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that the “quiet” revolution is in-
creasingly taking on the character
of a democratic revolution.

It is on this basis that a voluntary
equal partnership between the Eng-
lish and French Canadian people
can find expression in a New Con-
stitution.

It should be obvious that this
new stage of the struggle requires
a shift in emphasis by the party
particularly in English Canada. Hith-
erto we have been stressing the
need for a New Constitution. What
we need to place in the forefront at
this time, is the core of the problem
—that of the right to national self-
determination, including the right to
secede. We are aware of the fact
that this is not understood and will
require thorough-going explanation
but it is a responsibility the Party
must undertake, In French Canada
the Communist Party of Quebec is
called upon to enter into vigorous
debate with others, including the sep-
aratists, on this issue and helping
to strengthen in every way the con-
scious role of the working class in

>the struggle to achieve national self-

determination. It is by relating the
national and democratic issues to the
basic social and economic issues
confronting the working class that it
can begin to play an ever growing
role in the political arena.

The demand for national self-deter-
mination in French Canada finds its
counterpart on an_all-Canadian
scale in widening opposition to mo-
nopoly and its policies. Workers are
rejecting out of hand proposals for
labor-management cooperation. The
strike movement is continuing un-
abated as workers strive to win a

that it is possible to achieve co-
operation with NDPers and others
on a wide range of questions be it
in the fight for peace, foreign policy,
on economic issues, work in trade
unions, municipal, provincial and fed-
eral elections, during strikes, the
struggle for democracy, and on the
various organizations of the people.
However this is still limited to indi-
viduals and has not yet developed
as between parties.

This socialist left will be stimu-
lated as will cooperation between
our Party and others only as a re-
sult of sharp struggle against right
wing policy and activity. In fact it
is such an_ ideological struggle
against right wing views which will
strengthen socialist convictions and
the socialist perspective and begin
to change the relationship of forces
within the labor movement.

Such criticism,is all the more ne-
cessary in light of the position of
the NDP on some key questions,
particularly evident at the recent
NDP convention. That convention
arising from the efforts of the night
wing to appear respectable evaded
coming to grips with the issue of
Canadian independence, economic

domination, foreign policy and the.

Constitutional crisis, in any full way.

It sidestepped nationalization, re-
iterated its position of cooperative
federalism and special status as a
substitute for national self-deter-
mination, avoided coming to grips
with U.S. imperialism and its drive
to world domination. Essentially the
right wing’s program seems directed
to proving it can manage capitalism
better than the old line parties.

e

It seems to us that what we should
now focus on is the working out of
demands which reflect the real needs
and possibilities of the labor move-
ment and will facilitate its advance.
What we have in mind is the elabor-
ation of a common program which
our Party should campaign for and

larger portion of the wealth they
produce and overcome wage differ-
entials between U.S. and Canadian
workers as the auto workers aim to
do. At the same time a stronger
trend towards unity is making itself

AHO E

THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF
THE COMMUNIST PARTY con-
demns the use of injunctions in
labor disputes and particularly the
vicious one-year sentence given
three leaders (President Steve
Stavenes, Business Agent Jack
Nichol and Secy. Treasurer Homer
Stevens) of the United Fishermans
Union in B.C.;

Expresses solidarity with the ef-
forts of the B.C. labor movement to
win the release of the three elect-
ed officials of the Fishermans
Union;

Pledges to help mobilize the
united support of the labor and
democratic movement across Can-
ada should it be necessary to
carry the appeal to the Supreme
Court of Canada and will inten-
sify efforts for the repeal of legisla-
tion permitting the use of injunc-
tions in labor disputes.

Nee ee nn nO

evident in the trade union move-
ment, exemplified in the merger be-
tween Mine Mill and Steel Unions
and in new approaches being devel-
oped between CNTU and the Quebec
Federation of Labor. Increasingly
the trade union movement is con-

which in turn could stimulate the
trend towards unity and cooperation
of all the forces of the left.

