| G | turin | Con | nia | | Bad Advice | To The NDP b 3 Vern 7, 8 |e fa 4 ‘4 ut ones By LESLIE MORRIS is to be hoped that the bitterness that prevailed “ing ee the campaign will not prevent all parties from work- ‘ Or the good of the country.” So said Claude’ Jodoin, president of the Canadian Labor fess, just after the federal election was over. € went on to say that the election of 19 members of ee by the New Democratic Party was “highly en- ited and significant,” and that ‘a fine basis has been lished on which to build further: strength.” 4 A * * * : i a the NDP will not increase its strength and build on *€sent foundations unless it rejects Mr. Jodoin’s advice to join a love-feast with the Tories, Lib- erals and Social Creditors. (Of course Mr. Jodoin did not suggest*that the Communist Party should be present at such a gath- ering!) What is “the good of the country?” Does the NDP see eye to eye with Messrs. Diefenbaker and Pearson on that? What is Mr. Jodoin talking about? * * * mugakatchewan shows what the NDP can expect to go the Gr if it ever forms the government of Canada. There government. put through modest medical care legis- Which was not much different than many capitalist fos did many years ago. Medical care under state. i on Is not necessarily a socialist measure, any more than men’s compensation, unemployment insurance, old Pensions or nationalization. eres at the powerful lobby that was mounted against “SKatchewan plan, including threats of violence and. 8a Nized lawlessness. * * * tion Re | ity What Would happen if the NDP tried to put into practice 0 mate Modest reform program — for planning the economy, q rj Diggs ance? Every fighter for unreconstructed “free enter- 4 Wou) Would be up in arms. Every metropolitan daily paper Nove attack the government — and the Canadian labor React would be compelled at last to publish its own long- 3 ic daily newspapers and establish its own radio and ': 10ns. Thi ° ogo Should be a-b-c- for labor leaders like Claude Dil) Unfortunately they have not learned the first lesson '} t.. °F Politics — that recognition of the existence of the ass 1 or uBele between workers and employers is the begin- of Political wisdom, and that to fail to see this truth or + dey, _ "tis to gall into the trap. * * * 1% The Same thing holds good between elections. For the 1%, 0 follow Jodoin’s advice now is to give up any hope F ding on the foundation of the million votes its candi- } (feceived on June 18. tte, fe” to the-contrary: what the NDP must do is to go - the oby; Tories and Liberals and smite them hip and thigh. lly “y lous target is Diefenbaker’s austerity program with | Whe old the wage line” rubbish — ‘“‘hold the wage line” : Prices are already the highest in history, and wages ling, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. * * * ‘op, Not Collaboration with Diefenbaker, Pearson and Thomp- a vigorous campaign against them — yes, “for the af the country”’. 1%, at is good for the monopolies is bad for the people. j Phan Same token, what is good for the Tories and Liberals my oF the NDP. Ym, 8t is what should guide the NDP, not the namby- labo” Pollyanna advice of the president of the Canadian. Ongress, a of |, Austerity --- for whom? a profit Up 33 per cent, lareholders told Sh Ray onier earnings 44, per cent higher ‘No ti -° two stories appeared directly under each other op : ial page of the Vancouver Province, July 18. It’s: | Ya °m these and other profit reports now being released Aye, Te : . | Stes Corporations that big business is not suffering oe : e me * the Pleas for Canadians to tighten their belts ar Working people. Monopoly profits keep rolling along, j-82_ ever, a Common market- COM mM By R. PALME DUTT Rising opposition on all sides has brought the fight against Britain’s en- try into the Common Market to its highest point. Public opinion polls have now shown a majority against. Already trade unions representing over a million members have. declared against. The Right Wing supporters of the Common Market try to hide behind formulas about entering only if conditions are satisfactory. They might as well talk of agreeing to be swallowed by a boaconstrictor provided conditions are guaranteed satisfactory. We must rapidly develop this opposition, which is now only reaching full awareness of the menace represented by this offensive of reaction. SAY NO! : We must work to ensure that the Trades Union Con- gress and the Labor Party conference say ‘‘No!” to the Common Market. The fight of the British — people for their living stand- ards and national indepen- dence against the recationary offensive of the Common Market is inseparably united with the parallel fight of all the Commonwealth against the same menace. Slick Common Market pro- pagandists try to sneer at the popular Left opposition as “lining up with imperialism.” “Look at Michael Foot and John Gollan,” they say, ‘“‘lin- ing up with Beaverbrook!” Such