WORLD SCENE DEVELOPING NATIONS MAP STRATEGY LIMA—The “Group of 77” ended its two-week confrence here last week and formulated a joint strategy for confronting indus- trialized nations next April at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Developments (UNCTAD) in Santiago, Chile. The delegates issued a declaration asking the U.S. to revoke its 10% surcharge on imports, and called on industrialized countries to pay a “fairer” price for raw materials from less developed lands. They also asked for a greater voice in decisions of the International Monetary Fund. REACTIONARY TERRORIST PLOT IN URUGUAY MONTEVIDEO—Rodney Arismendi, secretary of the Communist Party of Uruguay, said in a news conference that a criminal plot is being carried out by reactionaries and pro-fascists to stir up civil strife in Uruguay. The Communist leader said the reactionaries hope to disrupt the national elections to be held this month. The Frente Amplio (“Broad Front”) in which the CPU participates is given a good chance of winning the election. On Nov. 9, Frente Amplio presidential candidate Libera Seregni was ambushed near the town of Rocha by “unidentified” gunmen who fired at his car and then fled. Arismendi said this terrorist act showed Uruguay’s reactionaries will stop at nothing to prevent the Frente Amplio from gaining power. CEYLON BATTLES TO OVERCOME CRISIS COLOMBO—Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike presented a five-year plan to Parliament against the background of what she - called “a social and economic crisis unparalleled in the history of modern Ceylon.” It was time to break away from policies which had led “the country into a blind alley,” she said. Legislation would shortly be introduced to limit private ownership of land and to control the spending power of high income sectors. Main aims of the plan were to combat spiralling unemployment, revitalize rural economy to support a major export drive, raise living standards and correct ‘imbalances in the economy. The plan is intended to create 810,000 jobs. There are now about 550,000 unemployed in a labor force of 4,500,000, with 120,000 joining their ranks annually. Mrs. Bandaranaike said the new plan was to achieve maximum development of natural resources within the framework of a com- mitment to rapidly set up a socialist society. IRA DENOUNCES TARRING OF WOMEN DERRY—The official Irish Republican Army denounced a series of recent incidents in which Irish women were tarred and feathered for “fraternizing” with British Army soldiers. The IRA said: “Any- one who uses the name of the official IRA to carry out this sort of dastardly act will be dealt with immediately.” The so-called “pro- visional group,” an IRA splinter faction, also condemned the attacks on the women. WEST AFRICA LIBERATION DRIVE NEARS VICTORY ALGIERS—The people of Guinnea-Bissau are headed for final victory over the Portuguese colonialists, said Amilcar Cabral, sec- retary-general of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), in a report on military actions covering January-August of this year. The report, delivered in liberated terri- tory in Guinea-Bissau, was released by PAIGC in Algiers. Cabral said that PAIGC liberation forces had made 369 separate attacks on Portuguese garrisons, including raids on the capital city of Bissau, and had captured large quantities of arms and equipment. The capitalist news media have grudgingly admitted that PAIGC forces are in control of about two-thirds of the West African terri- tory, and that the Portuguese have their backs to the wall. PERU TAKES OVER BROADCAST MEDIA LIMA—The Peruvian governmen announced it is taking over the country’s broadcast communications media. The move, reported in the official newspaper El Peruano, was taken for reasons of security and for mass education. The new broadcast media (radio-TV) law states than no foreigner can be an owner, partner, manager or dir- ector of any Peruvian radio or TV station. The Peruvian government will acquire at least 51% of the shares in the country’s 17 private TV stations, and at least 25% participation in 209 privately-owned radio stations. From now on, the government statement said, all radio-TV stations must broadcast at least one hour daily of educa- tional programs. DUCLOS ANALYZES CAPITALIST CRISIS PARIS — Jacques Duclos deputy general secretary of the French Communist Party and member of the French Senate, said that the root cause of the international monetary crisis is the steady de- preciation of the U.S. dollar. Duclos’ article on the crisis was pub- lished in France-Soir, a leading Paris daily newspaper. The French Communist leader said that the crisis had touched off a return to protectionism in the U.S., a fall in the Tokyo stock market, cut-backs in West Germany and a potential eco- nomic depression in Italy. Duclos said that one of the French government’s major. goals, to increase exports, in the present situation of capitalist slump can be attained only by seeking new markets in the socialist countries. The recent Soviet-French agreement, he said, opens the way for this and is clearly in the interests of the French working class. