(Canada ond the Russian
Revolution, 1987)

Millions of forward-looking
men and women of both Cana-
dian nations recognize, and ad-
mire greatly, the striking history-
making achievements of the So-
viet Union. They know quite
well that the historic victories
of national liberation won by
the colonial peoples, have been
made possible by the triumphant
consolidation of the world so-
cialist system. They recognize |
that the key to the defeat and
eventually the end of imperialism
as a whole, is the unity of all
the socialist countries and pro-
gzessive forces in the capitalist
countries, immediately and un-
equivocally for all-out and irre-
sistible assistance to the fighting
people of Vietnam. They see that
the Chinese leaders are pursuing
a line which is the opposite of
all these, is in fact declared by
the Chinese leaders themselves
to be aimed to make unity im-
possible.

Words and deeds of those
Chinese leaders show that they
have abandoned Marxism-Lenin-
ism as their guide to action.
Every thinking worker recog-
nizes that they are isolating the
great Chineze people from the
world historical struggle to car-
ry through the transition to so-
cialism without world nuclear
war. By that they are doing in-
calculable harm to the cause of
world peace and socialism. They
are not telling the Chinese peo-
ple what their aims are, but their
published propaganda shows
definitely that Vietnam is not

their: main concern or even a
central one. Their published
statements show clearly that
their aims are recklessly adven-
turist and quite apart from the
building of socialism.

Canadian workers are opposed
to adventurist attitudes to the
grim possibility of world nuc-
lear war. For the majority of us
this is the most immediate rea-
son for opposition to the crim-
inal aggression of United States
imperialism. Preventing the
United States government from
plunging mankind into world
nuclear war, which would wipe

out a large part of the people
of the world and their civiliza-
tion, has become a_ necessary
condition for the survival of
Canada, including the physical
survival of the majority of her
people.

Imperialism would have creat-
ed this ghastly possibility none-
theless if the socialist revolution
had not been successful in Oc-
tober 1917 but it would have de-
veloped in fundamentally differ-
ent circumstances. Indeed, with-
out the mighty inhibiting force
of the socialist world system the
imperialist states probably would
have destroyed civilization in a
nuclear holocaust before now.
Fhis macabre probability is the
dramatic background which high-
lights the relationship of the Oc-
tober Revolution to the future
of Canada and of the people of
the two nations of our country,
French and English Canadians.

It was the socialist revolution
and the historic changes that
have flowed from it that brought
into being for the first time in
the stormy history of mankind
the possibility of preventing
world nuclear war.

It gives the people of the two
Canadian nations the possibility
to achieve a future as nations—
provided that we act to prevent
world nuclear war. This is why
unselfish love of our country,
that is to say, true patriotism,
the desire of patriots of each of
our nations to free Canada from
United States domination, to pre-
vent U.S. imperialism from
plunging mankind into nuclear
war, each express in various
ways some measure of the mean-
ing of the Communist slogan:
“Glory to the Great October Re-
volution!”” This is the essence of
the October Revolution upon
Canada.

On revisionism

(Marxist Review, 1957)

The attempt to raise the ban-
ner of anti-Leninism in our
party was rejected by the mem-
bership. The ensuing attempt to
establish a pseudo-Marxist orga-
nization to fight the party was
ignored completely by the work-
ing class.

The National Executive Com-
mittee called for the widest,
frankest party debate on that
issue.

Failure to debate such ques-
tions freely would encourage dog-
matism and the sectarian meth:
ods of work that we have to
eliminate completely from our
party. Our party did debate the
issues widely and freely over a
period of four months. The mem-
bers’ overwhelming majority
supported the estimation and
proposals that are based firmly
upon Marxism as enriched by
the historic contributions made
by Lenin in this epoch of im-
perialist wars, struggles for na-
tional independence and _prole-
tarian revolution. They rejected
the estimation and proposals put
forward by the self-styled “mi-

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nority”” as expressions of right
opportunist revsionism. To dis-
miss the implications of «that
with a suggestion that it was
solely “a struggle for leadership”
is to deny the divergence of
class interests which is the
source of such struggles within
the party. It is to obscure the
fact that consistent struggle
against revisionism is an ines-
capable part of the party’s ideo-
logical development equally as
is the struggle against dog-
matism and sectarianism.

Revisionism is the current of
opportunism which reflects the
pressure of bourgéois ideas with-
in the Marxist movement. Re-
flecting the pressure of every
upsurge of bourgeois reformism
and the illusions which accom-
pany it, revisionism seeks to eli-
minate the irreconcilable conflict
between Marxism and bourgeois
ideology by changing Marxism
from a movement for the revo-
lutionary transformation of so-
ciety through the conquest of
political power by the working
class to a movement which ac-
cepts the idea that capitalism
can grow into socialism by a
purely evolutionary process of
social reform,

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

We have received with grief
the sorrowful information about
the grave loss suffered by your
Party on Comrade Tim Buck's
death. The Communist Party of
Canada, the whole international
Communist and working class
movement together with all pro-
gressive people are losing a
brave representative of the revo-
lutionary movement for freedom,
independence, democracy and
socialism. *

We shall always cherish the
memory of Comrade Buck in
deep reverence.

Communist Party of
Czechoslovakia

HUNGARY

The Hungarian Socialist Work-
ers’ Party learned with profound
grief that Comrade Tim Buck
outstanding warrior of the inter.
national Communist movement,
had passed away. Comrade Tim
Buck's life record of proletarian
internationalism, loyalty to the
cause of of the working people,
is an example to the generations

of revolutionaries.
We lower our banners in trib-

ute to his memory.

aww e eee ead Uogarion iali

Workers’ Party

By TOM McEWEN

The ringing voice of Tim Buck
has been stilled by death, but
while memory and the written
word lasts, it will still be heard,
urging the path he so well de-
lineated while he lived — the
Marxist-Leninist path to a free
and sovereign two-nation Social-
ist Canada.

A close comrade, friend and
co-worker of Tim’s, the late
Georgi Dimitrov, General-Secre-
tary of the Communist Inter-
national and first Premier of a
Socialist Bulgaria, lists four
rain qualities in the making of
a Communist: loyalty, devotion,
and a deep conviction in the jus-
tice of a great cause. Coupled
with this must be a deep sense
of humanity that can feel and
share the burdens and worries
of others — to share the best of
all one has with the victims of
monopoly exploitation and ad-
versity. :

In all the years of his life Tim
Buck was richly endowed with
these qualities. They were at the
source and foundation of his
great personality, charm, con-
cern and sympathy for the prob-
lems of others, for the well-being
and enlightenment of all work-
ing people . . . his own class!

On: tactical or _ strategical
questions Tim was flexible, al-
ways ready to meet an oppos-
ing viewpoint “half-way.” But
on matters of basic Communist
principle his sterling granite-
hard character never flinched,
never compromised. To him the
loss of an opposing colleague
was painful, but loyalty to the
Party could never be retained

by surrender of the Party. Many

of the “inner” or theoretical

struggles to affirm the will dnd
aim of the Party, confirmed the
invincible qualities of Tim Buck,
and strengthened the Party he

so devotedly helped to build.

In the darkest days of the

As we honor the memory of the late le

Canadian working people

Canada, Tim Buck, we dedicate ourselves ‘70!
strengthen the battle for the noble socl# ‘tel!
fought for so courageously and with such Po)
during his active lifetime.

We appeal to all those

basic transformation of society and the
ending exploitation of man by man, to 4
create the material and cultural wealth 1” bie A
to those who desire to honor the memory °"
in a self-satisfying and effective manneh

only revolutionary party
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to achieve a socialist Canada. a wl
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