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Featured Articles from the print edition of Focus On Socialism (still under construction, check back regularly - last updated March 16, 2010) The Political Journals Focus On Socialism (FOS) is the political journal of Canadians for Peace and Socialism (CPS). Focus On Socialism follows Focus Newsletter (FNL) and Focus On Marxism-Leninism (FOML) which were first published in 1979 by the Committee of Canadian Communists (CCC) under the editorship of William (Bill) Beeching. Focus Newsletter was the organizational and news organ of the CCC. FNL Volume One, Number One appeared May 1979. Focus On Marxism-Leninism was the theoretical journal of the CCC. FOML Volume One, Number One was published in September 1979 following the 24th Convention of the Communist Party of Canada.
An undated (estimated around December 1977) correspondence to “All members of the Communist Party of Canada” stated, Beeching was removed for “defying the decisions of the Central Executive Committee” in disregard of “democratic centralism”. As the letter, signed as the “Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada”, stated: “The CC decided to suspend comrade Beeching as a member of the Central Committee and comrade Phyllis Clarke as an alternate member of the Central Committee for ‘grave violation of democratic centralism in defiance of a decision of the Central Executive Committee’. “In addition to these disciplinary measures taken by the Central Committee against two of its members, the CEC is taking steps to receive an accounting from other comrades associated with the publication and promotion of "Yours in the Struggle", and will take whatever disciplinary measures it deems necessary in accordance with the outcome of the said accountings.” The necessity to form an organization outside of the Communist Party of Canada by lifelong communists was precipitated by CEC taking “whatever disciplinary measures it deems necessary”. The “necessary” disciplinary actions where to expel the National Organizer of the CPC, Don Currie, and the Chairman of the Young Communist League, Chuck McFadden. In response to this action by the leadership of the Communist Party the Committee of Canadian Communists was formed. The CEC labelled Beeching as a “leftist” and “anti-party”, dissolved the Saskatchewan Provincial Committee and appointed and unknown candidate from Toronto with no knowledge of Regina East as the CPC candidate. As was stated in Focus Newsletter Volume 1 Number 2 August 1979: “Those of us who organized the Committee of Canadian Communists only did so after a long period of struggle and only after a number of us were expelled, suspended and isolated from the membership of the Party, objects of monstrous lies and gossip. While the formation of the CCC was a criticism of the Communist Party it was not an anti-Communist act as the present leadership would have the membership believe. CCC members would prefer to be members of the Communist Party which we did not voluntarily leave. “The CCC is not a political party. We based our call for support to the Communist Party of Canada in the recent federal election on a political assessment of what was at stake for the working class. The CCC will continue to base its political positions on what it considers to be in the interests of workers and farmers. At this time, we reaffirm our support for the Communist Party of Canada and its program. We are not seeking the permission or the approval; of the present leadership of the Communist Party to make such a declaration. The Communist Party is not the property of its leadership. It is the creation of the Canadian working class and all workers and farmers have the right to express themselves in support of the Party individually, collectively or in any fashion they choose.” |
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Volume 1, Issue 2, August 1979 Volume 2, Issue 1, February 1980 Volume 2, Issue 2, September 1980 Volume 2, Special Supplement, November 1980 Volume 3, April 1981 Volume 3, Issue 1, June 1981 |
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Volume 1, Issue 1, September 1979 Volume 2, Issue 1, April 1980 Volume 2, Issue 2, December 1980 |
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Volume 4, Issue 1, Special Edition, January 1982 Volume 4, Special Edition, April 1982 Volume 4, Issue 2, March 1983 Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1984 Volume 5, Issue 2, May 1984 Volume 5, Issue 3, August 1984 Volume 5, Issue 4, November 1984 Volume 6, Special Edition, January 1985 Volume 6, Issue 1, June 1985 Volume 7, Issue 1, August 1986 Volume 8, Special Edition, January 1988 Volume 8, Issue 1, September 1988 Volume 8, Discussion Bulletin, November 1988 Volume 8, Issue 2, December 1988 Volume 9, Issue 1, March 1989 Volume 9, Issue 2, September 1989 Volume 9, Issue 3, October 1989 Volume 10, Issue 1, January 1990 Volume 10, Issue 2, May 1990 Volume 10, Issue 4, September 1990 |
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Volume 3, Issue 1, October 1981 |
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Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2004 Volume 24, Issue 2, March 2005 Volume 24, Issue 3, June 2005 Volume 24, Issue 4, September 2005 Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2006 |
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Volume 25, Issue 2, November 2006 Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2007 Volume 26, Issue 2, May 2007 Volume 27, Issue 1, February 2008 |
Following
the expulsion of William Beeching from the Communist Party of Canada by
the Central Executive Committee for the publication of “Yours in the
Struggle – Reminiscences of Tim Buck” the Committee of Canadian
Communists (CCC) was formed. The CCC was not a political party.
