William Kashtan

William Kashtan (27 Yuni 1909 - 1993) ya kasance Babban sakatare na Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Kanada na tsawon shekaru 23 tun daga watan Janairun 1965, watanni da yawa bayan mutuwar Leslie Morris, har sai da ya yi ritaya a shekarar 1988. Wannan jinkirin da ya samu a matsayin ya faru ne saboda adawar Tim Buck da aka yi wa nadin sa.

Rayuwa da aiki

An haifi Kashtan a Montreal, Quebec a cikin 1909. A shekara ta 1927, yana da shekaru 18, ya shiga kungiyar Young Communist League . Shekaru biyu bayan haka, ya koma kudancin Ontario don shirya YCL a can sannan ya zama babban sakataren kungiyar a 1930. A shekara ta 1936, ya taimaka wajen gano Majalisar Matasan Kanada wacce, a mafi girma, tana da mambobi sama da 400,000.

Ya ziyarci Spain a farkon Yaƙin basasar Spain kuma a lokacin da ya dawo ya taimaka wajen shirya Battalion Mackenzie-Papineau .

Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na II ya yi aiki a matsayin mai shirya Toronto na Jam'iyyar Labor-Progressive, kamar yadda aka san Jam'iyyar Kwaminisanci daga 1943 zuwa 1959, kuma ya yi aiki daga baya a matsayin darektan masana'antu, sakataren aiki da kuma mai shirya tsakiya.

Ya kasance dan takara na jam'iyyar Labour-Progressive Party sannan kuma Jam'iyyar Kwaminisanci ta Kanada kuma ya zama babban sakataren jam'iyyar a shekarar 1965, duk da adawar shugaban jam'iyyar kuma shugaban dogon lokaci Tim Buck.

Kashtan bai taba samun nasara a zaben House of Commons na Kanada ba, kuma ya yi ritaya a shekarar 1988. Ya kasance mai bin addinin Orthodox, mai goyon bayan Kwaminisanci na Moscow kuma ya ci gaba da tallafawa Tarayyar Soviet ta hanyar sauye-sauye daban-daban a manufofi a Kremlin. Kashtan ya yi tsayayya da Kwaminisanci na Turai a cikin shekarun 1970 lokacin da wasu Jam'iyyun Kwaminisancin da yawa a yamma suka rungume shi.

Tarihin zabe

1984 Canadian federal election: Trinity
Party	Candidate	Kuri'u	%	±%
	Liberal	Aideen Nicholson	9,811	43.59	-13.93
	New Democratic	David English	6,712	29.82	+7.02
	Progressive Conservative	Peter Rekai	5,120	22.75	+5.92
	Green	Susan Berlin	341	1.52	–
	Libertarian	Peter W. Ring	255	1.13	-0.75
	Communist	William Kashtan	195	0.87	+0.15
	Commonwealth of Canada	Ted Ma	73		–
Total valid votes			22,507

1980 Canadian federal election: Trinity
Party	Candidate	Kuri'u	%	±%
	Liberal	Aideen Nicholson	12,628	57.52	+9.59
	New Democratic	Manuel Azevedo	5,005	22.80	-3.05
	Progressive Conservative	Richard Boraks	3,695	16.83	-5.92
	Libertarian	Vijay Basdeo	412	1.88	-0.38
	Communist	William Kashtan	159	0.72	-0.18
	Marxist–Leninist	Aili Waldman	57	0.26	-0.05
Total valid votes			21,956