Well, it's there, Chris, & legal, but has very few members, never wins
a seat anywhere, etc. But has been around since the 30s at least, has
been riven by the usual internal battles, & there's also a Marxist
Leninist one too....
Doug
On 9-Dec-08, at 1:07 AM, Christopher C Jones wrote:
> I have been reading up on Canadian Politics and have discovered that
> there is a Communist Party of Canada which seems to be a democratic
> centrist Marxist-Leninist party!
>
>
> http://www.peoplesvoice.ca/
>
> http://www.communist-party.ca/
>
> Now, what are their positions on key international questions,
> including
> support for Cuba, support and links with the Communist Party of
> Vietnam,
> position on the Communist Party of Venezuela and the Venezuelan
> revolution? This I have yet to finish reading. But first, to read the
> party's program.
>
>
> It is a bit depressing here in Australia:
> The DSP, once the largest Marxist party in Australia, has split and
> continues sliding into the murk of social democratic idealism as if
> Lenin, "What is to be done" no longer has any theoretical relevance.
> However the Socialist Party of Australia has renamed itself the
> Communist Party of Australia:
>
> http://www.cpa.org.au/amr/amr.html
>
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