Attack on
U.S. nuclear
freeze forces

By BRUCE KIMMEL.

_ The nuclear freeze was endorsed by 76% of the voters
In the Wisconsin primary this September. In Alaska’s
three largest cities, 51% of the voters recently endorsed
the freeze. And Alaska’s economy is heavily dependent
On military spending. ‘

Ten more states and numerous cities and towns will
Vote on the freeze November 2. All told, about 30% of
the U.S. electorate will have the opportunity to vote on
the freeze on election day and polls indicate that the
Overwhelming majority will endorse it.

Sovietism has not undermined the peace movement,
Which has spread to every sector of the population.
People refuse to believe the hogwash about the Soviet
Union being superior to the U.S. in military might.
Reagan and his political allies have therefore adopted an
old, much used tactic: red baiting.

A systematic campaign has begun to brand U.S. peace
ativists as dupes of the Soviet Union. The immediate
Purpose of the campaign is to lessen the pro-freeze vote
On Nov. 2. Its long range aims are to sow divisions in the
Peace movement, scare people away from peace ac-
lvities and sever the growing ties between the peace
Movements of the capitalist and socialist countries.

The argument put forth is that the Soviet Union,
through its intelligence apparatus and the World Peace
Council (WPC), has manipulated innocent U.S. activists
Concerned with peace. The campaign for a nuclear
freeze, which has attained the support of U.S. senators,
archbishops, trade union leaders and Nobel prize win-
Ners, is said to be nothing but a Soviet trick.

President Reagan gave his benediction to this McCar-
thyite campaign in his October 4 speech in Columbus,
Ohio, when he said the freeze movement “‘is inspired not
by the sincere and honest people who want peace but by
Some who want the weakening of America, and so are
Manipulating many honest and sincere people.”

The New York Post (Oct. 11) ran a story purporting to

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The nuclear disarmament movementin the U.S. has attracted a broad range of participation: from children, to physicians,
to senior citizens. In direct opposition to the policies of the Reagan administration this movement has been singled out for

attack by forces both within and outside government.

explain how Reagan could make such an accusation. The
Post said that the White House based the charge on a
British intelligence report. According to the Post, ‘“The
Soviet KGB secretly controls one of the largest anti-nu-
clear organizations in the world, and uses it to manipu-
late Western opinion against NATO’s massive arms
buildup.”

This so-called front is the World Peace Council, the
largest peace organization in the world with scveral mil-
lion members in 130 countries. The WPC, with head-
quarters in Helsinki, is an official non-governmental
organization of the United Nations.

Reader’s Digest, with 31 million readers and published
in 17 languages, contains a long article in its October
issue called ‘‘The KGB’s Magical War for ‘Peace.’’’ The
introduction to the article recognizes that the nuclear
freeze movement ‘“‘has spread like a raging fever
throughout the world. From Bonn to Istanbul, Lima to
New York, millions upon millions of people have
joined.” :

This is indeed an accurate characterization of the
peace movement and is undoubtedly the reason why

Reader’s Digest felt the need to prove ‘‘in detail how the
Kremlin, through secrecy, forgery, terrorism and fear,
has played upon mankind’s longing for peace to further
its own strategic objectives.”’

They quote Alabama Senator Jeremiah Denton who
accuses Peace Links; a women’s organization which
includes the wives of several U.S. senators, of being
“either Soviet-controlled or openly sympathetic with,
and advocates for, Communist foreign policy ob-
jectives.””

This tactic is not new. During the McCarthy period,
red-baiting was used to cripple the labor movement. And
Reagan has been using it to justify his arms buildup and
pro-business economic policies.

The attempt to red bait the peace movement is a threat
to every movement for progressive social change. It is a
threat to the civil liberties of the entire population.
People should be alarmed at this attempt to again peddle
the Big Lie. What happened during the McCarthy period
must not be permitted to happen again.

Bruce Kimmel is a writer for the U.S. Daily World.

