Greetings from
around the world

Greetings were received at
the 23rd Convention from the
following fraternal parties:

South African Communist
Party; Socialist Party of Au-
stralia; Communist Party of

Japan; Communist Party of ©

Ireland; New Zealand Unity
Party; Parti du Progres et du
‘Socialisme (Morocco); Prog-
ressive Party of Working
People (AKEL) Cyprus; Parti
Communiste Martiniquais;
Communist Party of Malta;
Parti Congolais du Travail;
Parti Suisse du Travail; Com-

munist Party of Jamaica;
Communist Party of Czechos-
lovakia; Communist Party of
Greece; Parti Communiste
Francais; Communist Party of
the USSR;. Hungarian
Socialist Workers’ Party;

Communist Party of Italy; Viet-

nam Workers Party; Com-
munist Party of Great Britain;
Partido Comunista Portuges;
Socialist Unity Party (GDR);
Romainian Communist Party;
Communist Party of Cuba;
Workers Party of Korea;
Communist Party of Bulgaria.

Resolutions From The 23rd Convention CPC |

CONDEMN NUCLEAR SALES TO SOUTH KOREA

This 23rd Convention of the Communist Party of Canada con-
demns the Canadian government’s sale of a Candu nuclear reac-
tor and the supply of funds needed for setting it up in South Korea.

We call upon the incoming CEC to make a strong protest to our
federal authorities and to demand that the Trudeau Government
reverse its stand on this issue and embark upon a new policy of
lending support to the growing popular demand for the indepen-
dent and peaceful reunification of North and South Korea.

CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF
COMMUNIST REPRESENTATION IN WINNIPEG

In November 1926, a member of the Communist Party of Cana-
da, William Kolisnyk, was elected to the Winnipeg City Council and
by virtue of this fact also became the first Communist to be elected
to public office in North America.

This November the Communist Party and the, progressive
movement in Winnipeg will be marking the 50th anniversary of
continued Communist representation on Winnipeg’s City Council
and School Board.

This 23rd Convention of the Communist Party of Canada greets

* this historic landmark in Communist civic work and calls upon the

party organizations throughout the country to intensify their ef-
forts in this sphere of working class activity.

This Convention also salutes those Communists who represent
this unblemished record.

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William Kolisnyk

Jacob Penner

Joe Forkin

Wm. Ross

Margareth (Peggy) Chunn
Mary Kardash

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TRIBUNE PHOTO

Fraternal guests from the Communist Party of the United States with
William Kashtan, re-elected general secretary of the Communist Party
of Canada. L to R: Constance Bart, William Kashtan, Mike Zagarell.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 22, 1976—Page 8

23rd Convention

Communist Party of Canada

FORA

DEMOCRATIC

ALLIANCE

Unity Appeal to the NDP

The Communist Party salutes the
splendid unity that has emerged as
the hallmark of organized labor's
fight-back against Bill C-73 and the
brutal rulings of the Anti-Inflation
Board. The fight-back, which unites
the workers in English — and French
Canada, is coupled to the. workers’

demand for a say on all matters of»

concern to them at their places of
work and in the country.

To win these objectives requires
determined and united economic and
political action by the' working class
and democratic forces against the ef-
fects of the crisis policies of
monopoly and government.

To change government economic
and social policy is irrevocably tied to
the struggle to stop the reactionary
drive to the right by shifting policies to
the left. This can only be done by
strengthening the positions of the
working class and democratic forces
in federal and provincial parliaments
and municipal councils in order to
begin the big task of curbing the
power of monopoly and the multi-
national corporations.

The reactionary forces are op-
posed to any control over monopoly
and the multi-national corporations.
Equating state intervention with
socialism, they are striving to rally the
small capitalists and middle class
strata in defense of ‘free enterprise”
in a bid to consolidate the right-wing
political forces in Canada.

Big business and pro-U.S. circles in
Canada, with the ‘connivance of
right-wing elements in the govern-
ment and opposition parties, are
working hard to use the growing dis-
satisfaction with the right-moving
Trudeau government to achieve a
change in government and move poli-
tics further to the right. These circles
‘see the Progessive Conservative
Party as the main instrument of such
right-wing ambitions.

In the face of the present drive to

_ the political right the working class

and democratic forces cannot afford
to be disunited. If the people are to
stop this reactionary drive to the right
they need to unite their forces around
a common program of action. This is
the key to checking the drive to the
right and for creating conditions for
democratic economic and social ad-
vance.

The way forward lies through
cooperation of all working Class and
democratic forces. Vital to this is the
realization of a democratic alliance
that includes the trade unions and
farm organizations, the New Democ-
ratic Party and the Communist Party.
Such an alliance can thwart the ambi-
tions of the reactionary right.

A great responsibility in this re-
spect devolves upon the New Demo-
cratic Party. So far, the NDP has gen-
erally retreated in the face of the
pressure from the right and has taken ~
a position of adapting to the crisis
policies of monopoly. Where it has
moved to stronger positions it has
done so with reluctance and timidity.
Such a policy is surely at variance
with the vital interests of the working
people, many of whom support the: ~
NDP electorally.

For its part the Communist Party,
true to its consistent policy of striving
to build working class and democratic
unity, is prepared to cooperate with

the NDP in helping to bring into being |

a democratic alternative to the crisis
policies of monopoly, and a democra- |
tic alliance powerful enough to stop
the drive to the right.

As a first step in this direction the
Communist Party proposes that a —
representative group from the or-
ganizations concerned come to-
gether and jointly work out a program
of action that will have as its im-
mediate focus the defeat of the drive
to the right and the crisis policies of
monopoly.

_ The Communist Party is prepared
to accept the 10-Point Program of the
Canadian Labour Congress as a
basis for such a discussion even

‘though it omits the major question of

nationalization. The Communist Party
would of course put forward its own
three-point program as a part of the
discussion to evolve a common pro-
gram. It would expect the New Demo-
cratic Party to do likewise. |

Out of such a discussion a common
program could emerge which the par-
ticipating organizations, while main-
taining their own independent posi-
tions, would fight in a common and_
spirited. campaign to turn back the
reactionary drive to the right, thus
keeping open the door to democratic, ©
economic and social advance. |