Regina Manifesto
Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English The Regina Manifesto was the programme of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and was adopted at the first national convention of the CCF held in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1933.Template:Sfn The Template:Citation needed span goal of the Regina Manifesto was to eradicate the system of capitalismTemplate:Sfn and replace it with a planned socialist economy.Template:Sfn The CCF was a Canadian democratic socialist party founded in 1932 by farmers, workers, and socialist groups against the backdrop of the Great Depression.Template:Sfnm
The manifesto was largely written by members of the League for Social Reconstruction, particularly Frank UnderhillTemplate:Sfn and F. R. Scott,Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and called for "a planned and socialized economy in which our natural resources and principal means of production and distribution are owned, controlled and operated by the people."Template:Sfn Specifically it called for the nationalization of transportation, communications, electrical power and other services.Template:Sfn It called for a planned economy and a national banking system that would be "removed from the control of private profit-seeking interests."Template:Sfn It advocated the ability to organize in trade unions and called for a National Labour Code "to secure for the worker maximum income and leisure, insurance covering illness, accident, old age, and unemployment".Template:Sfn The Regina Manifesto proposed social service programs such as publicly funded health care, supported peace, promoted co-operative enterprises,Template:Sfn and vowed that "No C.C.F. Government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism and put into operation the full programme of socialized planning which will lead to the establishment in Canada of the Cooperative Commonwealth."Template:Sfn
The Regina Manifesto remained the CCF's official programme until 1956 when, in the face of the strong anti-communist sentiment of the Cold War, it was replaced by the more moderate Winnipeg DeclarationTemplate:Sfn which substituted Keynesian economics for socialist remedies.
See also
- Winnipeg Declaration (1956)
- Manifesto for an Independent Socialist Canada (1969)
- Statement of Principles (NDP) (1983)
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