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May 25, 2010 - No. 97 42nd Anniversary of the Reorganization of the Internationalists A Decisive Event in the Political Life of Canada42nd Anniversary of the Reorganization
of the Internationalists 42nd Anniversary of the Reorganization of the Internationalists A Decisive Event in the Political Life of CanadaMay 25, 2010 marks the 42nd anniversary of the reorganization of the Internationalists into a Marxist-Leninist youth and student organization. The Internationalists, precursor organization to the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), was founded in Vancouver on March 13, 1963. The reorganization of the Internationalists, under the leadership of its founder, Comrade Hardial Bains, took place in Montreal from May 7 to May 25, 1968, a development of historic import to the political life of Canada. It marked a crucial step towards the creation of CPC(M-L) as the party of the Canadian working class, a revolutionary party capable of and dedicated to providing the struggles of the working class and people with the consciousness and organization they require to win victory.
The work of The Internationalists under the leadership of Comrade Bains sorted out the crucial issue of who decides as it pertains to the political organization of the working class and its leading role in the society and the indispensable role of consciousness and organization in the mobilization of the people to participate in finding solutions to the key problems facing the society. In an article entitled "Paying First-Rate Attention to the Need of the People for Consciousness and Organization," Comrade Bains points out the living legacy of The Internationalists: "Besides other things, in dealing with the problems of consciousness and organization, The Internationalists adopted the principle of collective work and individual responsibility, that every member has the duty to not only implement the decisions agreed upon but to also participate in arriving at them. This insistence that they must participate in arriving at decisions was considered not just a right but a duty as well. It put the individual at the centre of all developments and the organization as a means of achieving them, thereby establishing a dialectical relationship between the individual and the collective, between form and content. "[...] It was a historic moment of departure from the building of organizations on the basis of old definitions, to building them on the basis of the present and modern definitions. It became profoundly clear that The Internationalists as a political organization could only develop on the basis of political unity and political initiative, as manifested in concrete terms by their line of action with analysis and in defence of their immediate and strategic aims. Such aims were set according to the demands which arose from those conditions, for the harmonization of the general interests of society with those of the collective and individual, placing in the first place the role of the masses in ensuring that it happens. [...] "[The Internationalists] provided a framework through which everyone's word and deed could shine, realizing the tasks set for that period. This meant that as a way of life, all those in whose interest it was to make the decisions in the course of realizing their aims were mobilized. A modern way of doing things was established, linking the organization with the content, words with deeds, the individual to the highest responsibility of ensuring that nothing passes by without his/her scrutiny. A truly revolutionary and Marxist-Leninist organization was created by the individuals who wished for nothing else but the victory of the working class in its historic march for emancipation. A qualitative change took place, in both the spheres of consciousness and organization. This change was consistent with the concrete conditions and deserving of those who prided themselves for being members of the vanguard organization of the working class. "The Internationalists created another form consistent with the aim of providing the class with consciousness and organization. This was the form of mass democracy, today known as the method of mass political mobilization. It is the method of seeking the opinions of the masses in the course of work. Seeking the opinions of the masses was not an option but an obligation to the mass activism. It was the only reliable basis for the realization of any task set for the period. Bourgeois formalism, the method of spending millions of dollars by using the most modern techniques to confuse the people, gossip, character assassination, etc. were replaced with involving the people in discussion. What was to be done, how and when, emerged as on-going work under all conditions without exception. "For The Internationalists, work and mobilization constituted two categories of a single whole, interdependent on each other and on everything else. Action with analysis had the same relationship. The starting point for The Internationalists was always work, as demanded by the concrete conditions of the time. "Besides the method of mass democracy, The Internationalists carried out the work of mobilization at various levels, ensuring that all problems inside or outside the organization were sorted out on the basis of advanced positions, through criticism and self-criticism and by always keeping the aim of unity in first place. Struggle was never separated from either the on-going task of strengthening unity or from the aim of realising the immediate aims set for the period or at the cost of the strategic aim. The Internationalists placed struggle in first place. This meant putting the entire