Long Live CPC(M-L)!
The Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist) was declared founded on March 31, 1970 -- 53
years ago -- at a mass rally in Montreal. On this occasion, the
Central Committee sends warmest revolutionary greetings to all
Party members and supporters across the country and all friends
and fellow travelers. Our deepest respects go to the memory of
our founder and leader, our comrade and friend, Hardial Bains
who spearheaded the founding of CPC(M-L) and led it until his
untimely death in 1997. We also pay deepest respects to the
memory of all the comrades who have passed away.
Through all the twists and turns of the 1960s, '70s and '80s,
to the transition period we are experiencing today, Comrade
Bains led the communists and advanced forces to set the party's
line of march consistent with the requirements of the times,
always based on the summation of the experience of the communist
and workers' movement at home and abroad. In 1995, based on the
Party's analysis since 1985 that no force could act in the old
way as a result of the changes taking place which left the
post-World War II arrangements behind, he led the Party to
launch its Historic Initiative as a great nation-building
project. The Historic Initiative is designed to transform the
Party into a mass communist party which leads the working class
to constitute the nation and vest sovereignty in the people. It
requires settling scores with the old conscience of society
based on Covenant Thesis which introduced an unequal structure
of those who rule above those who are ruled, with the former
imposing colonial, racist values and morality onto the society
to decide what is right and what is wrong, and who is legitimate
and who is not, while the latter have no say over the decisions
which affect their lives.
On this occasion, 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, this force realizes its striving to bring a new democratic personality into being. It does so based on establishing a mass democratic method of decision-making so that everyone in the society can participate in setting the agenda for the economy and taking the decisions which affect their lives on all fronts, domestic and international. The aim is to emancipate the working class, guarantee that Canada is a Zone for Peace and that the human factor/social consciousness is activated. This will humanize the natural and social environments so that they flourish in favour of all the human beings and their collectives which exist no matter who they are, within a state structure which provides equality of membership and acts as a force to prohibit discrimination of any kind.
As the sons and daughters of the working people from coast to coast to coast and their fighting legacy, we can do no less.
Long Live CPC(M-L)!
This article was published in
Volume 53
Number 4 - March 2023
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/Articles/MS53041.HTM
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