/WOMEN, ACT FOR PEACE! Fait] —fquirements of the city are eB ine 00 is subject to a $25.00 tax ) Ane Un] Co) to raising the tax dollar, Wherej ee ~ dar : apply umber of people will tek ‘657,873. This was to run all s 196 ’pproached the Council in WITT = The Women’s Commission of the Communist Party of Canada has issued the following appeal: Nixon’s escalation of the war in Indochina into Cambodia in- (eases the awful threat of world war. is genocidal war shocks the conscience of all mankind. We have seen children burned and maimed beyond recognition, crip- Pled for life. We have seen the bodies of innocent children and _ “i€ir mothers sprawled dead along roadways in Vietnam after their Mass murder. We have seen young men and women, shackled and Wen to prison. is is a war against mothers and their babies—a war against 4 whole people. ur government, through the sale of arms, is an accomplice of t e US. war of aggression against Indochina. We share in the res- ‘Ponsibility for stopping it. Silence makes us accomplices. All of US must speak up now and act even more resolutely to end Can- _ 4da’s criminal complicity. he silent dead call upon us to speak for them. © children whom we are rearing with love and hope, trust us _ © protect them from such a dreadful fate. We raise our children ® ensure them a life full of sunny days—not death. The children of the whole world are our children. We must return to the children Ber torn countries the sunshine and happiness that is rightfully Ts, This dirty war affects our lives too—not only- morally, but also OWers our standard of living: Rising costs—our inability to get lead—are a direct result of this aggression against the peoples of J€tnam and Cambodia. Unemployment is assuming crisis propor- ‘ons, many are compelled to go on social aid. Farmers have lost Markets. War and war spending stands in the way of solving these Problems Hundreds of thousands have demonstrated on the streets of United States and Canada against Nixon’s escalation. Letters and Wites of protest are pouring in to the White House. Statesmen the World over have spoken against the escalation. It is opposed by Some of the elected representatives in our parliament. The opposi- lon is growing, In United States, students have been killed, and anada arrested and beaten, protesting against it. .*he struggle for peace cannot be won without our fullest parti- “pation. All of us must act and speak for peace—inside our homes, the shopping ‘places, and on the job. We can swing the balance yen, in our country, there is a mounting militant opposition to _ War i __—Send a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau, asking him to speak on opposition to the war, and to stop selling arms to the United es, Raise the issue in Home and School Clubs, Union Locals, in _ church; and with our neighbors. —Lobby the MPs and MLAs, send delegations to councils and School boards, get other people to sign protests to the government. _. Demonstrate. _ Assist the Women’s International Democratic Federation, cam- 18n to build a children’s hospital in Vietnam. Help to send cloth- 8 and medicines to Vietnam. _ THE UNITED STATES MUST GET OUT OF INDOCHINA NOW. Press Hamilton Council for anti-crisis steps Bo AMILTON .— The mayor, : a of Control and City Coun- Of this city are urged by the unist Party to take mea- ae to deal with the financial “"sis of the municipality. Aa letter signed by the Party’s non ety Donald A. Stewart Nts out that, “although the to. discuss taxation, the City Commission of Finance stated that “there was no indication of a crisis in finances in our city” and that “the city’s financial picture: is viewed with respect by all investment houses and bankers in Ontario.” “Whether or- not there is a crisis in taxation in the city is determined by one’s financial position,” the letter points out. “To the average homeowner who ‘is faced with $2.50 and up in- crease in taxes monthly, and who is already snowed under by the heavy load of federal and provincial taxes, there is a crisis. To the boards of directors of big industry who contribute a rela- tively small amount of munici- pal taxes, there might not ap- : &shed to the bone, there is still mil Increase in the residential Ml rate to 5.8560 mills. $4en,cverage home assessed at tease per year, The average Tease in taxes over the last € years has been almost 5 mills T year. All indications are, that eid some new form of tax Y is devised, this trend will ‘tinue and also increase. 1g business is not paying its fg pear to be acrisis. | a as Share of the tax burden,” the “If there is no financial crisis, ae Claims. “The only equit-. why the difficulty to raise money for the Civic Square develop- ment?” the letter asks. “Why is urban renewal in such a hopeless ‘mess? Why is there not enough money for proper sewage treat- ae System of taxation should jpased on the ability to pay. re i Proach sents a democratic ap- Nn the greatest good to the a delay in carrying out the East- West freeway development?” At the recently convened Pro- vincial-Municipal Conference it became quite clear that: munici- palities could expect no help from the Conservative govern- ment at Queen’s Park. “Go to the Liberal government in Otta- wa if you want more money,” was the answer. of One company—the Steel Co. Sogcanada — realized profits of Tp:200,000 after taxes in 1968. 