consciousness and organization in the service of the class struggle as the only basis of development in society. How should class struggle be waged and against whom and when were the most important questions which The Internationalists dealt with, on the basis of the keenness and seriousness they required. It is for this reason that everyone was called upon to participate in arriving at decisions not just as a right which belongs to them but also as a duty demanded from them by the organization. [...] "Finally, The Internationalists provided forums to the people, both internal as well as external, private as well as public, for their mobilization. Basing the organization on the principles of democratic centralism required The Internationalists to have a leading line all the time, which is presented to the masses all the time, ensuring that their level of consciousness and organization are not lowered to that of the bourgeoisie. [...] "After a period of less than two years of vigorous all-round political activity from May 1968 to March 1970, it was analyzed that all the material and technical conditions were ready to found the Communist Party. The required theoretical and political work and the organization as their integral part were ready for the founding of CPC(M-L), declared in a public meeting in Montreal on March 31, 1970." "This entire work to involve everyone in the decision-making plan, which came to be known later on as the method of maximum political mobilization, meant that the entire work always had to be based on the people according to the concrete conditions of the period. If the working class is to lead everyone in fulfilling its historic mission to create a new society, people's right to make decisions must be recognized as must the demand that so doing must be considered a duty as well." At this time, the neo-liberal anti-social offensive is creating havoc for the people and trying to negate the very existence of the working class as a class with its own aim and political program, consciousness and organization. Under these conditions, the importance of the principles of building and consolidating organization elaborated by Comrade Bains and embodied in the work of CPC(M-L) cannot be over emphasized. Otherwise, working out and achieving the pro-social aims of the working class and people will not be possible. By working out and then basing themselves on these principles, The Internationalists in their day provided themselves with the capability to meet the needs of the times and so too Party activists and the working class today must also rise to the occasion. Hands Off Pensions and Benefits! Pensions Are a Right! Attacking Public Sector Workers Generates Insecurity and Solves No Problem A press release from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) spews hatred against federal public workers and their defined-benefit pensions Owners of monopoly capital have directed the mass media and governments at all levels to prepare public opinion and conditions to destroy all defined-benefit pensions both public and private. The CFIB, a group that says it represents small and medium-sized business, is participating in the full court press against defined-benefit pensions. The CFIB joined this anti-social anti-worker crusade with the release of a questionnaire and press release called "Securing the Future." According to the CFIB, "securing the future" requires attacking the working class and the pensions it has and blocking any human-centred plans to guarantee a secure retirement for all. Instead of tackling the difficult issue of securing the future for both workers and owners of small and medium-sized enterprises in the face of monopoly right, the CFIB vents its spleen against federal public sector workers condemning what it calls "inequities between public sector [pension] plans and those in the private sector." To correct this "inequity," the CFIB does not make any serious proposals for pension security of workers and owners in the small and medium-sized business sector but rather wants to tear down the defined-benefit pensions workers have gained in the public sector. The wrecking of defined-benefit pensions for those workers that have won this benefit often after difficult strike struggles is supposed to give some satisfaction to those who have none. In fact, this attack is a planned "divide and rule" diversion to stop the development of any pro-social united movement towards solving the real problem of security in retirement for all Canadians. The CFIB press release reveals the depth of the retirement crisis in that 79 percent of 7,872 member respondents to its questionnaire admit that their businesses "do not currently offer a retirement savings plan, such as RRSPs or a Registered Pension Plan. The main reason for not offering a plan is that they are too expensive. The second most common reason is that it is too complicated to administer. This suggests that, at a time when proposals for mandatory increases to payroll taxes such as CPP/QPP premiums and benefits are being put forth, many owners simply cannot afford such pension initiatives." Instead of tackling the issue of how to fund the retirement of workers in the small and medium-sized business sector without seriously undermining those enterprises, such as proposing government guaranteed pensions for all and a renewal of the entire taxation system to stop paying the rich, the CFIB launches into a tirade against public sector workers. By doing so, the CFIB becomes just another banal voice for the rich and their monopolies to deny workers and all others their right to a secure Canadian standard retirement and contributes nothing towards a serious discussion on pension renewal.
