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The agreement was signed by Otto Win- t of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (right) and Aleides Leal of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the | Enem; : — SOViet intellectuals Y from within. mo Our @ eon €nt concept which I8 Donut «8 intensively export ) edly j enzation of the suppos- | teal artier ale need for every 1) the gta to be in Opposition to Made to f ,l€ attempt is being lati et upon us for emu- Not o y eee! of a writer who itt of ¢ Es. totally indepen- les but Society in which he Self in bea also places him- Nd that ea to that society & of the inevitane can understand honest le opposition of an =“ rr OBressive writer or d gt bourgeois society . ie on vio- » the power of > and “ ™an by aa exploitation of OWe Soke , Ver i : eke by surre anti - communism Ca de tiously juggling ine »Peration © effect a “min- ttability Y extending the or ether the honest alist o.4 5. PPOsition to Oleg der) to the other that 4, » 2Part, to the sys- : Shea On social jus- amg: Sch wor’ ™anipulating ‘in ords as “freedom” italist yoke, anti-communist 4 subtle many other cases ity to sponge a Notions and em in such ee coush they seem Sound at seems a cus- iamettcr, US: they “etrically opposite Social meaning, | simila P af,’ OMmbini F to prion ng | and i < 7 oS based on the Anticpatible ae by man are : though a World the indi. has a bank a splinter r : i. S of violence b % commodit © bought and old. The anti-commuiists — just think of it, comrades! — take the trouble to “improve social- ism,” again hoping that the people of the socialist world, with their organic constant urge for more and more new com- munist accomplishments, — will fail to realize at once that by “perfection” the bourgeois “well-wishers” imply something that is diametrically opposite to socialism, that is to say, capital- ist restoration. , Anti-communism tries might and main to foist upon us its own concept of “freedom.” But in this it is interested in only one freedom, the freedom to propagate anti-Sovietism, to undermine the socialist system. The people, comrades, we have today who are “concerned” for the freedom of creativ- ity, for the freedom of the writer and artist in the socialist world! Among them are the chiefs of the CIA, the “Voice of America,” the “Voice of Israel,” “Free Europe,” the BBC, the British Times, the American New York Times, the South- African racialists, and the Por- tuguese colonialists. They, poor chaps can’t sleep for wanting to bring us “freedom”! But what sort of freedom can the capital- ist world, which is going through such a harsh and cruel spiritual and political crisis, of- fer us? Freedom for violence and cruelty, for racialism and pornography, for Zionism and neofascism? I can certainly say that these are commodities that our “benefactors” abroad indeed have more than enough of. However, comrades, our fathers and grandfathers accomplished the Great Revolution and we fought fascism for the freedom and independence of our coun- try and are now building the bright edifice of communism, not to let the turgid torrents of pernicious bourgeois propagan- da wash away its foundations! And in this connection this remark. It is to be regretted that in the struggle against ant- Communist propaganda we of the ideological front not infre- quently restrict ourselves Ppri- marily to repulsing it, to expos- ing its false nature. But it ever behooves us to put them, that is our class enemies, ever 1n the position of the defending side. The Soviet Union has deliver- ed 50,000 doses. of anti-cholera vaccine to Nigeria free of charge. Stop arms sale. to the racists parties demand The delegations of the Com- munist. and Workers’ Parties of Australia, Canada, Ceylon, Great Britain, Guyana, India, New Zealand, South Africa, the USA and Ireland, attending the 24th CPSU Congress, met to discuss the decision made by Britain’s Conservative govern- ment to resume the sale of arms to the South African Republic. The representatives of these parties made a statement in which they condemned the de- livery of arms to the SAR, as a way of strengthening Vorster’s terrorist racialist regime and of rendering support to the inhu- man policy of apartheid pursued by the SAR government. The participants in the meet- ing declared that the actions of the British government were de- signed to undermine the just national-liberation struggle in the SAR and the movement for democracy and freedom spread- ing throughout South Africa. They stressed that the building up of the SAR’s military poten- tial and the policy and actions of its government were a ser- ious menace to peace and secur- ity on the entire African con- tinent and to peace all over the world. The delegates came out with the appeal to intensify in each of their countries the struggle for stopping arms deliveries to the SAR. They appealed to ren- der still greater moral support and material assistance to the national-liberation | movements of the peoples of the SAR, Mozambique, Angola, Guinea (Bissau), Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and Namibia (Southwest Africa). Leipzig Fair LEIPZIG — Half a million visitors from 90 countries at- tended the 806th international Leipzig Spring Fair in the GDR and this biggest centre of east- west trade resulted in expanded business relations between socialist and capitalist coun- tries. Rene Shoe By MIKE DAVIDOW MOSCOW — Typical of the spirit of the discussion at the 24th CPSU congress were the remarks of Proskurin, a sturdy steel worker from the steel mill in Zaporozhe in the Ukraine. He strode vigorously to the plat- form. “We feel like masters of our enterprise,” he told his fellow delegates. “{ am 31 and have. worked 11 years at the factory,” he began. “Here I found my way of life. I had only six years school when I went to work in the factory. My comrades helped me and en- couraged me to advance myself. “I finished secondary