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The Latest From FOS:
- International
The Way I See It - Afghanistan Revisited
Those of us who support CPA, including the members of CPS assert that anti-Sovietism was and continues to be pro-war and anti-peace. During the darkest days of the cold-war when the threat of nuclear war loomed over the planet, the Soviet Union was the main force of restraint over the worst of the US imperialist reactionary forces thirsting for war.
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- Marxism-Leninism
Proposal for a New International
The proposal last November 2009 to organize a new international having the support of left-socialist revolutionary parties in Latin America, on the initiative of Hugo Chavez, is an important development in the anti-imperialist movement urgently in need of credible communist analysis.
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- Federal Politics
Prime Minister Harper (Assisted by Jim Flaherty and Peter Van Loan) Leads the Whole World Forward To the New “Enlightened Sovereignty” of the 21st Century
Prime Minister Harper’s address to the World Economic Forum (WEF)[1] in Davos Switzerland January 28, 2010 can’t be dismissed as just unctuous and vapid; it was worse than that. Harper adopting his familiar and grating patronizing manner underwhelmed the elite audience of capitalist intellectual luminaries, by suggesting that minority Conservative Government economic policies under Harper’s leadership is the example the nations of the world must follow to emerge triumphant from the worst capitalist depression since the market crash of October 1929.
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- Federal Politics
Organized Labour and the Politics of the Class Struggle Today
A Convention of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) is always a significant event in the struggle of the working class to defeat capitalism and replace it with socialism. Only the Communists strive to take responsibility for the whole revolutionary process underway in our own country and globally. Every revolutionary class conscious worker is concerned that the Communist Party becomes strengthened and more effective in fulfilling its historic responsibilities to the working class of Canada and all of its peoples and for the victorious outcome of the cause of the International Communist Movement.
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- Federal Politics
The Way I See It! - Some Critical Comments
The main link that can move the entire political process forward is a clearly articulated and unambiguous revolutionary working class program to confront US-Canadian corporate power and its stranglehold on Parliament, the State, the military and the economy. That task must be the main theme of the upcoming 36th Convention of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC). From the convention an appeal that reaches out to all of organized labour and the democratic forces of our country with a plan to unite electorally to defeat Harper, and decisively, will be influential within labour and garner widespread appeal with Canadian workers. That is a concentration task and if it is solved, the organizational tactics to achieve it can be worked out.
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VI Lenin - Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
“As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will be utilised not for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in profits for the capitalists, but for the purpose of increasing profits by exporting capital abroad to the backward countries.”
Mother's
Day Proclamation 1870
By Julia Ward Howe
Arise then...women
of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.
News
and Statements from:
The Communist Party of Canada
Communist Party of Canada May Day Statement 2010
Unite to Demand a People's Recovery!
The corporate‑owned mass media greet us daily with upbeat economic reports about how the global economic crisis is over and that ‘recovery is now well underway’. This is all very comforting, but it’s also a gross perversion of the truth.
In reality, there is no recovery for most working people in this country. Unemployment and job insecurity remain high, with over 1.5 million (8.2%) out of work according to official statistics; real unemployment is closer to 12%. Since 2003, more than half million well‑paying manufacturing jobs been wiped out, 290,000 in the past two years alone. Soon EI benefits will be running out for hundreds of thousands of these unemployed workers.
