aun RESOLUTION OF THE 4TH NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE LABOR-PROGRESSIVE PARTY

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1. The war danger and the people's fight for peace

A new stage of struggle
‘THE DANGER of war, and the fight against it, have

each entered a new stage, which is marked by two
Main features. ’ :

First, the danger of world war has grown because the
general crisis of imperialism has become aggravated.
The U.S. imperialists and their satellites, including the
Canadian government, have gone over from prepara-
tions for aggression to acts of aggression, as in Korea,
and new provocations are planned. The further com-
mitment of Canada to the war program of U.S. im-
perialism. and the accompanying surrender of our
country’s independence have increased the danger of
war for the Canadian people.

Second, the camp of peace, led by the, Soviet Union.
has become stronger through the creation of the People’s
Democratic Republic of China and the unification of
800,000,000 people in the new states of people’s de-
mocracy. The world peace camp is strengthened further
by the emergence of a united people’s péace movement
In all countries, brought together through the historic
Stockholm Appeal and the Sheffield-Warsaw World
Peace Congress—a movement unprecedented in human
history. In this peace movement the Canadian people
‘are joining more and more.

The fate of all peoples, including Canadians, will
depend on the outcome of this momentous and sharpen-
Ing world struggle between the camps of war and
fascism, and peace and democracy.

The swiftness of events and the supreme issues at
Stake are involving the participation of new popular
forces. The struggle now being fought out between the
democratic masses of people of all countries; and the
small clique of warmdngers, will decide whether
mankind will be plunged into the holocaust qf atomic
war, or whether mankind will be able to settle its
problems in the conditions of peaceful relations between
States,

Thus, the decisive question facing the Canadian peo-
ple, on the answer to which all other matters de-
pend, is: peace or war, democracy or fascism.

The peace camp is growing

COs ON to the war drive of the imperialists ts
growing in every country. A great world-wide
Movement against war is crystallizing.

The leader of the peace camp in the world is the
Soviet Union, which is providing daily living examples
of the tremendous advantages for the people in con-
centrating upon the tasks of peace. Its first post-war

ve-year plan, completed with dazzling success in less
than five years, has restored the ravaged areas and
Industries, raised the material and cultural standards
of the people, started the use of atomic energy for
/peaceful purposes, and embarked on far-reaching pre-
Jects for the transformation of nature in the service o!
mankind in the march to communism.

In the UN, the Soviet representatives point the’ way
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the Tribune publishes the full text
of the final Resolution adopted
by the 4th National Convention
of the Labor-Progressive Party
held in Toronto Jan. 25 to 28. The
resolution was adopted after two
months of discussion throughout
the entire LPP around the draft
resolution and after three days
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forward by which peace can be maintained by accept-
ance of the possibility of the co-existence, without war,
of the socialist and capitalist countries, and peaceful
competition between them. They have fought for the
Charter of the UN, led the fight to seat People’s
China in the UN and to bring about a peaceful settle-
ment in Korea, fought for the demilitarization of Ger-
many and Japan, repeatedly proposed disarmament,
the outlawing of the atomic weapons .and the stopping
of war propaganda.

To the powerful voice of the Soviet Union has beet:
added the People’s Democratic Republic of China,
speaking for 475 millions, the leader of the movement

of the colonial peoples for their liberation and against,

the Wall St. drive to imperialist war.

Resistance to the U.S. imperialist war drive is_de-
veloping in a multitude of quarters and forms, which
include the many acute contradictions between the im-
perialists themselves. It is essential to grasp that if the
foreign policy of this country were changed to a policy
of peaceful co-existence with the socialist states, as our
national interests demand, Canada could tip the scales
in the UN for peace. Many other states in the UN who
are showing increasing reluctance to go to war at the
orders of U.S. imperialism,’ would join with Canada
in a return to the principles of the UN Charter.

It is clear that a third world war is not inevitable.
that the peace camp is stronger than the camp of wai
providing the people exercise the power they have to
stop the warmongers by imposing peace upon them.

The St. Laurent government
—a war government

HE calculated aim of the St. Laurent government
and its imperialist monopoly-capitalist sponsors is to
turn Canada into a completely dependent satellite ot!

TIM BUCK

National Leader, Labor-Progressive Party

the U.S. For the Canadian ruling class war is a basic
policy for the rescue of its decadent, outworn and crisis-
ridden system of exploitation. The class aims of the
Canadian imperialists coincide with those of U.S.
imperialism, which seeks nothing less than the domina-
tion of the world.

In flagrant violation of the interests of the Canadian
people and of the United Nations obligation to oppose
military intervention in the internal affairs of other
peoples, Canadian armed forces have been sent inte
action in Korea by the St. Laurent government.

In the UN the St. Laurent government acts more
and. more cynically as the chief catspaw of the U.S.
State Department.

In tying Canada to the North Atlantic Security Pact
it is rearming Germany and Japan, and has committed
this country to sending Canadian troops to Western
Europe and anywhere else in the world where the U.S.
military aims demand they be sent. :

Mt is preparing the way for the introduction of mili
tary conscription at the behest of the U.S.

It has introduced a ruinous $5 billion arms program
as the first big step towards the establishment of a wat
economy under a state-war-monopoly dictatorship: By
means of war economy inflation the workers, farmers
and middle class will be made to pay the cost of war
in lower living standards and less consumers’ goods,
while war profits soar sky-high.

Because the greatest stumbling block to the U.S.
imperialist aim of world domination is the Soviet
Union, People’s China and the People’s Democracies,
the lying propaganda is put forward by the St. Laurent
government that the war being prepared is one of “de-
fense” against “Soviet aggression.” In reality it is thé
imperialist clique of war and fascism which is the ag-
gressor against all peoples, of all countries. Opposition
to the Big Lie and the demand for peace is declared

y the Canadian warmongers to be “appeasement,”
when actually the danger of imperialist war is increas-
ing precisely because of the systematic appeasement of
the U.S. warmongers.

To accomplish their predatory ambition the U.S,
trusts with the ‘aid of the St. Laurent government have
undermined the United Nations and torn up its Char-
ter, prevented the-carrying out of the Potsdam, Yalta
and Cairo agreements, invaded Korea for the purpose
of attacking China, now seek to rearm Germany and
Japan and plan openly to wage war, using “other peo-
ple’s boys” via the Atlantic. Pact.

This incendiary policy of atomic war against the
peoples of the worlds the St. Laurent government has
openly endorsed as a satellite of U.S. imperialism. It
has the official support. of the leaders ofthe Conserva-
tive, Social Credit and CCF parties, in a veritable four-
party war coalition. Only the Labor-Progressive Party
has stood firm for peace and Canadian independence.

The war offensive against the
living standards and democratic
rights of the Canadian people

JN THEIR drive to share in the anticipated fruits of
world domination, the Canadian capitalists are in-
creasing the dependency of Canada upon the US.

: MM

"Destroy the illusion which is
spread that war economy means
prosperity. lt means death and
starvation for the working class
and its greatest ally, the farmers
... The organized labor movement
must lead the fight for all Canadi-
ans for Welfare, Not Warfare."
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