First Published:The Workers’ Advocate Vol. 6, No. 5, June 24, 1976.
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Below we reprint the concluding part of an important speech by Comrade Hardial Bains, Chairman of our fraternal party, the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist). This speech was delivered at a private meeting of comrades in Montreal on March 31,1976 to hail the 6th anniversary of the founding of CPC(M-L). (The first part was printed in the last issue of The Workers’ Advocate.)
The CPC(M-L) is the party of the Canadian proletariat. It unites essentially all Canadian Marxist-Leninists. All progressive Americans should support the struggle of the Canadian people against U.S. imperialist domination and the monopoly capitalist system itself and enthusiastically support the CPC(M-L).
I would like to remark in passing that these opportunists who are dreaming about a full-blown Party coming into being before it is declared to the world also have an eclectical attitude towards revolutionary theory. The opportunist group writes in one of its recent publications: Last January, we started a political campaign against Trudeau measures, using a poster, and in particular, a slogan which read ’to overcome the capitalist crisis, assimulate Marxism-Leninism!’ put this slogan does not suit the role which it is supposed to play: to enlighten the proletariat on its immediate and long term objectives: towards what it should aim. To be sure it is always correct to say that we must assimilate Marxism-Leninism, but it is in itself incomplete. Because, to learn for the sake of learning, and to assimilate principles merely for contemplation will never overcome the capitalist crisis, or anything else for that matter. Our slogan did not show that theory is at the service of practice. For, proletarian theory, in effect, is revolutionary precisely because it is synthesis of the practice of the international workers movement; a result of the concentration of the correct ideas of the masses. First, this gang of opportunists take up an issue which is not the issue at all, that is to Overcome the Capitalist Crisis, Assimilate Marxism-Leninism! because to overcome capitalist crisis is the task of the bourgeoisie while the task of the proletariat is to overthrow the capitalist system. Capitalism has faced crisis many times since its birth and it is ridiculous to give the call to overcome capitalist crisis. Furthermore, to overthrow the capitalist system is the real issue and the proletariat participates in three forms of proletarian struggle (there are others as well but they are secondary) one of which is theoretical form. As the capitalist crisis deepens and broadens this theoretical form of proletarian struggle is playing a very concrete and decisive role at this time. To wage this struggle in the manner suggested by this opportunist group is to evade difficulties, as is the habit of these opportunists, by putting forward a dodge, a trick, a diversion. Assimilate Marxism-Leninism is such a dodge, a trick and a diversion. Finally, after being caught by their own eclecticism, these opportunists then run in a haste to rectify. Thus they come out with their nonsense that Our slogan did not show that theory is at the service of practice. Your slogan, sirs, did not just have this weakness that theory is at the service of practice because in itself this is wrong as well because theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice. The problem with your slogan is that you have no line what-so-ever to give to your loyalists so you come out with this gibber. You have reduced the theoretical form of proletarian struggle into a matter of just assimilating Marxism-Leninism and you have no practical guidelines as to what your followers should do to respond to the present situation in a proletarian revolutionary manner. You are further caught in your eclecticism when you end up your nonsensical statement that For, proletarian theory, in effect, is revolutionary precisely because it is synthesis of the practice of the international workers movement; a result of concentration of the correct ideas of the masses. It is precisely this reason why you absolutely abandoned theoretical form of proletarian struggle. Chairman Mao teaches: The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it in turn serves practice. But it seems your theory does not have a bit of Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism because it is for this reason that whenever you are faced with the situation you have to concoct a gibber like your paragraph cited above and pass it off as Marxist-Leninist, and genuine and revolutionary line. You opportunists are peddling such absurdity that by assimilating Marxism-Leninism you become Marxist-Leninist. I may ask: what do you become when you assimilate Coke? A Coke! Here is something for you to assimilate!
The second point I would like to elaborate on is: the basic programme of the Party and our tactical policy and plan. In my speech to the Political Economy Conference held in Montreal on May 24th, 1975, I pointed out: We are organised as the political party of the proletariat which has as its basic programme the ’seizure of political power by revolutionary violence, guiding the proletariat in its struggle to overthrow the bourgeoisie and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat so as to achieve communism.’ Our immediate task is to work out our tactical policy and plan in order to prepare to fulfill our basic programme. It is this immediate programme which the opportunists of all hues are trying to undermine and it is the duty of Marxist-Leninists to oppose these opportunists.(6) For the last three years since August, 1973, our Party has been working hard to develop its tactical policy and plan and this tactical policy and plan has now been advanced.
