Vancouver surgeon A. M. Inglis

| M eeting hears report of :

~ recent visit to Vietnam

TORONTO — More than 100
People gathered at the Friends
€eting House June 2 to see a
Slide presentation of Dr. John
Inglis’ recent trip to the Demo-
one Republic. of Vietnam,

Dr. Inglis, a Vancouver ortho-

| Paedic surgeon was invited to
| the DRV as president of the

Canadian Aid to Vietnam Civi-

| lians (CAVC) committee. He has
| headed that organization since
| Its formation in 1966. . -

| The CAVC was formed to

Taise funds for war victims, send

7 Supplies to Vietnam, promote
ftiendship ‘between
| 4nd Vietnamese peoples, work

Canadian

for the carrying out of the 1954

7 Gerieva Peace Agreement, keep
} Canadians informed about the

War atrocities in Vietnam and to
ald all sincere peace efforts in

| te country.

To date the CAVC has raised

| $297,000 in direct jcash aid for
} Vietnam, as well as.sending sup-

Plies of a total worth of

.TORONTO — “There is no

| Wave of the future except social-

Sm. Only in the socialist and

| -°mmunist countries is there

Courage, strength and youth.”
= ardly a newsworthy state-
€nt until one considers the

| SCurce, Pierre Rinfert said ‘it

ae speaking .to the annual
anne of the Canadian Manu-
Cturers Association at the

3 vel York Hotel last week. Rin-

(tt is the former. économic ad-
Ser to Richard Nixon.

She infert was lamenting what

‘| Communist
| Since Party of Canada,

4 Which has heralded this transi-
| Dla

$266,000. Dr. Inglis gave spe-
cial mention to Voice-of Women
(VOW) member Lil Greene, who
has been convener for eight
years of the VOW Knitting Pro-
ject, which knits childrens’
clothes and blankets -for Viet-
nam. :

. Dr. and Mrs. Kay Inglis were

invited to the DRV by the Com- -

mittee for Defence of World
Peace, and spent a week in the
country in November of 1974.
In Hanoi Dr. and Mrs. Inglis
witnessed the reconstruction of
the city, as well as dismantling

of various signs of war, such as -

air raid shelters that had been
built along all the city’s streets.

‘They saw Bach Mai _ hospital, :

80% destroyed by U.S. air raids
in December 1972 and at the
time of their visit almost comp-
letely restored. Bach Mai was

‘the largest medical centre in

Indochina, with more than 1,000
beds. It will be even larger when
recompleted.

Dr. Inglis commented on the

Former Nixon adviser reports
hard times for capitalism

thusiasm in the capitalist coun-
tries . . . Our days‘are limited.”
He then went on to predict an
end to capitalism in 15 years.
Reporters on the scene noted
that Rinfert wasn’t all too happy
about the dreary predictions
that he felt compelled to make.
“And the — situation won't
change,” Rinfert said, looking to
a solution for the quandry, “un-
til other countries look to the
United States for leadership. The
Germans, Frénch and Japanese

openly call the U.S. an unreliable .

long hours Vietnamese people
worked in reconstruction. When
he asked why there were no
signs of recent destruction, he
was told: “We clean it up the
next morning.”

He also noted the large num-

‘ber of children in Hanoi — a

contrast to Jane Fonda’s visit in
1972, when all the children had
been evacuated.

As a doctor himself, he met
with a number of Vietnamese
physicians. (In DRV today there
is one doctor per 2,000 people.
Under French rule there was
one per 200,000.) Many are re-
searching cancer prevention due
to the high incidence of cancer
of the liver in the country as a
result of American defoliant
bombing. He was given as a
momento a one-inch long dart
from an American anti-person-
nell bomb—obviously not made
for attacking industry, but for
maiming and killing civilians.

At a meeting with members of

the ‘Pathet Lao embassy, the‘

Inglises were given a ceremonial
sword commemorating the
2,500th plane shot down over
Laos,

A common sight around the
city were war memorials of the
remains of B-52 bombers.

Dr. and Mrs. Inglis also visit-
ed Taiphong, a major sea port
and one of the most heavily
bombed areas of the country,

and Halong Bay, a coal mining

centre.

The meeting passed unanim-
ously. the -following © motion:
Whereas the end of the war in
Vietnam and. Indochina presents
Canada with an opportunity to
play a constructive role with
Indochina in the future, there-

~ fore be it resolved that we com-

mend and welcome the action

For ten years they have waited for this moment—Le Van Thich
and his mother. Arrested by South. Vietnam’s Saigon regime and
sentenced to death, Thich was taken to the dreaded “tiger cage”
prison island of Con Son.

With the victory of the liberation forces Thich has come back from
the living death of Con Son along with thousands of other. prisoners
freed from the island's concentration camps by the PRG.

And further be it: resolved
that we urge our government to
enter into extended meaningful
aid of all kinds to that ravaged
country and people.

