March 31, 1970
56th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
On the occasion of the 56th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), a Red Salute to all its members, supporters, friends and fellow-travelers. We pay deepest respects to Comrade Hardial Bains who led us to found the Party on March 31, 1970 and to all those who contributed to building it and have passed away.
Today, the Party is resolutely building a mass communist party which
brings the modern democratic personality of all individuals and the
society as a whole into being. This is the path of democratic renewal
and nation-building Comrade Bains presented in the early nineties once
it was clear that
the national and international situation showed that nobody could
continue to act in the old way. The Party identified the urgent need to
establish new forms of governance based on mass democracy and modern
definitions, not the illegitimate and no longer credible representative
democracy. A key
aspect of our work is the mobilization of the people to renew the
electoral process so that cartel parties cannot be brought to power on
the basis of the first-past-the post method of counting votes. On the
contrary, our work contributes to the creation of a system which vests
sovereignty in the
people, not the King of England to which everyone must swear allegiance.
Today, we pay attention to what the ensemble of relations between humans and humans and humans and nature increasingly reveals which is the necessity for an anti-war government under the control of the working class and people.
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Hardial Bains" ... a society such as ours is based on large-scale production in which tens of thousands of people work together to produce all the material blessings which we all enjoy. Is it not a pity that a society which entrusts these tens of thousands of working people with the production of material blessings, reduces their participation in the process of governing to one of exercising their right to vote?" Comrade Bains said when he spoke to the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing in September 1990, the last time that Canada's ruling elite dared to have a public inquiry into the matter of how the electoral system works to disempower the people.
Comrade Bains warned that if the people continue to remain outside of the decision-making process, the disillusionment and lack of confidence in the system of government would only grow. He warned that in the absence of renewal, once retrogression sets in, the conditions of life for the people within Canada and on the world scale would become worse, dangerous, unsustainable. This is the counter-revolution taking place today in which the vestiges of a rule of law from the past have been discarded. Corruption, fraud, extreme violence and use of force are used because governance has been usurped by those with power and privilege who rule using prerogative powers of the King in constitutional monarchies such as Canada, or presidents in what are called constitutional republics.
Since the mid-eighties when CPC(M-L) analyzed that no force could continue to act in the old way because the democratic institutions were no longer fit for purpose, the Party formulated alternatives including how to modernize the political process in a manner which empowers the people. In the current very dangerous situation ruling elites are creating to unleash a worldwide conflagration, the necessity is to create an anti-war government. An anti-war government must empower the people to take Canada out of NATO and NORAD and make Canada a zone for peace by abrogating all secret treaties and repudiating all international alliances and partnerships aimed at securing supranational private interests.
CPC(M-L) repudiates all attempts to embroil the peoples of the world in aligning behind the U.S. imperialists and big powers by claiming there is a third way, such as the deceptive concept of middlepowerhood that Canada's prime minister has dredged from the annals of 15th century Europe. That period, characterized by major geopolitical shifts and the rapid adoption of gunpowder technology, bridged the late Middle Ages with the Renaissance and it in no way provides a guide for what is required today. On the contrary, such bogus concepts are pushed in a desperate bid to make huge amounts of money for the world's financial oligarchs. Canada is one of the countries which is succumbing to U.S. gangster-style threats and military bullying in that country's bid to make weaker countries cower and open their economies to U.S. takeover and submit to U.S. dictate. No self-respecting country can agree with this.
CPC(M-L) opposes all attempts by the U.S. imperialists, Canada and other countries which belong to NATO and the Genocide 7, to smash all state structures which fetter their police powers so that they can act with impunity. A trial of strength with decadent reactionary ruling elites has begun in all the countries where the working class and peoples are audaciously, steadfastly, courageously resisting the counter-revolutionary agenda of the oligarchs.
On the occasion of the Party's anniversary, CPC(M-L) also salutes the Canadian and Quebec working class and people, the Indigenous Peoples and the youth of our country who have their own wisdom when it comes to taking measures which express their opposition to brutal violation of their rights and the rights of all by the ruling elites. They are also well aware that the cartel parties with seats in the House of Commons and legislatures do not represent them and they must not be given free rein to engage in nation-wrecking and the destruction of the natural and social environments. The aim of the restructuring of the state in the name of nation-building is to privatize education, health care and social programs on an ever grander scale. It is to sell out our resources on an even faster grander scale. All decisions aimed at enlarging the profits of the narrow private interests they serve, whether through war production or phony measures said to "green the economy," are destroying the environment and social fabric and embroiling Canada in dangerous war preparations.
The self-serving, corrupt character of the cartel parties is such that when they present their programs which they claim will "save Canada," they openly say that to get themselves elected, they are out to "harness" the opposition of the people to what the U.S. is doing. Their own words and deeds show they are not in the least opposed to the destructive wars, use of extreme violence and acts of genocide the U.S. is committing. On the contrary, Canada's integration into U.S. trade, energy, transportation, communications and security corridors is such that Canada's ruling elites are positioning themselves to make sure they are not outmanoeuvred as they service U.S. demands.
'For CPC(M-L), Accountability Begins at Home. Those who in Canada rule by decree trample on the rights of the workers and people, privatize health care and education, damage the social and natural environment, refuse to provide affordable housing as a right, steal the resources of the Indigenous Peoples and permit every kind of abuse against them. Those people do not oppose Trump doing the same in the United States. They will not protect us any more than they protect the peoples of the world.
All over the country, the more the Carney government and governments at other levels enact measures which harm the people's interests, the more Canadians, Quebeckers, Indigenous Peoples, minorities, migrant workers, refugees along with youth and students are speaking out in their own name. We hail their persistence in terms of the protection of the natural and social environment and the rights of all on the questions of wages and working conditions in the factories, mines and mills and every sector of the economy. In the crucial health care, education and public sectors where the conditions are getting worse, the working people are fighting for a society which defends the rights of all.
We salute their work and struggles on all fronts. Whether it be on
the environment, against war preparations, in support of the Palestinian
people's right to be, or that of the Cuban people, Iranian people and
peoples everywhere who identify who they are in the course of waging
resistance
struggles, fighting for their claims on society, for peace, freedom and
democracy and the rights of all by virtue of being human.
On the occasion of its 56th anniversary, CPC(M-L) reiterates its pledge to go all out to support the peoples of Cuba, Haiti, Palestine, Iran, Lebanon and all the countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Oceania and the working class and people of Europe and the United States with whom the people in this country share weal and woe.
We are one humanity and we are all engaged in one struggle for a world of our own making.
Long Live the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)!
This article was published in
Volume 56 Number 12 - March 31, 2026
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/TML2026/Articles/T560121.HTM
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