First Published:People’s Canada Daily News, Vol. 9, No. 26, January 30, 1979.
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The evil plans of the monopoly capitalist class and U.S. imperialism for unleashing a reactionary civil war in Canada over the question of Quebec became very clear during Levesque’s most recent trip to the United States to promote his “independence” fraud. It is very clear that the sinister purpose behind Levesque’s “independence” fraud and Trudeau’s “national unity” fraud is to split the proletariat and people, to foster antagonisms among the proletariat and people and to line them up behind the sectional interests of the monopoly capitalists in order to unleash a reactionary civil war for the purposes of drowning in blood the revolutionary struggles of the proletariat and people for national and social emancipation and progress. Levesque made this abundantly clear in his speech in Washington, D. C., last week.
Levesque declared that if Quebec became “independent” according to the schemes of the PQ, Quebec would raise its own army, although the Quebec government would permit Canadian troops to “remain as guests”. These declarations give Levesque’s denial that the monopoly capitalists have reactionary civil war on the agenda a hollow ring. If the monopoly capitalists are not planning a reactionary civil war over the question of Quebec, as Levesque claims, then why are they raising a separate army for Quebec? No one goes to the tremendous expense of maintaining a standing army unless one is planning on using it. Levesque’s demagogic answer, of course, is that the army is for the purpose of defending the “sovereignty” of Quebec. But if the purpose of this army is to defend the “sovereignty” of Quebec, then why are the Canadian forces going to be permitted to “remain as guests”? Clearly, the reason that the monopoly capitalists are planning on raising a Quebec army is precisely because they need this army as the “other side” in the reactionary civil war they have on the agenda. It is also clear that this army has nothing to do with defending the “sovereignty” of Quebec, since Levesque has indicated time and again, both in his words and in his deeds, that he intends to continue selling out the sovereignty of the Quebec people to U.S. imperialism. The “independence” that Levesque is engineering on the orders of a section of the monopoly capitalist class and U.S. imperialism has nothing to do with the aspirations of the Quebec people, so how can an army raised by Levesque defend the interests of the Quebec people? It cannot. The “independence” fraud of Levesque and the PQ is designed to prevent the Quebec people from realizing their aspirations in deeds and to perpetuate the enslavement of the Quebec people by the Canadian monopoly capitalist class and U.S. imperialism. It is not genuine independence that Levesque is promoting, but reactionary cultural nationalism of the Hitler type and Levesque and the monopoly capitalists he represents have the same sort of evil plans in mind for the Quebec people as Hitler did for the German people.
The plans of the monopoly capitalist class and U.S. imperialism for unleashing a reactionary civil war in Canada over the question of Quebec are not new. These plans have been and are an integral part of both the “national unity” fraud of Trudeau and the “independence” fraud of Levesque, and the monopoly capitalists, through such spokesmen as Allan Blakeney, John Evans, Pierre Bourgault and others, as well as Trudeau and Levesque themselves, have carried open propaganda!! on this question right from the time that the’ PQ came to power in November 1976. *Both the “national unity” fraud and the “independence” fraud promote the chauvinist “two nations” theory and reactionary cultural nationalism, especially on the question of language, in order to split the proletariat and people and convert them into cannon fodder for the evil plans of the monopoly capitalists and U.S. imperialism.
These schemes of the monopoly capitalist class and,U.S. imperialism were also evident in the recently released report of the Task Force on “Canadian Unity”. While demagogically proclaiming Quebec’s right to self-determination, just as Levesque does, the Task Force recommended that “an emergency power should be assigned expressly by the constitution to the central government, for both wartime and peacetime. The wartime emergency power may be invoked in time of real or apprehended war, invasion or insurrection. The peacetime emergency power may be invoked in highly exceptional circumstances.” Thus while the Task Force demagogically declares that “Canadians must renounce the use of force as a way of keeping Quebec in Canada”, it at the Same time provides for the military occupation of Quebec such as occurred in October 1970 and at other times in order to terrorize the people and suppress the genuinely patriotic and democratic forces. The evil plans of the monopoly capitalists are also seen in the fact that the lip-service paid to “Quebec’s right to self-determination” is couched in the language of war amid ominous threats. The Task Force threatens that secession could result in “economic hardship, social turmoil and violence” and that “very few countries dissolve themselves in an atmosphere of sweet reason”. It is clear that the Task Force is not promoting Quebec’s democratic right to self-determination, but rather a reactionary civil war for the purposes of drowning in blood the revolutionary struggles of the proletariat and people and sorting out the contradictions which exist within the camp of the monopoly capitalist class and U.S. imperialism.
The monopoly capitalist class and U.S. imperialism are caught in the grips of a profound all-sided crisis, with the economic crisis at the base. They are striving to avert this crisis and to preserve their own moribund class rule with fascism and war. The proletariat and people can have no illusions about what the monopoly capitalist class and U.S. imperialism have on the agenda for Canada. The proletariat and people must vigorously oppose both the “national unity” fraud and the “independence” fraud of the monopoly capitalists, and must not give the monopoly capitalists a moment’s peace to implement their nefarious schemes. The proletariat and people must prepare for revolution against war by uniting in action against the common enemy and by actually going on the offensive against the monopoly capitalists and U.S. imperialism. This is the only way to defeat the plans of the monopoly capitalists for fascism and war and the only path for genuine national liberation for Quebec and genuine independence, democracy and socialism for Canada.