There are thirteen basic revolutionary mass movements among the Canadian people:
1. the struggle of the Canadian people against U.S. imperialist domination and control, and support for the national liberation struggles of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
2. the national liberation struggle of the people of Quebec against Anglo-Canadian colonialism.
3. the just struggle of the Native Indian and Inuit people for the
restoration of their hereditary rights.
4. the basic struggle of all working-people against capitalist exploitation and wage slavery.
5. the basic struggle of all working women for social, political and cultural equality.
6. the economic struggles of the working people for better wages and working conditions.
7. the struggle of the unemployed to acquire employment.
8. the struggle of the working people to politically organise at the place of work.
9. the struggle of fishermen and farmers against foreign monopolies.
10. the revolutionary struggle of immigrants and national minorities against racial discrimination and repression.
11. the struggle of working youth against capitalist cultural aggression.
12. the struggle of the students against the decadent capitalist educational system.
13. the struggle of genuinely democratic and progressive people against fascist rules and regulations and violent repression.
These revolutionary mass movements raged at high tide throughout the 1960’s and came temporarily to an end because of the opportunist leadership at their helm. This leadership opposed the Marxist-Leninist political line and refused to lead these struggles against the monopoly capitalist class and the foreign imperialists.
The Party of the proletariat must constantly strive to lead these struggles. It is in these mass movements that militants come forward to struggle against the class and national oppression and it is at this point that the reactionary alliance comes forward to divert the mass movements and their leadership from the revolutionary path. It is these militants that the political work of the Party must influence, and it is the Marxist-Leninist cadres trained by the Party who must use their revolutionary theory and experience to see that these revolutionary mass movements develop and are not destroyed by the reactionary alliance.