(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-

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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

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