st convention Wcialist democracy, the defence of Oclalism and the heightened role of the FaNsnationals, among others. | } Other action resolutions dealt with the tention of the Crow Freight Rate for restern grain farmers, protests against i S. intervention and Canadian complic- In E} Salvador, the deportation of Sal- ndorean Victor Manuel Regelado by -anadian immigration authorities, com- Mnation of the U.S. government’s Vocations against Cuba and an end to w Use of the police and courts against Fade unions. he party’s 60th anniversary was ‘ ked at a banquet attended by over ) guests honoring party veterans. An XCiting program followed, including ide show depicting the party’s history, nd cultural performances. any of the delegates were in Toronto pr the first time following the opening of suck-Norman Bethune Education F to the civial war. of elections would cause.’? cal solution ...”” ALVA ~The 25th CPC conyention has called on the Canadian government to - . abandon its support for the fraudulent elections to take place March 28in El. ~~ Salvador and to actively support negotiations leading to a political solution =~. ~~ {Ina resolution, the conventian “affirmed its solidarity with the Salvado- - - rean people, the Revolutionary Democratic Front — Farabundo Marti. Front of National Liberation and supported the proposal ofthe FDR-EMLN _ for a negotiated political solution which aims at preventing any further — - suffering on the part of the Salvadorean people and putting an end to the social cost in lives that the prolonged state of war or farcical implementation - The imminence of an intervention is more and more evident,’’ the convention warned. ‘‘The upcoming ‘election’ to be held without the par- — candidates are representatives of phantom political parties or are directly linked to those forces-responsibie for the repression, closes the door to a ‘The will of the Salvadorean people is being confronted by the voracity of — an insensate oligarchy, a murderous army, and by the most sinister elements '_within the Yankee power elite. The political manoeuvering indulged in by the United States through Napolean Duarte’s Christian Democratic military . — _ junta has failed. The latest recourse, an appeal that elections be held in March 1982, constitutes a last step leading to massive intervention, either ~_ people who have already given 38,000 lives in their struggle for liberation = __ beviaanegeaee yd years, requires that priority attention be given toevents ~~ and peace. Our party has extended the hand of cooperation to the NDP time and time again, and we continue to do so today. From this convention we call for such unity to protect and advance the interests of the working class and work- ing people. We shall continue efforts to build unity of the left, among NDPers and in the trade union and farm movements. The draft resolution has outlined some of the main tasks we are faced with: the front of peace, the economic front, the struggle for Canadianization, for a democratic solution to the constitutional crisis, the struggle for democracy, in support of the solidarity movements, the fight for equality for women and in de- fence of the rights of the young people as well as the rights of the Native peoples. Eurocommunism ... When international solidarity is sorely needed spokesmen of some Communist Parties have chosen to echo the line of Reagan and company. The struggle around Poland has revealed that some leaders of parties have gone over to revisionist and opportunist positions, and in effect, departed from the funda- mental principles of Marxism-Leninism. This finds expression in the so-called ‘third way’’ to advance to socialism in western Europe. The ‘‘third way”’ is the eurocommunist way, a way which denies the existence of real socialism in the Soviet Union, places the foreign policies of the Soviet Union and U.S. imperial- ism on the same plane by claiming that the foreign policy of the USSR and the Warsaw Treaty Organization do not dif- fer from that of the USA and NATO. This ‘‘third way’’ denies that it is pre- cisely in the socialist countries that exploitation of man by man has been eliminated and thereby a reliable founda- tion created for genuine democracy. President Reagan speaks ofa ‘‘crisis of communism”’ while some leaders of the Communist Party of Italy speak of a “crisis of the Soviet system’’. These FW COURSE FOR CANADA! same leaders now declare that Marxism-Leninism is bankrupt, even though the difficulties in Poland arise from deviations from the laws of socialist construction and not because Marxism-Leninism is bankrupt. In effect they have renounced the great revolu- tionary science of Marxism-Leninism and departed from it. This is the “‘third way’’. Those who take this position are strike breakers of socialism. Women’s Action The Central Committee meeting of December 5-7, 1980 adopted a_ policy statement on ‘‘mass work among wom- en’’ which is still valid and should not only be studied again and again, but acted upon ... as a guide for the work of Communists among women. This policy statement among other things concludes as follows: ‘‘In the mass working class and democratic movement the party’s aim must be the building of a strong and united organization able and capable of initiating and leading mass actions of women around their vital needs and aspi- rations. And in the course of struggle, becoming a component part of the demo- cratic anti-monopoly alliance’’. It is with this in mind that we call for building, revitalizing and rejuvenating the democratic women’s movement throughout the country and helping make it a powerful voice in the struggle for equality, in defence of peace, and in Support of the struggles for national lib- eration. We are optimists, confident in the fu- ture and in our struggle to realize that future. We can see the speed of change today despite the efforts of U.S. imperialism to stop the revolutionary processes. It is capitalism, not socialism which is in retreat. The task we face calls for political struggle, clear heads, steady hands, crea- tive thinking and effective leadership based on the principles of Marxism- (PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEB. 28, 1982—Page7