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50th Anniversary of the Regina Conference A Decisive Event in the Political Life of CanadaThis year, in the month of May, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Regina Conference held in that city on May 7, 1969. The Regina Conference went down in history as an important preparatory step for the founding of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) whose 50th anniversary we will celebrate next year.
On this occasion the Central Committee of CPC(M-L) sends revolutionary greetings to all the activists who joined the work of The Internationalists in the 1960s and especially to those who were at the Regina Conference and participated in uniting all Marxist-Leninists from that period into one party, as well as all those who have joined this work since then. The Regina Conference defended the principle that the working class is one and it needs its own political party to elaborate its own independent aims and realize its own striving for empowerment as it constitutes the nation and vests sovereignty in the people. On this occasion, the Central Committee of CPC(M-L) also sends militant revolutionary greetings to the U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization and its leadership. The participation of the U.S. Marxist-Leninists at the Regina Conference was one of its specific features which contributed to building the strong fraternal relations between the U.S. and Canadian Marxist-Leninists which have been indispensable to building the unity between the U.S. and Canadian working class and to settling scores with the U.S. imperialists and Canada's integration into the U.S. war machine. We treasure these relations established at that time, 50 years ago, and dedicate our work to strengthening them. On this occasion we salute the work of the U.S. working class and people to speak in their own name and bring an anti-war government into being. We pledge to contribute to this work to the best of our ability. The Regina Conference led by The Internationalists had such an impact on the turn of events for the communist movement in this country that we are devoting the TML Weekly Supplement to a discussion on "The Work of The Internationalists and the Regina Conference" as well as reproducing the speech by Hardial Bains titled "The Origin of Consciousness and Social Change" delivered at the First Inter-Disciplinary Conference successfully held at the University of Windsor, February 9-11, 1996. That conference stressed that the world is going through a defining moment in social development in which the main task and content centres around the need that has objectively arisen for new and modern arrangements in all fields of life. The nature and role of consciousness was given specific treatment, underscoring the need for a consciousness which emerges out of present real life, free of all preconceived notions and synonymous with social change. This discussion is crucial for those who are taking up for solution the problems which the communist and workers' movement is tackling today.
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This month, we also
celebrate the 51st anniversary of the
reorganization of the Party's precursor organization, The
Internationalists, as a Marxist-Leninist youth and student
organization. 