THREAT TO BOMB DRV

SEEN IN ATTACK ON LAOS

The President of the United States is
the foundation for
bombing of the Democratic Republic of

layin

Vietnam.

That is the assessment by U.S. Sen-
ator Mark Hatfield, of the most serious
escalation of war on Indochina’s popu-
lation since the annihilation bombing

of Hanoi at Christmas.

: Contemplation of the outcome of such
insanity must surely shock.the world to
swift response. Is the mad bomber,

Congress took
of disapproval.”

It is to be hoped U.S. elected
representatives will take action.
It is to be hoped Americans
whose sons, if taken prisoner
will not be covered by the Paris
Agreements, will act.

But the rest of the world is
not likely to wait. Every mass
protest that was organized to
put a stop to the madman’s mas-
sacre last December, is called
for now — increased 10-fold —
to end Nixon’s orgy of blood.

Alarm is expressed in _ all
quarters Over this _ irrational
drive to re-kindle full-scale war
— so profitable to the mono-
polies, so intoxicating to the
Warped man in the White House.

“strong action

Far from appealing to this .

tyrant, indifferent to the mount-
ing list of crimes charged to
him, it is evident that an out-
raged world must take the mat-
ter of peace into its own hands,
and enforce peace on the war-
makers,

Nixon, to be allowed to begin another
round of aggression?

After 40 consecutive days of raining
bombs on Cambodia, the U.S. comman-
der-in-chief ordered B-52 bombers and
F-111 fighter-bombers into Laos, shat-
tering any pretence at honoring his

renewed

signature on the Paris Agreements.
Senator Wm. Fulbright, foreign re-
lations committee chairman, despaired
of finding a way to force the president
to halt the outrageous bombing unless

Canadian delegates to the International Consultative meeting in
Moscow in March, where plans were made for the World Congress
for Peace, Security and Independence, to be held in Moscow Oct.
2-7, 1973. L to r: Andre Leclerc, Quebec Federation of Labor; Jean
Vautour, Canadian Peace Congress; Edward Sloan, Vietnam Mora-
torium Committee; and Fred -Gudmundson, National Farmers’ Union.
Absent from the photo was Laurette Sloan, vice-president, La Ligue

des Femmes du Quebec.

Campaign to promote Brazil abroad

Cheap labor, hig

By GERMAN MUNOZ

RIO DE JANEIRO (PL) — A
wrinkled 61-year-old Ginger
Rogers is preparing a publicity
campaign to sell Brazilian pro-
ducts jn the United States. The
veteran Hollywood actress of
the thirties was hired by the J.
C. Penney Company. (The Pen-
ney Co, has the largest chain of
Stores jn the world, after the
Sears Roebuck Co.)

During a visit to Brazil Ginger
Rogers explained that the half
million dollar campaign does
not pursue strictly economic
objectives, but will also be aim-
ed at improving Brazil’s image

‘in September

abroad. She also announced that
some 100 U.S.
journalists will visit Brazil to
see what is going on.

The J. C. Penney campaign
coincides with what has_ be-
come an Official obsession to
promote Brazil.abroad — more
important, in the eyes of the
regime, than domestic reality
and national public opinion.

Cheap Labor Market

Now the government will try
to hide the miserable wages
Brazilian workers receive, un-
employment, repression and tor-
ture, under the cloak of the so-
called Brazilian miracle. And

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“Brazil’s population doubles every 24 years. By the year 2000, there
will be 230 million people, most of whom will not resign themselves

to eating images instead of food.”

profits

paradoxically, it is precisely the
low living standards of Brazilian
workers that constitute one of
the main points of attraction for
foreign capitalists desirous of
obtaining cheap labor for their
enterprises.

Sociologist Luciano Martins
recently said that the system is
seeking to legitimize itself al-
most exclusively outside the
country, because the suppres-
sion of Brazilian political life
precludes any nossibility of in-
ternal legitimization.

The military government has
mounted a huge international
public relations apparatus to
promote Brazil to U.S. and Eu-
ropean businessmen, for whom
Brazil does not exist as a na;
tion but as a consumer market
and source of manpower.

