Celebrate 57th Anniversary of Founding of The Internationalists

The Vibrant Legacy Inherited by CPC(M-L)

Under the leadership of Hardial Bains, The Internationalists was founded at the University of British Columbia on March 13, 1963. The uninterrupted advance of The Internationalists led to the founding of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) in Montreal on March 31, 1970. The achievements of The Internationalists in preparing the subjective conditions for CPC(M-L) became the legacy inherited by the Party and remains so to this day.

The Internationalists has significance in the life of the Party today because its positions and program were based on the actual conditions of the country. The organization worked out theory in the course of the struggle to change those conditions. The Internationalists relied on the working class to set the aim to resolve the crisis in its favour in every period so as to open society's path to progress. Any deviation or opposition to the fundamental positions would have led to the destruction of The Internationalists and to CPC(M-L) as well.

Militant defence of its independence and to think for itself are important legacies CPC(M-L) inherited from The Internationalists. The insistence of the Party to think for itself in opening the path for its work and not to depend on or bow down to this or that analysis from any other quarter ensured that both The Internationalists and CPC(M-L) could pass through extremely complicated periods successfully without compromising their principles and fundamental positions or merging with the fad of the day.

During the sixties, one fad was to pick up this or that idea and turn it into a document and seek unity on that basis. Another one was to blindly follow the Soviet Union and other countries without carrying out an independent analysis of the conditions of the country in which the Party was operating and thinking for itself. The necessity was and continues to be to this day for Parties to examine other countries from an angle that can advance the movement of the working class and allies in the country where they are operating and the workers of all lands. No struggle could be successful if based on the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, Yugoslavia or any other country and not on a concrete analysis of Canada. Such an independent stand and thinking for itself stood the Party in good stead.

This can be seen at the present time. The legacy of militant defence of its independence and thinking for itself means the Party stands firmly on its own two feet and is capable of finding its bearings in the complicated circumstances that characterize this historical turning point in which old forms have passed away and new forms have yet to be brought into being.

Those who live off the thinking of others and succumb to the official state disinformation can provide nothing vibrant nor inspire the working people to march on and build the New. Sooner or later those who mouth what they hear from the old forces collapse. Such is the case of those who eke out a living repeating phrases, refuse to analyze the unfolding events and fail to implement the Party's positions, line and guides to action in a living way.

50th Anniversary of CPC(M-L)

CPC(M-L) is celebrating the 57th anniversary of the founding of The Internationalists within the context of the coming celebration of the 50th anniversary of its own founding. The Party has its program for renewal at this time to ensure it remains consistent with the concrete conditions of today. The Party inherited this quality from The Internationalists, to always base its political action on its own analysis of the national and international situation without succumbing to the lure of an idea. This quality can be found in the fullness of the analysis of the present period found in the pages of TML Weekly and Workers' Forum and its political action program to Stop Paying the Rich; Increase Investments in Social Programs!

As the conditions have changed, so have the analyses and political programs, while the theory known as Contemporary Marxist-Leninist Thought that The Internationalists began to work out in its day has become all the more powerful. The role played by theory can be seen in the work in different spheres. The Internationalists and the Party have been able to use the organizing and mobilizing power of Contemporary Marxist-Leninist Thought, which has developed as work on the theoretical front has gained experience and expertise over the past 57 years. Theory develops as it illuminates a path forward for the ongoing work based on the conclusions drawn from the unfolding new experience gained here in Canada and by the international working class in all spheres of work.

The working class is the class of the here and now and the future. Its work is to lead the struggle to emancipate the working class and to create a new society without exploitation of persons by persons. The dogmatism and phrase-mongering of the obsolete classes and parties that call themselves democratic but form a reactionary cartel to keep the people out of power, can be seen in their double-talk during elections and their promises to provide problems with solutions, which they never keep. They base themselves on the dogmatic false ideological belief that theirs is the ultimate system humans are capable of developing and the final form of democracy.

In hailing the work of The Internationalists, CPC(M-L) draws attention to some of its salient features. These were not worked out in a dogmatic fashion from ideas but according to the conditions and analysis of the times as they developed, and by taking into consideration conclusions that have been added to theory. By doing so, the practical politics and summing up of the work enriches the theory making it applicable to the contemporary conditions.

More than ever before, the practical politics, and not adherence to this or that "ism," are crucial to achieve a definite aim the people define. The concretization of a line of march takes place only in the course of political work -- the practical politics -- which refers to the work to vest the sovereign decision-making power in the people whose representatives are not elected officials who toe a party line. Today, real political power is wielded through executive offices and police power, through a fictional person of state that rules over the majority of the people on behalf of the alien class interests of a minority.

CPC(M-L) greets the 57th anniversary of the founding of The Internationalists and all those members who participated in its work with the conviction that the striving of the working class and its allies to exercise control over the decisions affecting their lives will indeed affirm their desire for peace, freedom and democracy in the form of an anti-war government that brings forth and concretizes a totally new democratic personality. The working class will constitute the nation and vest sovereignty in the people with the aim of creating a society without the exploitation of persons by persons.

Long Live Our Party!
Long Live the Work of Its Founder Comrade Hardial Bains!

This article was published in

Volume 50 Number 7 - March 7, 2020

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