"We should get our comrades to understand that the twofold basic task of the leading bodies of the Communist Party is to know conditions and to master policy; the former means knowing the world and the latter changing the world." -Mao Zedong, 1941, Reform our Study
RI Editorial Note: On the occasion of the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Austria, a number of eastern … Continue reading June 8-9 World Economic Forum and the juggling of inter-imperialist rivalries: Statement from Anti-Imperialist, ML, and MLM orgs in Eastern and Central Europe
RI Editorial Note: Thanks to the Kasama Project for these posts (overview here) discussing some of the positive and negative … Continue reading Confronting Addictions and Mental Affilictions in the Movement
Thanks to Kersplebedeb for this notice of the upcoming hunger strike at the Pelican Bay State Prison in California. Anywhere … Continue reading Pelican Bay Prisoners Will Hunger Strike to their Death
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Posted at The Next Front by Admin (23 May 2011). TNF Admin Editorial Note: The following interview was given by … Continue reading The struggle will be launched : Kiran
by J. Cabral, General Secretary of Revolutionary Initiative On the 125th anniversary of May Day, we have much to celebrate, … Continue reading Six Lines of Demarcation
From the Central Committee, Revolutionary Initiative (Canada)
29 March 2011
With the upcoming Federal Elections in Canada, this document offers an assessment by the Central Committee of Revolutionary Initiative on the question of elections in the current international context and given the level of self-organization of the proletariat in Canada. It is organized into five main sections:
Continue reading “Expose the electoral circus and build the revolutionary forces”
Press Release of CCOMPOSA, 23rd March 2011 The 5th Conference of the Co-ordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of … Continue reading CCOMPOSA 5th Conference Press Release
R.I. EDITORIAL COMMENT: The following statement from the MLM organization in Britain, ‘Revolutionary Praxis’, bears so much in common with the role and function of Trotskyism in Canada that we are reproducing it below with our own additions in parentheses, so as to illustrate the identical function of Trotskyism in Canada. Everything that appears in [ ] parentheses is an addition from Revolutionary Initiative.
It is no accident that the imperialist centres have served as headquarters for the Trotskyists, one species of reformist and revisionist ‘Marxism’. It is also no accident that the semi-colonial countries, like Peru, Turkey, India, Philippines, Nepal, have played a leading role in keeping a revolutionary Marxism alive, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and in deed, developing it.
A component of our work as revolutionary communists, as a basis for the refoundation of a proletarian revolutionary Party, is to expose all revisionist ideas, be they borne out of Trotskyism or the revisionist CPs. That said, thanks to Revolutionary Praxis for this statement.
In Britain [and Canada], today there are a number of political organizations which base themselves on the teachings of Leon Trotsky, the counter-revolutionary renegade who defected from and opposed the Soviet Union. These include the Socialist Workers Party [International Socialists in Canada], the Socialist Party, the Alliance for Workers Liberty and a multitude of splinters from these organizations [Socialist Action, the ‘Socialist Caucus’ of the New Democratic Party; Fightback, also trying to transform the NDP into a true ‘workers’ party’; etc.]. Continue reading “‘The Trouble With Trotskyites’”
[The following document was drafted in the mid-2000s by the group that gave rise to Revolutionary Initiative. While it is a rather rudimentary document and by no means a program for the revolution, its significance stems from the fact that, for a period of time, its formulations provided sufficient ideological and political unity amongst a small core of proletarian revolutionaries to kick-start a Party-building process in Canada.
Through further study, experience in the mass struggle, and criticism and self-criticism, this “Basis of Unity” would come to be replaced by our “Theses on the Party Building Movement in Canada” and a series of more refined ideological, political, organizational, and historical documents to carry forward the party-building process.
However, this short ideological-political document demonstrates that not every question must or can be resolved before a group of proletarian revolutionaries begins carrying forward the practical work of rebuilding a genuine communist party.
For a French translation of this document, click here. – Ed.]
“Basis of Unity”
To eventually form a genuine communist party of Canada, proletarian revolutionaries in Canada must unify around the following points:
Continue reading ““Basis of Unity” – Origins of Revolutionary Initiative”
