The Alberta NDP Has An Oddly High Number Of Pro-Communist Candidates

Whenever someone hears that a politician from the Liberal Party or NDP is a “communist” or “socialist” it is assumed to be hyperbole from an angry individual on the internet. Well the Alberta NDP seems to be trying to prove that assumption wrong by fielding several candidates in the 2023 Alberta provincial election who are, are linked to, or praise, communists/communism. 

The Western Standard has been taking the lead on reporting about communists within the Alberta NDP ranks. Western Standard reporter Jonathan Bradley released a photo of current Edmonton-Ellerslie NDP MLA Rob Loyola leading a Communist Party march in Edmonton and Calgary-North NDP MLA Gurinder Brar sharing pro-revolution and communist posts on his Facebook page. 

Loyola before he was in provincial politics performed as a communist rapper under the title “Ro Soul Jah.” His lyrics would often call for violent communist revolution.

Brar most shockingly showed himself to be a fan of Chinese Communist Party Chairman, Mao Zedong, in a post where Brar stated “Those who say armed war is not the solution, read carefully.” Mao during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution in China deliberately murdered or caused the starvation deaths of over 100 million people.

The Alberta NDP’s candidate in Calgary-Acadia, Diana Batten, retweeted a post from an overtly pro-communist Twitter account praising a diseased hacker. The account’s name was “Vote Communist May 4th” with the hammer and sickle symbol in the title.

The National Telegraphed looked into the NDP’s candidate in Calgary-East, Rosman Valencia, who quoted communist activist Angela Davis in a post insinuating that Alberta is a “racist society.” Angela Davis was a vice presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA, provided firearms for a Black Panther Party attack on a courthouse in California, and today still identifies as a socialist and pushes the anti-semitic BDS movement against Israel. 

Valencia has also cited figures like Ibram X Kendi who not only is an anti-police activist (under the guise of “anti-racism”) but also someone who is openly anti-capitalist and a Marxist. 

The other day when NDP-linked activists interrupted one of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s press conferences one of the three protesters was Patrick King, 2021 federal NDP candidate in Calgary-Signal Hill, and another, Aaron Doncaster, is an open communist and associates with Calgary ANTIFA. 

And let’s be clear, the presence of communists and socialists in the Alberta NDP is not a shocking anomaly that goes against the principles of the party. As The National Telegraph has previously covered, the Alberta NDP still has at the top of its constitutions a commitment to socialism.

The Alberta Constitution in Section 1.03 reads:

1.03 The purpose of the Party is to promote the principles of democratic socialism in Alberta and to establish and maintain a democratic socialist government in Alberta through the electoral process.

Socialists and communists in the Alberta NDP are a feature, not a bug, and if you dig far enough into other NDP candidates, even seeming moderates like Calgary-Currie NDP candidate Janet Eremenko, you will find people who have a fundamental distaste for free markets, the energy industry, and antagonize the financial success of wealthy Albertans.

Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley needs to explain why the NDP’s constitution still contains a commitment to “democratic socialism” on its first page and where these pro-communist candidates fit into the party’s caucus.

Update:

On May 17, 2023, Jonathan Bradley at the Western Standard exposed another Alberta NDP candidate who openly identifies with communism, that being Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse, running in the riding of Edmonton-Rutherford.

Stonehouse posted a link to an article with the headline “Communism is the Horizon, Queer Indigenous Feminism Is The Way” which linked to Red State which is an openly socialist news website.

On May 19, 2023 The National Telegraph reported on the Alberta NDP candidate for Peace River, Liana Paiva, who not only favours hard-drug legalization but also hates capitalism and promotes socialism and commune-style living.

Paiva is also an opponent of Alberta’s oil and gas industry and supports the carbon tax and the Chinese government’s green energy strategy.