[TN the issue of Nov. 8, the
CCF News featured a
lengthy article by the CCF

provincial secretary, Frank
McKenzie, entitled .‘‘Mc-
Kean seeks to resuscitate

the communist party.”
Stripped’ of its wordy verbiage
on alleged CCF aims and poli-
cies, the article is designed to
é6erve one purpose .— that of
slandering the Iabor-Progres-
sive Party. Throughout his
lengthy dithyramb the CCF
provincial secretary utilizes the
turncoat McKean as the “hor-
rible example” of what the LPP
was and is ...a vindication so
to speak of all hitherto official
CCF slanders on the origin and
“being of the Labor-Progressive
Party.

McKenzie would have
served the interest of the CCF
—and labor generally, to much
better purpose, had he indulged
in a frank criticism of CCF
anti-unity policies in recent

A ‘Bolster’ For Bankrupt

Policies ?

months, which have lost seats
and prestige for the CCF from
Nova Scotia to British Colum-
bia; isolationist and narrow
one-sided policies which have
been quite widely rejected by
the organized labor move-
ment, in spite of the CCF lead-
ership’s monotonous repetition
that “we are the political arm
of labor.” When the CCF lead-
ership see nothing but “an LPP-
communist plot” behind every
effort of the people for unity,
and spearhead every public ful-
mination against the Labor-
Progressive Party on this as-
sumption, there is little to dif-
ferentiate between these social-
democratic gentlemen and the
tory spokesmen of reactionary
imperialism, who spearhead

their attacks against the peo-
ple on precisely the same
grounds ... “Moscow plots?”

One.is amazed that at the
end of 1945, the CCF leader-
ship have not learned that it
is their anti-unity anti-Soviet
sectarian opportunism that is
bringing hem down to defeat,
and not the CCF hallucinations
of “LPP dictatorship’? in the
ranks of labor. The CCF lead-

ership—if Mr. McKenzie is to~-

be regarded as such, should be-
gin to realize that their repeat-
ed attacks against the unity
proposals of the LPP, also con-
stitute an attack against - the
entire trade union movement,
which include many workers
whe are also members and sup-
porters of the CCF, also desir-

In The Name Of Stalin

N the early. morning, on November 7,

1945,

by A. Surkhov

as I made my way to Red Square,

through seething crowds of people, I looked into the faces of workers, engineers, boys
from vocational schools, and students hurrying to meeting places of their organiza-

tions. I looked into the faces of infantrymen,

artillerymen,

and at tanks which were

drawn up awaiting the October parade. And I saw in their eyes-the flash that travellers
see when they have overcome the obstacles of a difficult climb.

Moscow had been decorated
in preparation of the gteat
celebration on the Seventh of
November. Perhaps these fes-
tive decorations in 1945 are
more medest than those we re-
member from prewar years.
Today, festive decorations
bring out with exceptional
strength the inner beauty of
the first postwar October cele-
bration. FPerhaps the holiday
dress worn by.the people tak-
ing part in the demonstration
is much more modest than that
of prewar years.
special indescribable beauty
shining in their eyes, in their
smiles, gestures and move-
ments — beauty of a-clear con-
sciousness of their strength
and dignity made Moscow

people this morning beautiful
in a special way.

Four years of war through
which we have passed laid a
special mark on the faces of the
people, a mark of profound and
concentrated thought and feel-
ings.

Ancient and well-known’ Red
Square also appeared in a new
light—it has been made sacred
by twenty-five years of tra-
dition, as a place where people
demonstrate their strength in
days of great revolutionary
festivals.

Red Square today was exact-
ly like we remembered it in
prewar days. Patient and in-
dustrious hands have painted
and removed all traces of cam-
ouflage from houses in the
streets. Under low grey clouds,
as in, former years, glistened
gilded edges of five pointed
ruby stars on the steeples of the
Kremlin towers. Masterly
hands ‘of workmen had covered

There is a -

with gilt glistening caps of the
Belfry of Ivan, and the cupola
of the snow-white Kremlim
church.

Troops awaiting the beginning
of the parade were drawn up
in squares and rectangles: of-
ficers of composite regiments,
of the peoples commissariats
of defense students, of military
academies and other schools, of
infantrymen, borderguards and
seamen—exactly as they stood
five years ago on the occasion
of the twenty-third anniversary
of the October Revolution.

DESPITE the great similarity,

there was a difference. The
faces under the silver grey caps
and busbies bore the mark of

recently experienced excite-
ment in great battles, and their
eyes shone with the fire which
marks the joy of the victor who
knows the full extent of his
strength. The many guns, ready
to take their place in the par-
ade as it marched across the
Square, réminded us of ;those
which we admired before the
war, but on their huge barrels
were triangles, circles and other
hieroglyphs showing the num-
ber of tanks, guns, observation
posts, and pillboxes that these
guns swept off the face of the
earth at Stalingrad, in the great
battle of Orel, on the Dnieper,
on the Vistula, on the Oder,:and
in the lair of the fascist beast,
Berlin. Fresh medal ribbons on
the pole banners that still smelt
of battle smoke remind us very
forcibly of what separates us
from the last prewar October
festival.