Before I go further on this point, I would like to elaborate on the tactical policy and plan of the genuine Marxist-Leninists to show that they do not have a revolutionary tactical policy and plan and they are bellowing from the same marsh of opportunism as the revisionists and the Trotskyists.
To oppose and denounce the treachery of these sects we will analyse the slogans advanced by the genuine Marxist-Leninists, the anarcho-fascists. We will seek truth from what they say as well as from their objective role. At the March 22nd demonstration of the workers on Parliament Hill, the anarcho-fascists advanced four slogans. Number one and four of the four slogans are:
Let’s struggle against Trudeau Law!
Strengthen the fight back movement by preparing the general strike!
Then to fool people they added slogan No. 2:Reject false reformist solutions!Slogan number three is added there for the purposes of self-exposure:Let’s mobilise the masses of the Canadian people around the working class!
We call these genuine Marxist-Leninists anarcho-fascists for the same reasons we call some groups fascists. They actually are fascists but because of their pretensions to be genuine Marxist-Leninists they end up with the title: anarcho-fascists. There are three reasons why we call them anarcho-fascists: 1. They mystify everything 2. They are anti-communists, racists and anti-working class and 3. They use reactionary violence against the Marxist-Leninists. Let us just take point one that they mystify everything.
Their main slogan Let’s struggle against Trudeau Law!is a straight-forward reformist slogan. But knowing that it is a reformist slogan they had to mystify it by their slogan No. 2: Reject false reformist solutions!What these false reformist solutions are, they do not tell. Instead, they breast-beat about certain organisations. They merely assert that the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) is a counter-revolutionary gang which walks hand in hand with the bourgeoisie.
But a mystifier will not study a thing in itself. Only by studying a thing in itself can one then study its inter-relationships. The issue here is Bill C-73. Their solution is: Let’s struggle against Trudeau Law. What is this slogan in itself if not the same as the revisionist slogan Abolish Bill C-73 or the trotskyist slogan Action program to defeat the wage controls or the CLC slogan Withdraw Bill C-73. Once cornered by the fact that their slogan is no more revolutionary than the slogans of the CLC, revisionists and trotskyists, these anarcho-fascists have to strike a posture in order to draw clear lines between themselves and the CLC, revisionists and the trotskyists. So out came the slogan No 2: Reject false reformist solutions.
Withdrawal of Bill C-73 is a reform and it is part of the bourgeois trade union politics. It does not matter, how much mystification the anarcho-fascists create about this slogan, the fact remains that it is a reformist slogan. When we study the slogan Reject false reformist solutions, in itself, the anarcho-fascists could mean one of three things: 1. The anarcho-fascists consider all reform as false solution or 2. There are those who are advocating false reformist solutions in opposition to 3. Their own genuine reformist solutions. Now if they claim that their slogan No. 2 means that all reform is false solution then their advancing of slogan No. 1 Let’s struggle against Trudeau law is outright treachery and deception because struggle against Trudeau Law is reformism. Further if they claim that their slogan is genuine while the slogans of the CLC, revisionists and trotskyists are false then it is clear that their slogan too calls for genuine reformist solutions. Thus the reader can see that in actual fact they are just simple reformists but they have to give the slogan in such a manner as to advance a reform with revolutionary pretensions. Thus if we analyse that they are against reforms, they are anarchists and if we analyse that they are for reform, they are reformists.
The same charlatanism and mystification is found in their proposed method of struggle: Mobilise masses of the people around the working class! This slogan No. 3 is their self-exposure in the sense they admit that they have nothing to do with the working class. These mystifiers are caught here as eighty per cent or more of Canadian people comprise the working class. These genuine Marxist-Leninists are not going to organise the working class but the people around the working class. One can visualize graphically these people running around the working class. The slogan of general strike and preparing for general strike is also an anarchist slogan as there is nothing revolutionary in this form of struggle in itself.
