No. 38 October 10, 2020 - 50th Anniversary of the War Measures Act Invoked in 1970

The Party set the line of blaming the state and not the people for racist and other attacks and exposed the role of political opportunists within the communist and workers' movement in promoting divisions amongst the people instigated by the state on the basis of language and national origin, - The revolutionary anti-imperialist nature and significance of the struggles of the period such as opposi. [...] It is important to keep in mind that in that critical period in the formation of the Party, its political consciousness was forged in the battle for the rights of the working class and people, of the Quebec nation and Indigenous peoples and the right to be of the peoples of the world. [...] The report to the Party's Central Committee drew the conclusion that the arson attack and the response of the police and the media had the aim of: 1) convincing public opinion that the arson attack was insignificant and hence that it is fine and normal to have such attacks on the Party; 2) sowing confusion in the minds of the people to downplay and negate the danger of fascism; 3) to create public. [...] imperialism, the FBI and the CIA, and the direct intervention in Canadian affairs by the highest echelons of the United States government [...]." It pointed out that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service "will be legally empowered to carry out all the illegal and hooligan activities which the RCMP, the CIA and the FBI have carried out in the past, in the name of defending democracy and the in. [...] imperialism and that those who fight for the democratic rights of the people and the interests of the nation [...] are the 'enemies' of the interests of the people and the nation and are the source of the danger to peace and security in Canada and to democracy.