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06 earl remaaneagnee

‘COMMUNIST PARTY STATEMENT

Warning of

A. Chile-style coup is being

4 patched for Argentina by the

CIA: and its local agents, the
Communist Party of Argentina
pas warned.
A long editorial in the party’s
daily, Nuestra Palabra, called on
the people to be on the alert and
ready to fight the. coup through
mass mobilization.

It called on workers, peasants,
students and all on the left to
unite without discrimination
to meet the threat of the coup

rs.
ee scious and organized mass
action” can defeat the threat of
the coup and push forward the
revolutionary movement within
the country, it added.
: Stumbling Block

With the recent illness of the

esident, Juan Peron, rumor,
Ppeculation and alarm had
“spread.

rialist plans had formed
a Gambling block in the ‘way
of stable work by _the Peron
overnment, which in its turn
was encouraging the prepara-
tions for the coup by its vacilla-
tion. :
“Delay in meeting . deadlines
in its program,
shortcomings in its measures to
fight dependence” of Argentina
on the U.S. were just part of
the government's mistakes.

slowness and .

Argentina's president Juan Peron.

The reactionary right is work-
ing feverishly in the provinces
in a step-by step repetition of
the build-up to the coup in
Chile, the paper charged.

Bomb Attacks

As in Chile, the high cost of
living is being used as a propa-
ganda weapon by the right in its
fight to win over the vacillating
middle classes to its point of
view.

Anti-Marxist purges in Peron’s
Justicialist movement are an-
other part of the right wing’s

political offensive leading up to

a coup.
Similar- pointers can be seen
in the passing of reactionary

coup in Argentina

laws, bomb attacks on Commu-
nist Party and Peronist offices
and the proliferation of armed
groups of the ultra-right which
“act with absolute impunity.”

Right-wing military leader
Rear-Admiral Oldo Bachman had
recently called for right-wing
unity against what he described
as “subversion” and for the de-
fence of ‘our old and traditional
customs and our Western, Chris-
tian way of life,” the paper
added,

Coup Makers

Like him there are many mili-
tary men and civilians “of goril-
la origin” who are planning to
reimpose the old military dic-
tatorship with an undated image.

Military and civilian leaders
‘of the right-wing of the Peronist
movement are also aiming to
continue the right-wing trend in
policies which are being impos-
ed from some sectors in power
in the Peronist movement, thus
aiding the coup makers.

During the presidential elec-
tions early this summer the
Communists. backed the Peron
candidacy as part of the policy
of winning mass unity against
imperialism.

Since the elections they have
campaigned to win the Peronist
movement to consistent progres-
sive policies and defeat the
right. (Prensa Latina)

In September 1923 the Bul-
garian workers and peasants
rose in arms against the fascist
_ dictatorship. This uprising,
whose 50th anniversary was
one of the repercussions that
had set in throughout the coun-
try after the First World War.
Resistance grew against the
militarist fascist coup d'etat of
June 9, 1923 which had over-
thrown the government of the
Bulgarian Agrarian. Party head-
ed by Alexander Stamboliiski,
whose progressive reforms had
threatened the very foundations
of bourgeois rule.

Immediately ,after the defeat
of the uprising, the honest crea-
tive intelligentsia gathe re d
round progressive magazines
and papers, which either openly

or in a veiled form because of

the censorship, expressed their
unity with the people, their
grief for the thousands of vic-
tims, and their faith in future

victory.
_ Considered one of the most

vivid poetical works on the up-
rising was the poem, September,
by Geo Milev (1895-1925). A
literary critic, essayist, public-
ist, playwright and artist, Geo
Milev was an innovator in his
creative work because of the
way he treated artistic senti-
ment. :

The fascist outrages commit-
ted after 1923 freed him com-
pletely of aesthetic deviations
and directed him towards clear-
cut social problems. He thus
took his stand in civic positions
that were astonishing in their
daring.

People’s Wrath

September is a poem about
the people’s wrath, about his-
toric sublimity of the mass
people’s movement (expressed
also _as a spontaneous rebellion
of the masses and as a.conscious
and elevated attitude of heroic
personalities). The uprising is

depicted as a radical destruction .

of. the age-old social, moral, re-
ligious and everyday foundations

Canadians

In the autumn of 1973, the

Bulgarian people, as well as
commemorating the September
1923 uprising of workers and
peasants, celebrated the fact
that 29 years ago they, with
the Soviet forces advancing to
Berlin, drove the fascists out of
Bulgaria, and began a social-
ist way of life.

Canadians, Mike and Jean
Comishin, from Thunder Bay,

celebration and, on behalf of
the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Canada,
laid a wreath at the mauso-
leum of Georgi Dimitrov, lead-
ing figure of the Bulgarian
and international workers’ and
Communist movements.

took part in the anniversary ©

in Bulgaria

of life and as a decisive urge
towards a new — harmonious
and free — human existence.
Beyond the  people’s. wrath,
drowned in blood, there is an-
other new kind of wrath, ac-
cording to the position taken by
the poet, a wrath which is an
expression of faith in the future,
in the abilities of the people and
in their victory:
' September .

All that the poets and philo-

sophers wrote

Shall come true!

—No God! No master!

The month of September shall

turn into May!

The life that men lead

From that day shall proceed

Ever upward, upward:

Earth shall be Heaven —

It shall!

