The Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada (MLPC)
joins with
Canadians across the country who are condemning the prorogation of
Parliament by Prime Minister Harper. His dismissal of Parliament is yet
another move on his part to concentrate power more firmly in fewer and
fewer hands.
Just as Canadians are seeing economic power concentrated
in fewer and fewer monopolies and financial oligarchs, which use their
monopoly power to trample our economic rights, so too political power
is increasingly concentrated in fewer hands and wielded using the Royal
Prerogative and by wrecking established
institutions to realize an anti-social and anti-national agenda and
negate our political rights. In the case of the Harper Conservatives,
the
concentration of power is a particularly dangerous negation of public
right in favour of interpretations of biblical revelations.
Across the country, people are expressing concern with
their lack of control over Parliament at a time the country and people
face severe problems such as economic dislocation, the continuing
aggression against and occupation of Afghanistan and the torture of
detainees, and the violation of people's civil and
democratic rights using the argument of exceptional circumstances.
Canadians are demanding that Parliament be made to serve
nation-building at home and abroad and not be dismissed using the Royal
Prerogative.
The main thrust of the struggle to sort out this problem
must be to develop the organized movement of the people to renew
Canada's democratic institutions and political process. Vying for power
to serve the rich and nation-wrecking is not a basis on which to unite
the people and develop vibrant institutions.
A pro-social basis can be found in developing a movement of workers and
democratic-minded people to elaborate a nation-building project by
building Citizens' Committees for Democratic Renewal. Led by the MLPC
these committees are open to all irrespective of political affiliation
and ideological beliefs. Their
aim is to put an end to nation-wrecking and the destruction of Canada's
institutions and channels through which people can have a say in
defending their interests and those of the nation.
The MLPC calls on Canadian workers, women, youth and all
democratic-minded people to step up their fight for democratic renewal
so that the people's opposition to nation-wrecking gives rise to a
viable effective political opposition that will block retrogression and
embark upon a nation-building project to
solve Canada's political and constitutional crises in a way that
benefits the people. This requires Committees for Democratic Renewal
that forge the working class and its allies into an effective political
opposition, the only social force capable of providing an alternative
to the corrupt cartel party system and neo-liberal
rule which has gone rogue.
Oppose
Canada's
Rogue
Democracy!
No to the Prorogation of Parliament!
Build the Alternative by Establishing a Workers Official Opposition!
For further information
contact Anna Di Carlo, Party
Leader, leader@mlpc.ca
