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Reprint from TML Daily, daily newspaper of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist Leninist)

67th Anniversary of the Birth of Comrade Hardial Bains17th Anniversary of the Chertsey Meeting
Join the Work of CPC(M-L) as the Crucial Ingredient to Turn Historic Success into Historic Victory!
On the occasion of the 67th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Hardial Bains, the founder and leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), and the 17th anniversary of the historic Party meeting in Chertsey, Quebec, the Party sends revolutionary greetings to its members and supporters and the revolutionary forces across Canada and around the world.
This year, at a time untold crimes and atrocities are being unleashed on the peoples by U.S. imperialism and world reaction, the Party's organizations at every level are highlighting Comrade Bains' leadership which imbued us with his deep conviction in the victory of the new over the old. In speaking to this conviction, Comrade Bains stressed the objective role of the working class as that class brought forward by the capitalist society to give rise to the new and the role of the communist party in unleashing the human factor/social consciousness to realize the victory of the new.
At the Chertsey meeting in 1989, Comrade Bains spoke about the crucial role the Communist Party plays in this regard. Emphasizing the emergence of the new personality in Canada, brought into being and nurtured by the Party, he gave what has become a clarion call to the Party. Comrade Bains said, "A new communist has come into being on this soil of Canada, nurtured by our Marxist-Leninist party. With such a new personality, do you think that they can smash us, destroy us? I say to you... we will become millions, you watch us -- because we represent what the working class wants." The nurturing of this new personality was not left to chance but was planned and organized by the Party.
Comrade Bains made these remarks during the period of transition from flow of revolution to retreat. It might be thought that in the period after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the bi-polar division of the world, when revolution had gone from a period of flow into retreat, that this conviction in the victory of the new might be shaken. Far from it, Comrade Bains maintained that by taking its stand for the new and advancing that struggle, the Party was unshakeable. Speaking in 1994, five years after Chertsey, he said, "The retreat of revolution has provided the bourgeoisie and world imperialism with a lot of confidence and euphoria that a new equilibrium has come into being, that in this new equilibrium they will set the law and everything will be fine. However this new equilibrium has not come into being." He predicted that this euphoria of imperialism would create new disasters and so it has. He said that in spite of all the protests and opposition by the working class and peoples of the world, the imperialists will carry on along an unpopular path as if nothing had happened, as if conditions are still favourable to them and that the peoples are reconciled to their fate.
Comrade Bains elaborated that these circumstances placed capitalism in the position of contempt and as a target of attack by the peoples all over the world. He emphasized, "This means that there are signs under the present circumstances that the working class is undergoing re-awakening. This means that the period of retreat of revolution will soon be transformed into one of flow of revolution. What it is telling the communist parties is that they must carry on with their plans for the future, with their plans to create the subjective conditions for revolution." He continued, "The working class is already beginning to think about another unthinkable, that this capitalism can be overthrown. In 1994, already assaults on capital have begun."
Comrade Bains spoke to the importance of the work of the Party in this situation, where he emphasized that things are going to change with a new social upheaval in the making. "Five years ago when counter-revolution was beginning such a momentum with the retreat of revolution, CPC(M-L) did not waver and carried on with the implementation of the plan it had worked out in 1970 to create the subjective conditions for revolution. At the same time, it showed the resilience that it can cope with these conditions and worked out a platform of democratic renewal within these present circumstances, appealing to the broadest sections of the people that even under these circumstances there is a path for progress. CPC(M-L) during this period proved that it is not and never was a propaganda sect which only believes in some principles or advocated some dogma and utopia but was not a political force. Far from it, it proved that it is a political force which has emerged to have a trial of strength with the bourgeoisie."
Today in 2006, we have seen the assaults on capitalism multiply and grow. There is broad anger and rejection of U.S. imperialism and its wars of aggression and rejection of Canada's participation in these wars and the world-wide anti-social offensive. There is ever-growing rejection of the anti-social offensive and the efforts by the ruling class to eliminate the necessity of society to take up its social responsibility and provide for the needs of its members. The dark path of fascism and war is being rejected by the peoples world wide, while the demand for another world has come to the fore. The Party is meeting this trial of strength by consolidating its forces and developing the work to build the mass communist party. It is responding to the growing interest and demand for communism, as the working class and people seek solutions to the problems of the day. The Party is working out its tactics and social forms, such as the Marxist-Leninist Party Clubs, to ensure that communism is not a matter of phrases, but that it emerges from the very lives and conditions of the people.
The conviction in the victory of the new continues to imbue the work of the Party. On this anniversary of Comrade Bains' birth we renew his call to join the work of CPC(M-L) as the crucial ingredient for bringing about the victory of the new. Comrade Bains said, "The work is at a takeoff point for the greatest revolutionary developments that humankind has ever witnessed. CPC(M-L) is the most decisive conscious force for this revolutionary transformation in Canada, a detachment of the International Marxist-Leninist Communist Movement, contributing towards the same internationally. Let all workers, women, youth and students, and all enlightened forces join CPC(M-L). The act of joining CPC(M-L) will itself be a great leap forward for the creation of a new and affirmed humanity, in which every act of human beings becomes another act for that affirmation, the measure of what is truly human.
"Let no one hesitate, as the period for the victory of the new over the old is here. Let everyone engage in the creation of the conditions for the best expression of their own humanity, so that they can realize their aspirations to scale the heights which humanity has never reached before in order to affirm itself. Let the dawn of human progress break! Let the sun of all humanized humanity rise! Let it shine for all!"