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POLITICAL PERSECUTION IN WEST GERMANY

BONN — James Lamond, a vice-president of the World Peace
Council, and Labor MPin Britain, has denounced political persecution
in West Germany. In an interview here, he said that discrimination
against people with left views is a component part of everyday political
practice in West Germany.

“It is incomprehensible,”’ he said ‘“‘how teachers could be barred
from work for being members of a legal party, for having printed a
Classified ad in the Communist press, for trips to socialist countries or
for active participation in the peace movement.”

RHODESIAN RACISTS ATTACK ZAMBIA

SALISBURY — The racist Smith regime in Rhodesia said its troops
had killed a number of Zambian soldiers last week. The racists accused
the Zambia forces of ‘‘actively assisting a terrorist gang’. By “ter-
rorists”” they mean the patriotic armed forces of the Zimbabwe Patrio-
tic Front (ZPF). The ZPF forces recently knocked out large sections of
the Rhodesian railroad line southeast of Salisbury; most of Rhodesia’s
oil supplies come in from South Africa via this line.

ISRAEL DEFIES UNITED NATIONS CENSURE

UNITED NATIONS — In defiance of the General Assembly's
censure, the Israeli government has announced plans for additional
Settlements in occupied Arab lands. The General Assembly has labeled
Continued occupation and settlement as an obstacle to peace efforts in
the Middle East. The Israeli press has reported that another seven
militarized settlements will be established on the West Bank of the
Jordan River, in the Golan Heights and Gaza. Previous settlements

_ have met with demonstrations and protests from the Arab population.

FRENCH WAR VETS SUPPORT DISARMAMENT

BORDEAUX — The National War Veterans’ Federation of France
(520,000 members), ending its congress, issued a call for détente based
. On the 1975 Helsinki Conference principles for European Security and
Cooperation. Speakers at the congress condemned the fascist regime
in Chile and the growing menace of neo-fascism in West Germany.
They welcomed disarmament steps proposed by the USSR. They
Supported the idea of a World War Veterans Congress in 1978 devoted
to the struggle for disarmament.

WITNESSES ATTEST TO WAR CRIMES
__ NEW YORK — Witnésses now living in Israel have testified that

Vilis Hazners, a former Latvian, had collaborated with the Nazis in’

World War II to torture Jews and others captured by the Nazis in
occupied territory. Hazners is on trial accused of concealing his coop-
eration with the Nazis when he came to the U.S. in 1956. Ber Mandel-
korn, one of the witnesses who was brought from Israel for the trial,
testified that he had been beaten by Hazners in 1941. He said he had
‘seen Hazners push people into’a Latvian synagogue, which was then
Set on fire, burning all inside to death.

NO TO N-BOMB

Placard ts, at the Hilton hotel in Denver where President
Carter hate Berio Oct. 22, tell Carter clearly they want no develop-
Ment of the neutron bomb.

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stockpiling is first cut back, then brought

EDITORIAL
COMMENT

Put stop to RCMP crimes!

Police state methods have long been
employed by the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police; and who would be so
foolish as to say they are not now being
used, It is a reasonable supposition that
the methods used hitherto are only re-
vealed when newer, more sophisticated
methods are already in play.

The list of crimes — theft, burglary,
arson, intimidation — is perhaps capped
by that low deed, the interception of and
spying into personal mail.

Solicitor-General Francis Fox has ad-
mitted that mail tampering is one of the
activities of the state police. But he is
prepared to alter the law to make police
crimes legal.

Prime Minister Trudeau goes beyond
that. Not only would he wipe out demo-
cratic traditions to allow police state sur-
veillance and crime, but he chastises
Canadians who insist upon fundamental
human rights. How ludicrous for this
champion of human rights to advise the

rest of the world. He has, evidently, some

thought-out plans for an internal spy sys-
tem in Canada and is prepared to break
anyone who challenges it.

’ The labor movement and left political
parties have known from birth that
RCMP stool pigeons infiltrate their ranks
to gain information, misdirect the
movement, create turmoil, lower morale

and find personal victims to bribe or
intimidate. .

Now it is freely admitted that stoolies
get a neat $10,000 bonus for spying,
stealing, and double-crossing those they
associate with. They boast of infiltrating
all important levels of every government
department. But the Liberal Cabinet ap-
pears in favor of a tighter police state
grip. They don’t disclose their dirty work
in unions, political parties, and people’s
organizations because this is almost cer-
tainly at a new high.

The time has come to put a stop to
practices which fit into the infamous and
horrifying pattern established by the
nazis.

Those sections of the labor movement
already in motion protesting the RCMP
crimes and government defence of them
are doing a service and setting an exam-
ple which should be picked up and
amplified a thousand-fold.

The RCMP must be brought under
effective democratic control — not of the
Cabinet of collaborators looking for ways
to warp the law to suit the criminals, but
under control of parliament. The
elected representatives of the people of
Canada must have the authority to bring
the RCMP to account. Crimes against
citizens by the state police must be sto
ped, and stopped without further
equivocation.

End arms race: meet needs

The light from the festive session of
the Supreme Soviet of the USSR,
November 2, shone round the world. It
was not the candlepower of the illumina-
tion in the Palace of Congresses, nor was
it alone the fact that the session marked
the 60th anniversary of the 1917 Socialist

, Revolution which changed life for all

mankind.
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev’s
roposals for bending the graph of nuc-
fear proliferation, the Soviet Union’s
offer to halt production of nuclear arms
simultaneously with all states, offered

_ mankind, again, the possibility of peace.

Brezhnev’s declaration that the USSR

_ will agree on a moratorium on explo-
f sions for peaceful purposes for a definite

eriod since peaceful explosions cannot
distinguished from weapons testing,
was a significant part of that offer.
People everywhere can see that the
threat of nuclear war is the greatest

| threat to the future of humanity.

_ There is the other side of it, as
Brezhnev pointed out, the goals that
come within reach when the endless
of wealth on weapons

to an end.
The means then would appear for sol-

© ving vitally. important problems facing
¥ mankind: to provide vast masses of

people with food, raw materials and
sources of energy; to overcome the
economic backwardness in some Asian,
African and Latin American countries,
resulting’ from colonialism. These
achievements are necessary for the nor-
mal development in future state re-

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lationships. Further, free of the arms
race, mankind could seek the means of
protecting itself from the hazards of un-
controlled technical development, and
of protecting nature.

These were the thoughts expressed by
Brezhnev for his government and
people. They are perfectly in line with
the desires of the majority throughout
the world, but not with the desires of the
corporations, multi-nationals and their
political structures which feed on super
profits gained at any price.

The solution of urgent problems in a
peaceful world are postponed while we
struggle to compel governments like that
of Canada to get out of the arms race, get
out of the aggressive NATO bloc. ,

The hard work of circulating and col-
lecting signatures on the Stockholm A
peal to end the arms race, the rallying of

support for the demand for a United

Nations World Conference on _Dis-
armament — these aré tasks everyone
can join. They are the tasks leading to
that day of getting down to providing
mankind’s basic needs.

Shun wealth— Trudeau

Prime Minister Trudeau, showing mil-
lionaires have deep understanding, lec-
tured his Maritimes subjects on Atlantic
CTV Nov. 9. Unemployment, he con-
fided, is “a very serious human prob-
lem.” He prompted Canadians not “to
pretend they should be wealthy as be-
fore.” That would cause inflation and,
like a prince turning into a frog, they’d
“become poorer,” not richer.

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