New Year's Greetings
Congratulations for the Achievements in 2019 --
All Out for Success in 2020!
CPC(M-L) New Year's Gathering, Toronto, December
29, 2019.
On the occasion of the New Year, the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist) sends militant revolutionary
greetings to all Party members, sympathizers and
friends, and wishes all the members and party
organizations at every level and mass
organizations of the workers, women and youth
success in all their endeavours in the coming
year.
Across the country on the occasion of the New
Year, the Party is organizing get-togethers to
celebrate what the forces fighting for change
achieved together in 2019 as we united our efforts
to defend the rights of working people, women,
youth and Indigenous peoples and to Make Canada a
Zone for Peace, and did our utmost to develop the
anti-imperialist solidarity with the peoples of
Asia, Africa and especially our responsibility
towards the peoples of Latin America and the
Caribbean. It is important to celebrate our
achievements won in the course of facing many
challenges and prevailing over them.
On this occasion, the CC of CPC(M-L) also extends
greetings to the Communist Party of Cuba and its
first secretary General Raul Castro and to the
Cuban people and their president Miguel Díaz-Canel
and our sincere congratulations on the occasion of
the 61st anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. We
pledge to contribute our efforts to the defeat of
the brutal blockade the U.S. is tightening against
Cuba and for the return of Guantánamo. We once
again express our profound appreciation for the
contributions of Comrade Fidel Castro and his
fidelity to principles which, as he said, are
worth more than life itself.
 
We salute all the peoples of Our America who
continue to uphold the revolutionary interest in
the difficult conditions of today. We pledge to do
our utmost to make sure Latin America and the
Caribbean are a zone of peace and that Canada
cannot be used as a base to undermine the peoples'
striving for peace, democracy and freedom.
 Our greetings also
to the working people of all the countries
fighting for their rights. We salute the U.S.
working class and people who are waging historic
fights by upholding their anti-war consciousness
and tradition in today's difficult conditions and
their fight for the recognition of the rights of
all. Based on their own thought material, by
speaking in their own name and upholding the
values they espouse against those of the ruling
class, we wish the people of the U.S. success in
the coming year as the elections become the
greatest assault on their conscience and
collective rights and action.
In Britain, the ruling class got the majority it
wanted out of the general election but this will
not sort out any problem. Whether or not Britain
leaves the European Union or stays, the economy is
caught in the grip of the raging competition
between one faction and another of the narrow
private interests which are striving to dominate
the world today. The so-called One Nation politics
of the Conservative Party are for purposes of
claiming the consent of the governed to rule with
impunity. It will not pass! We salute the peoples
of England, Scotland and Wales who persist in
raising the demand for an anti-war government and
the recognition of the rights of all. We also
salute the Irish people and their fight for the
reunification of Ireland which we are confident
will prevail.
On this occasion we also salute the millions of
workers in France who have been on strike for the
last three weeks. They have broad support as they
oppose the new proposed law to change their
pensions and increase the retirement age. All
power to all those who have persisted in their
protests throughout the year. Just like in 1789
when the people stormed the Bastille, the people
of France are striving to take control of the
affairs of society and not just beg the ruling
elite for this or that concession. The ruling
elite has captured the state to siphon off all the
wealth produced by the toil of people and plunder
the resources of nature while wrecking the social
and natural environments. The French working class
has shut down France showing they are quite
capable of running the affairs of society and
instituting a modern democracy where the
distribution of wealth and use of resources are
human-centred and society affirms the rights of
all.
Paris, December 28, 2019
We salute the workers everywhere in Europe and
Oceania whose demands underscore the need of the
times to abolish the system of party rule which
has become as historically obsolete as the
financial oligarchy is superfluous, a drain on
society which neither humans nor nature can
afford. In 2020, the struggles of the peoples to
defeat all attempts to rule with impunity and
through police powers in the name of high ideals
are sure to make headway.
In India and abroad, protests against the Citizenship
Amendment
Act (CAA) and National Register of
Citizens (NRC) continue. In many places, the
police are rampaging, looting, killing people and
destroying homes. The Indian state has unleashed a
campaign of terror to quell the revolt and scare
people who are defying its lawlessness. Plans to
bring in a register of citizens aim to expropriate
from the people what belongs to them by right and
to force upon them the need for a piece of paper
to prove they are human beings in a society where
they have lived since time immemorial and where
oral traditions are still dominant. It is a
travesty of justice and humanity. The Indian
cabinet approved more than a billion dollars for a
National Population Register, the first step
towards a NRC. It is a win-win for the ruling
elite when more than a billion dollars will be
handed over to Tata, Ambani, Naryanmurthy or
another data company to attack the people. In the
meantime, there are videos showing detention
centres built for "illegal" people where they are
to provide free labour to the big companies as is
done in the U.S. Procomm, a company that runs call
centres from prisons in the U.S., was being used
by businessman Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of
New York City, for his election campaign, until it
was exposed. India, like all the countries saddled
with the system of so-called representative
democracy to keep the people out of power, is past
master at using disinformation, deception and
fraud as the modus operandi of the
ministers and leaders of parties which form the
cartel party system. During the first war for
Indian independence in 1857, the people of India
raised the call: Hum Hain Iske Malik Hindustan
Hamara -- We the People are the owners
of India. It belongs to us. What they
aspired to achieve at that time, they continue to
fight for today.
 So too, the people
of Kashmir are engaging in unprecedented acts of
bravery to end the occupation of Indian forces. We
salute them as we also salute the Palestinian
people and the peoples of all the countries
subject to occupation and cruel sanctions which
are acts of war in the name of high ideals. May
the just cause of the peoples of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea, Syria, Iran,
Venezuela, Afghanistan, and Iraq, among others,
prevail.
In Canada, this past year has been marked by an
advanced consciousness on the part of the working
people, Indigenous peoples, youth and women that
it is up to them and their collectives to make
sure political action is taken to defend the aims
of their movements for the realization of their
demands. We have seen in even sharper relief the
deepening of the crisis of the existing
institutions which rule through the use of police
or arbitrary prerogative powers on behalf of the
oligarchs. The working people have not just seen
this but have responded with their own organizing
and by speaking in their own name.
Vancouver, January 16, 2019
Looking at the 2019 photo review across Canada
that TML Daily
has been posting, we can see the growing political
resistance of the people to all the attacks of the
rich and their governments. The year began with
the offensive against the Wet'suwet'en and the
response from coast to coast to coast in support
of their right to decide what takes place on their
territory. Since then, on every front, the battle
for democratic renewal is raging. At the heart of
it is the affirmation of the right of the working
people, the Indigenous peoples, the women, youth
and all national minorities and people from all
walks of life to a say in the decisions which
affect their lives.
The only accomplishment of the ruling class is to
further enrich the rich. Its inability and
disinterest to tackle the profound problems of the
economy and the fact that they have become
superfluous is evident in their brutal demand that
people must fend for themselves and in the fraud
that a healthy economy is measured by the rich
getting richer, not by the well-being of society
and its members. The basic aim of the financial
oligarchy leads it to seize the reins of power
directly to tailor domestic and foreign policy to
making businesses competitive on the global market
and to strive for spheres of influence which it
controls, not the peaceful coexistence of nations
or the fraternal unity of peoples. It has led to
the destruction of the modern nation-state, NATO
aggression, conflicts, global poverty, starvation
and environmental destruction.
Trois-Rivières rally in solidarity with locked-out
Bécancour aluminum workers, May 25, 2019.
But the facts do not end there. This particular
historical period is characterized by the fact
that all old forms and institutions no longer
function while new ones have yet to be created to
replace them. This also means that a trial of
strength with the ruling class is in the making on
the fundamental question of whether or not the
path for the progress of society will be opened.
The rulers are striving to keep themselves in
power, whatever the cost to society, while the
people see that governments only fulfill
obligations towards the international financial
oligarchs. In all earnest, working people
nationwide are beginning to tackle the need to
change the direction of the economy and make sure
the political superstructure looks after the
well-being of all.
 We are
living in difficult times but also exciting times.
The face of the New can be seen in the demand of
the working class and other working people that
society must provide for all.
Let us exchange views with one another, share the
highlights of the year's activities and see what
plans we can put in place for the coming period.
We thank you all for your support in the past
year. Most importantly, together we appreciate the
contributions each and every one of us makes to
the movement for the emancipation of the working
class as it fights for peace, freedom and
democracy.
On behalf of CPC(M-L), we wish everyone success
in their work and pledge to play our role as best
we can. We are confident that all of us together
are a formidable force which can make the headway
the times are calling on us to make.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 1 - January 1, 2020
Article Link:
New
Year's Greetings: Congratulations for the
Achievements In 2019 -- All Out for Success in
2020!
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