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CECIL-ROSS SOCIETY

2001-0188

Enregistrement sonore

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1997-04-05

Rick Stow (Interviewer)

Cecil-Ross Society

Interview of Paco Fuentes by Rick Stow. Paco was born in Spain in 1943. He grew up under a Fascist regime. His father, a teacher, was adamant that Paco not get involved in politics. Fuentes moved first to England, then came to Canada in 1970. He joined an Anti-Fascist Spanish support group, knocked about the Canadian Party of Labour, and then joined the Communist Party of Canada in 1982. Over the course of his membership he was club organizer for the Oakwood, and Broadview-Danforth clubs. He recalls how the club did not elect Liz Rowley as a delegate to the 18th Ontario Convention. The 28th Convention of the Party at St. Lawrence Hall was filled with a lot of behind the scenes backroom maneuvering. The infighting was demoralizing. Paco spent five months at Party school in Moscow. He saw many inequities. He agrees that the split precluded serious debate about the fall of the Soviet Union. <52mn>

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