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Resolution of the 8th Congress of CPC(M-L) on Accountability
8th Congress of CPC(M-L) held in Ottawa, August
2008.
GIVEN the defeat of the
Charlottetown Accord in
October 1992 clearly signified that class struggle
between the
working class and the bourgeoisie over who decides
the affairs of
the society had broken out in all earnest;
GIVEN the disequilibrium in
the parliamentary system
after the 1993 federal election that to date has
not been
re-established whereby the party system of
governance based on a
party-in-power and a party-in-opposition said to
represent the
will of the people has collapsed and deepened the
crisis of
representative democracy;
GIVEN the defeat of the
Charlottetown Accord and
disequilibrium from the 1993 federal election
opened a space for
change that the working class must occupy;
GIVEN that far from renewing
the political process to
recognize the people's right to elect and be
elected, the parties
in Parliament have engaged in one reform of the
electoral law
after another to concentrate privilege and power
in their own
hands, which has led to the further alienation of
the people's
right to govern themselves;
GIVEN that with these electoral
reforms the political
parties in Parliament have become appendages of
the state and
have formed a cartel-party system which brokers
deals behind the
backs of the people to preserve themselves through
minority
governments;
GIVEN the tendency of these
governments to enshrine
monopoly right and embroil Canada in U.S.-led
aggression and wars
of occupation, annex Canada into a North America
of the
Monopolies and enact laws that violate individual
and collective
rights;
RECOGNIZING the general
discontent with the
entire political process symbolizes that the
demands of the
people have far surpassed the possibility of their
satisfaction
through the current political process and that
this discontent
and demand for change of the political process
have become more
intense;
RECOGNIZING the demand of the
people to exercise
control over their lives by participating in
governing their
society requires that those elected to office
represent the
people and are directly accountable to them and
that this change
means a new kind of political party must come into
being that
strives to empower the electorate and not come to
power for its
own self-serving interests;
RECOGNIZING that the
cartel-party system based on
party-domination and party-privilege will continue
to obstruct
the development of political rights for all and
create an ever
more dangerous situation with the establishment of
a values-based
system violating the right to conscience and
criminalizing
political opinion on the fascist basis of
"Canadian values" that
must be accepted by all;
RECOGNIZING the need to change
the electoral law to
guarantee that no inequality based on a person's
status in
society in terms of wealth or access to levers of
political power
or influence be allowed to deny any individual's
right to
participate fully in the political process, set
the agenda for
the country, and to elect and be elected;
RECOGNIZING
the essential flaw in the Canada Elections Act
is
that it
enables political parties to exercise those
rights, which by
universal standards of human rights, are the
entitlement of all
members of the polity, and that the elimination of
this
domination and privilege of a political elite and
business
parties is crucial to the democratic renewal of
the political
process;
RECOGNIZING the fact that the
cartel-party politicians
will never legislate themselves out of existence
thereby
requiring all those who have an interest in
democratic renewal to
join together and constitute themselves a force as
worker
politicians who champion democratic renewal;
RECOGNIZING the election of
this or that party and
"coalition politics" blocks society's path to
progress since
political parties or coalitions formed to come to
power
themselves conciliate with the anachronistic
democratic
institutions whose aim is to deprive the people of
power;
RECOGNIZING that the first
step of democratic renewal
is for workers to lead the way by creating their
own mechanisms
of political change, establishing their own
agenda, and selecting
candidates to fight for their agenda from amongst
their peers --
that the line and slogans Accountability
Begins at Home! Empower the People! No
Election Without Selection!
Fund the
Process Not the Parties! Become Worker
Politicians -- Build
Renewal Committees! Elect an Anti-War
Government! present in
the most simplified and concrete way the first
steps that need to
be taken by all at this time and that workers and
their allies
organized as worker politicians is the most
effective opposition
and force for democratic renewal;
BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE 8TH CONGRESS:
1. Put the
full weight of the Party behind its program:
For
Us
Accountability Begins at Home
Empower
the
People!
No
Election
Without Selection!
Fund
the
Process Not the Parties!
Become
a
Worker Politician -- Build Renewal
Committees!
Elect
an
Anti-War Government!
2. Put the full weight of the Party behind the
building of
renewal committees:
1) established
from the ranks of peers within places of work,
educational institutions, neighbourhoods and
amongst seniors;
2) conducting
their work based on practical politics and
non-partisan mass political mobilization to unite
the people in
action for democratic renewal;
3. Provide the following mandate to the national
leader of the
Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada:
1) be
responsible for the profile of the MLPC as a party
of
Canadian renewal;
2) represent the
MLPC during and between elections at all
official functions;
3) be a resource
person available to speak at the request of
national, regional and local organizations;
4) establish a
public relations office of the National Leader
to deal with media and inquiries from the public;
5) issue
communiqués of the MLPC on a regular basis;
6) educate the
members of the MLPC and the public on the Canada Elections Act,
theories of governance and related
issues;
7) endorse all
MLPC candidates during a federal election;
8) make sure the
MLPC is at all times in conformity with the Canada Elections Act.
4. Mandate the executive of the MLPC to
consolidate the
National Office of the MLPC, renovate the website
of the MLPC,
conduct membership campaigns and go all out to
participate in
federal elections with the aim of electing an
effective workers'
opposition and anti-war government.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 15 - May 2, 2020
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