Winnipeg, Manitoba: End of the Year Open House and socialist appreciation day will be.

Communist Party of Canada - Manitoba387 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg MB R2W 2M3
(204) 586-7824 - cpc-mb@changetheworldmb.ca
www.communist-party.ca

Dear Friends, Sisters and Brothers,

Our annual End of the Year Open House and socialist appreciation day will be:

Friday, Dec. 27, 3:30 to 7:00 pm
387 Selkirk Ave. (at Salter)
Buses 16 or 38
Music, guitars, poetry and dancing welcome
This holiday season, remember you can give the gift of socialism to your family and friends. We have a fine 2014 People's Voice calendar available at our office ($10, $15 mailed from here), and books, too. Phone to be sure we are here before stopping by!: 792-3371.
Another thoughtful gift is a PV sub for your child or relative who is asking lots of questions about socialism and why the working class has a historic role to achieve fundamental change. (20 issues per year, $30 or low income $15.) If you give one to your boss, you'll be promoted! - Not.

The calendar has an anti-war theme, anticipating Harper's orgy of military glorification to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War. We are against the idea that war "made" Canada, that Canada "became a nation" at the battle of Vimy Ridge - an utterly fascist idea that war is the highest expression of humanity. And it is a humiliating denial of the very existence of non-British nations in Canada, as if the workers in those nations matter not at all.

Corrupt railway barons may have thought of building Canada, but it is the workers who made this country, and they still do. As a party that was founded based on outlawed parties opposed to the First World War, this is an issue dear to our heart.

I'd also like to promote Stephen Endicott's Raising the Workers' Flag ($35). Twenty years in the writing, it is I think the best working class book in many decades. It is more than the history of the Workers' Unity League; it was written with an eye to the problems facing the labour movement and all workers today. A page-turner with stories of incredible courage against great odds!
In the spirit of the holiday season, you can also help the Communist Party and our efforts to strengthen and unite the labour and democratic movements and to advance socialism as the only realistic future for humanity. A gift donation to our party is welcome indeed and qualifies for a 75% tax credit (if you have a taxable income; the rate is reduced after $400 for both the federal party and "Communist Party of Canada - Manitoba"). Quite simply,we need your support to keep going and to grow!
Don't let capitalism get you down - Become a socialist today!

Comradely holiday and New Year's greetings,
Darrell Rankin
Manitoba office, Communist Party of Canada

Homeless man in Duluth encounters the "welcome wagon."

In Duluth, Minnesota a homeless man was threatened with arrest by a security guard for using a public bathroom too many times.

Well, I suppose we should give this homeless guy the benefit of the doubt; but, we shouldn't be too quick to jump all over this security guard--- perhaps the guard thought he was committing a crime because he thought the guy wanted to keep warm?

This guy could have just been making up the excuse that he had to pee so he could get warm.

I mean, look; society has to have some limits and restrictions on this kind of deviant behavior. People have to realize they can't just be walking into places to pee or keep warm. We need security guards, the police, the courts and politicians to protect us from such deviant behavior.

Let the guy go buy a house and he won't be homeless. I'm sure if he walked down the street he could find a kind and sympathetic lender at one of Duluth's local banks like US Bank, Wells Fargo or CITI Bank... none of these bankers are going to allow people to be homeless in the middle of the winter with sub-zero temperatures. We have compassionate capitalists at the helm in our country.