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| Militant/Bonita Murdoch |
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CALGARY, Alberta — Katherine LeRougetel, speaking, Communist League candidate in the upcoming provincial election from Calgary East, launched her campaign and joined in celebrating the opening of the new Communist League campaign hall here March 15. Volunteers from Montreal and Vancouver joined a weekend work party to get the hall ready.
Rally chair Philippe Tessier, a leader of the Communist League in Montreal, explained the CL decided eight months ago to expand into two branches in Montreal and Calgary. “This headquarters marks a big new step,” he said. LeRougetel extended solidarity to rail workers fighting for safety and against efforts by the bosses to cut the crew size down to just one. She called for workers to join in defense efforts for engineer Tom Harding, facing frame-up charges in the July 2013 explosion that killed 47 people in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, when an unoccupied 72-car oil train rolled down a hill and derailed. She welcomed the victory won in Alberta allowing high school students to form Gay Straight Alliance clubs, over initial opposition from the Conservative Party government. “This is an advance for the unity of all working people,” she said. Paul Mailhot, right, brought greetings from the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. |
| — JOE YOUNG |