Montreal action for climate justice,
November 6, 2021
As we head into the third year of
the COVID-19
pandemic, the inability of liberal democracies
all over the world to
unite their populations behind a social project
has come into sharp relief. Entering the New
Year, the Communist Party
of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) has put forward the
call to Make
Way for Renewal.
This marks the beginning
of the fourth decade of direct contest between
the masses of the people
and an increasingly degenerate and corrupt
ruling elite on the issue of
what constitutes democracy. Who occupies the
space for change which exists objectively
persists as the field of
contention.
In
a bid to control the situation characterized by widescale anarchy and
violence, the U.S., with countries like Canada in tow, has now launched
a major offensive claiming it is defending true democracy against the
dangers of totalitarianism, authoritarianism and the like. Unable to
control the factions fighting over the decision-making powers within
the U.S. itself, the Biden administration is concentrating executive
powers in ever fewer private hands to say it represents the union
against the warring factions and advance the U.S. striving for world
domination. Descriptions of what U.S. democracy stands for are also to
divert the people's striving for empowerment while criminalizing their
resistance struggles.
Canada is an integral part of this desperate
attempt to
forestall
the collapse of the democratic institutions by
concentrating powers in
the Office of the Prime Minister. This can be
seen
in the number of mandates issued via
orders-in-council, the lame role
assigned to Parliament and the fact that Canada
marches in lockstep
with the Biden administration at this time.
The
year 2021 was a difficult one with the worsening
of the COVID-19
crisis and 2022 has begun plagued by
difficulties. Within this, the
workers and people are expressing their social
solidarity with one another by acting
responsibly to prevent the spread
of the COVID-19 pandemic and trying to make sure
they are not
overwhelmed by the confusion and difficulties.
Once again, workers are asserting what was
revealed to all in 2021,
that they are the essential force in producing
goods and delivering
services in the most perilous of circumstances
and in
protecting the health and safety of the people,
often at the cost of
their own health and safety.
This key role could
lead to even greater achievements if it were
supported by the state and governments. However,
state institutions and
governments at every level persist in attempting
to stifle any initiative on the part of workers
and to silence them by
governing strictly through executive orders.
This allows the rulers to
transform the workers' living and working
conditions at will, particularly by continuing
to wage an anti-social
offensive in the fields of health care,
education, social services and
matters related to the supply chain for food and
other
necessities of life. Workers are being deprived
of any control over
their working conditions even though they are
the people's first line
of defence.
The pandemic has also revealed the
incredible gulf that exists
between rich and poor countries as millions upon
millions of human
beings are excluded from treatment for the
coronavirus. This particularly heinous example
of the
super-exploitation of the countries of Asia,
Africa, Latin America and
the Caribbean further aggravates the crisis,
rendering it even
more out of control. The irrationality of an
authority that claims it
can resolve the crisis by disempowering the
workers and peoples and
suppressing their voices while deepening the
inequality in even the most basic living
conditions, has caught the
imagination of workers and toiling people the
world over who are
demanding fundamental economic, political and
other
changes.
A radical change
of course is also being demanded by the peoples
of
the world for the humanization of the natural
and social environment,
in particular for the resolution of the climate
crisis. The year 2021 witnessed its destructive
impacts worldwide,
including right here in Canada with
unprecedented devastation caused in
British Columbia first by forest fires, then
floods
and now extreme cold. The failure of government
to forewarn the people,
prepare and protect them shall forever remain
engraved on people's
minds.
The unprecedented productive forces
generated within the socialized
economy are being destroyed by the narrow
private interests in control
of the economy and decision-making powers
of governments at all levels. Those with
privilege and power approach
any activity through the narrow lens of private
profit for a tiny
supranational rich minority. As the conflict
between
authority and conditions becomes increasingly
acute, anarchy and
violence prevail and the situation appears out
of control. This was
seen most dramatically at the COP26 conference
in
November, where the oligopolies and their
governments put forward their
pay-the-rich schemes to extract super profits by
"greening the economy."
Again, as in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic,
what is
excluded is
the mobilization of the human and natural
resources of each country in
a way that puts the needs of the people in
first place, beginning with their need to be the
decision-makers in all
matters of concern to them. It is the people and
society that will pay
the price, including through the worsening of
the
climate crisis. Thousands of people made their
voices heard through
mass mobilizations during the COP26 conference
and demanded action to
counter climate change.
Work of CPC(M-L) in 2022
In 2022, the Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist) is
focused
on involving people in the work to renew the
political process through
their own empowerment. Our publications
will continue to inform everyone from coast to
coast to coast of the
people's living and working conditions and the
struggle they are waging
and lessons to be learned. They will continue to
elaborate the significance of the work of
providing modern definitions,
especially when it comes to the battle for
democracy and the battle of
democracy.
The Party's
Workers' Centre will continue developing a news
agency
by activating the workers themselves to provide
information about their
working conditions and their concerns and to
speak out. This work will continue to play a
decisive role to
strengthen unity in action in an organized form
in the struggle for
rights -- justice for the cause of the
Indigenous people to
uphold hereditary rights and be compensated for
crimes committed
against them in the past and present and for
migrant workers, refugees,
immigrants, injured workers as well as women,
youth and students, the homeless, and
impoverished. It will also pay
attention to the striving for people's
empowerment by bringing into
being an anti-war government and making Canada a
zone for peace.
So too first-rate attention will
continue to be paid to involving
the youth in building the organizations they
need to achieve success in
their work of humanizing the natural and social
environment so as to build a bright future for
themselves.
CPC(M-L)
wishes everyone success in their endeavours in
2022 and is at their
disposal to the best of its abilities.
This article was published in
Volume 52 Number 1 - January 9, 2022
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2022/Articles/M520011.HTM
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
