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"So long, partner!”
EGYPTIAN COMMUNIST PARTY REFOUNDED

tian. Communist Party is quite
aware of the heavy responsibil-
ities it is assuming.

; Main Tasks ‘

The main tasks our Party set
for itself includes:

e Complete liberation of the
Arab territories occupied in
1967; fulfillment of the legitim-
ate rights of the Palestinian peo-
ple and securing their absolute
right to self-determination in
their homeland; rejection of, and
struggle against, unilateral, par-
tial and capitulating solutions;

e Repulsing imperialist cons-
piracies aiming at including our
country in the imperialist plans,
isolating it-from the Arab anti-
imperialist and- anti - Zionist
movement and “opening its
doors” to imperialist capital for
the purpose of restoring its do-
mination of the key sectors of
our economy; ae

e Struggle against rightist,

reactionary plots serving the im-

is year.

sae] tanks pull back in Sinai desert as part of an agreement
lige tie ovet and Israel when the Suez Canal was reopened

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BOOK REVIEW

Fred Wright's cartoons
entertaining, educating

So long partner; by Fred

Wright; United Electrical Radio -

and Machine Workers of Ameri-
ca; $3.50. |

“To those who find time to
laugh in the face of adversity’.
This is Fred Wright's dedication
of a collection of his best car-
toons published by the union
with which he has had a 36 year
association, the United Electrical
Radio and Machine Workers of
America (UE).

His work for the UE News over
the years continues to be an in-
dispensible part of labor jour-
nalism. and the fact that it has
been ‘picked up by countless

trade union, labor and political

publications not only in the U.S.
and Canada, but also in Italy,
the Soviet Union, Great Britain
and many other countries testi-
fies to this.

The main reason for this. uni-
versal popularity lies in the fact

~ that working people immediately

identify with the reality of the

‘Outlines key tasks

perialist plans and aiming at

turning back ‘economic develop-’

ment, retrogression of the pro-

“gressive economic and social’ ~

achievements and launching an
offensive against the hard-won
gains of the workers and farm-
ers;

_e Completion of the tasks of
the national-democratic revolu-
tion and advancing on the road
of social progress to socialism;

e Struggle for an _ overall
democratic transformation se-
curing the broadest democratic
rights for our people’s masses;

e Struggle for the satisfaction

of everyday economic demands -

of the workers, farmers, revolu-
tionary intellectuals and toiling
masses} ;

e Struggle for an Arab unity
possessing progressive national
democratic content and based on
democratic foundations; :

e Repulsing the attempts of
imperialism and home reaction
to weaken and frustrate the
militant alliance with the soeial-
ist camp, headed by the Soviet
Union and struggle for consolid-

ating friendship and cooperation

with the Soviet Union and the
other socialist countries.

Internationalist Solidarity
_ Our Party is aware that the
main guarantee for successfully
solving these tasks lies in furth-
er cohesion with the masses. of
the working class and ‘toilers,
more cooperation with all patri-
otic and democratic forces. in
Egypt and more solidarity head-
ed by Lenin’s great party, the

“Communist Party of the Soviet

Union, on the basis of Marxism-
Leninism and proletarian inter-
nationalism.

Our Party’ will be subject,
during its advance, to repression

.and blows from its class ene-

mies. It is, however, confident

of its capacity to continue its
~ struggle and to grow up, regard-

less of the severe blows it may
receive or the sacrifices it may
make. '

shop floor experience which
shines through all of his draw-
ings: 22

‘So long partner’ is both the
title of the book and of the lead
cartoon in the collection and like
all of his work it amusingly but
accurately depicts the boss-work-
er relationship which every work-
er sooner or later experiences —

At the root of all of Wright's -

amusing situations is the social,
economic and political system
which his workers are tied in

with. His humour not only enter-_

tains but it educates. -~
‘So long partner’ is published
by the UE in the USA and can

be obtained by ordering it |

through your local progressive

a

that of direct opposition. store. It costs $3.50 —M.P.

a Okay, Codpiece, Let’s see what she will |
do wide open...” :

WORLD NEWS

FRANCO TO RESIGN, MADRID PRESS HINTS

MADRID — The Madrid press hinted dictator Franco is about
to resign in favor of his designated successor, Prince Juan Carlos
de Borbon. This speculation appeared last week in Madrid’s leading
newspapers and appeared to receive some support when the Prince,
a 28-year-old playboy abruptly cut short his vacation on Majorca,
the Mediterranean island, and flew to La Coruna aboard a special
Spanish Air Force jet. en

La Coruna, in northwest Spain, is where the decrepit, 82-year-old
fascist military dictator is spending his vacation. A Spanish govern-
ment spokesman in Madrid refused to confirm or deny the rumors
about Franco.

‘If Franco does step down, it will probably be to try to head off an.
armed forces revolt, informed Spanish sources said. Existence of
a “Democratic Military Union” comprising a large percentage of
Spanish officers has recently been confirmed. The DMU: members
‘are loyal to Don Juan, 62, the father of Prince Juan Carlos. Don
Juan is the rightful head of the Spanish royal house; his followers

_ are part of the Democratic Council set up in Paris last year.

. Six pears ago, Franco named Prince Juan Carlos as his successor,
ignoring the wishes of Don Juan. In mid-June of this year, from
his place of exile in Estoril, Portugal, Don Juan issued a call for

-Spain’s armed forces to seize power and to restore him to the
throne as the means of guaranteeing democracy in Spain. Franco:
replied by issuing an order forbidding Don Juan ever to set foot
in Spain. Sens -

TREATY TO BAN ENVIRONMENTAL WARFARE
GENEVA — A draft treaty banning environmental warfare has
nearly been completed by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The
draft treaty will almost certainly be presented to the 30-nation
Geneva Disarmament Conference before it concludes its summer
session August 29. Banned items under the treaty would include
‘climate modification, ocean modification, artificial earthquake pro-

duction, and disruption of the atmospheric ozone layer, all for mili- °

tary purposes. The draft treaty probably will be discussed at this
fall’s session of the United Nations General Assembly. :

PROTEST STRIKE IN PORTUGAL A SUCCESS
LISBON — Hundreds of thousands of Portuguese workers in
the Lisbon-Setubal area participated in a 30-minute strike Aug. 19.

The strike was called by the national trade union federation, Inter-

syndical. . ;

Capitalist news media portrayed the strike as a failure, nowhere
mentioning the number of workers who took part. Instead they
confined coverage to a few isolated areas where anti-government
groups attempted to disrupt the strike.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 29, 1975—Page 7

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