.S. ruling circles, which had conspired with Nazi Germany during the war, had decided to openly betray the anti-fascist alliance before the war ended and to rebuild Germany as an anti-communist bulwark against the Soviet Union. Continue reading
Filed under History, United States
Juneteenth and the end of slavery: A brief history of Juneteenth
On June 16, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 415-14 to make Juneteenth the 12th federal holiday, following a unanimous vote in favour in the U.S. Senate on June 15. It was signed into law by the president on June 17. It is the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983.
Filed under History, United States
Salt workers across Canada learning together
Windsor Salt operation on the Magdalen Islands, Quebec
Filed under Canada, Working Class
Yet another case of China placing country dangerously close to US and Canadian warships
The US military and the Canadian navy/Global News have simultaneously released video footage of a Chinese navy ship cutting across the path of an American destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on June 3, reportedly forcing the US vessel to slow down to avoid a collision.
A statement on the incident from US Indo-Pacific Command says the Chinese ship “executed maneuvers in an unsafe manner” in the presence of US and Canadian warships during a “routine south to north Taiwan Strait transit” by the naval forces of those nations, coming as close as 150 yards from the American vessel.
Filed under Asia, Canadian Forces
Hundreds of mini-Chernobyls
(June 5) – The Canada-Cuba Friendship Association (CCFA) of Niagara, Ontario has published an interesting comment on its Facebook page titled “How Cuba helped Ukraine in a way that Canada would Not!
“While Canada is sending to Ukraine money and weapons for a war that is takings thousands upon thousands of Ukrainian lives and will not be won, Cuba showed the world the real meaning of Foreign Assistance.
“From 1989 to 2013, Cuba by way of Cuban medical internationalism brought thousands of Ukrainian children, victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, to Cuba, as patients or as medical students under the ‘children of Chernobyl‘ programme.
D-Day June 6, 1944: Normandy landing during World War Two
By Hilary LeBlanc
On June 6, 1944, during World War II, an invasion force comprised of U.S., British and Canadian troops landed on the coast of Normandy, France. This date known to history as D-Day, refers to the long-awaited invasion of northwest Europe to open a Second Front against the Nazi forces of Adolf Hitler who had occupied France and most of Europe and had been waging a savage war against the Soviet Union. To that time, the Soviet Union had borne the brunt of the fight against Hitler. From 1941 to 1945, the Soviet peoples fought more than 75 per cent of the German and Axis forces and suffered the loss during the war, all-told, of more than 20 million people.
Filed under Canada, Canadian Forces, Europe, History, United States
Coronation of Charles III: Failed attempt to square a circle
The coronation of Charles III as “King of the United Kingdom and all His Realms” was a failed attempt to square a circle. The sovereign as person of state is supposed to represent the people, their values and unity around those values. Besides the fact that these have always been the values of empire which in no way represent the people, today, the display of the wealth and power “tradition” represents, makes that a very tall order.
Filed under Canada, Indigenous Peoples
June 3-8, 1984: Anniversary of Operation Blue Star – Indira Gandhi’s invasion of the Golden Temple and massacre at the Sikhs’ holiest site
June 3-8 is the 39th anniversary of the invasion of Golden Temple and 38 other Gurdwaras in Punjab by the Indian army in 1984, ordered by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered at the Golden Temple to commemorate the anniversary of the martyrdom of the 6th Guru of the Sikhs, Arjan Dev. The army attacked with tanks, armoured cars, rockets and other heavy weapons killing thousands of people and injuring many more. The magnificent Sikh reference library was burnt, a curfew was imposed on all of Punjab and all media suppressed. No news was allowed to come out of Punjab. All the political parties of the rich supported this attack on the people revealing their anti-people nature. Many of those who are today shouting about “fascism in India” were in the front ranks of the attacks against the people of Punjab, acting as cheerleaders of this attack on the people.
Filed under Asia
Interview on the call of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Quebec for the non-succession of the monarchy
EmpowerYourselfNow.ca recorded this interview with the late Pierre Chenier, President of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Quebec, September 25, 2022 during the Quebec general election.
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