LPP RESOLUTION ON CPSU 20TH soeeness

‘Great event in peoples’ struggle’

Following is the full text of
the resolution on the 20th Con-
gress of the Communist Party of
the resolution on the 20th Con-
national committee of the Labor-
Progressive party at its meeting
in Toronto last weekend:

The 20th Congress of the Com-
munist Party of the Soviet Union
was a great event in the march
of the Soviet people to commun-
ism and in the long struggle of
the peoples of the world to be-
come the masters of their destiny.

The congress met at a turning
point in history, when for the
first time the idea of socialism is
seizing the minds of the majority
of mankind, and when the long-
ings of the people for peace are
conquering the evil imperialist
forces making for war — so that
it can now be said that wars are
no longer fatalistically inevitable.

The Soviet people are no longer
alone as a socialist country. They
have been joined by hundreds of
millions in other countries to form
a system of socialist states.

It is to the eternal honor of
the Soviet people and their Com-
munist party that they have over-
come external and internal ene-
mies and forged moral and poli-
tical unity to build a new socialist
society and now to advance to
communism.

The 20th Congress of the CPSU
consolidated the victories already
won and pointed the path for-
ward to ‘new achievements. Re-
cognizing that socialism is_ the
product of the people themselves,
the real creators of history, the)
20th Congress took measures to
involve the millions of Soviet
people even more actively and
creatively in building their new
life and to release the highest
initiative of every man and wo-
man.

These historic decisions, made
at a time when great democratic
changes are sweeping over the
world, are of the deepest sig-
nificance, particularly to Com-
munists and Socialist-minded
people everywhere, and will
help to heal the split in the
ranks of the labor and socialist
movements.

The Soviet people, the Com-
munist party and their govern-
ment have made new contribu-
tions to the cause of world peace
by their policy of relaxing ten-
sions and upholding the peaceful
coexistence of states with differ-
ing political and economic sys-
tems.

The proposals of the govern-
ment of the USSR, looking to
peaceful cooperation with all
countries and the mutually ad-
vantageous expansion of trade,
are welcomed by growing num-
. bers of Canadians.
recognized that Canada’s national
interests will. be served by such
peaceful cooperation and an ex-
pansion of foreign trade. The
Labor - Progressive party joins

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We greet the. thoroughgoing
measures taken and ‘ steadily
strengthened since 1953, to cor-
rect the errors exposed at the
20th Congress.

The revelations made by the
central committee of the CPSU
at the 20th Congress concerning
the absence for twenty years of
collectivity in the leadership of
the CPSU, the violation of Soviet
law, socialist democracy and par-
ty democracy, and arbitrary and
unjustified repressions against
Soviet citizens, came as a severe
shock to every member of the
Labor-Progressive party.

The 20th Congress of the CPSU
declared unequivocally that such
proceedings were and are com-
pletely foreign to the principles
of Marxism-Leninism, the great
science of human advancement
which guides the people of the
Soviet Union and their historic
Communist party.

The Labor-Progressive party is
mindful of the extraordinary cir-
cumstances which surrounded the
development of the first socialist

state in the world until the recent

emergence of socialism as a world
system.

The conditions in which the
cult of the individual. developed
around the person of Joseph
Stalin included capitalist en-
circlement and unremitting efforts
of the forces of imperialism to
undermine and destroy the first
Socialist state; and the unpre-
cedented historic ordeal through
which the Soviet people passed
with heroism and sacrifices that
won the admiration of the entire
world in defending their socialist
motherland.

To this must be added ‘that
Stalin won wide acclaim through
his leadership, after the death of
Lenin, of the struggle against
Trotskyism and for the industrial-
ization of the USSR and collec-
tivization in the building of so-
cialism. It was in 1934 that Stalin
put forth what is now seen to be
the incorrect theory that, even
after the victory of socialism, the
task of the CPSU was to intensi-
fy the class struggle.

