BY MICHEL PRAIRIE
MONTREAL - The Communist League announced here that its
fifth constitutional convention will be held in Toronto in
conjunction with a socialist educational conference, January
1 - 4. The conference will be co-sponsored by the League and
the Young Socialists in Canada. Communist workers and Young
Socialists members in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver are
building the event among fellow workers, young people, and
supporters of the communist movement in Canada.
Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States, and Mary-Alice Waters, editor of the Marxist magazine New International, will present the opening conference talks on New Year's day. They will speak on "The Siren Call of Economic Nationalism and Washington's Drive Toward War" and "Che Guevara, Socialism, and the Weight of Cuba in a World of Growing Capitalist Disorder" respectively, the themes they will address in the December 20 - 21 regional socialist conference in Birmingam, Alabama (see ad on facing page). The questions addressed in their talks will be at the center of the Toronto convention, whose sessions will begin the next morning. Registration will start at 11 a.m. on January 1 and the opening talks by Barnes and Waters will begin at 1 p.m.
In addition to the opening presentations, conference participants will be able to attend the sessions of the convention that the delegates will open to invited observers, as well as classes. There will be special book sales and time for informal discussion and relaxation as well.
Participants are planning to come from across North America, socialist workers and youth in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Newark, and New York in particular are building the combined conference and convention. Those who want more information can call the Communist League or Young Socialists in Toronto at (416) 588-8591. More information will appear in next week's Militant.