[pr-x] The Coming Federal Election - Hear Liz Rowley, April 24

[Kimball Cariou]

*THE COMING FEDERAL ELECTION: A COMMUNIST VIEW*

Hear Liz Rowley, leader of the Communist Party of Canada

Wed., April 24, 7 pm, at the Centre for Socialist Education, 706 Clark 
Drive, Vancouver

Unceded and Traditional Coast Salish Territories

https://www.facebook.com/events/497693780762425/

At this public forum, Liz Rowley will speak on the issues in the federal 
election which is now just six months away. For the Communist Party, 
this election will be a struggle against the corporate agenda of 
austerity, war, and fascism, and to demand a People's Agenda for 
fundamental change, including jobs, housing, Indigenous rights, peace, 
democracy, social equality, environmental sustainability, and a 
socialist alternative to the destruction caused by capitalism. Everyone 
is welcome to hear the only federal political leader who calls for 
revolutionary change, for an end to Canada's imperialist military role, 
and for full solidarity with the Palestinian people.

No charge, a collection will be taken. We will also collect signatures 
for local Communist candidates.

(This link takes you to Rowley's commentary on the recent Liberal budget.)

http://peoplesvoice.ca/2019/04/14/failure-to-launch-liberals-federal-budget/

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*/Who is Liz Rowley?/*

Three years ago, Liz Rowley became the first woman leader of the 
Communist Party of Canada. This October, she will be the Party's key 
spokesperson in the federal election campaign in which at least 25 
Communists will be on the ballot.

Liz Rowley is well-known across Canada for her many years of activity in 
the Communist Party and in a wide range of people’s movements. Born in 
British Columbia in 1949, she joined the CPC in 1967. As a student at 
the University of Alberta, she was the Party’s youngest candidate in the 
1972 federal election, speaking out strongly for women’s reproductive 
rights and an end to the Vietnam War while running in the riding of 
Edmonton Strathcona.

She has been a Party organizer in Ontario since 1973, apprenticing as a 
typesetter in Windsor before becoming Provincial Organizer in 1975, 
International Women’s Year. She has been a member of the Central 
Executive Committee since 1978. Living in Hamilton during the 1980s, she 
was deeply involved in many labour struggles to defend jobs, living 
standards, labour rights, women’s equality, social programs and Canadian 
sovereignty. While campaigning to ban the Ku Klux Klan, Rowley’s 
apartment was destroyed by arson. During the 125 day long Stelco strike 
in 1981 she married a steelworker. She is now the proud mother of two 
adult children.

Moving to Toronto after being elected as Ontario leader of the Party in 
1988, Rowley became a powerful grassroots spokesperson in the “Days of 
Action” fightback against brutal cutbacks imposed by the Mike Harris 
Tories, and was elected a Public School Trustee in East York. She has 
been an outspoken participant in many battles for the rights and 
interests of working people in Ontario, around such issues as defence of 
public education, for public auto insurance, the fight against plant 
closures, for peace and anti-racism, proportional representation, and 
much more. Along with Miguel Figueroa, who led the Party from 1992 to 
2016, she was instrumental in the membership struggle to block attempts 
to dissolve the CPC during the early 1990s.

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