Re: NDP leaving ‘socialism’ behind
June 14

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/1010319--ndp-revision-rea...

I have to “admire” the honesty of the federal NDP in signaling that it is a garden variety pro-capitalist party that is on its way to becoming a full-fledged capitalist party. It is not making any pretension to being a socialist party.

It is the trade union bureaucrats in Canada who need to wake up to the ideological reality of the party that they are supporting. If the members of the unionized working-class get the opportunity to vote in a referendum on giving their resources to the NDP, would a majority of them vote “Yes” to doing so?

The federal NDP is now a government-in-waiting so it must appear “responsible” to the captains of industry and commerce and the media. Yet progressive opinion is trying to convince the wretched of the earth that the NDP is our only option for real change.

Workers certainly do not need class enemies with friends like the NDP.

Ajamu Nangwaya, Toronto