asses en LONDON e¢ PARIS ..e MOSCOW e RIODEJANEIRO ¢@ PEKING e NEWDELHI e DJAKARTA e By PETER ZINKIN LONDON An appeal for Left unity and 'ction to win-a “Turn to the left” was launched at the Com- Nunist. Party’s 29th Congress ere last week. After two days keen and de- iled discussion of the prob- ‘ms facing the British people the 700 delegates endorsed the ‘all made in a rousing speech by hn Gollan, general secretary. He proposed that the congress thould issue a public appeal fer ft unity and united action to pt the swing toi the right and ce the government to the left. On its part, the Communist Marty was willing to talk with ‘hnyone now, and consider any Moposal, to reach the aim of a United left movement, he said. “No socialist or militant can Nw afford to draw back,” he ‘ntinued. “The big discussion SW proceeding on the attitude . the government and on the Tanization, policy and direc- On of the left forces is of cri- tal importance.” The task of the Communists ay to win..a_ conviction that Be conditions. existed in which be wges in policy could in fact © Won. hone theme of unity dominated € first two days of the con- Sess, There was a large pro- portion of young people among the men and women who filled Camden Town Hall. At the back of the platform was a huge ban- ner with the words: “Unite the Left for Socialist. Advance.” There was a good deal of con- troversy in the conference about the views put forward by the 66 who took part in the dis- cussion. An amendment to the main political resolution, which would have rejected the party’s basic program, the British Road to Socialism, was overwhelmingly defeated. Thus Congress reaffirmed its belief in the possibilities of the peaceful road to socialism. There was also a note of sad- ness when Bert Ramelson, chair- man of the elections prepara- tions committee, made the pre- liminary report. He said that three outstand- ing leaders had decided on the grounds of age not to accept nomination so as to make way for younger people. They were R. Palme Dutt, in- ternational affairs department head; Peter Kerrigan, industrial organizer; and J. R. Campbell, economic committee chairman. “The tremendous debt our — Party owes to these comrades who were among the small band who laid the foundation of our Party is impossible to exagger- ate,’ he said. Warm, generous Turn to Left’ appeal by British CP parley applause from the delegates en- dorsed these words. * * * The need for a drive_to in- crease the circulation of the Daily Worker was stressed by the paper’s editor, George Mat- thews, in his address to the Con- gress. In the recent period there has been a decline in circulation. To help achieve a higher cir- culation the management com- mittee has decided to Jaunch a six-page paper. “There is no future for us as a paper unless we get the young readers,” said Matthews, even should it mean sacrificing some things old readers might consi- der necessary for a Socialist paper. “Our job in life is not just to appeal to the converted,” he continued. He rejected the sec- tarian view which said _ that sports or cultural news or any- thing which was not political was: a waste of space. “At the same time, we do not intend to emulate Fleet Street mush, gush and slush about the monarchy,” Matthews added. “We do not intend to abandon our role as an educator of the working class.” - There was no contradiction etween putting the Communist view editorially and opening the columns to all on the Left. ‘““We appeal to all on the Left. Use the Daily Worker, it is there to help you.” The First Conference of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin Ameri- Ca will take place in Havana from Jan. 3-10 next year. This historic conference Will be held there on the in- Vitation of the Communist Party of Cuba (formerly the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution). The original decision to broaden the Afro-Asian soli- darity movement to include Latin America as well was taken by the Afro-Asian Soli- darity Association. A preparatory committee for the first conference was Set up comprising six repre- Sentatives from each of the three continents with the Moroccan representative as chairman. _ This preparatory commit- tee met in Cairo at the begin- ning of September and took the major organizational de- Cisions for convening the con- ference, as well as issuing an Appeal to the peoples of the three continents. - AFRO-ASIAN-LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY PARLEY JAN. 3 Asian solidarity movements of Japan, China, the USSR, Indonesia, India and South Vietnam represented Asia. Africa was represented by delegates from the ruling parties of the UAR, Guinea, Tanzania and Algeria and from the South African liber- ation movement. The Latin American dele- gates were from. Cuba, the liberation movements of Gua- temala and Venezuela, broad democratic fronts in Chile and Uruguay. Delegates from Mexico and Ghana were not able to at- tend, but their support for the conference and the deci- sions of the preparatory com- mittee was already assured. The conference will in- vite observers from_ pro- gressive international organ- izations and from the soli- darity movements in socialist countries, The preparatory committee approved the list of observers already suggested by the Afro-Asian secretariat and also approved at the Winneba Conference. The preparatory committee also decided that representa- tion from the Latin American countries which will be parti- cipating for the first time in such a solidarity conference, should be left to the mem- bers of the committee from the area concerned. It rejected an attempt by the Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian delegates to sub- mit their own list of proposed representation from Latin America. The preparatory committee also rejected a proposal from the same three delegates that the word “solidarity” should ~ be omitted from the title of the conference. The final decision will, of course, be taken by the con- ference itself, but the over- whelming feeling among the 19 members of the prepara- tory committee was that ‘the time has come to replace the Afro-Asian solidarity move- ment with the Afro-Asian- movement, Latin American solidarity . Delegates from the Afro- Hundreds of thousands of Japanese are taking part in rallies and demonstrations against the Japan-South Korea treaty which is designed to perpetuate the division of Korea and keep it as an area from which U.S. and Japanese imperialism can plan a new war in the Far East. Photo shows one of these demonstrations. Cuba is training young boys and girls in music, painting, drama and ballet. Here Alexander Frolov, Soviet music teacher, is giving violin lessens to young pupils. Fnoto shows the operating room in a new hospital opened in Varna, Bulgaria. As in other socialist countries, all hospital treat- ment is free. December 17, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5