'S Was above new investment. Sgqulton’s budget for 1969 was City business.” T. Stewart recalls that when » Tequesting a conference . Canadian ment plants? Why is there such’ SLE EE TE TTA TIM BUCK’S NEW BOOK Lenin helped guide CP of Canada. By DON CURRIE Tim Buck adds a new dimen- sion to our understanding of the beginnings, founding and deve- lopment of the Communist Party in his new book, Lenin and Canada, His Influence on Cana- dian Political Life. (Progress Books, 487 Adelaide, Toronto, paper back $1.95, cloth $5.95.) From the opening lines of his book Tim Buck shows how the struggle for the Communist Party is inseparable from the struggle for Leninism. “The Great October Revolution, car- ried through to victory by the Bolshevik Party under Lenin’s leadership, inspired the found- ing of the Canadian Party. In the long struggle which followed to achieve for our party a Leninist character, and in a number of crucial periods since then, the teachings of Lenin and the ex- ample of the Bolshevik Party have been always both the main inspiration and the guiding light for the members who fought for Leninism.” The theme that runs through the whole book, vividly illus- trated by example after example, is the idea that it is not enough for workers to want revolution and even to fight for it—a revo- lutionary. must fight to master Marxism-Leninism. And the path - to mastery is through the fight for its purity, for its application, against all forms of opportun- . ism. In the opening chapter Tim Buck discusses the period lead- ing up to the October, Revolu- tion when the anarcho-syndica- list activists appeared to be the most revolutionary force in the labor movement. «,. the world-be Marxists were not equipped with _ sufficient knowledge of Marxist science to be able to convince our fellow: workers that syndicalism was not the answer.” After the Oc- tober Revolution had produced a wave of militant struggle this weakness was even more pain- ful: . . . without the benefit of Lenin’s guidance, Canadian workers turned literally in all directions and became the vic- tims of the fact in Canada there had never been a_ purposeful fight for Marxism such as Lenin had waged.” This “purposeful fight for Marxism such as Lenin had waged” unfolded in Canada in the struggle to found a party of a new type—a Leninist Party. The founding of the party in June 1, 1921 and its broadly based public form later on in February. 1922 was the result of the enthusiastic battle for Lenin- ism as opposed to the “political nihilism of syndicalism and the sectarian sterility of the Social- ist Party of Canada and the So- cialist Labor Party.” No sooner had the Communist Party been founded and the theoretical obstacles of anarcho- syndicalism overcome than the embryo of a new struggle—this time against Trotskyism, began to mature. The conditions for ‘the growth of Trotskyism arose out of the failure of the fledgling party to understand Lenin’s em- phasis on the... “fact that the vital element in the fight for the party is the uninterrupted and undeviating struggle to streng- then and temper its revolution- ary soul — Marxism-Leninism.” In the beginning the struggle against Trotskyism was uneven with the Leninist forces in a minority in the leadership and the membership not fully aware of the life and death nature of the struggle. The turning point in the strug- gle against Trotskyism in Can- ada came as a result of the 7th Plenum of the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Inter- national where the question of whether socialism could be built in the Soviet Union, surrounded as it was by hostile imperialist states, was fully debated. Trot- sky, Zinoviev and Kamenevy all converged upon the opportunist position that socialism could not be built first in a single country. Stalin, carrying forward Lenin’s arguments, held that it was not only possible but it was the only Marxist alternative and showed how it could be done. Tim Buck and Mathew Popovich attended the meeting and took a stand with the CPSU and the Leninist forces in the international move- ment. Buck describes the feeling of — exhiliration at reading for the first time Lenin’s view of the new world opened up by the October Revolution. Lenin said, “There are now two worlds: the ‘old world of capitalism, that is in a state of confusion but which will never surrender voluntarily, and the rising new world which is still weak, but which will grow for it is invincible.” (Vol. 33, p. 150) . Upon their return home Buck and Popovich