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1971—PAGE 4 s Labor must head struggle toend | U.S. domination | WELLAND — Commenting here last Saturday on that part of the Gray Report which has appeared in the Canadian Forum, Communist Party leader, Wil- liam Kashtan said it reflects an effort by a section of the capi- talist class to assert the inde- pendence of Canada from USS. domination but falls short of what is required. Mr. Kashtan was guest speak- er at the Nov. 13 banquet held in this industrial city to cele brate the 50th anniversary of the Communist Party of Cana- da. He told an audience of over 100, including a number of trade unionists, that a screening pro- cess. will not cope with the prob- lem of U.S. domination and takeover, with U.S. ‘multi-na- tional corporations in Canada. Nor can it cope with U.S. efforts | Four thousand Canadian students gathered on the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor and Detroit to Stop Amchitka. Communists charting course for coming poll The Central Executive of the Communist Party has proposed that.the Party run a maximum number of candidates in the next federal elections likely to be held next year. This proposal is made in an Executive amendment to the Main Policy Resolution to be debated at the party’s 21st con- vention to be held in Toronto Nov. 27-29. The amendment published in the party’s pre-convention dis- cussion bulletin of Nov. 5, Con- vention ’71, states that the great issues to be fought out now, during the election campaign and following it, “demand that the Party lift its sights and run a maximum number of candi- dates.” This, the amendment says, will enable the party to advance its program, stimulate the labor and democratic movement and help forge a democratic alter- native to the policies of mono- poly and relate it to the social- ist perspective. The party’s aim in the elec- tion, according to the Execu- tive’s amendment, should be to unite all the patriotic, truly na- tional and democratic forces for the election of a large progres- sive bloc, including Commu- nists, to Parliament. This aim, it is believed, can be achieved around a program of all-Canadian balanced indus- trialization, based on _ public ownership, new trade policies directed to expanding trade with all socialist countries and tied to long-term credits, and an independent foreign policy of peace, peaceful coexistence, jobs or an adequate income for all Canadians, and a voice for work- ing people on all questions of concern to them. While the party must under- take a vigorous criticism of the Trudeau government and its monopoly policies, the main fire, however, states the amendment, must be directed against those monopoly interests which would more fully integrate Canada with U.S. imperialism through a ~ common market or other forms which would undermine the po- litical independence and sover- eignty of the country. If the coming convention of to compel Canada to agreé to4 continental energy policy: i “The answer,” Mr. Kast , said, “as our party has ving emphasized, lies in the wor class leading the batll Canadian independence 4” ae dertaking the struggle fo" 1. tionalization under democle control of the natural ei 4s es, including energy, a8 Wo". ® of the key sectors of the e dian economy presently ~ & trolled by U.S. monopoly: The struggle for Canadiall dependence, he explained ea iI reality a struggle for a ditt & path of development for ‘i da, for policies of all-Cam iy it industrialization, for neW ‘ policies and the assurane fot work and rising standaf all Canadians as a right. Taking note of rumors aia effect that the federal a pu is divided on the issue % yp 4%, lishing the Gray Report, they Kashtan was of the opinion” § may prove to be correch “This is evidence,” clared, “of the fact thal iq wings are shaping Ww! le capitalist camp vis-a-vis tes: | tions with the United those who see the answe! is currency and trade cris Uso fuller integration with the oe a) and those who in one the other veer towards 4.7 jl er measure of industrial! 4 of the Canadian ecom0™ te sil greater emphasis on m et! ' turing and on the establis of new trade policies. 40 Remarking how thes? pot trends run right throub ve the Liberal and Conse’ iit parties, Kashtan said the | ror the dilemma that © ism is. in. » fe “This emphasizes anew inf h stated, “that only the ects class can undertake an © sin? struggle to achieve 8 Canadian independencé- ti the party adopts the a policy proposed the Come : Party would immediately “at take the nomination % of dates and the preparatio” election platform. “oh, would also begin as 4U igh possible a public capa ds cluding the raising of f make an all-out electio” possible.