People's Voice (newspaper)

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People's Voice

Front page of the September 2022 issue of People's Voice
Editor-in-chief	Dave McKee
Founded	March 1993; 31 years ago (1993-03)
Language	English
Country	Canada
Sister newspapers	Rebel Youth, Clarté
Website	pvonline.ca
Media of Canada List of newspapers

People's Voice (French: Voix du peuple) is a Canadian newspaper published fortnightly by New Labour Press Ltd. The paper's editorial line reflects the viewpoints of the Communist Party of Canada, although it also runs articles by other leftist voices. Established in 1993 under this name, the paper and online service have a history of ancestral publications dating to the early 1920s, when the first paper of this line was founded by the new Communist Party of Canada.

Produced in

.

History

, newspapers have been closed down, restarted, and had many name changes. The development of the "red press" is therefore more complex than normal.

Various Canadian publications printed translations of

was founded in 1921, and its leaders decided to publish a newspaper.

In 1922, The Communist was the first attempt. It was an underground publication that was harassed by the police. The paper never got off the ground and closed after only a few issues. The first successful and legal paper was launched on March 15, 1922,^[1] as a broadsheet named The Worker. During the 1930s, the paper was renamed The Clarion.

When the paper grew from a weekly into a

.

In British Columbia, the only paper distributed was the People's Advocate.^[3] Before being published as the People's Advocate, the paper also went through many changes: it was first known as the B.C. Worker's News; the first edition of that paper appeared on January 18, 1935. It was changed to the People's Advocate on April 2, 1937. It was banned in May 1940, with the successor Vancouver Clarion publishing illegally until summer 1941. The People, a newly emerged legal paper, was first published on October 13, 1942.^[4] This paper changed its name to the Pacific Tribune.

The Clarion was banned on November 21, 1939.

Shortly after being shut down by the Dominion government, the paper began printing (at first) underground under the name Canadian Tribune. The first copies were mimeographed. Officially the Canadian Tribune began on January 20, 1940.[8]^{[page needed]} The B.C paper changed its name to the Pacific Tribune to appear as a local edition. The two publications were weeklies. The Canadian edition was briefly a daily before returning to the previous weekly schedule and was later converted to tabloid format.

"The Trib", as it was known to supporters and detractors, became a standard voice of the left over several decades. It maintained a base of subscriptions in Canada and internationally that reached wider than the membership of the Communist Party of Canada.

The present incarnation of the paper began, first, with the amalgamation of the Canadian Tribune and its second Pacific edition in the early 1990s, during the internal crisis in the Communist Party. The combined paper became The Tribune. During this time, the paper became part of a legal battle and as a result, only several issues were printed. With the split in the Communist Party and the establishment of the

, two publications resulted: The New Times or "TNT" for short, was the direct continuation of The Tribune. Its publication was very short lived.

Having lost its newspaper, the Communist Party decided to start its own version of Canadian Tribune. The remaining staff still in the party began to publish People's Voice in March 1993 as a tabloid; it continues to the present.^[9] The paper was published on a monthly basis until 1998, when it began to print twice-monthly.

Long-time editor Kimball Cariou stepped down in July 2019 and was replaced by current editor and former leader of the Communist Party of Canada - Ontario, Dave McKee.^[10]

Political stance

People's Voice is openly partisan and leftist. According to its website, the paper is "carrying on the tradition of the

since 1922". Each online article is presented as coming from "Canada's leading socialist newspaper".

The print edition says that the paper reports and analyzes events "from a revolutionary perspective, helping to build the movements for justice and equality, and eventually for a

working people

—on every page—in every issue."

The paper has been sharply critical of the policies of

Palestinian people

.

During federal elections, the paper calls for a vote for the

Vancouver

.

People's Voice is the only newspaper in the world to run "

.

Key people

Editors

• Dave McKee (2019–present)
• Kimball Cariou (1993–2019)

Business managers

• Hassan Azimikor, current
• Sam Hammond, former

Editorial Advisory Board

• Ivan Byard, writer
• Kimball Cariou, writer
• Miguel Figueroa, writer
• Drew Garvie, writer
• Jeanne McGuire, writer
• Liz Rowley
  , editorial board and labour columnist
• Adrien Welsh, writer

Columnists and others

• Naomi Rankin, columnist
• Stéphane Doucet, writer
• Wally Brooker, culture writer
• Jim Sacouman, former columnist
• Sam Hammond, former labour columnist
• Darrell Rankin, former columnist
• Mike Constable, former cartoonist

Foreign correspondents

• B. Prasant, South Asian correspondent from Kolkata. A member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Prasant often contributes reportage from Latin America and Bangladesh.
• Susan Hurlick,
  Havana

See also

• Media proprietor
• Concentration of media ownership
• Propaganda model
• List of newspapers in Canada

References

External links

• Official website. Contains selected articles online as well as audio files.
• Records of Pacific Nation are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books