First Published:The Workers’ Advocate Vol. 6, No. 1, December 1, 1975.
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TO: ALL THE MEMBERS, CANDIDATE MEMBERS, SUPPORTERS, FRIENDS, SYMPATHISERS OF THE PARTY AND TO ALL UNITS, BRANCHES AND COMMITTEES OF THE PARTY.
ALL MILITANT WORKERS (ORGANIZED OR UNORGANIZED).
ALL FIGHTERS AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALIST DOMINATION OF CANADA, AGAINST THE MONOPOLY CAPITALIST SYSTEM, THE TWO SUPERPOWERS AND ALL REACTIONARIES.
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) issues this public call to you for the purposes of ADVANCING THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT, BUILDING THE UNITED FRONT AND BUILDING THE PARTY IN IN THE COURSE OF ADVANCING THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT AND BUILDING THE UNITED FRONT. This call is specifically intended to bring a high tide in the communist agitation and propaganda in the working class and to unite all those who can be united against the main enemy. It is issued on the basis that:
1. The government of Trudeau has declared war on the working and oppressed people through its wages and prices restraint programme announced on October 13, 1975. The opposition to this war against the working and oppressed people has been immediate, universal and wide-spread.
2. This declaration of war by the Trudeau government is the latest and most desperate attempt by the government to shift the burden of the economic crisis of monopoly capitalism and U.S. imperialism onto the backs of the Canadian people.
3. The cause of this economic crisis is two-fold:
a) Internal cause: monopoly capitalism
b) External cause: U.S. imperialist domination of Canada and the contention of U.S. imperialism and Soviet social-imperialism for world hegemony.
4) The two superpowers, U.S. imperialism and Soviet social-imperialism, are furiously contending for world hegemony, for re-division of the world into their own spheres of influence, and they are a source of a new world war.
5) The declaration of war by Trudeau on the Canadian people is to create internal conditions to
a) further increase the exploitation and sellout of the land and labour of the Canadian people to U.S. imperialism, in the main, and other imperialist powers;
b) support the U.S. imperialists’ contention with Soviet social-imperialism and its war preparations and aggressions;
c) sort out contradictions within the Canadian monopoly capitalist class; and
d) further fascisize the state and viciously attack the basic democratic rights of the Canadian people.
6. The revolutionary struggle of the proletariat of the capitalist and revisionist countries and the struggle of the oppressed nations and peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America against old and new colonialism and the hegemonism of the two superpowers constitute the decisive force in the world anti-imperialist socialist revolution. The struggles of the oppressed nations and peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America against old and new colonialism and against the hegemonism of the two superpowers comprise the motive force of world anti-imperialist socialist revolution.
7.We are living in the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution. The distinctive features of this era are that a) a weak nation can defeat a strong, a small nation can certainly defeat aggression by a big country, if only they dare to rise in struggle, take up arms and grasp in their own hands the destiny of their country; and b) either revolution will prevent war or war will give rise to revolution.
8. The People’s Republic of China is the great bastion of world anti-imperialist socialist revolution. The two superpowers see in the People’s Republic of China their mortal enemy. Chairman Mao Tsetung is not only the leader of the people of China but he is also the leader of the people of the world. The Chinese people, together with the people of the world will certainly put an end to imperialism, social imperialism and all reactionaries in the not too distant future.
9. The struggle of the Canadian people against U.S. imperialism and its lackeys, and against the monopoly capitalist system is part and parcel of the world anti-imperialist socialist revolution. The struggle of the working and oppressed people of Canada against the wages and prices restraint programme and other such measures which are designed to further shift the burden of the economic crisis onto the backs of the Canadian people is an important part of the struggle against U.S. imperialist domination of Canada, against the monopoly capitalist system in Canada, against the two superpowers and against all reactionaries.
10. At this time, when on the world scale factors both for revolution and for war are increasing and the situation is developing in the direction favourable for the people, it is the most opportune time to build the Party in the course of advancing the resistance movement against the U.S. imperialist-dominated Canadian state and building the united front against U.S. imperialism and its lackeys, and to vigorously carry the struggle against opportunism, on the theoretical and all other fronts, through to the end.
11. The U.S. imperialist-dominated Canadian state is attacking the vast majority of the Canadian people:
- it denies the hereditary rights to the nations and tribes of Native people.
