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Ommunist Party Secretary Luis Corvalan as the campaign to gain
€ telease of the imprisoned leader is stepped up throughout the

World,

Political solution urged

to impasse in Portugal

Political tensions in Portugal
remained severe last week as
formation of the new government
under premier-designate vice-
admiral Azavedo was further
delayed by the attitudes of the
Socialist Party and the Popular
Democratic Party (PPD), both of
which were reportedly insisting on
membership in the new govern-
ment on the basis of representation
won in the April 25 elections for a
constituent assembly.

At the same time, in a unity call
outlined by leader Alvaro Cunhal,
the Portuguese Communist Party
emphasized the need to seek a
political solution to the present
crisis and urged all parties to
reject ‘‘supremacy or hegemony”
and place ‘“‘the revolution’s
superior interests above group

< criteria.”

The PCP unity proposal is of
critical importance in the current
impasse in which the Socialist
Party’s chief ally, the PPD, con-
taining many members of the old
fascist National Assembly, has
sought the complete removal from
politics of the Armed Forces
Movement, the mainspring of the
revolution.

ae Israeli-Egyptian so-called
ik €rim peace agreement will
sity Serve to defuse the military
: ation in the Middle East for a

Ort period. However it will not
Race a stable peace to the Middle

St. Neither will it serve the

Re ae of a just and stable world
8ce. Stripped of all rhetoric it is
Mply a military agreement

llored to serve the political aims
‘S. imperialism in the Middle
pe It will serve to consolidate
Taeli occupation of seized Arab
Tritories,

- ae agreement, arranged by

a broker Henry Kissinger, will
as US. taxpayers some $9-billion
r the next three years in aid and
°ans to Israel and Egypt.
nN exchange for this sum the U.S.
48 secured a military presence in
an Sinai Peninsula through so-
pane _ volunteer _ civilian
nicians manning electronic

| rarly warning systems for both

Sypt and Israel.
perce 1973, an effective system of
. Se-fire and disengagement
ntrol has been effected in the
ace East by United Nations
milite forces and a group of UN
numbe. observers, whose status,
Wa €r and national composition
S determined in keeping with
and fcurity Council agreements
fea decisions. Therefore what
exist; 1S there to replace this
With w= international mechanism
of th Unilateral control by only one
SS aah a power whose pro-
“a e Stand is well known.
ve oe mankind can never
ats that the stationing of U.S.
a lan experts” in South Viet-
U Was the prelude to the savage
aggression against the

Peoples “or es 7
Cambodia. Vietnam, Laos and
ae U.S.-Israeli-Egyptian

., ary agreement by-passes the
Renn Nations, totally ignoring
~ Solution 242 of the UN Security

Council which called for a political
settlement in the Middle East — a
just settlement based on the with-
drawal of Israeli troops from all
occupied territory and recognition
of the legitimate rights of all states
and peoples in the Middle East,

including the Arab people of .

Palestine.

Any agreement in the Middle
East which is not based on the
principled positions of the UN will
not bring stable peace to the
Middle East.

The main thrust of the Israeli-
Egyptian military agreement is
intended to serve, in the first place,
the political aims of U.S. im-
perialism in the Middle East. To
facilitate this the agreement has
been designed to divide the Arab
countries and to isolate the
Palestine Liberation Organization

Middle East agreement
‘tailored to U.S. aims’

— the sole legitimate represen-
tative of the Palestinian people.
Such a course will not succeed in
the long run.

The only course to follow in the
quest for a just and stable peace in
the Middle East advancing the
cause of detente, disarmament and
world peace, is through the Geneva
Conference. Only such a con-
ference, representative of all the
interested parties and states in-
cluding the PLO, can achieve a
political settlement based on the
UN resolutions on the Middle East.

The Communist Part of Canada
calls upon the Government of
Canada to follow such a course. We
further urge the trade union
movement, the New Democratic
Party and all peace-minded
Canadians and their organizations
to join in this demand.

In turn, the Socialist Party has
demanded representation in the
new government on the basis of its
36 percent vote April 25, despite the
fact that these elections were held
solely to elect a constituent
assembly, responsible for drafting
a constitution.

The new government was to have
been named last week but the
apparent intransigence of the SP
and the PPD necessitated a delay.