forced the debate into the open and routed the Trotskyites and _ their spokesman Maurice Spector. Shortly after this, on the eve of the 1929 depression, Jack McDonald, - general secretary, led another opportunist sally around the theory of “Ameri- can exceptionalism.” “Even as he adopted the pose of leader of a campaign to eli- minate all traces of Trotskyism from the party, more and more members recognized that he was utilizing exposure of petty- bourgeois revolutionism as a smokescreen for his own propa- ganda of American exceptional- ism.” ‘ The claim by McDonald that U.S. monopoly-capitalism was so powerful that it could control the contradictions in the econo- my and overcome and prevent economic crisis was rejected by the membership. Lenin’s thesis that, “The forms, the sequence, the picture of particular crisis changed, but crisis remained an inevitable component of the capitalist system . . .” was fully endorsed, Shortly thereafter Mc- Donald resigned from the lead- ership. In explaining the Spector-Mc- Donald period in the party Buck points out: ‘“McDonald’s practice of counterposing his conception of ‘party unity’ to what he claimed was ‘futile hair-splitting over questions of theory,’ car- ried the day for years, because those of us who were opposed to both McDonald’s opportunism and Spector’s crypto-Troskyism had failed to grasp the essential content, what Lenin described as ‘the practical and political value of irreconcilable theoreti- cal polemics’.” The last two chapters are de- voted to the role of Leninism in the Canadian Party in gaining a deeper understanding of the nature of the Canadian capital- ist state and its development to state-monopoly capitalism. At the time many in the Com- munist Party believed Canada to be a semi-colony of Great Bri- chief - tain, which in turn was being challenged by American capital for domination and control of Canada. Out of this simplistic theory arose the idea that Bri- tain and the U.S. were on a col- lision course out of which a civil war would develop in Canada leading to revolution and social- ism. A critical study of Lenin’s classic, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” initiated by a group of Canadian students studying at the Lenin School — Leslie Morris, John Weir and Sam Carr — administered what Buck calls ‘an ideological kick in the pants” to the party. The study showed that by concen- trating on the struggle for. in- dependence from Britain was. diverting the attention of the working class away from the real enemy, the monopoly capi- talists and the monopoly-capi- talist state. ~ The last chapter reveals the powerful insight given by Lenin in his study of Imperialism which enabled the Canadian Communists to understand the post-war realities and. the changed policy of the Canadian monopoly-bourgeoisie. The Can- adian monopoly-bourgeoisie was an imperialist power dominated by U.S. imperialism. Within this contradiction it enriched itself by collaborating willingly in sell- ing out resources and integrat- ing the economy with U.S. im- perialism in the belief that war with the socialist countries was inevitable. The bourgeois critics of this policy, James Coyne and Walter Gordon, were ineffectual due to their failure to fight U.S. imperialism. The right-wing-so- cial democrats went along with the post-war policy of U.S.-Can- adian integration, the cold-war anti-communist hysteria, and were the main obstacle to win- ning mass united support of the working people around the slo- gan advanced by the Commun- ists to “Keep Canada Indepen- dent.” Today the Communist position is dramatically vindicated by the emergence within the social democratic party, the NDP, of a group of left social-democrats who are advancing proposals much like those first advanced by the Communists: as early as 1947, . : Of these new forces Tim Buck writes, “There is not yet a for- mal united front of Communists and left’ social democrats in Canada. Such a development will correspond to a substantial- ly higher level of labor political action than is general at the present time. But the line of action advocated in the conven- - tion (the last NDP convention) and supported by a third of the delegates is one of the streams Of action for peace and for Can- adian Independence which, with patient but consistent work, will converge in struggles for immediate demands. In such struggles more and more politi- cal activists will recognize that Marxism-Leninism is our sole guide to victory.” Tim Buck’s book Lenin and Canada will be an inspiration to the Communists and all students of Marxism. It is a must reading for the young people just enter- ing on the road of revolutionary struggle and who must quickly fill the gap in their understand- ing of the continuity of the struggle for Leninism in Canada. Tim Buck has given us such a book, alive with ideas and les- sons—a real Leninist work. + «po PACIFIC TRIBUNE+-FRIDAY, MAY 22,,1970-4Page 5