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{{Short description|Canada’s 1930s democratic socialists’ manifesto against capitalism}}{{Use Canadian English|date=May 2019}}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.{{sfn|Naylor|2004}} The {{citation needed span |date=April 2021 |text=primary}} goal of the Regina Manifesto was to eradicate the system of capitalism{{sfn|Horn|1973|p=398}} and replace it with a planned socialist economy.{{sfn|Co-operative Commonwealth Federation|1933|loc=sec. 1}} The CCF was a Canadian democratic socialist party founded in 1932 by farmers, workers, and socialist groups against the backdrop of the Great Depression.{{sfnm |1a1=Deshaies |1y=2019 |1pp=1, 4 |2a1=Erickson |2y=1988 |2p=99}}The manifesto was largely written by members of the League for Social Reconstruction, particularly Frank Underhill{{sfn|Horn|1973|pp=393–397}} and F. R. Scott,{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} 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.“{{sfn|Co-operative Commonwealth Federation|1933|loc=preamble}} Specifically it called for the nationalization of transportation, communications, electrical power and other services.{{sfn|Co-operative Commonwealth Federation|1933|loc=sec. 3}} It called for a planned economy and a national banking system that would be “removed from the control of private profit-seeking interests.“{{sfn|Co-operative Commonwealth Federation|1933|loc=sec. 1–2}} 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”.{{sfn|Co-operative Commonwealth Federation|1933|loc=sec. 7}} The Regina Manifesto proposed social service programs such as publicly funded health care, supported peace, promoted co-operative enterprises,{{sfn|Co-operative Commonwealth Federation|1933|loc=sec. 6, 8, 10}} 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.“{{sfn|Co-operative Commonwealth Federation|1933|loc=sec. 14}}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 Declaration{{sfn|Bonikowsky|2015}} which substituted Keynesian economics for socialist remedies.__NOTOC__

See also

• 1956 Winnipeg Declaration
• 1969 Manifesto for an Independent Socialist Canada
• 1983 Statement of Principles (NDP)

References

Footnotes

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Bibliography

• ENCYCLOPEDIA, Bonikowsky, Laura Neilson, 2015, Rise of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation,www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tommy-douglas-greatest-canadian-feature, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Toronto, Historica Canada, 13 April 2021

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• WEB, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, 1933, Regina Manifesto,en.wikisource.org/wiki/Regina_manifesto, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, 15 April 2021, Wikisource

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• THESIS, Deshaies, Charles A., 2019, The Rise and Decline of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Ontario and Quebec During World War II, 1939–1945,digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/3129, PhD, Orono, Maine, University of Maine, 1140507741, 22 April 2021

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• JOURNAL, Erickson, Lynda, 1988, CCF-NDP Popularity and the Economy, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 21, 1, 99–116, 1744-9324, 3228155

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• JOURNAL, Horn, Michiel, Michiel Horn, 1973, Frank Underhill’s Early Drafts of the Regina Manifesto 1933, The Canadian Historical Review, 54, 4, 393–418, 10.3138/CHR-054-04-02, 1710-1093

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• ENCYCLOPEDIA, Naylor, James, 2004, Regina Manifesto, Hallowell, Gerald, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 10.1093/acref/9780195415599.001.0001, 978-0-19-173515-8

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Further reading

• WEB, Moriarty, William, William Moriarty, n.d., 1933, The Regina Convention of the C.C.F.,www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/1930s/MoriartyOnCCF.htm, Socialist History Project, South Branch Publishing, 15 April 2021

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• BOOK, Young, Walter D., Walter D. Young, 1969, The Anatomy of a Party: The National CCF, 1932–61, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 978-1-4875-8472-6, 10.3138/j.ctvfrxn2q

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