Saturday 23 June 2018

Interview with a Communist

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Clara Sorrenti has been described as "young, determined, (and) unapologetically communist".  Running for the Communist Party of Canada in the 2018 Ontario Provincial Election, her campaign in the riding of London North Centre has likewise been described as an "extremely energetic" uphill battle for working class solidarity in the face of a ruthless austerity regime and against a dangerously resurgent far-right. Tonight, she speaks to Back in the USSR. 

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I also want to say a few words on barbaric detention of migrant children by American authorities, something which only recently made the news when it was revealed that children were being forcibly separated from their parents by immigration agents before being detained enmasse in what amount to concentration camps for children.  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave his usual lukewarm criticism of the Donald Trump Administration and said something to the effect that “this is not the way we do things in Canada”.  Well, he’s wrong.  In recent years Canada has detained hundreds of migrant children from the Middle East, West Africa, Central America and the Caribbean.  In February 2017 the "Invisible Citizens: Canadian Children in Immigration Detention," study produced by the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto's faculty of law revealed that there were 48 children being detained at the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre alone at that time, including infants and toddlers.  Putting migrant children behind bars is not just an American phenomenon, regardless of what Justin Trudeau says otherwise.  Canada does not have clean hands and, very notably, continues to classify the United States as a “safe country” for refugees, which it is most certainly not.


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