A reader asks ‘‘What does democratic
Control mean as used in the Communist
y’s position ‘nationalization under
democratic control’? This is a good
question because it gets to the very heart
Of the struggle to curb the power of
Monopoly. It also brings to the fore the
' Marxist postulate that the people are the
real makers of history.

But, first, a brief explanation of
Monopoly and its higher stage, state-
Monopoly capitalism, in order that these

whole, it became also in its own right, a
big industrialist, merchant and banker.
* * *

political in character.
* * *

Nationalization under democratic control

the utilization of other methods of regu-
lating the economy in the interests of
society as a whole.

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action by the working class becomes

This is nationalization under dem-
ocratic control. It means the control of
the working class in close alliance with all
other sections of the population domi-
nated and exploited by state-monopoly
capitalism. Democratic control pre-
supposes the direct participation of the
working class in economic management
of the country, at both the enterprise and

© features of modern capitalism be
Understood.
* * *

A monopoly isa company that is big

. €Nough to establish its domination and

Control over a large part of production in
any particular branch of the economy.
That is, to a point where its economic
Superiority makes it possible for it to sell
Products and services at prices far
above production costs, and to buy its
Taw materials’ from non-monopoly
S and small producers below the
et price. This is the source of
Monopoly super-profit, which is the eco-
mic form in which monopoly domina-
tion is realized.

The emergence of monopolies led to
Substantial changes in the activities-of
Capitalist state. The concentration of
omic power in the hands of a re-
Vely small number of monopolies en-
abled them to join forces with the state
us and to use it in their own in-

terest. This union of the monopolies and
‘State brought into being state-
Monopoly Capitalism. The state became

The development of monopoly into

state-monopoly capitalism is of great im- .

portance in developing the strategy and
tactics of the working-class movement.

“It makes it necessary for the workers and

their organizations to fight for a dem-
ocratic alternative to state-monopoly
capitalism. Because state-monopoly
capitalism intensifies exploitation and
reaction, as well as the domination of the
giant corporations and the banking
fraternity. This is the class function of
state monopoly capitalism.

At the same time state-monopoly
capitalism develops under the influence
of the scientific and technological Trevo-
lution, which sharpens the contradiction
between the social nature of production
and the appropriation of the product by
the privately-owned monopolies. :

State-monopoly capitalism not only in-
tensifies the class conflicts in capitalist
society, it also changes the conditions of
the workers’ class struggle. The working
class no longer faces individual
monopoly companies, it has to fight the
united front of monopoly capital and the
state. Under these conditions any major

Changes in the form of the develop-
ment of capitalist contradictions are im-
portant to the strategy and tactics of the
working class. They make it necessary
for the class struggle to adopt corres-
ponding forms. With the development of
state-monopoly capitalism, the
monopoly capitalists extend their op-
pression to ever-wider sections of socie-
ty. The industrial and mental workers,
farmers, and small businessmen are
drawing closer together. This provides
the possibility of uniting all democratic
movements opposing state-monopoly
capitalism into a single united front.

In which direction must the main blow
of this single united front be aimed? The
Communist Party says that it must be
aimed at the heart of modern capitalism
— monopoly property and the system of
state-monopoly capitalism — by estab-
lishing working-class control over the
economy and social ownership of the key
enterprises through democratic national-
ization. Further, it must be directed also
toward democratic reform of the
management of the economy through the
organization of democratic planning and

at state level.

This means production committees at
enterprises, and where they already
exist, the extension of their functions.
Production committees should enjoy full
authority to implement constant and ef-
fective control over the activity of the
monopolies and their agents. Control by

production committees will curb the ar-

bitrary actions of the monopoly capital-
ists. Such control will help reduce
capitalist exploitation, improve the
material conditions of the working
people, and help them to become more
organized and class conscious.

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The production committees’ activities
will not be effective unless they insist on
the takeover by the democratic forces of
the entire machinery of state economic
management. The takeover and
management of the state sector in the
social interest, the extension of the state
sector by nationalizing various forms of
monopoly property will provide the
material basis of democratic control of
the economy, and help open the door to
the socialist future.

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