The thoroughgoing way in

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which the whole Soviet people

are being drawn into the pro-

cess of correcting the grave er-
rors and injustices, a process
which has been accelerated by
the 20th Congress, guarantees
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The national committee of the
Labor-Progressive party frankly
recognizes that we accepted and
promoted the cult of the indivi-
dual which grew up around Jos-
eph Stalin, and thereby in fact
failed to maintain consistently
the Marxist method of subjecting
all political contributions, no mat-
ter from what sources, to the test
of criticism and practice. Con-
sequently our party uncritically
accepted and defended actions
taken by the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union which -have
since proved wrong.

It also uncritically accepted the
resolutions of the Communist
Information Bureau regarding
Yugoslavia. ;

This also was responsible for
our failing to raise the issue with
our brother party, the CPSU, in

regard to the case of the Jewish ;

writers in the USSR and the dis-
solution of Jewish cultural insti-
tutions in the USSR by arbitrary
measures of the:.security branch
of the government of the USSR,
despite the fact that there were
requests voiced in the LPP that
the national committee seek to
ascertain the facts.

The national committee will
strive energetically to improve
its method of work in this regard
by studying the experiences of
the working class and its parties
in all countries, particularly now
when the cause of socialism and
new pathways to socialism are
opening up all over the world.

These experiences should be
studied in a spirit of critical en-
quiry, guarding against the mech-
anical transposition of other par-
ties’ experiences and opinions;
by fighting harder to deepen our
understanding of our country’s
life and problems and casting
more light on the Canadian path
to socialism as put forward in our
party program. In this way our
party also will contribute to world

socialist experience.

Edison White pledges

fight for Native rights.

NANAIMO, B.C.

Edison White has been return-
ed to office for a three-year term
as leader of the Nanaimo Indian
band, winning against three oth-
ed contestants (Mrs. Clara Wil-
son, Peter Good and George R.
Wyse) in an election held recent-
ly.

White, whose family were her-
editary chiefs until a few years
ago, succeeds Bill Seward, who
has been chief for the past three
years.

The election was conducted in
a lively spirit and for the first
time there was an almost 100

percent attendance g both the
nomination meeting and election
meeting.

New councillors elected are
Donald White, Chester Thomas
and Edward Brown.

“My main aim is to work for
the gainful and permanent em-
ployment of my people,” said
the new chief. “I will also fight
for full citizenship without loss
of Native rights for the Indian
people.”

Immediate projects which he |

will press for include proper sew- ,
age disposal facilities on the re-
serve.

The period of discussion prior
to our 6th national convention
must produce the most searching
examination of every aspect of
our work, including how the cult
of the individual affected our
party work and methods of lead-
ership. New conditions have
arisen in the world and in Can-
ada and we have the task of pre-
paring our party to play its full
part in the new situation, and to
reap the full fruits of the heroic
work of our party membership
and supporters in defending and
building our movement through
the cold war years.

This resolution of the national
committee should guide the na-
tional executive Committee in the
discussion of these questions in

overcoming hesitancy and slow- —

ness, and the better use of the
printed word, in coming to grips

in a constructive critical wey

with these matters.

This will require a fight to
systematically strengthen party
democracy and to prevent the de-
velopment of bureaucratic prac-
tices and methods of leadership.
It will require a fight against
rigidity, conceited and uncom-
radely attitudes both within our
party and in our relationships
with others.

It will require greater boldness
in the struggle against dogmatism
and stronger personal and col-
lective responsibility in the elab-
oration and presentation of our
views on all aspects of Canadian

life, including the search for bet- .

ter ways to express our ideas.

It will require a bold search
for more flexible and popular
ways of party life and work, com-

bined with great care to preserve -

and strengthen our understand-
ing and application of Marxist-
Leninist principles. In this way
we can make our party a more

' effective fighter for working class

unity, national independence,

‘peace and socialism.

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