25th
Anniversary of the Death of Comrade Hardial Bains
August 24,
1997 Tribute
of the Youth - Youth
for Democratic Renewal - 
Every
year, on August 24, party youth join representatives of the Central
Committee and, together with members of the local party organization,
they pay respects at the Party Memorial in Beechwood Cemetery. The
Tribute of the Youth to Comrade Bains, delivered on August 24, on the
occasion of the 25th anniversary of his loss, on August 24, 1997,
follows.
Today's youth organized under
the leadership of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), pay
profound tribute to their ever-present leader, teacher and guide,
Comrade Hardial Bains who passed away on this day, 25 years ago. We are
joined in this salute by the youth of the '90s generation who are now
educating us in the conditions of today as Comrade Bains taught them to
do. The youth of the '90s had the good fortune to
work with Comrade Bains directly at a young age. He taught them to
unite the people in action on the basis of consciously participating in
individual acts of finding out to open society's path to progress on
that basis. This is the example we follow and learn from. It is by
acting consciously, working as a collective, learning together and
taking up social responsibility that the revolutionary youth of today
are guided to acquire a world outlook consistent with the demands of
the times, as Comrade Bains always guided them to do. To humanize the
natural and social environment, our fidelity is to the relations
between humans and humans and humans and nature and to what they
reveal, which is how to empower ourselves each step of the road we have
taken.
  Comrade Bains was himself
schooled and disciplined by the mass struggle of the people of his
native Punjab at the young age of eight or nine when he engaged in
revolutionary actions of the people striving for Indian independence.
He experienced the treachery of the British and their servants in India
who made sure the people could not fulfill their aspirations for
liberation, freedom and democracy based on a system of rule which
empowered them, not those who took over the mantle of the British Raj
in 1947 when they partitioned India and in 1950 when they imposed a
Constitution on India designed to keep the people out of power.
Disciplined by the movement and its inherent demands, first in
India and then Canada where he arrived in 1959, Comrade Bains
profoundly understood the need for a revolutionary political party
capable of educating the educators and winning the working class and
people to bring about their own emancipation. The necessity to build
such a Party and the kind of Party which is needed, we also learn from
Comrade Bains. We therefore carry out all our actions on the basis of
organization and the mass ideological and political mobilization
required to achieve success. On this occasion, we
reiterate what the communist youth said to Comrade Bains in the
Farewell Message they delivered at his funeral, held on August 30, 1997
at the Convention Centre in Gatineau, Quebec, the city he resided in
and where he worked with the youth during the last decade of his life.
The Tribute of the Youth addressed Comrade Bains directly, pledging
that the youth would follow his lead by dedicating their greatest
energies to the struggle of the younger generation for the world which
is striving to come into being, as he did throughout his life.
This article was published in
Volume
52 Number 7 - August 25, 2022
Article Link:
Hardial
Bains -- A Man of Revolutionary Action
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
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