The Party's Deed Is Its WordThe Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
was founded 50 years ago based on the Necessity
for Change analysis (NfC). This analysis was
expounded by Hardial Bains in the course of a
study group held on the theme Necessity for Change
in 1967 and adopted by The Internationalists,
CPC(M-L)'s precursor organization, at a conference
held in August 1967. NfC determines that Understanding
Requires an Act of Conscious Participation of
the Individual, An Act of Finding Out. Its
adoption led to a determined and thoroughgoing
offensive against ideological subversion and block
to development through social forms and the
transformation of The Internationalists
into a Marxist-Leninist Youth and Student Movement
which took up the work to unite all
Marxist-Leninists in one party. Basing itself on
the revolutionary experience acquired by the
communist and workers' movement in Canada and
internationally, it took up the aim to build the
kind of organization which the working class
requires to open society's path to progress. The
emancipation of the working class by ending the
exploitation of persons by persons so as to
humanize the natural and social environment is at
the heart of its concern. Based on NfC, in 1995
the Party adopted a nation-building Historic
Initiative to lay the foundations for a mass
communist party created by the working class in
the course of constituting itself the nation and
vesting sovereignty in the people.
This is a program to end the marginalization of the Party so as to end the marginalization of the working class and people as those who are ruled by privileged elites and have no say over matters of concern to the society. This includes the direction of the economy as well as laws and regulations which determine what constitutes crime and punishment and matters related to war and peace. It is the duty of the communist party to ensure the working class plays its leading role so that the present crisis of thought and the anarchy and violence in which humanity is mired are resolved in favour of the people, not the rich who have usurped power by force.
The requirement is to create an anti-war government -- a form constituted by the people to provide their desire for peace, freedom and democracy with a guarantee. It requires bringing into being new forms of governance at every level which are established by the people so that their voice is heard and their decisions determine the outcome. It requires enlightenment theory as expressed by Contemporary Marxist-Leninist Thought to guide people in establishing their own reference points and elaborating modern definitions so that the historical task of democratic political renewal is accomplished.
Today, as is the case under all conditions and circumstances, the workers need an enlightened party such as ours. Such a party must be capable of finding its bearings in a manner which provides leadership on a new modern basis. This requires doing everything needed so that others can make their contribution to turn things around in their favour.
The ensemble of social relations between humans and humans and humans and nature reveal the need for people's empowerment. As the working people take up the cause of defeating the retrogressive liquidationist pressure which the bourgeoisie, imperialism and all reaction are imposing on society and on the peoples of the entire world, it is crucial for working people to speak in their own name and use their own voice to lay the claims which they must.
Today the rulers govern through their police powers only. They exercise the decision-making power to disinform the people so as to block their participation in setting the direction of the economy and making crucial decisions on matters which affect their lives. The clash between the conditions and authority must be resolved in favour of the working peoples of the world.
Cartel party governments have taken over at all levels to push the neo-liberal anti-social agenda of the international financial oligarchy. They represent a force which is corrupt, degenerate, anti-worker, anti-national and anti-social. The liberal democratic forms they espouse are anachronistic because they represent the aim set for society by privileged elites to advance their propertied interests. However, the material conditions have surpassed the ability of these interests to propel progress. They have changed tremendously from what they were during the 20th century due to the development of the productive powers of the working class on a massive scale as a result of the achievements of the scientific and technological revolution. Despite this, the authorities continue to act in the old way, as if everyone is a thing which is their private property, even the discoveries of science which belong to humanity by right along with land, air, water, space and all the products of their labour. They think they can dispose of human beings and the relations they enter into as they wish. This has created an intolerable situation which is socially and environmentally unsustainable. Most importantly, it means that the authorities which try to control the productive powers to benefit narrow private interests cannot succeed because people are not things. The results of the scientific and technological revolution are the product of humanity's labour which can no longer be contained by private interests. These private interests resort to methods which destroy the productive forces because they surpass their ability to control them. They use police powers and resort to war based on their belief that Might Makes Right.
Brute force is behind the law of slavery to which human beings have never submitted. Today humanity's greatest asset is a modern international working class which is making headway to realize its striving for peace, freedom and democracy. This modern working class requires an organized political force constituted as a Party such as ours, whose deed is its word. Such a Party provides the organization the working class needs to find its bearings so that it can sort out the problems humankind faces in a manner which favours it, not the rich who have usurped power by force.
During this overall period of retrogression in which terrible pressure is put on people to succumb to everything which is negative in the society, our Party calls on the working class, women and youth to stand firm. All together we must lay the claims on society which must be made. The act of laying these claims constitutes the human factor/social consciousness. It is the fight of the working people to enunciate and lay the claims they are entitled to make on society which humanizes the social and natural environment and brings forward the modern democratic personality.
The alternative to the status quo CPC(M-L) has put forward is its program for political renewal and a modern constitution, contained in its program Stop Paying the Rich -- Increase Funding for Social Programs. It is the program for the working class to constitute the nation and vest sovereignty in the people. What is meant by "the will of the people" will find its expression as the working class and people elaborate their own decision-making process on a modern basis. This requires affirming their right to participate in arriving at decisions and implementing them.
This will settle scores with the institutions which hypocritically say one thing and do another. It will create a modern world which belongs to those whose deeds are their word. Finally Canadians will be able to proudly say that Canada's deed is also its word.
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In this world
which worships the phrase, like all the real
problems of life, quality itself is reduced to a
phrase. But we set ourselves the task to create a
new kind of communist in the form of a modern
democratic personality by organizing the working
class and people to carry out nation-building on a
modern basis, consistent with the needs of the
times. This requires engaging in setting and
carrying out those projects which are necessary to
open society's path to progress. In all cases, the
aim is for the working class and people to empower
themselves by laying the claims which they must.
By upholding their own rights, they fight for the
rights of all.