Attempts by the two parties to
realign Portugal’s future —
roughly along the lines of the
western European capitalist
countries — also received new
impetus from divisions within the
Armed Forces Movement,
divisions which reflect class dif-
ferences within the armed forces.

Originally formed by the
medium-ranking officers serving
in the facist regime’s colonial
wars in Africa, the AFM ex-
perienced a rapid growth among
non-commissioned officers and
enlisted men, particularly in the
Navy where Communists were
instrumental in giving the
movement a socialist direction.

Top ranking officers and
members of the AFM in mainland
Africa were of a different order,
however, and many of the present
divisions are seated here.

The mainland AFM did not
initially include NCOs and enlisted
men and several top-ranking of-
ficers resisted all efforts to
broaden the ranks of the
movement. In addition, the
“‘dynamization”’ program — aimed
at educating the ranks of the ar-
med forces — has not yet been able

’ to reach everyone or has been

subverted by rightist officers.

In the northern region of Por-
tugal, rightist officers were suc-
cessful in ousting the regional
commander, General Corvacho, a
radical, by counselling their troops
to refuse to obey his orders.

- Early last week, the new 23-
member Revolutionary Council of
the AFM clamped tight censorship
on any news pertaining to the AFM
and its constituent bodies,
ostensibly to squelch any rumors
prompted by the divisions within
the movement.

The news censorship has more
ominous overtones, however, when
considered in the context of new
attempts by right wing officers to
circumvent the democratic

by Industry Group

Manufacturing

Utilities
1.7%

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Financial

$32,783,000,000

Foreign investment increasing

Foreign Direct Investment in Canada, 1973

by Area of Ownership
United Kingdom

All Other
Countries

Source: Canada's International Investment Position (67-202)

and compares to rises of six

With all the fuss and furore
about foreign investment in
Canada over the last few years
we can all rest assured that the
federal government is going to
put a stop to it, right?

Well, not exactly. The latest
figures released by Statistics
Canada show that direct foreign
investment in Canada is con-
tinuing, and at a faster rate
than ever. The figures show that
foreign investment within this
country reached $328 billion by
the end of 1973, the latest period
for which information is
available. This is an 11 percent
increase over the 1972 totals,

percent for each of the two
previous years.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 19, 1975—Page 3 _

ALVARO CUNHAL

process within the 240-member
~ Assembly of the AFM and to
prevent the full participation of
many delegates who supported the
policies of Goncalves.

Delegates to the AFM Assembly
from army units in Angola issued a
communique last week stating that
the officers’ delegates in the army
branch were ‘“‘unrepresentative”’
and accused the officers of
manoeuvering to elect ‘‘rightist
conspirators.”

The new AFM Revolutionary
Council which imposed the strict
news censorship, has also been
seen as more rightist in com-
plexion than its predecessor,
raising new concern for the
revolutionary course which Por-
tugal has embarked upon.

That concern was uppermost in
the minds of the leaders of the
Portuguese Communist Party
which stressed the ‘‘real danger”’
of a “‘reactionary advance and the
formation of a right wing govern-
ment which * . . would bring into
question freedom and the other
main achievements of the
revolution, such as nationalization
and land reform.”

General secretary Cunhal
pointed out that splits within the
revolutionary forces have created
the idea that the present crisis is
unresolvable and warned that such
thinking might lead to civil war. He
said that the Communist Party
rejects such an approach and
urged a meeting of
revolutionary forces to seek a
political solution.

The possibility of civil war and
the prospect of further subversion
of the revolutionary process in
Portugal would, of course, be
welcomed by reaction both within
the country and abroad.

Spearheading many of the
counterrevolutionary efforts a-
broad is General Antonio de
Spinola. the right wing former
President of Portugal, now living
in the Paris Sheraton Hotel at the
“expense of ITT while he organizes
his so-called ‘‘Democratic
Movement for the Liberation of
Portugal.”

The Lisbon weekly newspaper
Expresso, run ‘by Francisco Pinto
Balsemao, former deputy to the
fascist National Assembly and now
aleader of the Popular Democratic
Party, recently published an
outline of the general’s efforts on
behalf of reaction.

It noted that Spinola’s
‘diberation movement’ was
headed by former officials of the
old Caetano regime including A.
Galvao, leader of the CIA’s
“Portuguese Liberation Army”,
based in fascist Spain.

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