Canadian Maoists Unite

[mosfeld]

The RCP in Canada is growing! :)


A New Wave of Unity Among Revolutionary Communists

It is with great pride and a deep sense of responsibility in front of the Canadian proletariat and the international communist movement that we announce the rallying of the Social Revolution Party (SRP) to the Parti communiste révolutionnaire - Revolutionary Communist Party (Canada).

The Social Revolution Party is an Ottawa-based communist group founded in 2009. Created two years earlier, the Revolutionary Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party that fights for a revolutionary change in Canada, for workers power and socialism, as part of the world revolution.

Following the historic anti-capitalist mobilization against the G20 Summit in June 2010 in Toronto, the Social Revolution Party came into contact with the RCP. During the fall, members of the SRP studied and discussed the program of the RCP. The comrades of the SRP also took part in the Second Canadian Revolutionary Congress organized by the RCP, which was held December 11, 2010 in Toronto. The RCP was then able see the quality of the revolutionary commitment of the SRP and its activists and their willingness to move forward on the path of communism and revolution. Despite being a young organization, members of the SRP already have a rich experience in organizing, especially among the working class.

The SRP has published a compelling and sharp criticism of bourgeois parliamentarism, consistent with the Marxist critique of the state and of bourgeois democracy. Through the concept of “Popular Action Movement” they popularized, the SRP also made ​​a positive contribution to the debate on the need to fight right now to create the backbone of a new popular power—the one that will replace the old power structure currently in place after the destruction of the bourgeois state. This concept especially makes sense through the strategy of protracted people’s war, which is specifically aimed at mobilizing the masses in the struggle to conquer power.

After this period of exchange and discussions, the Social Revolution Party has unanimously decided to constitute itself as a cell of the RCP. Canada’s revolutionary forces, young and old, have entered a period of renewal, regrouping, and reconstitution. Principled unity and struggle, based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the need to break with bourgeois legality and the state, to ally with Aboriginal Peoples, and to wage People’s War, can build a movement from coast to coast.

The Social Revolution Party, which aimed to bring attention to the need for a true social revolution to abolish the exploitation of working and oppressed peoples, eagerly welcomes the buildup of revolutionary forces and mass movements across eastern Canada, and hopes that 2011, the year of another meaningless election, will herald even greater returns for the communist movement.

Upholding Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and especially applying it to the concrete conditions of Canada; strengthening a leading center capable of bringing together all forces willing to fight for communism and revolution; deploying a unified Communist agitprop across the country: These are factors which all portend important victories for the proletariat and the popular masses.

Long live unity among communist revolutionaries! Towards on the revolutionary path! Everywhere in Canada, let’s build the RCP!

Revolutionary Communist Party (Canada)
Social Revolution Party
April 9, 2011

http://pcr-rcp.ca/en/documents/Communique_SRP-RCP_EN.htm

[IndependentCitizen]

So, when are you guys going to have a peoples' liberation army?

Anyway, despite being a different branch of Marxism (myself being a Trotskyist), good luck building the party.

[jake williams]

The RCP are a bunch of whackjobs who don't, as far as I know, do anything useful. Literally all I've seen from them do, other than putting up more posters than there are ads for concerts and discount language classes, is disrupting tenuous working class and student unity, decrying student and labour unions as bourgeois and collaborationist and demanding counterdemonstrations against the left. I don't see how they apply any particular theory to the concrete conditions of Canada, whatever anyone thinks of Maoism.

If they want to do useful work though, that'd be great.

[mosfeld]

So, when are you guys going to have a peoples' liberation army?

Anyway, despite being a different branch of Marxism (myself being a Trotskyist), good luck building the party.

I'm not from Canada :p

[mosfeld]

For users who are confused due to jammoe's post, here's an alternative and positive view of the RCP by comrade JMP: "Of Parties and Sectarianism: A Report on the Second Canadian Revolutionary Congress (http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/2010/12/of-parties-and-sectarianism-report-on.html)"

[Gorilla]

People's war til communism or they're Kruschevite scum.

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

Are they associated with the RCP-USA?

[mosfeld]

Are they associated with the RCP-USA?

No, but they do maintain fraternal relations with other RIM parties, though, like UCPN(M) and CMPA.

[RedStarOverChina]

I've met some of their people. Very energetic bunch. Good for them.

[jake williams]

For users who are confused due to jammoe's post, here's an alternative and positive view of the RCP by comrade JMP: "Of Parties and Sectarianism: A Report on the Second Canadian Revolutionary Congress (http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/2010/12/of-parties-and-sectarianism-report-on.html)"
That's all nice, and I'm against sectarianism too, but what I actually see them doing where I live is almost uniformly destructive - something I wouldn't say about very many other socialist groups, whatever theoretical or practical disagreements I might have with them. The line that mass organizations in Quebec are all part of a collaborationist labour aristocracy and serve only to repress popular struggle makes no sense, because it's precisely those vehicles that have historically been used to achieve gains for the working class here.

[sunfarstar]

the rcp in canada is growing! :)



http://pcr-rcp.ca/en/documents/communique_srp-rcp_en.htm



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[mosfeld]

That's all nice, and I'm against sectarianism too, but what I actually see them doing where I live is almost uniformly destructive - something I wouldn't say about very many other socialist groups, whatever theoretical or practical disagreements I might have with them. The line that mass organizations in Quebec are all part of a collaborationist labour aristocracy and serve only to repress popular struggle makes no sense, because it's precisely those vehicles that have historically been used to achieve gains for the working class here.

I don't know the situation in Canada that well, so I can't really answer directly what you addressed, but here's my two cent.

From a glimpse it seems that all of the mainstream communist parties are revisionist parliamentary cretins who want to work within the system and abide to the rules the bourgeoisie has set for the country, even though the vast majority of Canadians are too disillusioned to even vote. I like how the RCP has broken from this line and organized a boycott. You can call them sectarian all you want, but, once again from a "glimpse", they're simply abiding to MLM principles which have been very successful internationally, such as in Nepal (PPW era), Peru and India.

Also the fact that very developed and successful MLM parties have accepted them as the vanguard of Canada helps. These parties would not acknowledge them as a vanguard unless their line was a correct one.

[JoeySteel]

That's all nice, and I'm against sectarianism too, but what I actually see them doing where I live is almost uniformly destructive - something I wouldn't say about very many other socialist groups, whatever theoretical or practical disagreements I might have with them. The line that mass organizations in Quebec are all part of a collaborationist labour aristocracy and serve only to repress popular struggle makes no sense, because it's precisely those vehicles that have historically been used to achieve gains for the working class here.

I'm not sure about practice because I'm not from Montreal, but I believe their line is more like highlighting the fact that labour union leadership and the labour aristocracy is not going to be the vanguard element, and they say we need to organize in the most exploited and advanced sectors of the proletariat, those who have broken with bourgeois democracy but have not yet found communism. I think there's a solid case for that, it's not some sectarian attack and it's a bit vain to act like it is. It's class analysis in Canada and consciously trying to organize for proletarian revolution, which unfortunately few organizations are doing right now. Hence, the need to form mass organizations of the people that break with social democracy and the state and work towards proletarian power. If there are unions or groups in Quebec that are offended by this well sorry, make the revolution and you will prove those nasty Maoists wrong, it`s literally that simple.

[Die Neue Zeit]

There goes the Social Revolution Party. :(