A Woman Leader from the 1960sAs a young woman activist in the 1960s, along with so many others, I was looking for a way to change the situation: to address the injustices faced by women, workers, and students; to end the wars of aggression against Vietnam, Cambodia and Latin America; to create a better world. We organized the Students for a Democratic University, the Vancouver Liberation Front, the Red Collective, the Partisan Organization. Some of us organized unions to improve working conditions and women's liberation organizations to fight for the emancipation of women. We kept looking for the way to make a fundamental breakthrough. And, for me, it wasn't until I met Hardial Bains and many of us began to learn about the Party's work and aspirations; its commitment to seeking truth from facts, that understanding required an act of conscious participation, an act of finding out. And, as the Party has done at each important juncture since, it opened a path for us, for the Unity of Marxist-Leninists which brought activists together, strengthened the movement and captured the strivings of many youth, students and workers. It is this capacity to provide theoretical and practical leadership that has put the Party in the forefront of the progressive movement; and that continues to open the path at every stage to create the space for the working class and people to not only have their voices heard, but, through their own program and initiative, to create a world that truly meets the needs and aspirations of its members.
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