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On February 18, 2005, the glorious red banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism was hoisted over northern North America with the establishment of MIP-Kanada, a Maoist Internationalist Party. MIP-Kanada works closely with its fraternal parties in the other imperialist countries and maintains ties with its fraternal parties in the developing countries.
Kanada has plenty of parties calling themselves "socialist" or "communist" that cater to the demands of Kanadians, but MIP-Kanada is the only party that upholds MIM's correct and scientific view of Kanada as a country dominated by a labour aristocracy that supports imperialism because it has been bought off with a share of imperialist superprofits extracted from the Third World. White Kanadians, like their Amerikan counterparts, constitute an oppressor nation that subjugates its internal semi-colonies, principally the First Nations. We spell "Canada" and "Canadian" with a "K" to symbolize the decadent, backward, pro-imperialist nature of Kanada's non-proletarian working class.
MIP-Kanada upholds MIM's positions on the Kanadian national question. Although Québec's struggle for sovereignty gets the most attention in the Kanadian media, MIP-Kanada sees the struggle of the First Nations for self-determination as the primary national struggle in Kanada and the only one that gets our support at this time. While recognizing Québec as a nation, we join our First Nations comrades in opposing Québec's independence as a move that would set back the independence of the First Nations and play into the hands of U$ imperialism. We will support any First Nations that demand their indepedence from Kanada and will offer them our assistance in establishing their own Maoist parties.
In addition, MIP-Kanada agrees with the majority of Kanadians that Kanada does not have a distinct culture or a national identity. Anglophone Kanada in particular is merely an extension of the United $tates. Unlike the Kanadian-chauvinist parties calling themselves Marxist that exaggerate Kanada's distinctness for opportunist ends, MIP-Kanada exists mainly to carry out revolutionary activities, such as propaganda, that are tactically easier for a party operating within Kanada's artificial borders. Our responsibilities and aims, however, do not stop at the 49th parallel. We are internationalists committed to promoting Maoist revolution all over the world.
Together with our comrades in MIP-Amerika, with whom we currently share resources, we oppose armed struggle in the imperialist countries at this time. Instead, we devote our energies to legal struggles that contribute to the fulfilment of MIM's central task: "to create public opinion and the independent institutions of the oppressed to seize power."
MIP-Kanada operates in both English and French and welcomes Kanadians who endorse MIM's three main points. Comrades are invited to work and struggle with us.
DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM!
LONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM!
PROLETARIANS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
Provisional Central Committee of MIP-Kanada
February 18, 2005