Statement of CPC(M-L), March 31, 2021
On the occasion of the 51st anniversary of the
founding of the Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist), as we close out our jubilee
year, we send our warmest revolutionary
greetings to all Party members across the
country, to its supporters, friends and
fellow-travellers.
We greet the Canadian working class and people
with whom for 51 years and more we have shared
weal and woe, building the party of the working
class in the course of participating in every
mass movement without exception.
It is also our honour on this occasion to
express our warmest revolutionary greetings to
all our fraternal comrades all over the world
with whom we share the responsibilities which we
have in common for the victory of our common
cause.
The involvement of Party members, our class and
people and the support of fraternal comrades all
over the world have made it possible to achieve
the historic successes we are celebrating today.
On this occasion, our deepest respects go to
the memory of our founder and leader, our
comrade and friend, Hardial Bains. Comrade Bains
spearheaded the founding of the Communist Party
of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) in Montreal 51
years ago. He united the advanced forces to set
its line of march, to mobilize the broad masses
and isolate the backward elements blocking
society's path to progress. Comrade Bains
provided the Party with its defining quality.
The issue, he said, is not to wave the red flag
but to show our colour through our deeds. This
is expressed in the Party motto: The Party's Deed
Is Its Word.
To all the comrades who have passed away, our
deepest respects and profound appreciation for
their contribution.
On this occasion,
as we close out our 50th year, with utmost pride
we can repeat what we said on March 31, 1970:
There Is Such a Party! Ours is a force which
refuses to conciliate with what is old,
anachronistic and a burden on society. On the
basis of this refusal, it realizes its striving
to bring what is New into being. As the sons and
daughters of the working people from coast to
coast to coast and their fighting legacy, we can
do no less.
Today it is our honour to once again answer the
question we pose to ourselves every year: What
have we achieved? We are once again proud to say
with utmost confidence that as a result of our
work, human dignity and integrity is what we
have achieved. It is the dignity and integrity
of those who with utmost pride in their Party
and in their class, set their own agenda and
implement their own decisions!
Out of all the agenda we set for ourselves, the
creation of such a human force which takes up
for solution the problems facing the society is
the decisive one. This is a force which does not
place narrow private aims as society's agenda.
It is a force made up of human beings who, in
spite of themselves, rise above all that is
profaned. Taking up the most advanced experience
revealed by the ensemble of human relations
between humans and humans and humans and nature,
it is a force whose social project puts human
beings and their well-being at the centre of
history-making.
On this occasion we confidently declare to our
class, our women and youth: For more than five
decades we have been in the forefront of leading
those battles which are absolutely necessary so
that the society can make progress. We put the
aim of the society as the first aim of our lives
and this is what gives rise to the quality
required of a communist worthy of the name. So
long as there are people such as you and there
is a struggle against oppression, communists
such as us will be there.
Long Live Our Party!
Workers and Oppressed Peoples of All Countries,
Unite!