talk is political illiter- acy. A child can see that the decisive policy of imperialism today is that of Kennedy, Adenauer, Macmillan and Lord Home; the City of Lon- don and the Federation of British Industries—all cham- pions of the Common Market. Today a minority in the ruling class, representing some old-fashioned imperial- ists, with class connections with the older Common- wealth countries, oppose the Common Market. Their criticism represents a factor against the present, dominant policy of imperial- ism; but only the fight of the workingclass movement and the mass of the people can be decisive in defeating the Common Market betrayel. On the international scene, the negotiations have shown that the central controversy on the question of Britain’s entry into the Common Mar- ket turns on the British Com- monwealth. This is not surprising. Britain at present receives duty-free food supplies from Australia, New Zealand, Can- ada and other Commonwealth countries. Half of Britain’s cereals come from the Common- wealth as against 7 per cent from the Common Market; 69 per cent of our sugar, com- pared with 2 per cent; 56 per cent of dairy products, com- pared with 7 per cent; 33 per cent of our wheat as against 8 per cent. ' If Britain enters the Com- R. PALM DUTTE (above) is vice-president of the British Communist Party. The PT publishes here some extracts from a report made by him to the executive committee of the British party srecently. mon Market a tariff wall will be placed against these Com- monwealth food imports, for the benefit of West European agricultural interests. Food prices for the British people will rise rapidly and Commonwealth farmers will lose their markets. Many New Zealand farm- ers will, in fact, be ruined: for their economy has been built up by British imverial- ism to serve as an agricul- tural appendage to the Brit- ish market. So the Common Market is not in the interests of the British or Commonwealth peoples, but in the interests of big financial profiteers who are planning this com- bination. Africa, however, is the real key to the Common Market. The six West European Common Market countries are all rival industrial ex- porting countries, with no common economic interest except joint plunder of colon- ies or former colonial coun- tries. Lenin said long ago that “a United States of Europe un- der capitalism is tantamount to an agreement to divide up the colonies.” Now, in the era of the downfall of colonialism, the Common Market ‘represents the latest model for the neo- colonialist exploitation of the newly independent states of Africa. Ex-colonial French African threat States—18 of them — have been attached as “associate members,” and the British Government is proposing that British ex - colonial African and West Indian States should similarly be attached. While endeavouring to hold on to as much as they can of the weakening links of the old Commonwealth, British * imperialists are staking their claim to establish themselves in the neo-colonialist system represented by the Common Market. The conflict between the two sections of our ruling class over the Common Mar- ket is not between ‘Euro- peans”’ and ‘‘imperialists,” but between the old and the new, modern, school of imperial- ists. ACHILLES HEEL But ‘Africa is also the Achilles heel of the Common Market. African liberation movement leaders have all proclaimed their opposition. The All - African People’s Conference last year explicit- ly condemned its neo-colon- ialist objectives. President Nkrumah, in his speech to the African Free- dom Fighters’ Conference in Accra last month, warned against entanglement with the Common Market. The fight against the Com- mon Market is a common in- ternational fight. It is a fight equally of the British people, the Commonwealth people’s the Afro-Asian peoples and the Socialist peoples. Communists fight for a positive alternative program which would: Break down bans and bar- Tiers against international trade, in place of setting up new tariff walls and sectional economic blocs; Develop British trade on a large-scale planned basis with: the advancing Socialist coun- tries and newly independent countries; Promote an international conference on trade and econ- omic co-operation, as propos- ed by the Soviet Government; Establish an international trade agency to embrace all regions and countries of the world without discrimination. The united strength of all peoples can defeat the Com- mon Market, and in Britain the Tory Government can be made to quit on this issue. nner FREE IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS! isoners | : : : isi : \cLEASE | TAM: Photo shows @ recent rally in Trafalgar Square, London, to demand release of Irish republicans in jail. Speaking is Mary O‘’Donneul, Sister of one of the prisoners, Jim O’Donnell. Forty-five Irish democrats are still in prison. July 27, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7