The hatred generated against public sector and other workers with defined-benefit pensions is used to demobilize workers and stop them from uniting and launching their own program to renew the economy and solve its many problems with security in retirement for all at a Canadian standard one of the most important. The propaganda war against public sector workers is also an indirect attack on those workers in the private sector such as the heroic Vale Inco workers and USW Local 1005 at U.S. Steel Hamilton Works, who are defending the rights of all their present and new members to defined-benefit pensions against the attempts of foreign monopolies to destroy them. The CFIB is not acting as a spokesperson for small and medium-sized business but rather an organization that has been captured by the ideology of monopoly right. On the contrary, small and medium-sized business needs to unite with workers from all sectors a pro-social movement to restrict monopoly right. To survive, small and medium-sized enterprises must constantly do battle with the monopolies to which many businesses are contracted or enfranchised, with monopoly suppliers of goods and services, with the huge financial enterprises and landowners, and with the federal and provincial governments and National Assembly that actively represent the interests of the rich and their monopolies. The survival and security of small and medium-sized business at this stage in history is bound up in finding common ground with the working class in opposing monopoly right. Pensions and other general issues affecting relations between owners of small and medium-sized enterprises and their workers can only be sorted out through social programs defending the rights of all such as public systems for healthcare, education and retirement. This boils down to forcing governments to increase the scope and funding for social programs and finding new arrangements of progressive taxation that do not target and harm individuals and small and medium-sized business but rather find most of the needed social product directly from big business or from an expansion of public enterprise. To participate and make a contribution in this nation-building project, which necessarily pits public right against monopoly right, owners of small and medium-sized business have to question the established business dogma and outlook that has become outdated and no longer reflects the reality of business conditions dominated by global monopolies. All Canadians regardless of their social class should look at the reality of the economy and state as it presents itself, as a monopoly-dominated marketplace, business environment and political system that is anything but free and democratic but rather consistently serves monopoly right on every important issue. The CFIB should stop participating in nation-wrecking and generating insecurity through its attacks on the working class. Workers are not the source of their problems. No problem in modern Canada can be solved by victimizing the working class. Small and medium-sized businesspeople should look at the real source of the major problems they and the country face, which primarily originate with domestic and global monopolies and their monopoly right to run roughshod over the rights of all others. Quebec Eastern Communities Reject the Baseless Declarations of Support from "Builder" Jean Charest
During Quebec Premier Jean Charest's visit to the Iles-de-la-Madeleine on May 1 to mark the start of the lobster fishing season, the people there denounced his arrogance in coming to tell them he supported them in light of the crisis which is seriously affecting eastern Quebec. The Madelinots directly confronted him. The Premier dared to say: "I am especially proud to be among the Madelinots and to celebrate with them the new lobster fishing season in this exceptional setting, which makes the archipelago a maritime jewel and very important tourist attraction in Quebec." A government communique states that the premier reiterated the support of his government for the development of fishing, such as sea farming and agriculture in the Iles-de-la-Madeleine, both with respect to primary products and processed products. This is crass arrogance, given the real situation, and proof of the total recklessness of the Liberal government. In the Iles-de-la-Madeleine, ex quay prices for lobster have dropped by 17 percent. Current prices are $3.57 per pound compared to $4.29 last year. In eastern Quebec, crab quotas have been cut in general, and in the Gaspé the crab quotas have been cut by 64 percent. The factories will operate for two to three weeks at most. Lobster fishing is good, but the price has dropped by 40 cents a kilogram since 2009. The people are angry. In agriculture, the general crisis of capitalism and the refusal of the government to come to the aid of the farmers is causing further destruction of the sector. In fact, the Charest government has instituted draconian cutbacks to the Financière agricole du Québec (FADQ), the government body that provides farmers with financial aid. More than 600 farms are at risk of disappearing in eastern Quebec if the Quebec government does not drop its reform of the insurance stabilization program, a program that ensures a stable revenue to farmers so that they can continue their operations. The program is funded 60 percent by the government and 40 percent by the participating farmers. The government has changed its method of calculating financial aid, by removing the 25 percent least cost-effective or less productive farms from its calculations. The farmers say that access to the FADQ must be improved. They