Nor is there any recovery for young people trying to find work or to complete their education. Or for Aboriginal peoples who continue to suffer systemic joblessness and grinding poverty. Or for new immigrants and their families trying to build a better life. Or for pensioners and others on fixed income.
So what kind of recovery is this? It’s a recovery for the profits of the biggest banks and corporations, and for those who own and control them.
The Communist Party of Canada has issued the Main Political Resolution coming out of the 36th Central Convention February 2010. Canadians for Peace and Socialism will be commenting on the document in the coming weeks and months. It is an essential document for all workers to read, discuss and distribute.
From the Keynote Address to the 36th Central Convention by Comrade Miguel Figueroa:
“The second and final point I wish to make refers to the centrality of our theoretical and ideological work. Of course, we have a clearly delineated theoretical perspective and world-view – Marxism-Leninism – which is reflected in our Party program, our strategy & tactics, and our daily work as Communists. We all remember Lenin’s famous dictum: “without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement”. But the theoretical basis of our Party – and that of the Communist movement internationally – can never be neglected or taken for granted, for without its constant development and application to ever-changing conditions, our theoretical basis, and with it our movement itself, would wither and perish.
"As important as this question always is, it could rightly be argued that it is even more critical today, for it is undeniable that as the class struggle intensifies, so too does the ideological struggle – the ‘battle of ideas’ – sharpen. It is hardly coincidental that it is precisely now, when the crisis of capitalism is deepening, that we witness an increased ideological offensive from our class adversary in the form of a revival of anti-communism, ‘philosophical’ attacks on the concept of socialism, and crude attempts to falsify or re-write the history of our movement in Canada and around the world.
CPC 36th Central Convention Main Political Resolution
Build Solidarity with the Striking Sudbury Miners
at Vale Inco
March 5, 2010
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Militant May Day Greetings 2010
April
30, 2010
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Rebel Youth Magazine Blog:
75,000 Quebec Workers March!
March 20, 2010
A few days after the expiry of collective agreements for employees of public and parastatal sectors, thousands of people, members and friends of the Common Front SISP-CSN-FTQ from all regions of Quebec, marched in the streets of Montreal to remind the government that the solutions to improve public services go through the negotiation.
Speech by Johan
Boyden, YCL-LJC General Secretary
To the 36 Central Convention Communist Party of Canada
Three years ago, the YCL stood at this podium giving greetings on the eve of our re-founding convention. New delegates may not know this, but in a deliberate and calculated attempt to attack the Communist Party of Canada thirty years ago, a campaign was initiated to destroy, terminate, liquidate the revolutionary youth around the Party. Some members who fought against that attack are here today.
25th Central
Convention of the YCL-LJC
September 24-26, Toronto ON
DISCUSSION BULLETIN #1
DISCUSSION BULLETIN #2
DISCUSSION BULLETIN #3
YCL Central Convention Announcement
June 23, 2010
NEW DATES : September 24-25-26
Dear comrades and friends,
As you no doubt have heard, due to unexpected circumstances the Central Committee of the YCL-LJC was forced to postpone our 25th Convention, originally scheduled for May. We are now pleased to announce the new dates of the convention: Friday September 24 to Sunday September 26, to be held in Toronto. We are re-issuing the original convention call, below, which can also be found online, together with registration.
The Central Committee encourages all clubs and members to continue to meet this summer to discuss the main documents, the pre-convention discussion, and nominate delegates. As we enter an extended period of ideological mobilization, clubs and committees should compare their concrete political realities of struggle with the framework of the main convention documents and deepen discussion of the documents.
We also encourage all clubs and committees of the YCL-LJC to re-enforce their activities building the convention financially, organizationally and politically, and to broaden and deepen our engagement with friends and allies regarding the convention.
The Central Committee has struck a special committee to review and discuss the YCL-LJC Constitution as an additional item of business for the Central Convention. The committee will be reporting by early September as a special discussion bulletin.
The deadline for convention discussion bulletin #4 is July 1, 2010.
With the additional time to organize, let's make this convention an exciting moment for the YCL-LJC and the youth struggle!
In
solidarity and comradeship,