- it denies the national rights to the Quebec people
- it denies basic democratic rights to the immigrants
- it has launched a war against all sections of the working people through its ’’wages and prices restraint and other such programmes
- it viciously exploits and represses the working people
- it discriminates against the women workers
- it blocks the youth of this country from all sides and spiritually and otherwise decimates them
- it serves U.S. imperialism, in the main, and other imperialist powers
- it spreads decadence and devastates the people spiritually
12. The main contradiction between U.S. imperialism and its lackeys, on one hand, and the Canadian people on the other is sharpening daily. The declaration of war by the Trudeau government against the working and oppressed people of this country is, in one stroke, a programme of war against the Canadian people and in support of U.S. imperialism.
13. The Canadian proletariat has a long history of revolutionary struggle. The Communist Party, the vanguard of the proletariat, the political organizer and leader of the proletariat, was established in 1921. Despite the treacheries and betrayals of the proletariat by the modern revisionists, the proletariat carried on its struggle against its enemies. Modern revisionism suffered a grave setback when the Communist Party was re-established on the basis of Marxism-Leninism-MaoTsetung Thought in March, 1970.
14. Opportunism in the upper ranks of the working class movement, through its active class collaboration, is attempting to paralyse, suffocate and kill the working-class movement. This opportunism must be opposed in the course of the revolutionary struggle.
15. Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought is the Marxism-Leninism of our era and the theoretical foundation of our Party. This theory is not only a radical rupture with all the theories which the imperialists and social-imperialists promote, but it is also their direct opposite and is in the service of the international proletariat. This theory is absolutely necessary and is a decisive factor in the development of the revolutionary movement in this country. The Internationalists, a youth and student organization in the 1960’s, vigorously disseminated Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought all over the country at the call of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and assisted in the preparation of the material conditions to re-establish the Party.
16. A caricature of CPC(M-L) and Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought has emerged during 1972-1975 to carry out dirty work for imperialism, social-imperialism and all reaction and it has adopted the main opportunist positions on all important questions of state and revolution. Struggle against opportunism of this variety and other forms is absolutely necessary and fundamental in order to carry on the revolutionary struggle against U.S. imperialism, against the monopoly capitalist system, against the two superpowers and against all reactionaries.
17. The basic programme of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist- Leninist) is to complete the anti-imperialist socialist revolution whereby the revolutionary step towards the total overthrow of the bourgeoisie and all exploiting classes is resolutely taken and dictatorship of the proletariat in place of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is established and the historic era of continuing revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat is inaugurated, leading to the final victory of socialism over capitalism. The ultimate aim of the Party is the realization of communism.
18. In order to build the Party, to develop the resistance movement against the U.S. imperialist-dominated Canadian state and its government, to build the united front against U.S. imperialism and its lackeys – that is, to prepare for revolution and against war – it is absolutely necessary that the Party carry on discussion on the programme of the Party in the open.
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) calls upon all the members, candidate members, supporters, friends and sympathisers, all units, branches and committees of the Party all the militant workers (organized or unorganized), all the fighters against U.S. imperialism, the monopoly capitalist system, the two superpowers and all reactionaries to actively participate in the preparatory work of the Party for convening of the Third Congress. All comrades and friends who are already close to the Party and all those who have a deep urge to participate in the anti-imperialist socialist revolution but have not joined the Party should contact the National Executive Committee of CPC(M-L) through various public offices (B.C., Ontario, Quebec), by coming to meetings organized by the Party, or by contacting the comrades selling the Party’s literature, or (if other channels do not work) through writing directly to the National Executive Committee of CPC(M-L). All those who want to take up the cause of communism as the mission of their lives will be organized into local Preparatory, Committees for the Third Congress whose main tasks will be to:
1) Study Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought
2) Discuss the draft documents of the Preparatory Committee of the Third Congress of CPC(M-L)
3) Organize public discussions on the draft resolutions and distribute literature of the Party
4) Participate actively in the resistance movement of the working class and mobilize advanced elements of the proletariat into Party work and
5) Assist the local Party secretary in the study and investigation of the area.
PREPARE FOR STRUGGLE!
ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN THE PREPARATORY WORK OF THE THIRD CONGRESS OF THE PARTY!
LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA (MARXIST-LENINIST)!
LONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAO TSETUNG THOUGHT!
DEATH TO U.S. IMPERIALISM, SOVIET SOCIAL IMPERIALISM AND ALL REACTION!
DOWN WITH U.S. IMPERIALIST DOMINATION OF CANADA! OVERTHROW THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM!