Appeal made by Communist and Workers’ Parties

Yes to peace, disarmament, jobs
— no to new nuclear missiles

We, communist parties from countries, the
80vernments of which share the responsibility for

ATO’s decision made in December 1979 to deploy
new U.S. nuclear missiles in western Europe, feel a
Particularly deep commitment in the struggle for
Peace and strengthening the peace movement. We
Share the point of view of all peace forces: the imple-
Mentation of NATO’s decision on the deployment of
nuclear missiles scheduled for 1983 would have the
effect of further fomenting the arms race and of creat-
Ig a new dangerous situation.

In a time when in our countries the concer for the
Safeguarding of peace and for the future is on the
Icrease, in a time when millions of people fall victim
fo the scourge of unemployment, we therefore call on

those who opt for peace, disarmament and jobs:

1983 must not become the year of the deployment
Of new American missiles in western Europe.
NATO's decision on nuclear missiles must not be
Camied out.

A nuclear arms freeze! Create nuclear weapons-

€€ zones!.

These would be important steps toward more
fomprehensive measures of nuclear disarmament.

In a nuclear war there would be no winners. Nu-
Clear arms means annihilation. There is no such thing
a8 a “‘limited’’ nuclear war nor one which could be

Won’’. This is why the struggle against the peril of
Nuclear war is literally a matter of survival for the
Peoples. Nuclear armament has to be stopped. Nu-
Clear weapons have to be done away with — before
they destroy our peoples and our planet. That is why it
'S imperative to join in the following demands:

Tace!

_ The struggle of the peace movement, which in our
Countries and in all parts of the world has known a
Powerful boost since December 1979, has forced the

Stop the mad game of armament! Stop the arms :

U.S.-government to sit down at the Geneva negotiat-
ing table. Now it is imperative to struggle for a result,
which excludes the scheduled deployment of new
nuclear missiles and makes a reduction of the already
existing nuclear weapons in Europe feasible. To this
end all peace-loving people must actively contribute.

The proposals made by the Soviet Union and the
Warsaw Treaty nations make it plain: It is possible to
reach just solutions which take into account the equal
security of both sides. Their offer — of a compre-
hensive abstention from violence, of nuclear
disarmament, of reducing tensions, and their positive
answer to the proposal made by the Swedish
Government and by governments of Balkan countries
to create nuclear-free zones, as well as to the pro-
posals of disarmament made by the non-aligned coun-
tries, are signs of hope for the peoples and an inspira-
tion for their struggle.

Together with all people of good intentions we
affirm that simple truth: Only détente, disarmament
on the basis of equality and equal security, can create
the conditions for the solution of the social problems,
for effective measures against armament costs,
against mass unemployment, for ecological safe-
guards, against famine and poverty.

We communists pledge ourselves to the paramount
task of mobilizing all our strength to join with other
peace-loving people in the struggle for peace,
disarmament, and jobs, against new nuclear weapons.
Only if there is peace have our peoples a future.

Communist Party of Denamrk
German Communist Party (FRG)
Communist Party of Greece
Communist Party of Canada
Communist Party of Luxembourg
Communist Party of Norway
Communist Party of Turkey
Communist Party of USA

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The light at the end of th

Of late, bourgeois economists are now
Predicting the possibility that capitalism
8 beginning to pull out of its economic -
CNisis, with its resultant mass unem-
Ployment, lower living and social stan-
dards. Before we comment on this pre-
diction it would be most useful to identify
Ur subject matter, namely what is the
°rm of crisis these economists have in
Mind. Is it primary or secondary?

Alfred Dewhurst

_. Marxism-Leninism Today

he system of capitalism is plagued by
‘Wo Principal forms of crisis — the cycli-

economic (business) crisis, which is
Caused by a relative over production of
Commodities, and the general crisis. The
Market is flooded with commodities. The
€Xpansion of the market cannot keep

Collision becomes inevitable and
Periodic, operating in a cycle of depres-
Sion, recovery, and boom. The end of
One cycle is the beginning of another in
INevitable repetition. The cyclical crisis
perates within the confines of the gen-

y the general crisis.
* * eee ;

Engels, co-father of scientific
SOcialism describes an economic crisis as
Ollows: ‘Trade comes to a standstill, the
Markets are glutted, the products lie in
8reat masses, unsaleable, ready money
'Sappears, credit vanishes, the factories
are idle, the working masses go short of
Means of subsistence because they
Ve produced too much of them, bank-
Tuptcy follows bankruptcy, forced sale
‘pon forced sale. The stagnation lasts for
years, both production forces and pro-

Pace with the expansion of production. A ©

ral crisis. It influences and is influenced |

ducts are squandered and destroyed ona
large scale, until all the accumulated
masses of commodities are at last dis-
posed of at a more or less considerable
depreciation, until production and ex-
change gradually begin to move again.

By degrees the pace quickens; it be-
comes a trot; the industrial trot passes
into a gallop, and the gallop in turn passes
into a headlong onrush of a complete
industrial, commercial,
speculative steeplechase, only to land
again in the end, after the most break-

neck jumps — in the ditch ofa crash. And

so on again, and again.’’ (Anti-Duhring,
by Frederick Engels) This descriptive
passage by Engels in the second half of
the 19th century reads, in all its essen-
tials, as if it was written today.

Engels completed this work in 1877.
However, up to the present time, thanks
to the intervention by the state and the

-government on behalf of the capitalist

class, the industrialists and financiers

have been able to ride out the economic

crisis at the expense of the workers and

all working people.
*

* *
However, capitalism today is not the

credit and.

capitalism of 1825. There have been tre-
mendous developments in production
techniques. The most revolutionary
change being the scientific and technical
revolution. These changes affect the
economic cycle which in turn accen-
tuates the fundamental structural flaw of
the capitalist system, which is the private
ownership of the main means of social
production — the source of the exploita-
tion of man by man. The advent of
socialism as a result of the workers’ and
peasants’ revolution in 1917, followed by
a wave of national and social liberation
uprisings, ushered in capitalism’s gen-
eral crisis. The general crisis pervades all
aspects of socio-economic life in
capitalist society. This drastically
changes the political character of strug-
gle against the effects of the cyclical

crisis. :

There is only one way that an end can
be put to cyclical crises. That is to put an
end to the exploitation of man by man
and nation by nation, the source of all
capitalist profit. This means working-
class power, and establishing socialism.
Under socialism all values created by so-
cial labor shall, through state ownership,

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belong to those who produce. It means
the emancipation of the exploited. There
is no other way to eliminate cyclical
crises, mass unemployment and other
crisis effects; such as currency, credit
and trade crises.

* * *

All of the foregoing does not mean that
nothing can be done to alleviate the worst
effects of the present economic crisis,
compounded by synchronization with
the deepening of the general crisis. How-
ever, much can be done to ease the bur-
den on the working people, providing
those affected struggle against both
government and monopoly corporations
for economic and social reforms within
the capitalist system.

However, whatever reforms are
achieved, they will not remedy the basic
structural fault of capitalism. This can
only be achieved by a socialist revolu-
tion. Such a revolution can only come
about when the working class and its
democratic allies perceive socialism as
the only way out of the periodic economic
crisis.

* * *

The road to socialism in Canada can be
opened through a new political alliance
based upon winning political power by a
democratic anti-monopoly coalition. (see
Road to Socialism in Canada, page 47). Its
task will be that of introducing the pro-
cess of replacing private monopoly pro-
perty by public (social) property. This is
the only way out of both primary and
secondary crisis of capitalism in Canada.

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