Thus we find that these anarcho-fascists are advancing a straight-forward reformist slogan but they are deathly afraid of being exposed for what they are, reformists. So they jump up, down and sideways and then end up in smoke like ants on a hot pan. Let us go further. What attitude should one take towards reformist issues and bourgeois trade union politics? Marxist-Leninists are not against all reforms but they are opposed to bourgeois trade union politics. There are reforms and there are reforms. Certain reforms advance proletarian struggle against the bourgeoisie and others do not. This leads us to unmask these anarcho-fascists further. Their slogan Reject false reformist solutions! truly exposes their mystification and deception. Now, when they talk about false reformist solutions, they must have genuine reformist solutions in mind. Thus they exposed themselves brilliantly. We deduce that they are genuine reformists and are fighting for genuine reformist solutions. So their fight back movement is the movement of genuine reformist solutions.
From the four slogans given by them, we find that
– they want to struggle against Trudeau Law,
– they are against false reformist solutions,
– they pledged to mobilise their people around the working class, and
– they want to strengthen the fight back movement, that is the movement for genuine reformist solutions by preparing for general strike.
Thus they have detached economic struggle from political struggle and are desperately trying to lend economic struggle a political character. These anarcho-fascists do not believe that Politics is the Commander. They detach economic struggle from political struggle exactly in the same manner revisionists and trotskyists do. For these unprincipled eclectics everything exists in detached, ahistorical, isolated form. This is why they land themselves into such mire.
Economic, political and theoretical are three forms of proletarian struggle against the bourgeoisie. These are an integrated whole commanded by the struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, that is class against class, that is class struggle. But the anarcho-fascists neither consider economic struggle as part of the whole proletarian struggle against the bourgeoisie nor do they advance a proletarian revolutionary line which will command all three forms of proletarian struggle, that is economic, political and theoretical. Thus neither do they assist any part of the proletarian struggle nor do they assist the entire proletarian struggle. Thus, they have to go around economic struggle and prove their revolutionary credentials by shouting a few revolutionary slogans or write such gems as their yellow journalism in order to go near the communist movement so that they can disrupt it.
The CPC(M-L) stands for certain reforms like abolishing Bill C- 73. But our slogan to the workers’ movement, that is, the slogan commanding the proletarian struggle on all three fronts, economic, political and theoretical is Make the rich pay! This slogan is the organiser, mobiliser and unifier of the proletariat as it is based on Class struggle as tactics as Lenin puts it or Class struggle as the key link as Chairman Mao Tsetung teaches. Once the Class struggle as the tactics – Class struggle as the key link is forgotten, opportunism creeps into an organisation. These anarcho-fascists who claim themselves to be genuine Marxist-Leninists never took up Class struggle as the tactics – Class struggle as the key link.
That is why they have been disruptive and are disruptive in the workers’ movement-and in the communist movement. These anarcho-fascists serve international opportunism and Anglo-American chauvinism and they are supporters of restoration of capitalism in China. They are the real Lin Piaoists as well because they wave the red flag to oppose the red flag.
Because they do not take up Class struggle as the tactics – Class struggle as the key link, their slogans are empty, devoid of any content and their form is sterile and woody and also devoid of any content. The four slogans they advanced are typical slogans of anarchists. Anarchists always get excited about general strike. According to the anarchists general strike is revolutionary in itself and actually is the only revolutionary activity. The anarcho-fascists also think in this manner that they have proven their revolutionary credentials by muttering something about it.
The Make the rich pay slogan has class content and as this tactic develops, proletarians will also give rise to forms consistent with the tactic. We are absolutely opposed to concocting forms without having any material basis, without actually organising struggle first and generalising these struggles later. The anarcho-fascists have merely picked up some forms of struggles from past history of the international proletariat as a show-off and they are bound to land themselves into further mire. They can yell general strike, general strike or prepare for general strike as much as they like. All this yelling is not going to teach them how to achieve immediate demands, that is, immediate class demands of which they have none and how to fulfill the class aim of overthrowing the capitalist system and establishing dictatorship of the proletariat.
The CPC(M-L) does participate in trade union struggle and there, again, by taking up Class struggle as the tactics – Class struggle as the key link. Make the rich pay slogan commands and guides our work there as well. We are organised as the political Party of the proletariat which has as its basic programme seizure of political power by revolutionary violence, guiding the proletariat in its struggle to overthrow the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat so as to achieve communism. Our immediate task is to work out our tactical policy and plan in order to fulfill our basic programme. Make the rich pay is our tactical policy and plan. It is based on Class struggle as the tactics – Class struggle as the key link. It is this immediate programme which the opportunists of all hues are trying to undermine and it is the duty of all Marxist-Leninists to oppose these opportunists.
