Taking Up Social Responsibility in 2020The new decade brings with it the necessity for working people to take up their individual and collective social responsibility to oppose imperialism. This means in practice to speak out and act in one's own name individually and collectively on the issues and problems facing the people, economy and society, to oppose the ruling elite of the financial oligarchy and defend the people's interests; it means not allowing the rich oligarchs to set the agenda and falsely claim they represent the people in government; and it requires the people to advance the organized movement for democratic renewal and their empowerment.
The right to conscience is a fundamental right
without which all other rights have no meaning. In
this regard, working people and their allies
condemn with the utmost contempt the defamation of
Dr. Dougal MacDonald, a lecturer at the University
of Alberta, and the attack on the right to speak
and organize initiated by reactionary forces whose
aims for society are harmful and must be opposed.
For the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) accountability begins at home, which has been the case since its founding in 1970. Speaking and acting collectively in the name of the Party means as individuals and through the Party's organizations taking measures to defend and strengthen the constant political work and to produce TML Weekly, Workers' Forum and various other publications and engage in political discussions, meetings and demonstrations. Accountability and social responsibility require that all members and supporters do everything in their power to write, distribute, finance and otherwise participate in defending and building the collective voice of the Party and strengthening its organizations. It also means contributing to making sure all others can also speak in their own names in order to find their bearings under all conditions and circumstances.
The conditions in 2020 are calling and challenging working people to play their individual and collective political role to realize their striving for empowerment and democratic renewal so they can control the decisions that affect their lives. This means participating to the best of their abilities both as individuals and collectively in the mass defence and political organizations the people are themselves building. Taking the Resistance Movement Further in 2020
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Speaking in one's
own name individually and collectively means in
practice that the interests of individuals and
collectives must be put on a par and harmonized
with the general interests of the society. The
challenge of the 21st century is to have fidelity
to the relations between humans and humans and
humans and nature and what they reveal.
Individuals are called on to speak in their own
name and defend the collective right to conscience
and to deliberate on and decide the matters which
concern their lives. The ruling elite give
themselves license to attack the people's protest
movements and criminalize ideology in the name of
high ideals. It must not pass!
Without individuals
and their collectives taking up their social
responsibilities to resist imperialism, the ruling
elite is allowed to run roughshod over the rights
that people have by virtue of being human, to
perpetuate their anti-people anti-democratic
institutions, to dehumanize the natural and social
environment, block the development of a modern
diversified economy that serves the people and
interfere in the sovereign affairs of others in
the world on the side of U.S. imperialist regime
change, aggression and war.