find that too many criteria restrict access to this financial aid. While 600 farms face an accute risk of closure, it's necessary to realize that the situation is critical for the majority of farms. Their rates of indebtedness are very high throughout Quebec. They have little or no working capital (i.e., cash assets). They are funded through the FADQ. In eastern Quebec, the farmers who are most affected are the beef and lamb producers, followed by pork producers. The crisis is having repercussions in the slaughterhouses. The meatpacking plant Centre de transformation des viandes in Saint-Gabriel near Rimouski has temporarily stopped its operations for three weeks. In the pulp and paper industry, the F.F. Soucy mill in Rivière-du-Loup, which used to employ more than 200 workers, is closed and about to be sold to the U.S. company White Birch, owned by Peter Brant. White Birch owns two other mills in Quebec, Stadacona in Quebec City and Papiers Masson in the Outaouais. In the wind energy sector, the Marmen company of Matane is preparing to resort to shared work to remain active. Marmen produces wind turbine blades as well as the structures that support the blades and generator. Orders are scarce and projects are not starting up due to lack of funding. Northland Power in the Gaspé has also slowed down its production. This affects close to 1,000 jobs in the Gaspé. Innergex is planning a wind farm at Rivière-au-Renard. Another wind energy enterprise, 3Ci, wants to build two 25-megawatt wind farms near Murdochville. Northland Power is proposing a 25-megawatt project near La Marte and Marsoui in the Haute-Gaspésie. But none of these projects has yet to come into being. In the forestry sector, the announcement of $100 million from the federal government to help out the sector is not enough and solves nothing. Even the forestry companies have discredited Lebel, the federal Minister of State for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, for such a timid intervention. Action-Chômage Kamouraska which serves the Lower St. Lawrence, the Gaspé and the North Shore, is facing cuts to its federal financial aid. Its survival is at stake. Both the population and union centrals have made their protests heard. Action-Chômage responds to 1,700 requests related to unemployment per year. The destruction of various industrial sectors in eastern Quebec is a daily tragedy for the workers and their communities. The measures announced by the federal and Quebec governments are illusions and fail to hide the fact that they are abandoning the regions to their fate because they do not believe that they are part of "winning sectors". The empty promises and phony measures of the governments cannot hide the fact that this destruction is part of a deliberate plan of the "builders" -- in the service of the powerful and their nation-wrecking. This must not pass! 52nd Anniversary of African Liberation Day History of African Liberation DayTML is posting below an item from the website www.africanliberationday.net on the history of African Liberation Day which is commemorated annually on May 25 which this year marks its 52nd anniversary. For worldwide events, visit the aforementioned website. ***African Liberation Day (ALD) was founded in 1958 when Kwame Nkrumah [Ghana's first Prime Minister] convened the First Conference of Independent States held in Accra, Ghana and attended by eight independent African states. The 15th of April was declared "African Freedom Day," to mark each year the onward progress of the liberation movement, and to symbolize the determination of the people of Africa to free themselves from foreign domination and exploitation. Between 1958 and 1963 the nation/class struggle intensified in Africa and the world. Seventeen countries in Africa won their independence and 1960 was proclaimed the Year of Africa. Further advances were made with the defeat of U.S. imperialism in Asia and the Caribbean. Imperialism responded to this tide of victories by assassinating revolutionary leaders and sending U.S. troops to Viet Nam. On the 25th of May 1963, thirty-one African Heads of state convened a summit meeting to found the Organization of African Unity (OAU). They renamed African Freedom Day "African Liberation Day" and changed its date to May 25th. Since then, the world has witnessed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, the U.S. invasion of Cuba, the U.S. move to crush liberation movements in Asia, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan; the overthrow of the Democratic Party of Guinea, the U.S. invasion of Grenada, the U.S. bombing of Libya, and the overthrow of Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso. This period had marked a temporary setback for the Pan-African movement and since 1966, was characterized by a lull in ALD activities. Neo-colonialism was imposed upon the people as the new stage of the capitalist, imperialist strategy in Africa. Out of the intensification of the nation/class struggle, a new generation of African youth emerged and reaffirmed their African personality, history and their Pan-African objectives. This youth was the product of Malcolm X, Sister M'balia Camara, Patrice Lumumba, Frantz Fanon and the countless generations before them. Links were made and maintained with Kwame Nkrumah. Understanding the need for clear and precise ideological and organizational direction for the Pan-African movement, Nkrumah published Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization (1963), Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare (1968), and Class Struggle in Africa (1970). The ideas of Nkrumah infused the Black Power