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Tim Buck (January 6, 1891-September 24, 1970), the English-born Canadian leader of the Communist Party of Canada, the main Communist, Bolshevist, Marxist-Leninist and Totalist political party in Canada. After Oswald Moseley's release of the Totalist charter, Tim Buck, as leader of the CPC, publically proclaimed his support for the Totalist Charter and that Bolshevist and Marxist-Leninist Communism was but one part of the Totalist ideology (After the release of the Totalist Charter, Bolshevist and Marxist-Leninist Communism would be become a subset of Totalism, although not all Bolshevist and Marxist-Leninist Communists would identify with Totalism and would thus remain separate from Totalism). During the 1930s, Buck would travel extensively through France, Britain and Italy, where he meet with Valois, Deat, Moseley, Mussolini, and other prominent Totalists and Communists within the Internationale, including Hungarian communists living in exile in Paris. During his time as leader of the CPC, Buck advocated for Canada to become "a new Soviet state" and to be remade in the image of Lenin's Soviet Russia. It should also be noted that Buck had disagreements with the nationalist Totalists, such as the Sorelians of Premier Valois, but he still supported them "for the good of the revolution." Buck also advocated for the British/Canadian Royal Family to leave Canada for Australasia, although some members of the CPC called for their execution, views which Buck publically denounced. During the Second Weltkrieg, Buck publically supported the Third Internationale. After the Entente entered the war, Buck was arrested on charges of sedition for his support of the Third Internationale, but he fled the country for the Union of Britain where he lived in exile and openly supported the Third Internationale's war effort. Soon after, the CPC was banned by the Canadian government, after which it went underground. After the end of the war in 1947, Buck was arrested by the Canadian armies in London, after which he was held in a military prison. He was sent back to Canada, where he was put on trail for treason in Ottawa and sentenced to life in prison in 1948. While in prison and after learning of the atrocities of Sorelian France, Buck, in his prison writings, publically denounced Nationalist Totalism and re-affirmed his support for Totalism but only if it was compatible with Communism, Bolshevism and Marxist-Leninism, as well as with the French Neo-Jacobinism of Deat. However, in these same writings, Buck also defended Moseley, Deat and Mussolini and their forms of Totalism and Authoritarian and Communistic Socialism. Meanwhile, the CPC was reformed as the People's Communist Party of Canada under former Communist Party and United Farmer and Labour Party member Maurice Spector, with Spector denouncing Moseley, Valois and Mussolini but supporting the ideology of Marx, Lenin and Deat, as well a more "moderate" Communists and Authoritarian Socialists throughout Europe and the Americas. In 1964, due to poor health, Buck was released from prison and then retired from public life. Tim Buck died in his home in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on September 24, 1970 at the age of 79. After his death, the Syndicalist Party of Canada was founded by ex-CSC member William Kashtan.
Robert B. Russell (October 31, 1889-September 25, 1964), the Scottish-born Canadian labor organizer and politician from the province Manitoba and leader of the Combined Syndicates of Canada, a syndicalist political party that was the main syndicalist political party in Canada. Russell and the party was openly supportive of the Syndicalist and Socialist Third Internationale during the 1920s and 1930s, until the rise of Totalism, after which Russell and the CSC condemned the direction that the Internationale was going towards. During the Second American Civil War, Russell and CSC openly supported the ideology of Chairman Jack Reed and both the government and war effort of the Combined Syndicates of America. In 1937, he traveled to Chicago to meet with Chairman Jack Reed, during which the two discussed the CSA war effort and the future of syndicalism in Canada. As a result, in 1937, he was arrested by the Canadian government for assisting the government of a hostile foreign nation. Soon afterwards, the CSC was banned by the Canadian government and was thus driven underground, with some members fleeing to the CSA and fighting in the Second American Civil War as irregular volunteers. After he was released from prison after the end of the Second Weltkrieg, Russell retired from politics and continued to openly condemn Totalism and Authoritarian Socialism, claiming that the Totalism government of France, Britan and Italy were perversions of true Syndicalism and Socialism. He died in 1964 in his home in Winnipeg.
Humphrey Mitchell (September 9, 1894-August 1, 1950), Canadian trade unionist and leader of the United Farmer and Labour Party, a revolutionary and radical socialist political party in Canada that advocated a peaceful form of revolutionary socialism, a council-based form of socialism, an abolition of capitalism and the reformation of Canada into a Socialist state. During the Second American Civil War, Mitchell traveled to Chicago in 1938, where he meet with several like-minded individuals, such as Norman Thomas, Meyer London and William E. Rodriguez. After his return to Canada, he spent a few years in prison for sedition. After his release and during the Second Weltkrieg, Mitchell openly opposed the Canadian entry into the war, although he would not openly support the Totalist Third Internationale. After the war, he continued to repudiate Totalism, as well as Marxist-Leninism and Authoritarian Communism and Socialism, and he continued to lead to the UFLP until his death in 1950.
Maurice Spector (March 19, 1898-August 1, 1968) leader of the People's Communist Party of Canada until his death in 1968. The PCPC continues to exist in Canada to this day, although it is a minor and fringe party within the Canadian political scene.
William Kashtan (1909-September 21, 1992), leader of the the Syndicalist Party of Canada from 1964 until his death in 1992. The SPC continues to exist in Canada to this day, although it is a minor and fringe party within the Canadian political scene.