Oh, yeah - Happy Birthday NDP! This weekend was the 75th anniversary of the CCF and the Regina Manifesto. For a good run-down of its history (badly in need of some editing, but it's got good facts) check out this Rabble article:

If you want to put down socialism, the CCF, and the NDP, you sure do not want people to know about the history of Canada under capitalism. The lasting value of the manifesto is its account of how things went so terribly wrong in the 20th century, the bloodbath of World War I, the impoverishment of farm communities and working people, the speculative excesses of finance capitalists and the march of fascism.