Capilano NDP called to join ‘revolution’ ONLY A true revolu- tion will change the pre- sent human situation in the world and avert a nuclear war, members of the federal NDP riding of Capilano were told Wednesday. By JOANNE MacDONALD Broadcaster-author Ben Metcalfe told a crowd of over 40 people that such a revolu- tion is only possible in the United States and if it does not take place there, it will not take place at all. Instead, the world will continue on its course to catastrophe. Metcalfe said the American people would not allow revolutions to. take place in other countries since they, as the only truly revolu- uonary people in the world, and, by nature, are highly skeptical, would only view other revolutions as highly counter-revolutionary to their own. Metcalfe said his definition of revolution, which 1s similar to many analysts, dif- fers from the highly populanzed view of violent revolutions. Instead, he holds that the true revolution must transform ‘‘the society of humankind completely in all of its concepts, precepts and relationships within that society.’’ He said such a revolution must create a new human be- ing, ‘‘on the basis of the first principle that, as humans we are in charge of our own destiny and, therefore, are capable, more and more, as we move through our creative history, of transforming ourselves and our human community °° According to Metcalfe, on ly the first American trevolu Are you getting your NEWS every wednesday, Friday, & Sunday? if yes, then were doing Our job tf no we want to know who you are & where yOu are so we can try to ensure that you get your paper tf no pick up your phone and Cath us 986-1337 1 "149 1oOnsaale Ave eis NN van NEWS photo tan Smith BEN METCALFE told Capilano NDP members that society needs a ‘‘true revolution’’ to survive. uon and the French revolu- tion have come close to that defimition of the true revolu- tion in modern times. However, before such a revolution can take place, five pre-conditions or criti- ques must exist, he said. First, there must be a com- prehensive critique of the in- justice existing in social, racial and economic relationships. Secondly, there must be a critique of management directed against the want of material and human resources Third, political power must be criticized, ‘directed against ws sOurce and prin ciples as well as against its exercise." bourth, there must be an North Discov v dandy a ee re a) ok ae eee | analysis of culture, encom- pasing morality, customs, the arts, religion, philosophy, literature and the ideologies that support that culture. The distribution of the culture, through education, communication and informa- tion must also be examined, as well as the function of culture and the intellectuals In society. Finally, there must be an analysis of the old civilization as sanction, ‘‘or a vindication of individual freedom.’’ Said Metcalfe: ‘*This critique is artived at through the rela tions between society and the individual °’ He said these conditions existed in the period betore the American and French revolutions and currently on the United States. He cited several examples of American self-criticism, ‘tthe essence of the American National spirit’’: the American presidential elec- tion, which subjects can- didates to scrutiny for an en- tire year; the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; the nuclear freeze (‘‘it’s an issue in the U.S. today, but not in Canada’’); and the national reaction to the American in- volvement in Grenada and Vietnam. Metcalfe said the second American revolution, which has been simmering since the 1960s, will ultimately be Canada’s as well. He added Canadians must help the American people to attain the revolution. ‘“‘The NDP has a duty, not to first gain power, but a du- ly 10 expose and protest and inform the people,’’ he said. ‘This party has a duty to ig- nore the voting patterns and to speak the truth and let the votes fall where they may.”’ Metcalfe criticized federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent for being ‘‘too delicate,”’ say- ing the NDP lost the fastest growing constituency of voters by default over the past 10 years on the ecology and nuclear issues. ‘Tt isn’t a question of nag- ging the Americans. It’s a question of working on our leaders and our parliament and policies — ruthlessly, in- delicately, tirelessly — to make them do the _ right thing,’’ said Metcalfe. *'Go- ing for the jugular, going for the men — and not the pro- paganda. There’s no time for vote catching.” SELL IT! 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