Membership in the Red Star Collective is open to all who agree with its basis of unity, respect organizational discipline, carry out the tasks of the group, and pay dues and assessments.
With this basis of unity the Red Star Collective approaches its tasks as a Marxist-Leninist group in Canada. The collective’s practice consists of addressing the three elements of the principal task of party building. Through the publication of developed positions in pamphlets – as well as responses to criticisms of our positions and critiques of the positions of other organizations – we are actively engaging in the struggle over ideological and political line within the Marxist-Leninist movement. Through discussions with groups and individuals, participation in conferences, public meetings, and documents such as this, we are contributing to the development of a program around which Marxist-Leninists can unite in a pre-party organization.
Through work in mass organizations and within the working class in general we are winning workers to communism and the building of a communist party. Together these efforts represent the application of the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete conditions in this country.
The creation of a genuine Communist Party will constitute a qualitative step forward for the Canadian working class in its struggle for socialism and communism. With such a degree of ideological and political organization the proletariat will be in a position to advance the class struggle rapidly and on a broad front. Under the leadership of the party, the working class will establish a socialist dictatorship of the proletariat and will participate in the defeat of the imperialist system on a world scale.
In its struggle for power the proletariat has no other weapon but organization. Disunited by the rule of anarchical competition in the bourgeois world, ground down by forced labour for capital, constantly thrust back into the ’lower depths’ of utter destitution, savagery and degeneration, the proletariat can become – and will inevitably become – an invincible force only when its ideological unification in accordance with the principles of Marxism is consolidated by the material unity of organization, which welds millions of toilers into an army of the working class. (Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 7, p. 415).