Movement (1960-1972). Nkrumah taught us, "The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution." In 1970 the Pan-African Secretariat of Guyana made the call for the celebration of ALD in the western hemisphere. In response, a large demonstration was held in Georgetown, Guyana and smaller celebrations in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The Pan-African movement was once again on the verge of taking a mass revolutionary character and educating and organizing the people. By 1971 Pan-Africanism had become the dominant discussion in every factory, home, school and church in the African world. In the 1990s, as a result of the people's struggle, we have witnessed the defeat of apartheid, the heroic decision of the OAU to break UN sanctions against Libya, and the Congo victory by pro-African forces over imperialist proxy forces, making an advance toward Nkrumah's call for an African High Command and representing a healthy day in line with the African Union. The African Union, and Africa's first continental holiday, "Africa Day," are clear signs that the struggle for African Unity will not stop until victory is achieved. Today African Liberation Day is a permanent mass institution in the world-wide Pan-African movement. As an institution, it is stronger today because the masses of African people are stronger and ALD is their day. As a day of work in the area of political education and organization, it reflects the fact that we have not obtained our freedom, and thus it is a day to reaffirm our commitment to Pan-Africanism, the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism. At ALD we also deepen our understanding of other just struggles and affirm our role in the world socialist revolution. ALD has but one direction, forward to a unified socialist Africa. It is growing as the level of awareness about Pan-Africanism and the primacy of Africa grows. It is growing as progressive and revolutionary organizations grow. And lastly, it is growing as the masses make increasing victories against capitalism, neo-colonialism, racism, and zionism. Brazil Lead Up to ElectionsThe governing Workers' Party (PT) of Brazil, with a little over 1.3 million members, has to date participated in five presidential elections since its founding -- exactly 30 years ago -- in which it has promoted its leader and founder, trade unionist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, winner of the 2002 and 2006 presidential elections. This time, it is nominating as candidate Dilma Rousseff, former chief of staff to the president. She was officially announced by unanimous decision on February 20 during the 4th National Congress of the PT.
Speaking during the event, President Luiz Inacio "Lula" Da Silva made it clear he approved of the PT's candidate. "There is nobody in Brazil today more prepared to govern the country than Dilma Rousseff." In response, the candidate said, "My party has given me an honorable task. I never thought that life would hold such a challenge for me." The 61-year old former guerrilla fighter has demonstrated her worth and executive capacity in heading up Brazil's ambitious economic growth program, which has shielded the country from being seriously affected by the current world financial and economic crisis. Without question, if she is elected, she will continue along the lines of the current government, to the benefit of the great dispossessed masses. Dilma Rousseff is determined to follow "the path that Lula showed us," as her main presidential campaign slogan goes, although hers is focused on making much more progress on public health and education policies; expanding and improving existing social programs; combating corruption, and preserving the nation's macroeconomic stability. With a political career that began in her youth, the PT candidate has occupied important offices in national administration, as minister of energy from 2003 to 2005, and as president of the executive board of Petrobras, the state oil company. The PT candidate is backed by her successful work and by the well-known administration of President Lula, who enjoys a high rate of 80% popularity, a rare achievement in Brazilian politics. Undoubtedly, those who approve of Rousseff's aspirations do so on the basis of the current expansion of the Brazilian economy, which has lifted almost 20 million people out of poverty, and which aims to create more than 1.5 million new jobs in 2010. The candidate also has growing party support, not just from the PT but also from the Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PDMB), the top national political alliance, which has reaffirmed that it will close ranks behind her. Meanwhile, her main rival, José Serra, mayor of the populous state of Sao Paulo, and the candidate of the centrist coalition made up of the Social Democratic Party of Brazil (PSDB), the Socialist Popular Party and the Democrats, is a politician whose ideology is social-democratic. Successor to former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, he is known for having occupied important political offices, such as federal deputy (1986-1994), senator (1994-2002), minister of planning (1995-1996), and minister of health (1998-2002). The Brazilian electorate will thus be choosing between Rousseff, the proposal of the center-left, which has demonstrated its effectiveness during these eight years of Lula's mandate, and the option represented by the Sao Paulo mayor. In the end, the people will have the last word. Honduras Activist of National Front of Popular Resistance Killed
