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| the official poster of the Preparat-
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and Students.
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€venth time young people from
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The Preparatory Committee of
Canada has launched the poster
contest as the first of many ac-
tivities to publicize the Festival,
encourage Canadian participation
and to contribute to the interna-
tional Festival movement. All en-
trants in the contest will receive
merit awards from the Commit-
tee; deadline for entries is Oc-
tober 1, 1977.

Larsen said that further infor-
mation about contest details and
about the Eleventh World Festi-
val of Youth and Students is av-

-ailable from the Committee which

is based in Toronto with offices in
Quebec, Manitoba and British
Columbia. Interested persons
should write to the Festival
Committee at Box 99, Postal Sta-
tion V, Toronto M6R 3AS5.

CUT leaders deprived

Three trade union members of
the exterior committee of the Chi-
lean Central Workers’ Union, a
broad trade union movement,
have been deprived on citizenship
by the Pinochet fascist dictator-
ship: They are: Luis Meneses
Aranda, former President of Mill
Workers, National Director of the
CUT and present Secretary Gen-
eral of the Exile Committee;
Humberto Elgueta Guerin, foun-

of Chilean citizenship

der of the CUT and of the Union’

of Education Workers, President
of the Federation of Educators
and present member of the Exile
Committee; and Ernesto Arane-
da, former Director of the Con-
struction Federation.

The ‘de facto’ measure adopted
by this government which has as-
sumed all State powers is openly
unconstitutional and violates
Human Rights.

The dictatorship accuses these
men of carrying out publicity
campaigns in exile aimed at isolat-
ing their government.

Meneses, Elgueta and Araneda
have from the start assumed the
task of mobilizing workers,
democrats and international pub-
lic opinion to demand the re-
establishment of respect. for
human rights and democratic
freedom in Chile. The great up-
heaval created by the fascist coup
which overthrew the legal
government of Chile and assassi-
nated President Salvador Al-
lende, and the growth of world-
wide solidarity with the victims of
fascist terror, have allowed these
leaders to contribute in a very im-
portant way to saving the lives of
many patriots, freeing many
others from imprisonment and

torture, and forcing the dictator-

ship to account for all their acts of
repressive brutality to the interna-
tional community.

The action of these men have
served to strengthen the struggles
of workers inside the country, to
maintain and increase. their
fighting spirit, to show that their
struggle to regain trade union
freedom and restore social gains
and their standard of living, are
followed and supported by work-
ers throughout the world.

Acommon scene on Chile’s streets, the arrest of patriots. These men

will have no trial, they may be tortured, even killed.

The crime committed by these
members of the CUT Exile
Committee is to not be fascists, to
represent an organization that has
not yielded to the DINA nor to
repression, and to want to live in
democracy, to be able to exercise
their rights and to struggle with
dignity for a better life for workers
and the development of the
country.

The Junta wants to punish in-
ternational solidarity, democratic
aspirations, peace and progress
— the aims of the vast majority of
progressive humanity — in the
person of these men. Once moreit
will fail. As in the past with Ber-
nardo Leighton, Anselmo Sule

and Orlando Letelier, it will only
show its isolation and despair.
The Committee CUT-Canada,
which released this information,
is asking international federa-

tions, international professional

organizations, and national trade
union federations to send letters
and cables or protest against the
junta’s action to:

Director General of the Inter-
national Labour Organization
(ILO).

Director General of UNESCO.

President of the United Nations
Human Rights Commission.

Chilean embassies.

Supreme Court of Justice of
Chile — Santiago, Chile.

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Pornography as a commodity

Marxis m-L eninism in Tod ay’s World gain of huge multi-national publishing

A reader in Toronto asks: ‘‘Pornog- :
concerns and film-making corporations

7 sie and the exploitation of sexual re-
to ONs are on the rise of late. According
tla reports obscenity has now
| 4. .cad to comic books where children
| is th €picted in various sex poses. What
oH Oe of all this? Is it to divert
Probl Ng people away from the real
Capes. that confront them in our

Pltalistic society?”’

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bl The question posed is one that trou-
c € great majority of people in our
the Atry, just as violence in literature,
Movies and TV does. Many emi-
t sociologists and educators have
a Out against it, as have community
Parents’ groups, unions, churches

N
heonger the authorities take refuge be-

ug 4 their somewhat elastic concept of

rn a Speech’’, and the ‘‘danger’’ inhe-
censorship.

le it is vitally important to uphold

©€ to run rampant is a sick society.

When such a break in the social fabric
occurs it is a sign that the class which
rules is no longer able to govern in a
manner serving the best interests of the
people whom they govern. ©

There is mounting evidence that the
rulers of our capitalistic society are no
longer able or.willing to control criminal
and corruptive forces that the system
itself created and let loose to prey upon
society, including children of a tender

age.

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The founders of Marxism in their
brilliant study of the socio-economic

of a class-divided society is that of its
ruling class. Thus the dominant ideol-
ogy of the slave society was that of the
slave-owners, of feudal society that of
the feudal lords, and of capitalist soci-

in a capitalist society such as ours the
dominant ideology serves the interests
of the capitalist economic order. A
given ideology dominates when the
class, whose ideology it is, becomes the
ruling class and is thereby able to use
the state and all its ramifications to dis-
seminate and uphold its basic precepts
and ideas.
bk. Rae

As is well-known, the heart of
capitalist ideology is the upholding of
private ownership of the means of pro-
duction and the profit derived by virtue
of such ownership. This is the holiest of

the capitalist system corresponds to its
ideology. They are, so to speak, by-
products of the basic immorality of the
capitalist system — the exploitation of
man by man.

is now part of the whole profit-taking

system. Obscenity and sexual exploita- -

tion are commodities for sale at a profit.

And, of a certainty, the mass produc-
tion of obscenity serves also to corrupt
the moral fabric of society, and to divert
attention of individuals away from the
basic problems which confront them in
our capitalistic society.

The dissemination of obscenity, and
violence, is now a part — a corruptive
part — of the ideology of capitalism. It
is at the same time big business, as is
the racketeering system, best personi-
fied by the activities of the mafia and the

within the manifold structure of the
state. That is why the laws on obsceni-
ty, racketeering and rip-offs, and the
prosecution of those who transgress
these laws, are so wretchedly impotent.

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and other public-spirited bodies. But to systems of human society, from primi- holies for the capitalist, no matter what ae ae tip-offs. Big business
avail as yet. For, when the pressure tive communism to capitalist society, the cost in terms of human suffering and auEe gos eat in today’s capitalist soc-
*" Stricter restrictive measures grows discovered that the dominant ideology degradation. The ethics and morality of ety. This is particularly reflected

= Tight of free speech and to oppose ety that of the capitalist class. Just as the exploitation of the labor _ Truly, the capitalist system is sick. It
R © dangers inherent in censorship, a This is so because ideology serves to and talents of others for private gain, so is time for a change.
ety that allows obscenity and vio- protect and uphold the economic sys- the exploitation of obscenity and ee x |
a tem of the given society. For instance, human sexual fantasies for the private *Next week, socialist morality.