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PQ Opportunism Page 2 Threats to Iran Page 3 South Worker Socialistwww.socialist.ca $2 no. 545 October 2012 AND THE TORIES’ WARS: ABROAD AND AT HOME PQ Opportunism Page 2 Jessica Squires on the new PQ government Threats to Iran Page 3 Niaz Salimi on Harper’s drive to war South Africa Page 4 John Bell on the miners’ victory Climate Chaos Page 5 Bradley Hughes on capital and environment THE HARPER government state, a supporter and beneficiary 312 but as the motion’s instigator, security. Abortion rights supports the looming war on of US imperialism, is keen to sup- Stephen Woodworth, said after the After years of sustained cam- Iran, while attacking women’s port the war ideologically, if not motion’s defeat, “I want Canadians paigns, indigenous communities Pages 6 & 7 rights and destroying the militarily. to remember that no great issue is have put the issue of tar sands on the environment at home. In 2003 the anti-war movement ever determined by a single vote in national agenda and now there’s a Carolyn Egan on how stopped Canada from officially the House of Commons. It remains broad-based opposition on the West choice was won War on Iran participating in the Iraq War so for the Canadian people to rise coast—which is threatened with oil Prime Minister Stephen Harper has we need to mobilize again to stop up even more strongly.” Motion spills. On October 22 there will be called Iran “the world’s most serious Canada from joining the new war. 312 was not designed to win in a mass Defend Our Coast sit-in at threat to international peace and se- October 6 is a day of action against Parliament but rather to encour- the provincial legislature against Howard Zinn curity” and claimed that the major war on Iran, and as we challenge age the anti-choice movement to tar sands tankers and pipelines—in- Page 9 threat for Canada is “Islamicism.” the war abroad we also need to fight mobilize. cluding First Nations, environment- Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird Harper’s war at home—against Anti-choice forces are not resting alists, students and workers—to op- Abby Fung on the recently announced complete sev- people and the planet. after the defeat of Motion 312 and pose tar sands and demand a green people’s historian ering of diplomatic relations with neither should we. October 20 will future. Iran, while Immigration Minister War on choice be a pan-Canadian day of action “Tens of thousands of unionized Jason Kenney claimed Canada is a Immigration Minister Jason Kenney for choice, which will be critical and other jobs depend on healthy Omar Khadr haven for persecuted Iranians. banned Muslim women from cit- to showing the pro-choice major- river and ocean ecosystems,” The US has long wanted to attack izenship ceremonies if they wear ity across the country and building said Susan Spratt, Canadian Auto Page 11 Iran but the military quagmires in a veil, claiming Islam is the major the resistance to Harper’s war on Worker Area Director for BC and Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the threat to women’s rights across choice. Alberta. “On October 22 we will Kimberly Winter on economic crisis have stretched its Canada. But by joining nine other be standing in solidarity with thou- racism and his return capacities and made a direct attack cabinet ministers—including War on the planet sands of working people in BC difficult. However, the economic Status of Women Minister Rona Wars abroad are fought for oil, and and our First Nations sisters and crisis is sharpening inter-imperial Ambrose—and a majority of Tories with oil. The largest consumer of oil brothers.” rivalries and the Arab Spring has in supporting anti-choice motion is the military, and war threatens the We need to oppose all these wars threatened Western control of the 312, Kenney has made it clear planet both directly through bombs while uniting the resistance—de- region. The US threatens to use its the major threat to women is the and indirectly through climate manding an end to militarism and proxy power, Israel—the region’s anti-choice movement and its Tory change. While Harper blames Iran, the oil economy that supports it, and most serious threat to peace and se- supporters. he ignores the tar sands and climate building movements for a future of CPMA No. 58554253-99 curity—to attack Iran and reassert Harper was not confident to dir- change—which is truly one of the reproductive justice and a peaceful, ISSN No. 0836-7094 its role in the region. The Canadian ectly support anti-choice motion most serious threats to international healthy planet. West NDP justifies Enbridge coast pipeline salmon by VALERIE LANNON DOES THE NDP’s support stocks for oil refineries as a means of job creation play into the proposal by BC dwindle media mogul David Black? D’ARCY BRIGGS Black wants a $13 bil- by