But the anarcho-fascists do not have tactical policy and plan. Sooner or later they will mimic our tactical policy and plan to get out of the perpetual crisis of line they find themselves in. Over the years since the founding of the Party on March 31,1970, we have not only sorted out the problem of establishing instruments of working class propaganda, and the building of the centralised organ of the Party but have also sorted out the question of Our tactical policy and plan. In the coming years, we will sort out the questions relating to actual struggle To make the rich pay and we will Make the rich pay. Anarcho-fascists are still stuck with struggle organisation to build the Party and they have neither basic programme nor tactical programme. Their basic programme is disruption of the communist movement and their tactics in real life bear witness to it.
For the CLC not to recognise class struggle is quite understandable. Political line of the CLC comes from NDP and CP, twoclass-collaborationist organisations. The hegemony of the NDP and CP over the CLC has to be smashed. Thus the CLC’s line of not recognising class struggle and basing itself on Class collaboration as the tactic is not a matter of denouncing CLC but a matter of defeating the NDP and revisionist influence in the organised labour movement. But anarcho-fascists first take up Class-collaboration as the tacticthemselves, and then disrupt the workers’ movement to the maximum by their constant shrills against this or that Labour aristocrat. For them every trade union official is a labour aristocrat and labour aristocracy is not the upper ranks of the working class movement. These anarcho-fascists who are zeroes in theory and zeroes in practice run amuck everywhere with their nonsense, which is actually a much more blatant class-collaborationist position than what the labour aristocrats advocate. These anarcho-fascists have done absolutely nothing to oppose labour aristocracy and revisionism but have taken the single over-all police mission: Smash CPC(M-L).
The anarcho-fascists recognise class struggle only on behalf of the bourgeoisie. Their position on the state of the bourgeoisie further exposes them. They consider Canada as a bourgeois democracy, that is, it is not the armed organisation of the bourgeoisie, the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat but democracy in general. They accuse the CPC(M-L) of inciting police and whenever the state attacks the Party, they are there to do the dirty work for the state.
Revisionists, trotskyists and anarcho-fascists are fooling the people on the two basic questions of class struggle and dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Their struggle for reform is the sum total of their class struggle and they try to cover this up through revolutionary verbiage. For example, the revisionists state:
I here will be no relief for the working people until the present disastrous so-called anti-inflation policies of the government are changed and replaced by new policies, radical anti-monopoly policies which are geared to effectively combating inflation, ensuring high employment and rising standards in a world of peace.
For the revisionists, the same state whose executive committee has implemented the present disastrous so-called anti-inflation policies will, one day, have an executive committee which will implement new policies, radical anti-monopoly policies which are geared to effectively combating inflation, ensuring high employment and rising standards in a world of peace.
Revisionists, also like the anarcho-fascists, do not want to be exposed as class-collaborators. So right after giving the policy of class collaboration, the policy of capitulation to the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, they put forward revolutionary verbiage to obscure the issue. They write: there will be no serious advances for the working class and trade union movement until right wing policies of class-collaboration are replaced by left wing policies of class struggle. We ask: who is putting forward the right wing policies of class-collaboration? Could it be you revisionists yourselves? How much more right wing can one get and how much more class-collaborationist policies can one present than your own? It is class-collaboration and betrayal of the first order to advocate that the state is above classes and it can be transformed and can be made use of by the proletariat without smashing it up and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Make the rich pay! is the Left wing policies of class struggle but you are opposed to this revolutionary slogan. So the revisionists have done the same thing as the anarcho-fascists. First the anarcho-fascists advance their reformist slogan: Let’s struggle against Trudeau Law! Then, in order to fool people, they come up with the slogan: Reject the false reformist solutions. In the same way the revisionists first advance the policy of class collaboration and then themselves pretend to oppose it.
But the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The revisionists, trotskyists and anarcho-fascists besides advancing reformist and class-collaborationist slogans are responsible for disruption of the workers’ movement and communist movement in many places. Their social practice is one of disrupting the revolutionary workers’ movement and the communist movement. While they do not take up Class struggle as the tactics, Class struggle as the key linkproletarian revolutionary line, they are opposed to the dictatorship of the proletariat. Neither do they recognise the existence of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie nor do they aim at establishing dictatorship of the proletariat as the goal.
