Vol. 73/No. 35      September 14, 2009

To confront the deepening worldwide capitalist depression and expanding imperialist wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Communist League candidates pose the need for the working class to take political power.

The rally will take place in the new CL campaign hall in central Montreal, which opened August 31. The meeting will also feature Norton Sandler, a leader of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States.

Since August 11, CL members and supporters have been working to renovate the new campaign hall, which will also house the weekly Militant Labor Forum. The renovation also includes building an office where work will be done on editing French-language titles for Pathfinder Press.

More than 20 volunteers participated in a Red Weekend August 22-24 centered on plastering, painting, and other renovation work necessary to prepare the spacious, professional, and attractive campaign hall for the communist movement. In addition to members and supporters of the Communist League in Montreal, members and supporters of the SWP and Young Socialists traveled from Boston and New York to help. Supporters of the CL from Toronto and Montreal have also participated in the renovation work.

The Red Weekend featured a range of party-building activities. These included a skills class on sewing to help CL members find and hold sewing jobs in the garment industry, a CL election campaign table in front of the busy Jean Talon subway station near the new hall, and a Sunday morning class centered on studying a chapter from Teamster Bureaucracy by Farrell Dobbs. Teamster Bureaucracy is the final book in the series by Dobbs, a central leader of the Teamsters union and the SWP, on the important industrial union-building battles waged by Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 in the 1930s and early ’40s.

On Saturday evening volunteers for the weekend relaxed for several hours at a barbecue held to launch the $12,000 Communist League 2009 fund drive. Beverly Bernardo, the CL fund director, chaired the program. John Steele, the organizer of the CL hall renovation work; Tom Baumann, from the SWP and YS in New York; and Michel Dugré, a CL leader and one of the translators in Pathfinder Press’s French publication program, all spoke briefly on the work of building the international communist movement. Participants pledged some $4,000 to the Communist League fund drive.
 
 
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