Fast Bucks

Foreign investments in Brazil
bring in high dividends with ori-
ginal capital recovered in no
more than five or six years. Ac-
cording to Luciano Martins, this
is the yardstick by which foreign
capitalists measure the stability
of governments.

Obsessive concern for Brazil’s
image abroad may be seen
everywhere. Recently, for eX
ample, an official communique

‘announced the death of six ‘“‘ter-

rorists” in a gun battle with
police in Recife. The communi-
que gave incredible explanations
to cover up another assassina-
tion carried out by government
forces. The interesting thing,
however, was ‘hat one of the

By FRANCOIS MATHIEU

BERLIN — According to the
West German press, the Brandt-
Scheel government will soon re-
veal its intentions regarding the
*German Communist Party
(DKP).

Threats against the DKP were
made recently in the Bundestag
(FRG parliament) by one of the
parliamentary secretaries of the
Ministry of the Interior, Herr
Baum. In his words, the DKP is
pursuing “ends inimical to ‘the
Constitution.” This is demonst-
rated, he said, by the fact that
the DKP bases itself on the
theory of Marxism-Leninism,
which js “incompatible with the
fundamental democratic and
liberal character of the Federal

’ Republic of Germany.”

Baum condemned the DKP for
being “Jike the outlawed Com-
munist Party of Germany (KPD),
having the same ideology, which
is essentially the line of the So-
cialist Unity Party (Commun-
ist) of the German Democratic
Republic.”

Consequently, the ‘“‘extra-con-
stitutionality of the DKP will be
examined by the federal and
state governments”.

Anti-communist
A spokesman of the opposi-
tion Christian Democrats ex-
pressed their satisfaction with

the new Brandt-Scheel govern-

ment offensive launched against
the German Communist Party.
It appears, from all signs over
the last few weeks, that certain
reactionary segments, particu-
larly within the government, are
preparing to accentuate their
anti-communist activities,
against the only party that de-

West Germany prepares
anti-Communist crusade

nounces and struggles against
the tremendous power of the
capitalist monopolies.

This is being done as the cost
of living has reached record
heights in the FRG. Arms spend-
ing is the highest in West Ger-
man history. The working class
is confronting both government
and management through its
wage demands, and often finds
itself pitted against its union
leadership bent on compromis-
ing.

Salary increases are limited to
8.5%, which would barely neu-
tralize the effects of rising
prices.

Promised reforms concerning
the say of workers in produc-
tion, technological change, and
access to professional training
still remain exactly that — pro-
mises.

Young Socialists

Although the’ electoral
strength of the DKP is. still
weak, it plays an important
role in the communities, many
plants, and in the universities.
The struggle of the German
Communist Party for unity finds
growing echoes within the ranks
of the Social Democratic (gov-
ernment) Party, particularly
among the young socialists, who
represent about 40% of its ef-
fective militants, and who are
moving towards Marxism. Last
week, for example, 30 leading
members of the Frankfort young
socialist organization (which
had taken a position supporting
state-monopoly capitalism and
the continuation of government
policy), resigned from the young
socialists. Twenty of them an-
nounced that they had joined
the German Communist Party.

“Mare than 80 million Brazilians are virtually removed from the
consumer market, are unemployed or underemployed, with sub-
sistence standards of living.” :

charges against one of the wo-
men “terrorists” killed was that
she was actively collaborating
in a Campaign to “defame” Bra-
zil’s injage abroad.

Subsistence Living

Presjdent Emilio Garrastazu
Medici affirmed that 1972 was
a happy year for Brazil and im-
mediately the phrase was pub-
licized abroad as the absolute
truth. But the number of un-
happy people is growing and

marring this idyllic picture of
general bliss. More than 80 mil-
lion Brazilians are virtually re-
moved from the consumer mark-
et, are unemployed or underem-
ployed, with subsistence stand-

. ards of living. :

Today the population of Brazil
is doubling every 24 years. By
the year 2000 there will be 230

million Brazilians, most of
whom will not resign themselves
to eating images instead of
food.

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