[Edited Message Follows] [Reason: Corrected some factual errors.] I’ve met many comrades who once belonged to the RCP, CPC-ML, WCP, CLM and other Canadian “anti-revisionist" ML’ist tendencies. We discovered we had more in common than we could possibly have imagined during the vicious sectarian confrontations when we were younger and the Trotsky-Stalin controversies seemed so much more relevant in the context of the national liberation wars of that period supported by Mao’s China and the Soviet Union. The closest friends of my wife and I when we lived in Ottawa had been trade unionists when rhey were members of the RCP. Our closest friend on Vancouver Island was an activist in CPC-ML together with her late husband, who was a machinist and later an IAM regional staff rep. The experience of the ML’ist trade unionists I've encountered differed little from my own. Though we may not have shared the same approach to trade union work, we all faced the same pressures in a labour movement strongly dominated by social democrats who were indiscriminately hostile to Trotskyists, Maoists, CP’ers and other tendencies to their left. A really good gauge of how the old sectarian barriers have broken down is the comradely relationship established with present and former Trotskyists by another admirer of Stalin on this list who is very much respected for his thoughtful approach to the issues.
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