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Description
The following book contains speeches, statements and articles from the three organizations in the 1970s which defended the rights of East and West Indians, as well as all peoples in Canada, EIDC, WIPO and CPDC. It embodies the fierce struggle that was waged against the bourgeoisie and their state, which was organizing racist attacks against the people, either directly through the police or by utilizing the police to protect racists in committing their attacks. In this period, federal and provincial governments across Canada sought to dull the vigorous and revolutionary stand of workers and minorities to protect their communities and confused their own protection of racists with the Canadian people themselves being racist. They thus absolved themselves of any responsibility and put the burden on people in Canada who allegedly had an “attitude” or “behavioural” problem. In his speech, Comrade Hardial Bains points out that some individual racist may say some slur, and one has a right to defend themselves against that individual, but the government conjured up the racist “Green Paper on Immigration”, it changed the immigration laws in 1966 to accommodate large-scale exploitation of migrant workers, paying them little to nothing, among other things. The Canadian state is racist on the scale of the millions!
Today, as the struggle of numerous communities ramps up against the anti-social offensive and the absence of political power is immediate for everyone, the lessons learned from the Joint Committee of these three organizations become a tool in figuring out how to organize entire communities and how to fight the state attacks against them. It teaches them to distinguish between the collaborationist traitors and those who love their community and struggle with it, it teaches us to toss out the pseudo-intellectual nonsense taught in the schools and universities that the issue is white vs. black, settler vs. indigenous, etc. The issue is to struggle for the community against the bourgeois state, while keeping as the apple of our eye the truth that our security can only lie in the fight for the rights of all!
Some of the materials were edited for clarity by NEPH, but their original meanings have been entirely preserved.