lion refinery to be built in AS THE proposed Kitimat, the western terminus Enbridge pipeline project of Enbridge’s proposed pipe- threatens much of the line, carrying bitumen from west coast’s beautiful Alberta’s tar sands. Refined natural landscapes and oil would be shipped else- habitats, the salmon where. Black has no financial are experiencing rapid backing because buyers pre- drops in their populations fer to refine oil closer to its from profit-driven use locations, but he appears global warming and to have the support of the fed- over-harvesting. eral NDP. An article published in According to NDP energy the January 2001 edition of critic Peter Julian, “we are Science found that 40-95 per happy that more people are cent of wild sockeye salmon looking at valued-added pro- that use the Fraser River to Kenney pinkwashes war on Iran duction in the country. We reach their spawning ground need to maximize the po- are dying, despite the reduc- by JESSE MCLAREN citizenship ceremonies, claiming that ally criticized for ignoring homophobia tential of our resources, and tion of their direct harvesting. his government “want[s] women to be and transphobia, as Sharalyn Jordan of the fact that Mr. Black put A common genomic profile IMMIGRATION MINISTER Jason full and equal members of Canadian so- the Rainbow Refugee Committee ex- forward that proposal shows was found during the study Kenney is helping Harper’s war ciety.” This as the Tories were putting plained: “Ukraine has an elected par- more Canadians are coming and was used to make accur- drive, and distracting from his own forward anti-choice Motion 312, which liament, an independent judiciary, and to the NDP position.” Julian ate predictions towards the policies, by suddenly claiming the Kenney (a long-time anti-choice activist) civil society organizations. Based on claims “we are missing a salmons’ survivability. Tories are friends of queers and supported. Bill C-31, it could be designated [safe], real opportunity in oil sands Scientists believe this refugees. Now Kenney is using hostility to and yet its parliament is considering a development,” but local re- genomic stress has been put A week after ending diplomatic rela- Iran as a cover for Tory policies against law banning speech or writing that pro- fining of tar sands crude is on the salmon because of ris- tions with Iran, Foreign Affairs Minister queers and refugees, and using support motes homosexuality, and neo-Nazis are no alternative to offshore ing water temperatures (both John Baird made a speech congratulat- for queer refugees to bolster Harper’s attacking LGBTQ people in the streets development. in rivers and ocean) and that ing Jason Kenney for “working to make drive to war—a war that would kill queer of Kiev.” All these anti-refugee policies No matter what happens to “salmon have died in greatest Canada a safe haven for Iran’s perse- Iranians and many others. provoked widespread opposition, so the the bitumen extracted from numbers in ‘hotspots’ along cuted gay community.” Kenney fol- The Tories have a long history of Tories are looking for a distraction by the tar sands, the extraction the river system, possibly as lowed this with an email to thousands of homophobia—including cutting funding whipping up war on Iran. process itself destroys the a result of poor oxygen avail- Canadians, stating, “We are proud of the to Pride Toronto, removing references to But Kenney’s hypocrisy is not going earth, poisons the local en- ability and disease.” Global emphasis our Conservative Government gay rights and same-sex marriage from unchallenged. An open letter in response vironment and spreads cancer warming is putting stress on has placed on gay and lesbian refugee the Citizenship manual for newcom- to his email explains that “Your most re- amongst nearby indigenous Pacific salmon faster than protection, which is without precedent in ers (public outrage forced Kenney to cent campaign is a poor attempt at ‘pink- communities. Whether the they can adapt to it. Canada’s immigration history…In par- restore the information), and opposing washing’ the Conserative government’s resulting tar sands are refined The International Council ticular, we have taken the lead in helping Bill C-279 that would put gender iden- obvious desire to encourage war with in BC or elsewhere, the re- for the Exploration of the gay refugees who have fled often violent tify and expression into the human rights Iran…We will also continue to stand in sulting carbon emissions are Sea (ICES) recently com- persecution in Iran.” code (Kenney voted against the bill). solidarity with ALL Iranian people by pushing us closer to climate pleted research on the five This is not the first time Kenney used The Tories also have a long history of opposing your government’s rush to in- catastrophe.
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