school, then special technical _school, and now I am a technician in iron and steel production. There many like me.” Seine ‘he 23rd Congress, five years ago, there has been'a 22% increase in the number of work- ers who get such education. Proskurin, ue eae ed to Brez nev’s moOV ee about the contribu- Lie about Riel Tory smear VANCOUVER — _ Journalist and author Ben Swankey on March 16 sent the following let- ter to the editor of The Toronto Telegram. When I was in Toronto last week friends who know of my interest in Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont, and the Saskatchewan Rebellion of 1885, drew my at- tention to the FLASHBACK column in the March 11, 1971 issue of your paper by Bob Bowman entitled ‘Louis Riel at- tempted to blackmail Ottawa.” The article alleges that Riel was simply using the Metis in an effort to extract $35,000 from Ottawa for himself and that he promised to leave Canada as soon as his claim was settled. This statement is in direct con- tradiction to all the information I have on the subject and, in my opinion, constitutes a complete- ly unjustified slander against Riel. The facts, as I know them, are: 1. In Sept. 1884 Louis Riel -vas Ooffered.a seat on the North- West Council by a group includ- ing James Forget, representing Lieutenant Governor Dewdney, Bishop Grandin and Fathers Andre, Fourmond, and Vegre- ville, the later four representing the Catholic clergy. Riel declined, saying: “You want to corrupt me and separ- ate me from my people. You will not succeed.” J 2. Riel never made any secret of the fact that he had a finan- cial claim against the federal government arising out of the Red River Rebellion of 1869-70. Father Andre in Dec. 1884 offer- ed to intercede on his behalf. Riel immediately took the matter up with the Metis Council and it was agreed that he should ask for $35,000 and that it would be used to buy a printing plant and establish a newspaper to serve the cause of the Metis and the people of the North- West. Riel made enquiries and apparently found such a plant and told Father Andre of his plans. When Father Andre pressed him for an answer as to his continued leadership of the Metis, he replied: tions in peace as well as in war made by the veterans of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazis. He and many of his fellow workers, he said, were born too late to take part in the war, but, he added, “we feel bound to the glorious feats of our fathers and a sacred duty to continue their cause. “Veteran workers have de- scribed to us the terrible devas- tation of our steel plant and our city. “We will never forget that Leonid Brezhnev, after return- ing from the front, was the party secretary in Zaporozhe. With his name is linked the rebirth and development of Zaporozhe.” Proskurin continued, “Since the 23rd Congress, led by our 3,000 Communists, our plant im- proved efficiency 28% and in- creased profits 39%. Our youth produced 600,000 tons of steel above schedule, and our gift to . the 24th Congress will be 5.2 million tons of steel. “We constructed 70,000 square exposed “As to the question of the Metis, it will not be the same _yecause the money will give us a force which will greatly strengthen our situation.” After that the question of in- -demnity was not again raised by either of the government or the clegry. f These’ facts are explained in detail in the book “Louis Riel” by W. M. Davidson, former edi- tor of the Calgary Albertan, who interviewed Napoleon Nault, a leading participant in these, events, in Havre, Montana in 1927. 3. The letters from govern- ment official in the North-West to Macdonald expressing con- temptuous confidence that with $5,000 or $6,000 they could bribe Riel and his followers re- flected their own political out- look at a time when bribery was rampant and politicians cheap to buy. They were judg- ing others by themselves. In Riel they were up against a different type of political leader whom they were incapable of understanding. 4. Mr. Bowman says: “Mac- donald told the House of Com- mons that the Canadian gov- ernment could not stoop to ac- cepting the demands of a dan- gerous blackmailer. Riel might be willing to sell himself, but the government could not afford to buy him.” I haven’t seen this particular statement but it would be in keeping with Macdonald’s two- faced attitude with regard to Riel. Time and again he promis- ed amnesty to him and each time broke his promise. Macdon- ald’s record in dealing with grievances of the people of the Northwest—the Metis, Indians and white settlers—was an un- savory one and no credit to a prime minister of Canada. His failure to take remedial action and his decision to suppress the reform movement by force were the direct cause of the Rebellion of 1885. And if he took a holier- than-thou attitude to bribery in the Housefi it was only because his own attempts at bribery had failed. meters of living space (more than 2,000 apartments), five new dining rooms, two rest homes on the Azov Sea, and a clinic, and changed our city beyond recognition.” ‘Proskurin then turned to one of the main tasks stressed by Brezhnev, the task of inculcat- ing all workers and the entire Soviet society with a Communist attitude toward labor. Proskurin pointed out that the overwhelming majority of his fellow workers were conscien- tious and work with great spirit and initiative. “It is they who created all these miracles,” he said. “But we have some who are fly-by-nights, and who go from one job to another.” He noted that proposals have been made by some to enact new laws to deal with this problem. . “We don’t need new. laws,” he said. “‘We have the necessary laws. They need to be better implemented. Above all, we need to imbue every single worker with the knowledge and feeling and sense of responsibility that we are masters of our country.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE—tRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1971—PAGE 13