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Toronto Star

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10) 1972

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ON PAGE FOR
_Deaths,
Memorials

Cubans never infiltrated

nat big. business press is
“intone away again, this time
“bers ard to the trials of mem-
“Btou Of a subversive under-
ahd. 8roup in Czechoslovakia.
is is not an isolated in-
€ but a constant feature of
Paganda, whether it’s some-
Mite Who smuggled a smelly
, aty opus” out of Moscow,

ie posing as a_ tourist

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i St conspirators in Yugo-
therey ond we may be sure
Our fp be new “sensations” on
80 ine pages again and again
Media © as capitalists boss the

| leno be amusing to con-
| ; € Tory anti-Communist
tion tds bristling with indigna-
try «cause in a socialist coun-
Pelleg oe” Communists are ex-
ad ¢ You’d think they’d be
Usted See good Communists

ja : ould be comical to read
| Tight “8! organ demanding the
Bain ae “dissidents” to plot
Cech the socialist system in
| Page Sslovakia on the same
boom Where it demands that the
Cana eS lowered on strikers in
- ts ie and labor be deprived of
sy * Won rights.
{ unte Ould be entertaining to
for « ppose their crocodile tears
{ sm , “Mocracy” under social-
a their equanimity over
Aten enter in Indochina, the
“Dayjg' <2 frame-up of Angela
| Beggin’ Persecution of pro-
‘ ada and minorities in
States °Md other capitalist

for
Virt;

Out of the Ukraine, or .

Socialist law and order

What we must never forget
is that the working people shed

oceans -of blood and fought for

decades in those socialist coun-
tries to ‘establish their power
and to create ‘the widest de-
mocracy for the working people
to build the new society, but
not to permit foreign imperial-
ists and domestic counter-revo-
lutionaries to undermine their
efforts and restore the old re-
gimes. This is written into their
Constitutions and embodied in
their laws.

That’s an elementary prin-
ciple, borne out by every peo-
ple’s revolution, whether achiev-
ed through an armed uprising
or parliamentary means, from
the Paris Commune of over a
century ago to the life-and-
death struggle in Chile at this
very time.

It means that having taken
over the reins of power and
started to build the new society
without classes or’ oppressioti of
any kind, the workers’ state
provides the broadest possible

facilities and encouragement

for the people to discuss and
decide all their affairs — econ-
omy, culture, social welfare,
policy, law and order, etc. But
the state has the responsibility
at the same time to provied no
forum for those individuals who
would restore capitalism and to
suppress any who conspire

against the socialist’ system.

That’s socialist law and order.

On-no account do safeguards
taken by the socialist states
against misuse of power mean
that they will cease to provide
the fullest democracy to the
working people and at the same
time give no license to their
enemies. (J.W.)

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Edttorial Comment...

The big give-away
an election issue

NDP leader David Lewis has receiv-
ed wide publicity on his election cam-
paign speech attacking the federal gov-
ernment for loading the tax burden on
the people while freeloading the mono-
polies. The Liberal Toronto Daily Star

headlined it, the Conservative Globe.

and Mail gave it almost a whole page,
the media across the country gave it
big play.

Mr. Lewis ‘made a. forceful attack
and presented convincing argument.
The Communist Party candidates have

-been campaigning on this issue for

some months, linking it with the fight
for building Canada and providing jobs.
The Waffle group in the NDP has also
been exposing these give-aways, partic-
ularly as they affect U.S.-based firms.
There is no doubt that this is one of
those democratic, anti-monopoly issues

that can and should be taken up by all

working people, all Canadian patriots
and democrats.
The NDP leader, however, accom-

- panies his presentation with arguments

that call for closer scrutiny. When he
says it’s one of the foremost election
issues, and moreover holds that “taxa-
tion is one of the major instruments for
redistributing income,” he is stretch-
ing a point. Taxation reform is certain-
ly needed, but it alone won’t basically
change the direction Canada is travel-
ling, it won’t make the turn to build
our economy in the interests of the
Canadian people. It isn’t the fundamen-
tal question.

