Greek Communist Party Reviews
Activity--Criticizes Mistakes

The Communist Party of Greece has made a

detailed criticism’ of its own mistakes

during the past year, we learned this week. The criticism was made at a plenary meeting

of its leading -body
The program, as reported by the
Londen weekly, World News and
Views, dealt with the struggle
against fascism in Greece and
means to assure ‘normal demo-
cratic development.’

Serious errors, the meeting
states, were made last spring,
before Greece’s liberation, when
the party agreed to arrange-
ments between the resistance
forces and the exile government
at Cairo. The Lebanon agree-
ment—which provided for estab-
lishment of a government of na-
tional unity—‘‘did not answer to
‘a definite proportion of the forces
of either side and did not ade-
quately guarantee the. realiza-
tion of national unity.”

This criticism implies that
Greek resistance forces should
have followed a bolder path more
like Marshal Tito-in Yugoslavia.

Although EAM-ELAS liberat-
ed four-fifths “of Greece before
the British landing, and many
freed territories were adminis-
tered by democratically elected
local governments, no central
governmental authority ever was
chosen by all the people as in
the case of Yugoslavia.
ACCEPTED FALSE PARITY

Thus, in entering agreement
with the discredited Cairo exiles,
EAM accepted a phony sort of
parity. Had EAM been boldcc,
national unity would have been
on as firm a footing as-Yugoslav
unity, which is based on domin-
ant resistance- forces and in
which Tito is unquestionably the
central figure.

Acceptance of the Lebanon
agreement was followed by es-
tablishment .of a government in
which Communists participated.
Communist ministers even signed
anti-popular financial laws of the
Papandreou . government, and
this, too, was scored as a “right-
ist” error. .

Even more serious errors, mil-
itary and political, but of a
“leftist” character, were made
during the December, 1944, con:
flict.

“They were mainly due to .un-
derestimating the reactionary
forces, both in the interior and
abroad; to overestimating our
potentials; and also to the lack
of sufficient flexibility.

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held April 5-10 where an immediate program for Greece was outlined.

missed for arriving at an agree-
ment with British military
authorities while it was possible
to obtain better terms than those
of the Varkiza agreement, which

came after a military defeat in
Athens.

“The arrest of unarmed citi-
zens, even as a measure of de-
fense to counterbalance the tak-
ing of hostages by Papandreou
‘and Gen. Scubie, was a serious
political mistake.”

This gave reaction an excuse
to slander the resistance move-
ment while concealing its own
crimes.

The plenary meeting regarded
the Varkiza agreement and the
Crimea agreement as a “serious
political support for the struggle
against fascism and for normal
democratic development.’ Forma-
tion of a representative govern-
ment, and arrival of an inter-Al-
lied Commission (as projected at
Yalta) are. “indispensable to
securing peace, a genuine plebis-
cite and free elections of a con-
stituent assembly.”

The Communists called on al!
democrats to unite, asserting
that reconstruction should be
based on the interests of the
people.

POLICY OUTLINED

The Party’s national
was defined as follows:

1. The independence and terri-
torial integrity of Greece to be
obtained through peaceful settle-
ment of all differences with
neighboring countries and bro-
therly collaboration with all
Balkan peoples.

2. Fulfillment of Greek nation-
al claims on the basis of the
prindiple of self-determination of
peoples. _

8. Full political equality of all
national minorities.

4. Foreign policy, based upon
sincere close relations with
Great Britain, the USSR, USA,
France, as well as with all neigh-
bor Balkan\peoples. Any unilat-
eral orientation of foreign policy
would be disastrous to real na-
tional interests. . :

policy

[WA Plans Survey Of

interior Operations

Arrangements were completed
last week by District Officers of
the IWA for an extensive re-
search job of the interior -opera-
tions. This will include a survey
of all.camps, mills and woodwork-
ing plants in the Okanagan-East
Kootenay-Kamloops and North-
ern Interior areas; dealing with
wages, hours, piece work rates,
average straight time hourly
earnings, financial and contrac-
tual relationships of various op-
erations, as well as’ a study of
where the products are being
marketed. “

A tour of interior points last
week by Jack Greenall, District
Secretary confirmed reports that
wage conditions in the interior
are cause for concern. Newly es-
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desire for a change is the fact
that many of these sub-contrac-
tors called “employers” by the
main company, have made ap-
plications to join the IWA

“Hitlerism. began with the il
lict greed of selfish ‘industrial-

said Chaplain Torrance
Phelps (above) at the Cali-
fornia assembly. Big business
hobbyists turned red.

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French Seamen
Enter Protest

NEW YORK A protest
against “the representation of
the Committe of French Ship-
owners in the midst of the
French Merchant Marine’ in
New York was registered by
over 450 French seamen and of-
ficers at a meeting of the French
Seamen’s Union here this week.
The meeting demanded that a
committee be appointed to in-
quire into a series of “unfortun-
ate’ errors” made by the Mer-
chant Marine office’ here in the
interest of shipowners rather
than the French people and that
“those responsible be punished.”

Nationalization of the Mer-
chant Marine and extension of
the vote to seamen serving out-
side France were also demanded
by the méeting, following a call
by Jean Laurain, French sea-

men’s representative here, for
rational elections in France.
Other speakers’ stressed -the
identity of interest between
officers and seamen, both of
whom are represented in the
union. The seamen also set forth
their demands for improved
wages and conditions and de-

manded the application of an|
international seamen’s charter.

| Throughout the island:

Lefts Sco
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IsJand of Martinique. t
demonstrated the sam:
leftward trend shown -
cent French municipal
In Fort de France, Mz
capital, 29 Communi.
elected to the 32-man ©
cil. Out of 13,000 vote
capital, a majority. of |
ballots for leftwing ¢:

cialist party carried |
munes, the Radical-Sc
and the Communists ‘3!
land is headed by a fF
pointed governor but ©
its administration an¢
laws are the same as
France.

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is 250,000, of whom only
white. Virtually all th
the island is owned by —
families and is devotee
plantations, which are ,
by the French governr
workers, many of whor
being organized into t
General Confederation —
(CGT), earn betwen {|
franes ($1 to $1.80) pe

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make rum since the ret.
latter is higher. This
been used as an effect
of preventing strik€ acti |
workers. Sugar must be,
quickly and if the wor
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ready, the threat to —
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