Secret History of NDP (and Globe & Mail)

The Globe & Mail is the paper of the Canadian elite, what the G&M writes is 'official' news in Canada. It is a newspaper that has never endorsed a NDP/CCF federal candidate. Ever. I actually went and tallied all their editorial 'election endorsements' since 1926. Here are my results:

'None of the Above':2
Liberals: 8
Conservatives: 16

Accuracy: 16 of 26 (62%)
# of Times they said to vote against a victorious Liberal PM: 9
# of Times they said to vote against a victorious Conservative PM: 1

So when the G&M traces the demise of socialism in the NDP it is a gloating affair, and they just published such an article yesterday in Mellower NDP sets its course, free of the drag of socialism [Jun. 30, 2015 3:00AM EDT]. Yet even the 'official' NDP history cannot be tamed - even if the party has been.

It was back in 1933, with the CCF’s founding document, the Regina Manifesto, that the alarm bells first went off. “No CCF government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism,” the manifesto declared. Former NDP leader David Lewis once said the proletariat document “haunted” the party in “a devastating way” for decades to come.

The party’s Winnipeg Declaration of 1956 proposed a more moderate form of social democracy, recognizing the importance of the free market. The changeover of the party to the New Democrats in 1961 moved things forward as well.

Its near-takeover in the early 1970s by the so-called Waffle group. The young radicals of that day advocated public ownership of the means of production, and self-determination for Quebec. Anti-Americanism was rampant among them, Che Guevara an inspiration. It took then-party leader Ed Broadbent many years to shuck off a lot of the pinko tint.

Mr. Layton recruited a Liberal, Mr. Mulcair, who had resigned from Jean Charest’s Liberal Quebec government. Mulcair Liberal ties rankled some in the NDP.

At a convention a couple of years ago, Thomas Mulcair’s New Democratic Party voted to remove all references to socialism from the party’s constitution.

Since the article above focused on the federal NDP it did not cover the provincial level but another G&M article gives an importance glimpse with  The hidden history of Bob Rae's government in Ontario [Oct. 08, 2010 11:06AM EDT] It gives a graphic example of how the NDP was tamed over the last 80 years by an unrelenting onslaught of "hysterical fear-mongering and sabotage" using Bob Rae's infamous term as the NDP leader of Ontario from 1990 to 1993.

The reason you can read a pro-NDP article in the G&M is that major newspaper in the 'free' Western world will publish many interesting facts and opinions, this makes the newspaper feel 'liberal' and satisfied with itself, but these opinions will never effect the newspaper core Satanic loyalties.  

The whole article is worth reading but here are the core parts:

When the NDP won government in Ontario exactly 20 years ago, it constituted the greatest advance for social democracy in North American history.

It's true that British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba had all elected NDP governments and that progressives had won small victories in various parts of the United States. But none of them (I hope this doesn't hurt their feelings) mattered in the same way Ontario then did. It was the economic heartland of Canada, the home of much of Canada's industry and finance. What happened in Ontario impacted all Canadians. Now it was under the control of Bob Rae and the New Democrats.

Reflecting this reality, within months Mr. Rae's government faced an unrelenting, brutal four-year onslaught that was unprecedented in Canadian history.

The attacks came from all sides. It is no exaggeration to say hysterical fear-mongering and sabotage was the order of the day. Launched within the very first year of the new government, the attackers included every manner of business big and small, both Canadian and American-owned, almost all private media, the police (especially in Toronto), landlords and lobbying/government relations firms. Their goal was clear, and they had the money and power to achieve it.

Mr. Rae and treasurer Floyd Laughren made themselves easily accessible to business representatives, many of whom ran Canadian branch plants of huge American multinationals, only to be threatened with capital blackmail. The premier was warned that their U.S. head offices weren't about to invest further in Ontario unless the government abandoned most of the programs it had run on..

Some business protests bordered on the disloyal. Hysterical landlords took out an ad in The Wall Street Journal warning Americans not to invest in "leftist Ontario."

Bond traders declared that slashing government programs to reduce the deficit was a prerequisite to Ontario borrowing at competitive rates, even though Ontario's deficit was equivalent to that of Conservative-run Alberta. Suddenly the entire media was fixated on the government's threatened credit ratings, never mind that Ontario had the only best rating in the country

Perhaps the most chilling and underestimated of the government's enemies were the Toronto police, whose actions at times bordered dangerously on virtual insubordination against the civilian authorities. Here too certain newspapers and radio commentators repeatedly and deliberately inflamed angry officers against the government. Most successful was the Sun's ongoing, systematic campaign to drive a wedge between the government and the Toronto police force, sometimes with the collusion of the police themselves.

There are a world of studies yet to be written about the Ontario NDP's difficult and controversial years in office, none more important than the nature of the saboteurs who organized their very own Ontario coup. This includes much of the business community, government relations firms, the media and the police. There are lessons to learn here about the limits of left-wing politics in Canada. None of them are encouraging if you are a left-winger.

An NDP organizer would tell me that most NDP faithful considered Bob Rae to be more a 'liberal' than a 'socialist' and Rae confirmed their suspicion when he returned to politics in 2006 as a Liberal and would soon be the Liberal Party leader. I read the parliament transcripts of Rae attacking the NDP defense critic, Jack Harris from St. John's East., Rae was vile and disgustingly jingoist.

The fact is that only a Liberal-led NDP party will be allowed to come to power in Canada because a 'socialist' NDP might start making populist changes like bringing in HealthCare. Yet even such a deformed and domesticated NDP will be torn apart by the capitalist ogres that own the country. 'Hate the Left' is still a popular past-time in banks and police station and newspaper editing rooms.

Canada Day 2015.