Historic Conference Held in Chertsey, Quebec in 1989

The national and international developments which have unfolded since the Chertsey conference confirm the retrogression and dark reaction predicted by Comrade Bains at that time and, equally, the determined resistance of the working class and people all over the world and the inescapable need for the Party's revolutionary political leadership, organization and theory to realize the aims of the mov. [...] Within a short while the world saw many changes, including 1 the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the bipolar division of the world. [...] 3 With the Party's 5th Congress having been held a year earlier, Comrade Bains gave a summation of the work being carried out by the Party to implement the Congress decisions and the consistent work of the Party to answer the needs of the movement. [...] It is the working class which is at the centre, and our views are the views of the working class." Comrade Bains declared, "The most important problem in terms of specific work is to win the mass of workers over to the side of the Party.... [...] It led to the adoption of the program Stop Paying the Rich -- Increase Funding for Social Programs! in 1997 and, in spite of the monumental loss of Comrade Bains on August 24, 1997, to the success of the 7th Congress held in 1998 which adopted the Historic Initiative and its line of march, to the success of the 8th Congress held in 2008 under the theme "Laying the Foundations of the Mass Communist.