What should such a common and
minimum program consist of?

Should it be a program of socialism .

or a more immediate program of ac-
tion? Our view is that it should be
a basis for united action, a stimula-
tion of mass movements and united
action, a means through which to
build unity and cooperation of the
left. We believe such a program
should include the following main
themes: peace and neutrality, inde-
pendence and nationalization, the
right to national self-determination,
the technological revolution and
social progress, the extension of
democracy and trade union rights. It
should include proposals for a new
deal for the farmers and for the
youth, problems of housing, taxes
and prices.

We should also see this cam-
paign as part of our preparations for
a federal election which rumor has
it, will take place next year and for
which all political parties are now
preparing The elections in Ontario,

Saskatchewan and New Brunswick —

will in a sense be the curtain raisers
for it and our Party particularly in
Ontario and Saskatchewan, will, on
the basis of our electoral policy
work for the strengthening of the
progressive forces in the legislatures
while advancing their own program
and candidates where possible.

To focus on the central questions
and at the same time pose the ne-
cessity for a truly democratic alter-
native requires that the Party run
candidates in a selected number of
constituencies in the country.

There is another aspect also which
is related to the question of what
ideological road blocks stand in its
way. We do not make ideological
unity a basis for cooperation but at
the same time we know that ideolo-
gical questions if not cleared up
hinder the development of unity and

September 29, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

centrating attention on the organiza-
tion of the unorganized particularly
in the professional and white collar
fields alongside efforts at achieving
mergers of unions to meet the chal-
lenge of monopoly control, and tech-
nological and structural changes in
the economy. New sections of work-
ing people are being organized
thereby adding to the economic and
political strength of labor and the
democratic movement.

University students have advanc-
ed the slogan of “student power”.
through which to democratize uni-
versity life and give them a say and
a demand which is also being taken
up by high school students. At the
same time a growing trend leftward
is discernible among sections of stu-
dents.

Farmers who for some tirne seem-
ed to be outside the growing demo-
cratic movements of the people, are
beginning to move in defense of
their interests and advancing varied
and militant forms of struggle, from
marches, to boycott, to strike in
by aga to improve their conditions of
ife.

Workers, farmers, students, house-
wives, professional and other groups,
all these are in action against mono-
poly and its policies. The ingredients
of an anti-monopoly coalition are in
the making and being added to by
the national and democratic move-
ment in French Canada for national
self determination and equality and
the growing trend towards indepen-
dent labor political action among
Quebec workers. The ground work is
thus being extended for ever widen-
ing independent political action in
English and French Canada.

nity

cooperation.

Over the past number of years our
Party. has elaborated its position
with respect to the possibility of a
peaceful advance to socialism in our
conditions as we have rounded out
our position on the non inevitability
of world war. We have done a con-
siderable amount of work in over-
coming sectarian tendencies towards
social democracy on the question of
multi-party government in the pe-
riod of socialist construction.

These and’ the consistent struggle
of the Soviet Union for peace and
peaceful co-existence, has done
much to break down prejudices and
helped create a better atmosphere
within which to work.

However the divisions in the
world communist movement have
raised anew a host of questions
which need to be battled out
amongst the “old” left and the
“new” left. These include questions
such as that of the relationship of
the struggle for peace and national
liberation, freedom and democracy,
of the paths of transition to social-
ism, the peaceful and non peaceful
path to socialism, of a multi-party
system and the political rule of the
working class, of proletarian inter-
nationalism. Where it tends to focus
most is on the rights of the indivi-
dual and democracy under socialism.

Looked at from one side it could
be considered part of the public dis-
cussion on the path to socialism in
Canada which we must join in. At
the same time it emphasizes the
need to strengthen work in the ideo-
logical and educational field and in
the battle of ideas, seeing in. this an
important part of the struggle for
unity.

If we see this as an integral part
of the work on the Program we
should agree that more time will be
required to complete the draft. of
such a Program and that much more
needs to be done to involve the en-
tire party in discussions around it.