Published: North America News Service, June 20-27, 1973.
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Boston (NANS DAILY) June 26 – The Preparatory Committee for the Conference of North American Marxist-Leninists held its third meeting in Tampa, Florida, on June 9, 1973. The meeting was attended by the Red Star Cadre, the Red Collective, the Association of Communist workers, the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), and the American Communist Workers Movement (Marxist-Leninist). The Red Banner (Marxist-Leninist) sent a message saying, “Red Banner (Marxist-Leninist) hails the Conference of North American Marxist-Leninists, and is proud to join the ranks of the Preparatory Committee for the Conference in becoming a sponsoring organization.”
All the comrades re-affirmed their support for the Call for the Conference of North American Marxist-Leninists, held consultations, and used the mass democratic method to resolve a number of questions and strengthen their unity around the Call.
The Preparatory Committee denounced certain individuals resident in Chicago who organized a so-called Conference of North American Marxist-Leninists in Chicago from May 24 to May 28.
This bogus conference had nothing to do. with the Preparatory Committee or with the North American Conference of Marxist-Leninists. Furthermore, these same individuals, speaking as representatives of a bogus “preparatory committee,” have issued a so-called memo attacking the American Communist Workers Movement (Marxist-Leninist) and have also continued their slanders in an article entitled “ACWM(M-L) Breaks from the Call.” The Preparatory Committee of the Conference of North American Marxist-Leninists never issued such statements, and points out that no statements represent the Preparatory Committee unless all the sponsoring organizations are consulted with.
A number of important decisions were reached at the meeting. It was agreed that the Conference should be consultative and educational in nature, whereby all the participants could discuss their views in a serious and open manner. It was further decided that the Conference should be conducted on the basis of the mass democratic method, using the two basic guidelines:
1) No investigation, no right to speak.
2) No sophistry or rhetoric.
After extensive discussion it was unanimously agreed that it is of great importance for the Marxist-Leninists in the U.S. to take up the task of ORGANIZING THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS FOR PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. The Preparatory Committee decided that the Conference of North American Marxist-Leninists must be oriented towards serious discussion of this task. In light of this task, the following tentative agenda was drawn up for the Conference, so that these points can be dealt with in depth:
1) Building the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party as the Decisive Factor
2) Mass Movements
3) United Front
4) International Communist Movement
5) National Liberation Struggles
6) Basic Contradictions in U.S. Society
It is these points that the revisionists have done their utmost to mystify, in order to create road blocks to ORGANIZING THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS FOR PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION.
It was decided that the Conference of North American Marxist-Leninists would be held from August 18 to September 2 in Buffalo, New York instead of in Chicago.
We urge all genuine Marxist-Leninists to sum up their experience in light of the points raised in the tentative agenda, and make preparations to fully participate in the Conference of North American Marxist-Leninists.