And finally, that all normal!
trade relations be develo

with all haste. Ss
The meeting raised $305.00
for GAVC ==

Sees as the demise of capital- . ally, sometimes an unworthy . of our government in recogniz- Q :
1 ‘ . ’ : gniz:
- and said, “Every time I go. one.” ing the new government of all POS
| lund the world; I see less en- Pity. ed hee the territories of South Vietnam. Bits
C t t d Part d

By JAMES LEECH ©

| ‘World experience in the past

sl century confirms that we
€ living in the era of the tran-
ie from capitalism to social-

A considerable number: of
Nadians know very well that
this country, it has been the
its founding in 1922,
on, explained why it is taking
an and united working peo-
te in the struggle for today’s
“eds and for a socialist future.
the recent CP Central

3 Com ‘
mittee i
(May meeting in Toronto

24-25) members from

i « at the

a
| {toss the country discussed the

ties and tasks in further
ji ding the Communist Party,
mureess and the Young Com-
Unist League. :
meeting called
ersheest” increases in the read-
IP of the press (with some

|, fak Spots), and in: membership

| ang

| cause c

© Party, are on record, be-
thro, “2nadians are beginning to
"OW off the cold war shackles

| Pan Veluate the Communist

"ang e] policies and program,
issue ts campaigns on the vital
hen of concern to all working
~Ple. The desire to get at

genuine solutions to problems
inflicted by the crisis of the

-capitalist system is winning out

over cold-war propaganda, to
the extent that membership in
the Communist Party is rising.

Provision for New Members

But the CP meeting revealed
that the Party is concerned, not
only with increasing the influx,
but with what new members find
when they join. Every effort
must be made, the Communist
leadership determined, to pro-
vide new members with a
thorough understanding of the
science of Marxism-Leninism,
and the working of the Party to
enable them to combat the anti-
working-class barrage.

Because it represents work-
ing-class interests, is an active
battler against racism, and has
as its guide the science of Marx-
ism-Leninism the Communist
Party expresses the full inter-
ests of the working-class and its
allies in the economic, social
and political struggle.

Mass Circulation Press

The need to extend the Party
press is an integral part of the
political work, the Central Com-
mittee stressed. As Party leader
William Kashtan put it: “We

-cannot speak seriously of ex- .

tending the political influence of
the Party and fighting to build a
mass revolutionary party with-
out a mass circulation press.”
' Traditionally and practically,
the press of a Communist Party
is an important organizer as
well as an information medium.
On Party membership and
press readership since the 1974
convention, the Central Com-
mittee said self-critically, “...we
have no reason for complacency
or self-satisfaction, ‘considering
the new moods among the
workers and young people.”
Wide-scale Communist Party re-.
cruiting, it said, is “central to
the entire course. of develop-

‘ment of -the working class and

demccratic movement in the
present period of sharpening
struggle.”

The Communist Party’s scien-
tific basis“allows it to play an
even more decisive role in the
development of society. Changes
in human society come about
according to certain laws. The

. scientific theory based on these

laws embraces economic, histo-
tical and social phenomena. And
an understanding of this, gained
by workers who join the Com-
munist Party, strengthens their
fight for their class interests.

The meeting noted “the high
proportion of young people in
total recruitment,” among men
and women who are joining the

Communist Party because they

are, as the constitution puts it,
“. . . prepared to work for the
achievement of working-class
state power and the building of
a socialist Canada.”

‘The Central Committee and
the Party as a whole have wel-
comed the increasing support
and recruitment from the Italian,
Greek, Cypriot and Portuguese
communities.

A prime need for the party of
the working class is an increas-
ed membership in basic indus-
try, where workers, by the very

t f i i i : Ne
nature of their relationship to | stepped up its use of these

production are the most con-
sistently revolutionary part of
society. In this connection the
Central Committee meeting ap-
plauded tthe formation of a club
of steel workers in Sydney,
Nova Scotia.

Source of Inequality
The Central Committee called
upon members to popularize
“the Communist position on the
woman question . . . Class soci-
ety is the source of women’s
inequality. The emancipation of

women is, therefore, bound up
with the elimination of capital-
ism and its replacement by
socialism in Canada.”

The meeting called attention
to the need for a worker-farmer
alliance “as part of the demo-
cratic, anti-monopoly, and anti-
imperialist alliance” the Com-
munist Party is working for.
The importance of strengthen-
ing Party links among -intellec-
tuals was also stated.

In calling for ‘a continuous
and systematic struggle against
anti-communism and anti-Sov-
ietism,” the Communist Party
Central Committee pointed out
that as part-of the waning of
imperialism,’ imperialism has

weapons against progress.

An intensified campaign to
extend the influence of the Party
press, to build Party member-
ship — as well as to guarantee
the broadest distribution of the
books, “Tim Buck — A Con-
science for Canada,” by Oscar
Ryan, and Tom McEwen’s “The
Forge Glows Red,” — are essen-

_ tials in conducting the fight to

maintain living standards, and
to lay the basis for a socialist

_ Canada. ©

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