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China's role

in mid-east

danger to progressives

BEIRUT — The weekly news-
paper Al Akhbar has published
a letter from Jamil Shatilla, for-
mer leader of a Lebanese organ-
ization known as the Union of
Marxist-Leninist Party Cells.
This organization, which recent-.
ly announced its dissolution,
was a Self-styled supporter of
the Communist Party of China.

Shatilla reveals how direc-
tives from the Communist Party
of China to his organization
were aimed at undermining re-
volutionary activities. ‘China
forced all its supporters,” Sha-
tilla wrote, “to take an openly
and unilaterally hostile position,
not only to the international
Communist movement, which
was to be expected, but to all
progressive and patriotic move-
ments of the world. Objectively,
this did great service to impe-
rialism and the forces of internal
reaction.”

Provocations

He told of how, in the period
of his “near-sightedness,” as he
put it, he maintained close con-
tact with the Chinese embassy
in. Damascus, and several times
journeyed to Peking, where he
met with leaders of the Com-
munist Party of China. It was
here that strategies were map-
ped out for provocations against
the Lebanese Communist Party
and the Soviet Union.

Generously financed by China,
leaflets and brochures were pub-
lished and various groups of a
pro-Chinese nature were formed.

“However,” Shatilla continu-
ed, “just as similar groups in
other areas of the Middle East
died out, so did ours, in spite of
the more-than-adequate financial
resources at our disposal. We
were not Marxist-Leninists, we
were Maoists. And experience
shows that Maoism radically
contradicts Marxism - Leninism.
Our failure in Lebanon is ample
evidence.”

Doubted Peking

In another newspaper inter-
view, Shatilla went on to speak
of how the problems posed by
the Chinese Party affected his
former organization. “It was
obvious,” he said, “that our
main fire was to be directed not
against imperialism, but against
the Communist Party of Leba-
non. Our members often were
doubtful about the soundness of
Peking’s policy, although it
sounded nice and revolutionary.

“When we attempted to dis-
cuss anything with representa-
tives of the Chinese Party, they
refused to consider them, and
told us instead to learn from
Mao’s ‘Little Red Book,’ where,
they. said, all truth was to be
found.

“We became more worried, as
time went on, about the harm-
ful growth of the Mao Tse-tung
cult, realizing that such a phe-
nomenon has nothing to do with
Marxism, but is an aberration.
And the scramble for power
among the leadership, culminat-
ing in Lin Piao’s sudden ‘decline’
—he no longer seems to exist,
also raised questions. We noted
the almose complete disappear-
ance of any Marxist-Leninist

literature in China, and its

substitution by pedantic quo-
tations of Mao.
Collaboration

“But what brought many of
us to break with China was her
shameful role, in open collabor-
ation with U.S. imperialism, in
the India-Pakistan conflict, and
her selling out of the people of
Bangladesh to Pakistani fasc-
ism.”

Shatilla concluded by saying
that in the course of his leaving
the Union of Marxist-Leninist
Party Cells, he had come to ap-
preciate the role of the CPSU,
and the struggle waged by the
international Communist move-
ment against imperialism.

Demonstrators parade
for freedom in Greece

TORONTO — April 22 mark-
ed six years of fascist tyranny
in Greece, and demonstrators
here on April 21 joined with
thousands around the world to
condemn the oppression of the
Greek people by the “colonels.”

Over 50. people marched from
the Greek consulate to City Hall
Square demanding freedom in
Greece. They carried signs -in
both English and Greek de-
manding ‘Restore Democracy in
Greece,” “Down With the Fas-
cist Junta,” -“Free All Greek
Political Prisoners” and “1967-
1973 — Six Years of Tyranny
for Greece.”

In Montreal, over 100 people
gathered in Dominion Square
April 21 in a demonstration call-
ed by the Pan-Hellenic Demo-
cratic Association of Canada.
After a short stay in the Square,
they marched by the U.S. con-
sulate to the Greek consulate.

Signs in English, French and
Greek, demanding “Free Poli-
tical Prisoners,” “Restore Demo-
cracy in Greece,” and “Down
With Fascism” were carried by
the marchers. A petition calling
on Canadians to denounce and
condemn the military dictator-
ship, to demand the release of
all political prisoners, and ex-
pressing solidarity with the anti-
fascist struggle of the Greek

students ‘was circulated and
signed by numerous people.

A leaflet was distributed de-
scribing conditions under the
fascist regime. The dictatorship
of the colonels, it says, “thas
abolished all traces of freedom.
They have trampled on all ele-
mentary human rights. They
have turned the whole country
into a crude military and fascist
concentration camp...

“Thousands of patriots have
been sent into isolation, to jail
and other military prisons. Many
of them are in the process of
slow death, whereas. others
have been simply murdered.”

The leaflet goes on describe
the resistance in Greece by her
people “fighting for their rights
and liberties, for the release of
all political prisoners, for the
overthrow of the military junta,
for a real independent and
democratic Greece.”

Each year accidents claim the
lives of approximately 1,400
Canadian farm and rural resi-
dents.

SEAWAY OPENS
The St. Lawrence Seaway
opened for navigation this year
on March 28th; believed to be
the earliest opening in its his-
tory. ;

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A series of films depicting the
struggles of people throughout
the world for liberation has be-
gun in Toronto. The films, en-
titled “Cinema of Solidarity,”
are being presented by The To-
ronto Committee for the Libe-
ration of Portugal’s African
Colonies (Mozambique, Angola
Guinea) and co-sponsored by
African Studies Commission
and the Latin American Studies
Committee of the International
Studies Program at the Univer-
sity of Toronto.