Gilberto Alexander Nunez, 27, activist of the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP) in Honduras was killed when he was returning home after participating in a teacher's demonstration. According to Vos el Soberano, Nunez was member of the FNRP's safety and discipline committee and had received several death threats. After taking part in a teacher's demonstration in front of the Congress, Nunez went to his place in the south of the capital Tegucigalpa where he was attacked by two individuals wearing ski masks and armed with heavy weapons. His friend Jose Andres Oviedo, 26, also lost his life in the attack. Nunez had announced to the Committee of Relatives of the Detained-Disappear (COFADEH) in Honduras he had received death threats and had been chased and otherwise harassed, Prensa Latina reports. Dozens of members of the National People's Resistance Front (FNRP) in Honduras have been killed since the coup of past June 28 against Zelaya's government. TML condemns the killing of activists, journalists and other progressive people in Honduras who are part of the broad forces striving to ensure that the Honduran people exercise control over their destiny, free from outside interference. The killings of peaceful activists and others by masked thugs is nefarious activity of the worst kind. Even without apprehending the culprits to know who is ultimately responsible, such assassinations can only benefit the hidebound oligarchs and others in the service of U.S. imperialism. Such killings are reminiscent of the not too distant past in which U.S. imperialism and its puppets in Latin America and the Caribbean carried out all manner of crimes against the people. The peoples of Honduras and the world over will never permit this criminal activity to be re-established in Honduras or elsewhere. Cuba Torontonians Say "Cuba, We Are With You!"   On Saturday, May 22 2010, Torontonians staged a militant demonstration at the Cuban Consulate in Toronto called by CPC(M-L), the Toronto Forum on Cuba, the Latin American Solidarity Network and others to express support for the Cuban Revolution and to counter a demonstration by the enemies of the Revolution, who mobilized their forces and resources against the Cuban people and government on the shameful anniversary of U.S. imperialism's imposition of a neo-colonial regime on Cuba on May 20, 1902. The participants in the action first of all affirmed the long standing fraternal unity between the Canadian people and the Cuban people who are fighting the same domination of U.S. imperialism in the Americas and in the world. Speakers included a representative of the local Muslim community Zafar Bangash, Tamara Hansen, co-chair of the Canadian Network on Cuba and local representatives of the Latin American community and Cuba solidarity groups. One of the main points made by the speakers at the demonstration was that the Cuban Revolution has the broad sympathy of the Canadian people and that this will continue into the future. Another theme of the demonstration was opposition to the use of Canadian soil as a base for disinformation and anti-Cuban activities to isolate and slander the Cuban people, their leadership and their Revolution. The demonstrators loudly and militantly denounced the arrival and presence of a small group of anti-Cuban fascists and anti-communist elements who had come to "protest human rights" violations in Cuba and to support the restoration of capitalist "freedom" under U.S. dictate in Cuba. The speakers also highlighted the humanitarian assistance Cuba has rendered selflessly since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1 1959, including the training of foreign doctors and nurses, selfless assistance rendered to many of her Caribbean neighbours during periods of natural crisis especially in Haiti during the most recent earthquake, and the support and assistance to Revolutionary Venezuela and other countries in Latin America and the world. It was also pointed out that Cuba's defence of socialism and independence has been a source of inspiration to all forces fighting for self-determination and independence and a living example that there is an alternative to Anglo-American imperialism and this is why the U.S. imperialists have tried over and over to organize regime change in Cuba.
Shouting slogans such as "Cuba Si, Yankee No!"; "Free the Cuban Five" and others, the action won the broad support of passing motorists who raised their fists and honked their horns. At the end of the demonstration the participants gathered to have informal discussion and affirm their determination to step up their support of revolutionary Cuba and all the fighting forces in the Americas and to resolutely oppose all the attempts of the U.S.-funded and organized reactionary anti-communist elements in the United States and Canada to isolate and attack Cuba and its people. CIA's German Friends Behind
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The assault on the rights
of public sector workers and
others in the private sector who have defined-benefit pensions is an
attack on the right of all Canadians to security in retirement. By
making a hostile issue of those workers who presently have
defined-benefit pensions and whether those workers pay enough
for their pensions, the CFIB and mass media are trying to pit one
section of the people against another and stop any positive motion
towards discussing and framing proposals for pro-social economic
renewal and the resolving of such problems as security in retirement
for all.
For those who are not familiar
with the Berlin-based
foundation on Klingelhöferstrasse, this forum on Cuba, with the
enigmatic title of "Cuba-EU policy: between pragmatism and values,"
could seem legitimate.