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If we Canadians, following the programme advocated by many, but most clearly by the Canadian Liberation Movement, seized the foreign-owned industries in our territory – and if the principal foreign owner, the American Empire, launched military operations against us – what are the odds? Would we win? … A people armed with a modern Marxist-Leninist ideology is invincible in a defensive war.1
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Milton Acorn, More Poems for People (Toronto: New Canada Press, 1972, 10).
Desmond Morton, The New Democrats, 1961–1986 (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1986), 92.
Mao Tse-Tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (New York: Bantam Books, 1967).
Hardial Bains, Six Years of CPC (M-L): A Great Revolutionary Movement Against Revisionism and for Proletarian Revolution (Toronto: Norman Bethune Institute, 1976), 8.
William Kashtan, “The Federal Election – What Next?” in Toward Socialism: Selected Writings (Toronto: Progress Books, 1976), 232.
Terry Barker, “Origins of the CLM by Terry Barker; Reconstructed from remarks by Phil Taylor, July 7, 1984,” Canadian Liberation Movement Fonds, William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections (McMaster University Library, Hamilton, Ontario), 1.
Barry Lord, The History of Painting in Canada: Towards a People’s Art (Toronto: New Canada Press, 1974).
Milton Acorn, I’ve Tasted My Blood (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969).
Terry Barker, After Acorn: Meditations on the Message of Canada’s People’s Poet (Hamilton, Ontario: Mekler & Deahl, 1999), 18.
Milton Acorn and Cedric Smith, The Road to Charlottetown (Hamilton, Ontario: Mekler & Deahl, 1998), 68.
On the creation of consensus through actor performances, see Robert Nunn, “The Meeting of Actuality and Theatricality in The Farm Show,” Canadian Drama 8.1 (1982): 43–54;
Alan Filewod, Collective Encounters: Documentary Theatre in English Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987), 24–49.
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Filewod, A. (2011). Maoist Performativities: Milton Acorn and the Canadian Liberation Movement. In: Sell, M. (eds) Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange. Performance Interventions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230298941_9
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