When the golden hand of the
ancient clock on the Spassky
Tower drew near ten o’clock,
members of the government
and leaders of the Communist

PACIFIC ADVOCATE — PAGE ie

Party came up the granite
staircases of the Lenin Mau-
soleum. -Every one of us who
was in Moscow onthe unfor-
gettable days of Novem-
ber 1941 involuntarily remem-
bers the_low dull sky over Mos-
cow and the flakes of snow that
fell slowly on the steel hel-
mets of the soldiers, remember-
ed the stern faces of the men
who were going straight from
the parade to the trenches, and
of Stalin’s face turned toward
the soldiers. The unforgettable
parade of November 7, 1941,
showed ewer men and less mil-
itary, equipment than todays’
but in the History of Red
Square, this parade will go down
as one of the greatest and most
magnificent. At the parade
Stalin from the Tribune of
polished Labrador stone told us
of our future victory, victory
that was not yet won. The
sacred and victorious banner
of Lenin lit the way for the bat-
talions of future victory.

DAY as we watched the

regular movements of the
infantry’s, dasring marchpast
of the cavalry, the heavy thun-
der of guns and tanks, our
memories again and again re-
turned to the unforgettable
November morning, and again
and again with pride and re-
spect of the great architect of
our unfilled palace of victory.

Thousands of portraits of
him swayed over the heads of
columns of demonstrators. His
name was pronounced by a mil-
lion mouths was loud above the
strains of orchestras, above the
songs and mighty never-ending
shouts. of hurrahs. His clear

Continued on Page 11
See IN THE Name of STALIN

by Tom McEwen

ous of unity, and see in this-
unity something considerably
broader and greater than the
CCF.

A party which aims to be
“the socialist party of all the
workingclass” as set forth by
McKenzie, must accept one
simple axiom—that of learn-
ing to unite all sections of the
workingclass who may not al-
together feel that the CCF is
the “alpha and omega” of all
things, or that McKenzie or
Winch epitomize the brain-
trust of all Socialist thought. It
is extremely doubtful if the CCF
leadership can ever learn that
simple axiom of workingclass
victory—the need of unity.

RANK McKENZIE’S article -

has conveniently’ sloughed
over these basic problems of
labor unity and action. It is no
accident of history—nor is it
exclusive to. British Columbia,
that the forces of Social De-
mocracy (in this case the CCF)
periodically reach into the gut-
ter to gather up all the cast-
off renegade elements from the
Communist movement to bol-
ster up their opportunistic
scramble for political position
and leadership; to spread con-
fusion in the ranks of the work-
ingelass, and last but not least
to replace reasoned argument
and logic by slander and dis-
tortion against the party which
formulates its policies and pro-
gram upon the granite founda-
tion of Marxism-Leninism.

One could recite a long list
of such cases, both in Can-
ada and abroad to show where
those enemy elements who man-
aged to smuggle themselves into
the revolutionary Socialist
movement; who plotted inner-

party disruption and dissention ~

under one pretext or another,
invariably found themselves in
the slippery gutter of counter-
revolution and _ reaction, and
welcomed by the political op-
portunists of social democracy.
Posing as great “Marxists” and
as defenders of Marxism and
the exploited proletariat, these
renegade elements were,
prior to their exposure, loud-
est in their condemnation of
social- democratic opportunism
and betrayal of workingclass in-
terests. Following their expul-
sion, resultant upon the vigil-
ance and bolshevik criticism of
a Marxist-Leninist party, such
elements toboggan right into
the, camp and arms of social
democracy. There they are
touted as “authorities” by the
official spokesmen of social de-

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mocracy against
vanguard of the jp
ejected them:
“Thus McKenzis
the renegade Meck
latter’s caricature |
munist party,” a han
somewhat soiled y.
tempt to disqualify
Progressive Party aj q
fide workers’ party. =
discovers further
unions of B.C. ha
‘turbulent and wn
dition for a log ti
the reason for thi
state are now clar
lying fulminations
pricipled renegade,
can - see, accordin
Kenzie, that the
unity to win jobs, hi
security, peace, is j
critical trick of the |
eered through (an |
eaucratic top leaders
unions. All this is ¢%
McKenzie in his 4_
ie dissertation on
eclipse of a self-sty] :
ist.” Shades of :
sire of European 5g
eracy; his Canadian

slander. Kautsky ta
of his respectable g
cratic followers - i z
were some renegade —
were best to leave in! +
Frank. McKenzie 3
Herr Kautsky, and ¢ :
out—to ‘prove” tha”
is a party of social
and that the LPP is-
to social democrats! —
@
N the CCF |
are reduced toi -
seeking the aid of} -
McKeans, et al, ini;
erous fulminations {
policies and progr —
LPP, it merely esta
weakness of their |
Marxist leaders |
Kenzie’s “polemic” ¢ }|
Kean’s “communist ;
pure eyewash and ©
such. His real pul
greet the existence ¢
earicature of an ho
to discredit the LE
gets. that those w.-
the gutter become
habitants of tha
sphere.

It is not a case i:
seeks to resuscitat:
munist party,” but t
zie seeks to resuscit;
to bolster up the bai.
unity anti-Soviet
splitting policies os
So-runs the path a |
mocracy; in theo ;
utopia pointing w)
practice, heading fi
ter, to gather all ti
renegades to its bos:
ready to serve the «—
action and counter: |

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