In conclusion, it is not the CLC which is to be blamed for not recognising class struggle and dictatorship of the bourgeoisie but it is the so-called leftists, a whole host of them, which have to be blamed and struggled against. These sects and groups come up with various masks but they were all unmasked at Parliament Hill on March 22nd. They all took up a reformist slogan and tried to pass it off as something very revolutionary.
We must always put Politics in Command. When working in the trade unions, it is revolutionary politics which must be advanced but if there is no Tactical policy and planthen what can one do except pursue bourgeois trade union politics. Make the rich payis the only Tactical policy and planand we must not waste time in secondary issues like attacking the CLC or someone else for the failure of the revolutionary movement. It is opportunism which must be opposed. We must never forget class struggle and dictatorship of the proletariat. We must develop class struggle to make the rich pay.
Comrades, on this historic day, the day we are celebrating the Sixth Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist). I declare to you that we have sorted out the question of tactical policy and plan. The slogan MAKE THE RICH PAY! embodies the entire tactical policy and plan for this period. MAKE THE RICH PAY! means waging a vigorous proletarian struggle for national independence, against U.S. imperialist domination of Canada and against the bourgeoisie of this country. It is a short-range programme. This tactical policy and plan sums up as well as concentrates the revolutionary experience and work of the Party during the past six years. It is a refutation of those who are trying to assimilate Marxism-Leninism, and through this method are trying to get over their difficulties concerning the basic programme as well as the tactical policy and plan.
The third point I would like to take up is on the question of correctness of our own political line and the solidity of our own organisation. Starting literally from scratch and very little revolutionary experience, we have comrades who have come forward with revolutionary style, who made radical rupture with traditional ideas and have revolutionary experience in organising the social revolution in Canada. They do not aspire for any careers within the capitalist system or work for socialism for the purposes of striking a career then. They are self-sacrificing and they are loyal to Marxism-Leninism-Mao tsetung Thought. They follow Marxist orthodoxy and many of them are currently engaged in studying seriously the Marxist-Leninist classics in order to vigorously develop the theoretical form of proletarian struggle. MAKE THE RICH PAY! is our tactical policy and plan and we need comrades who can explain and elaborate the slogan on the theoretical front and hit hard at the confusion-making of the bourgeoisie and the opportunists.
We have also rectified our serious error concerning style of work. We laid too much emphasis on fighting opportunism inside the Party in the past. Comrade Stalin clearly explains in his celebrated pamphlet Foundations of Leninismthat The theory of ’defeating’ opportunist elements by ideological struggle within the Party, the theory of ’overcoming’ these elements within the confines of a single party, is a rotten and dangerous theory, which threatens to condemn the Party to paralysis and chronic infirmity, threatens to make the Party a prey to opportunism, threatens to leave the proletariat without a revolutionary party, threatens to deprive the proletariat of its main weapon in the fight against imperialism. Since we introduced this rectification many opportunists from the Party have flit and flew away and life is vigorously growing in the Party. It is interesting to note that the entire programme of the opportunist sects in the 1974-75 period, the period when we took action against this theory, has been one of adopting this rotten and dangerous theory of defeating’ opportunist elements by ideological struggle within the Party. It is also interesting to note that through this mechanism all these opportunist elements have carved themselves a place, a niche in their so-called genuine Marxist-Leninist movement. Under the slogan of freedom of criticism, this theory was being pushed by Left-sloganeering front of Khrushchovite revisionism in the summer of 1971. Under the same theory, the opportunist elements recognize only groups and not Parties and wherever they get a chance they give birth to factions. By establishing factions, these opportunist elements then can incite people to attack Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought. Various factions in India vilify Comrade Charu Mazumdar and the armed agrarian revolution and internationally they are quite vociferous in promoting a hodge-podge of so-called revolutionary theoreticians from many lands. They advocate polycentrism on theoretical questions and factionalism on organisational questions.
Our Party is based on democratic centralism. We are opposed to spurious theories of polycentrism and factionalism. We are materialists: first and foremost, we recognize firmly that there is real life. This is our starting point, not books nor system of ideas but real life. We are dialectical and historical materialists. We are aware that this life has come into being from the past and that the contradictions inherent in life at this time go back to their origins., We recognise class struggle and not a system of ideas as the decisive force in history. This is why we take up our basic programme and our tactical policy and plan from the standpoint of CLASSES AND CLASS STRUGGLE AND CLASS STRUGGLE AS TACTIC OR CLASS STRUGGLE AS THE KEY LINK. Every incident inside and outside of the Party, inside and outside of the proletariat and inside and outside of Canada is looked at from class point of view. But all these opportunists base their politics not on classes and class struggle but on policy. That is why they have crisis of line all the time. A little bit of complication and they won’t know what to say or do.
