Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line

Charles Boylan

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The following is the Progressive Workers Movement’s Position on our Relationship to the Struggle to Build a Marxist-Leninist Party in Canada:

PART I

At present PWM is forced by limited resources to confine its organisational activities to British Columbia. However, PWM is committed to ideological struggle throughout the whole of Canada via our paper, the Progressive Worker. We would like to maintain contacts with groups aspiring to build Marxist-Leninist organisations in other areas of Canada, and the paper, Progressive Worker, is open to articles from other groups or individuals on questions relating to building a Marxist-Leninist Party. The goal of all Marxist-Leninists should be for only one Marxist-Leninist group in any geographical area and eventually for one Marxist-Leninist Party in Canada. PWM’s future organisational activities outside of BC will depend on whether or not other areas have developed Marxist-Leninist organisations.

PART II

It is our position that it is incorrect for the Internationalists, who recognise PWM as a Marxist-Leninist organisation, to attempt to set up an alternate centre in British Columbia. This means that they should put an end to their organisational work here, and propaganda work aimed at building their organisation in BC.

Specifically, this means:

That members of the Internationalists who wish to remain in BC must stop organisational work on behalf of the Internationalists and come under the discipline of PWM. These people may, if they wish, apply as individuals to join PWM.

People in BC who continue to follow the Internationalist’s positions will necessarily run into not only ideological but also organisational opposition from PWM and from people who accept our leadership, when these are different in principle from those of PWM.