Because of his courageous
poetry and the- steadfast civic
stand he had taken, Geo Milev
was abducted by the fascist
hangmen during the fresh out-
burst of outrages after April
1925, when there were many in-
tellectuals among the thousands
of victims. ;

The poet was killed after bru-
tal torture. He now ranks among
the Bulgarian poets who died in
the prime of their lives for the
freedom of their people. His
poem “September” became the
prologue of the poetry of the
new Bulgarian revolution in Sep-
- tember 1944,

No energy crisis
for Pentagon

WASHINGTON — According
to AP-Reuters, the U.S. oil
shortage doesn’t extend as far
as the Pentagon. While millions
of U.S. workers are being asked
to lower their heating, 22 -oil
companies have been ordered to
give the Pentagon priority over
civilian users for an extra 19.7
million barrels between .now

~and the end of 1973, U.S. de-
fence department officials said.

Congress statements on
Indochina, disarmament

At the close of the World
Congress of Peace Forces, held
in Moscow, Oct. 25-29, the Con-
gress issued a communique sum-
ming up its work. With the
Communique were statements
from the 14 Commissions which
met during the Congress. We
present here the statement from
the Commissions on Disarma-
ment and Indochina.

a a a

DISARMAMENT

The atmosphere of detente
must be used for the practical
settlement of the problem of
ending the arms race and achiev-
ing disarmament. Developing
simultaneously, the process of

. international detente and of dis-

armement must stimulate each
other. From steps to curb and
limit the arms race it is neces-
sary to go over to the practical
reduction of armaments and,
first and foremost, to outlawing
weapons of mass annihilation,
with the longer-term aim of
general and complete disarma-
ment.

For this purpose it is neces-
sary: E

—that the treaties and agree-
ments on disarmament already
signed, and whose importance
is self-evident, should be strictly
fulfilled and that they should be
subscribed to by countries that
have not yet signed or ratified
them; .

—that all the five nuclear
powers should sign a pact on the
non-use of force, containing the
commitment to ban nuclear
weapons in perpetuity, reduce
their military spending, employ
part of the released funds for
aiding the peoples of the devel-
cping countries, ensure the ter-
mination of nuclear tests in all
spheres, and take further partial
steps to end the nuclear-missile
race and the improvement of
nuclear missiles, and to achieve
disarmament;

—that the proposals for the
creation of nuclear free zones,
the dismantling of foreign mili-
tary bases and a ban on the sit-
ing cf nuclear weapons on fore-

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UNITED NATIONS—A “new
stage in the organized demand
of , non-governmental, popular
organizations to dismantle mili-
tary blocs everywhere in the
world,” that is how Sean Mc-
Bride, Irish ex:Foreign Minister
described the recent World Con-
grezs of Peace Forces in Mos-
cow. :

McBride, a vice-president of
the International Committee of
the Peace Congress, added, “Up
to now détente has been conduc-
ted at the governmental level to
reduce world tensions. Now we
see the determination of popu-
lar organizations to put an end

to the balance of terror that be-
gan with the Cold War.”
McBride appeared here witha
delegation that met with Kurt
Waldheim. United Nations sec-
retary general, to present the
recommendations of the 14 Com-

find balance

ign territory should be imple-
‘mented in practice;

—that a World Disarmament
Conference should be held as
soon as possible and the success
of the talks now under way on
reducing armaments and armed
forces in Europe should be en-

sured.
INDOCHINA

The victory of the Vietnam-
ese people, recorded in the Paris
Agreement, and the victory of
the people of Laos, recorded in
the Agreement and Protocol on
Laos, are major successes of the
patriotic forces, which compel-
led U.S.. imperialism to make
substantial concessions, and
cleared the way to a just poli-
tical settlement in that part of
the world.

However, the common enemy
of these peoples has not aban-
doned his designs; the war in
Cambodia continues to rage;

with U.S. assistance the Saigon ©

administration and the reaction-
ary forces of Laos are doing

. everything to delay the_enforce-

ment of the signed agreements.
It is necessary to work for the

strict and scrupulous observance
of the Paris and Vietnamese
agreements by all the parties.
The military operations against
areas controlled by the Provi-
sional Revolutionary Govern-
ment of the Republic of South
Vietnam must be completely ter-
minated; the political prisoners
held by the Saigon authorities
must be released and turned
over to the parties concerned.
Moreover, in view of the grav-
ity of the present situation it is
necessary to demand, in accord-
ance with the principles and
aims of the political program of
the United National Front and
the Royal Government of Natio-
nal Unity of Cambodia, that the
USA and its satellites should
immediately cease their acts of
aggression and interference in
the internal affairs of Cambodia.
The utmost support must be
rendered to the peoples of Laos,
Cambodia and Vietnam who,
under different conditions, are

fighting for independence and

peace.

of terror

missions that convened during
the Congress. ‘
Another member of the dele-
gation, Romesh Chandra, secre-
tary general of the World Peace
Council, which initiated the con-
gress, called it “unprecedented
in- human history.” He stressed
that the reports from the com-
missions on Détente, the Middle
East, Indochina, the National
Liberation Movement, and Chile,

‘ among others, represented the

thinking of “the broadest array
of organizations and political
forces.”

Multi-nationals

Oscar Alende, president of
the Popular Revolutionary Al-
liance of Argentina, former gov-
ernor of Buenos Aires, and a
delegate from the Congress,
warned against the “imperialis-
tic incursions of multi-national
corporations into the underdeve-
loped sections of the world.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1973—PAGE 9

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