For some, Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought is fine in theory but in practice it is useless. We are opposed to such so-called Marxist-Leninists. We believe in the unity of theory and practice and motive and effect. That is why we have the Party which is based on the correctness of our own political line and solidity of our own organisation. We regenerate on the basis of our own efforts. We are not like those who were the greatest supporters of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution yesterday but curse and swear at it today or those who cursed and swore at the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution yesterday but today they do not mind. Our Party is not based on some fads and fashions and whatever is in vogue today we get swayed by it. If we said yesterday CHINA’S CHAIRMAN IS OUR CHAIRMAN and CHINA’S PATH IS OUR PATH we still say it today. Those who have turned their backs on China’s Chairman and those who have found nothing of revolutionary value from China’s path especially from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, they are opportunists of the first order. Our comrades should not be swayed by them. Some of these individuals who became creative when revolutionary tide was down and did not believe that Mao Tsetung Thought is Marxism-Leninism of our era, are today inciting people to attack those who carry such beliefs.
We believe in the independence and integrity of our Party. If a Party becomes a public relations organ for another and bids goodbye to revolutionary style, that Party is not worthy of the name Communist. We are friends of friends and enemies of enemies and we guide our support on the basis of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought and proletarian internationalism. We established this Party on the basis of our own efforts and we will carry this line through to the end. Let the fake proletarian internationalists enjoy themselves for the services rendered to international opportunism.
Internationally, the two superpowers are furiously contending with one another for world hegemony. This is the source of third world war and one superpower which flaunts the banner of socialism is the more treacherous of the two. There is economic crisis deepening and broadening all over the capitalist-imperialist and revisionist world and in their colonies and neo-colonies. There is revolutionary struggle for national liberation raging in several countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and there is a struggle against hegemonism of the two superpowers. The proletariat of the capitalist-imperialist world and of the revisionist world is fighting courageously against the shifting of the burden of the economic crisis onto their backs. In certain European countries like Spain, the Marxist-Leninist Party, the Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) is leading a struggle against U.S. imperialism and fascism. The Marxist-Leninist Party of Portugal, the Communist Party of Portugal (Reconstituted) is waging struggle against the two superpowers and the internalcollaborators. The struggle of the Irish people against British imperialism and for national unification is developing vigorously. Under such circumstances, a new form of revisionism, a revisionism of greater treachery than the betrayal of Khruschovite revisionism is emerging on the international scale. In capitalist-imperialist countries, its main thesis is that to talk about social revolution here is to be ultra-left while their line for other countries is becoming increasing dubious. Our comrades should maintain a high level of vigilance against this revisionism and all other forms and not deviate from the staunch anti-revisionist stand and do not give an inch to revisionism. This can be done on the basis of building the Party on the basis of correctness of our own political line and the solidity of our own organisation and not vacillating on the fundamental questions of state and proletarian revolution. Those who are deliberately and vainly trying to brow-beat the CPC(M-L) to change its line on account of their connections with international opportunism, beware! We will never change our basic programme or tactical policy and plan or change our theoretical basis of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought and proletarian internationalism.
The four contradictions on the world scale are sharpening and revolution remains the main trend. But there is a danger of world war and there are possibilities of social revolutions breaking out in one or several countries. Our contribution against the two superpowers and against the third world war can only be made on the basis of organising social revolution here. MAKE THE RICH PAY! is the tactical policy and the plan against the two superpowers and against third world war as well.
Our Party is established all across Canada. Soon you will have the branches which are solely composed of proletarians, the industrial proletarians. These industrial proletarians will soon make up the large portions of the central leadership. We have established the centralized organs of the Party and we have made head-way on various fronts, especially on the front of theory. The task is to implement the slogan MAKE THE RICH PAY! Let this slogan be taken up all over Canada by the proletarians!
To conclude comrades: CPC(M-L) is the political party of the proletariat. It is a contingent of the international communist movement. We are based on the theory of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought. We have established links with several brethren communist parties and we will support all Communist Parties which are fighting on the common front against common enemies.