11 Facts About Hardial Bains

Hardial Bains was a Canadian communist leader who founded a number of leftist organizations, foremost of which was the Communist Party of Canada.

Shortly before he died, abandoning his previous sharp criticisms of both countries, Hardial Bains supported both Cuba and North Korea.

Hardial Bains was born in British-ruled Pakistan to a communist Sikh family in the Punjab.

Hardial Bains broke with the party when the CPI, during an underground period, supported Khrushchev's criticisms of Stalin.

Shortly after, Hardial Bains immigrated to Canada and enrolled as a graduate student in microbiology at the University of British Columbia from 1960 to 1965, where he was an elected student leader.

In 1965, Hardial Bains founded the "Internationalists in Ireland", while he was working as a lecturer in microbiology at Trinity College, Dublin.

In 1967, Hardial Bains held a small conference of students in London with the express objective determining the future of the anti-revisionist movement, the "Necessity for Change" conference.

Hardial Bains was responsible for the founding of the Hindustani Ghadar Party.

Some remnants of the MLP USA loyal to Hardial Bains formed the US Marxist-Leninist Organization in the 1980s.

Hardial Bains visited Cuba and announced he had changed his outlook towards the country and now viewed it as a successful example of socialism.

Hardial Bains identified his main line of thinking as "Necessity for Change" or NFC thought.