The fact that Mr. Lewis-not only op-
poses unity of the left-wing forces
around an anti-monopoly program, but
is cracking down on the left in his own
party, while cautioning the workers to

be “reasonable” in their demands, con-

tinues to hinder the struggle to achieve
such commendable immediate aims as
tax reform, let alone make a powerful

impact on Canadian politics driving

them in the direction of progress. Mr.
Lewis’s outlook still is that of “improv-

ing” capitalism, not doing away with it.

Unity should be forged in the process
of the present election campaign itself
both to win as many seats for the Left
as possible at the polls and to fashion
the irresistable democracy of the work-
ing people that will compel big business

-and its politicians to give way.

Tax reform is one of the issues to
be fought for and won, together with
other reforms in the interests of the
Canadian people, in all-round struggle

to curb monopoly and to move forward |

to do away with monopoly rule and
build a truly independent and prosper-
ous people’s Canada.

Lesson of Manitoba

Manitoba Industry ~ Minister Len
Evans appears to be on a ‘collision

course with the National Farmer’s

Union. The NDP government in Mani-
toba has been trying to persuade Kraft
Foods to build a $15 million rapeseed
crushing plant. in the western part of
the province. Kraft Foods and all its
products are being boycotted by the

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National Farmer’s Union backed by the

‘labor movement, in an attempt by the

farmers to get better prices for their
produce from Kraft. The NDP cabinet
member says he feels that “the building
of a plant in Brandon is more impor-
tant to Manitoba than any feud be-
tween Kraft and the union.”

The Manitoba NDP government al-
ready has had to: back down on anti-
labor practices, was voted down by the
majority of its own supporters in the
legislature on. the private school issue,
and is now running head-on into the
farmers...

The Manitoba experience demon-
strates that the election of the NDP
does not solve the people’s problems,
that representation of Communists is
necessary — and that the action of the
people themselves is the decisive force.

Labor nationalism

As the paper of the movement that
for more than half a century has cham-
pioned the cause of. Canadian trade
union autonomy and independence, we
have the right to say a few plain truths
regarding some arguments recently ad-
vanced on behalf of “labor national-
ism.” :

Labor is fundamentally internation-
alist. Labor’s ideal is to unite the work-
ing men and women of every tongue,
color and creed on the basis of class
solidarity, of brotherhood, both within
each country and in the whole world.
The principle of an independent labor
movement in Canada, deciding its own
affairs, is not designed to divide the
workers of our country and those of
the U.S., but to strengthen that unity
in the only way it can be strong — as
equal, independent entities.

It is a queer nationalism, to say the
least, that bases itself on fostering en-
mity between the workers of our two
countries and their trade unions. It is
a suspect nationalism that promotes
division and antagonism between “in-
ternational” and “national” unions in
Canada itself, instead of seeking paths
to unity. And it is blind nationalism to
invest “national” unions ipso facto with
superior virtue when we have seen
plenty of scabby outfits parading as
“national,” when labor unity and work-
ers’ interests are the touchstone in each
situation. —

Internationalism and national inde-
pendence are two sides of the same
medal, for labor as for the country.

Rogues gallery

The Tory image is emerging clear as
the election nears. Cold-blooded Rob-
ert Stanfield, who is reputed to have
a glass eye which can be told because
it has more human warmth than the
real one; hot-blooded John Diefenbaker
whose ideas are already up to those of
the Middle Ages; ee Kupiak
wanted for mass murder in the Uk-
raine, together with tycoon Roman,

‘manufacturer Jelinek, antedeluvian

monster Lubor J. Zink and assorted
other “freedom fighters” who fled from
Europe; Fuehrer of Action Canada
Hellyer; and now being wooed — Wag-
ner, the hanging judge of Quebec,

Oh what a collection of scoundrels!
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