At Tribune press time, the
first in the series, a Cuban film,
“Battle of the -Ten Million” had
been shown. We are listing the
other seven films, and dates for
Toronto readers:

MAY 6 — “END OF. THE
DIALOGUE” (South Africa,
1969)

Shows the day to day face of
apartheid. Shot by five young
black South African members

of the Pan African Congress the’

film was smuggled out of the
country. Edited in London, it is
an extra-ordinary condemnation

FILMS OF NATIONAL LIBERATION

‘Cinema of Solidarity’ |

of the South African govern-
ment.

MAY 13 — “BLOOD OF THE
CONDOR” (Bolivia)

Winner of 3 International
Awards. About the exploitation
of the Bolivian Indians. The
function of this film is not just
to illustrate misery, but to- de-
nounce the structure of exploit-
ation and power that causes it.

MAY 20 — “CHINA!” (1965)

As seen through the eyes of
Felix Greene who _ travelled
15,000 miles by train, plane, jeep
and camel to make this record.
During his visit Greene inter-
viewed an enormous variety of
people, including Chou En-Lai.

MAY 27 — “THE EARTH IS
OUR MOTHER” (Amerindians,
1971)

The struggle of the Pit River
Indians of Northern California
to save their land from the en-
croachment of public utility and
land development corporations.
Filmed by Robert Mendoza of
the Creek Nation, the film cap-
tures the mood of militancy of
Indian peoples and the continu-
ing struggle to maintain tribal
history and identity. -

JUNE 3 — “FOR A VIET-
NAMESE VIETNAM”

A documentary of life in
North Vietnam during the spring
of 1972—just after Nixon’s visit
to Peking and weeks before the

escalation of the air war against
the DRVN, including bombing
of Hanoi and Haiphong.

JUNE 10 — “MEXICO: THE
FROZEN REVOLUTION”

Winner of 5 International
Awards. A graphic view of the
political reality of Mexican his:
try, including never-before-see?
footage of the uprisings in 1910
14. The dominant lives, ideol-
ogies and_ social forces _ that
have shaped modern Mexico
Madero, Zapata, Villa, Huerta
Caranza—are all here.

JUNE 17 — “A LUTA CON
TINUA” (Mozambique)
A new documentary repor
photographed in the fall of 197
by an Afro-American crew,
the guerilla struggle agains
Portuguese colonialism bein’
waged by the Mozambique Lib:
eration Front (FRELIMO).
and ae
“TAUW” (Senegal)
A fine portrayal of the ue
in which a city immigrant }
cut adrift in an urban setting

“All films are being shown #

8 p.m., The Medical Science
Auditorium on King’s Colles’ —
Road, lower campus, University
of Toronto. Series tickets 3%
$9. Single tickets: $1.50 au
dents and Unemployed $1.29.
All profits will be sent for au
port of the liberation mo
ments in Portugal’s Africa
colonies.

Meir plays Kahane's gameé

By N. REBROV

While Golda Meir’s legal ad-
visers are “studying” the draft
plan submitted by Rabbi Kahane
for driving all Arabs out of the
country, his racist gang has
started putting the design into
effect. Kahane has opened ‘‘emi-
gration. offices” in various
towns, through which Zionists
are organizing the Arabs’ emig-
ration from Israel. Hundreds of
letters are dispatched from there
to. the addresses of ‘“poteritial
emigrants” with a demand to
leave Israel.

Although the government has
verbally condemned Kahane’s
activities as harming ‘relations
between peoples,” there are no
differences whatsoever between
Kahane and the Israeli author-
ities in practice. It suffices to
familiarize oneself with the con-
tent of an official publication
issued by the Israel Army Rab-
binate, by which both Defense
Minister Dayan and Rabbi Ka-
hane unreservedly abide:

Inevitably War

“The Arabs, who are elements
foreign to the essence and des-
tiny of this country, must be

“considered in all respects like

the ancient foreign elements.
Our war with them was just as
inevitable as were our wars
with the nations which ruled
the country during our ancient
colonization. To live here with
the Arabs is impossible because
the Arab turns towards Mecca
to say his prayers whereas we
turn towards Jerusalem. Only
he who turns towards Jerusalem
is the true son of this country.”

Rabbi Kahane’s activities are
a component part of the meas-
ures Tel Aviv’s Zionist govern-
ment has. been methodically tak-
ing against the Arabs. Yaakob
Eine, head of the Department of
Kibbutzim of the Israeli Zionist
Federation, for instance, declar-
ed that before the year was out
the. number of Israeli farming
and paramilitary kibbutzim on

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‘And what is the purpose of your visit?’ .

the occupied territory would in-
crease to 50. Forty-four kib-
butzim have so far been set up

there, these being meant to ef-°

fect a de facto annexation of the
occupied territories. It is plan-
ned to resettle more than 15,000
Jews in the Arab districts of the
port of Eilat and the Gulf of
Aqaba.

On Stolen Land

The Israeli authorities have
also drafted a plan for building
industrial centres in the occu-
pied territories, which will ex-
ist parallel with the farming kib-
butzim. One of such centres is
already going. up near Rafah in
the occupied Gaza strip. Thou-
sands of Arabs have been driven
off their land for the purpose,
and the houses that belonged to
them have been pulled down.

Merciless plunder is under
way, aS a result of which the
fellahs are being deprived of

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closed for the Arabs. Theif ay
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