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In the plants and Mees ‘i the farms and cam- PS thepenetings and in:the Moy of © is desultory discus- whe de S€ various views. wtcteg ue On the road ahead ny of on the Communist iy its peda in preparation te Convention next ye Mem of import not only al w a of the party but Study; © Pondering over pred ine to find the road ple, Canada and our at qj Mea Uiscussi ‘ents. oung eis: Ping ity We Statement by the iyeoseg % €tship of policies tein or. the immediate gene for peace, for tern’, “OClal and demo- tame 8 Of the workers Quy, 0 aor Canadian unity tyes ri ae recognition of minatic t to national self- ly dence. or Canadian in- hy he Unit 4 for labor uni- hyoStherj Y of the Left, and Tati, "8 together of a de- atk wralition to swing 0 alctign. “8 in a progres- On is being con- two basic docu- e Con, 2. 4, the redraft of the wee pig MB 3 |Which way forward? be an exaggera- . pe * Program of the Communist Party of Canada which con- tains the essence of the 50 years of the party’s mastery of scien- tific socialism—Marxism-Lenin- ism — and its experience in the many-sided struggles in Canada, and the quintessence of the international experience of the Communist and workers move- ment — to shed light on the road to be travelled in the years to come to achieve an antli- monopoly coalition government and to open the doors to the transition to a socialist revolu- tion. The Communist Party has printed both those documents and has decided to publish a discussion bulletin as the vehicle for a frank and critical exchange of views before final formulations are agreed upon ~at the convention. That discussion will be of tremendous value to all for- ward-looking Canadians. Nei- their the struggle for immediate demands, nor for long-range ob- jectives can be won by any one group by itself. It has to be done by the workers, masses, and that means iby the united action of people who may hold varying views on many questions but reconcile those differences to join toge- ther in doing a necessary job. And that demands — discus- sion! Perhaps done by the “cold war” was to prevent—by ‘the gag Or by pre- judice—of Communist views from being freely presented to and debated by the public. The problems we face today are too crucial to permit either the gag or erie a ee i i e ; a full discussion 0 ow) Penh: ¥ lished Ouver 4 Sub ae North SCription Rote: Editor —MAURICE RUSH weekly at Ford Bidg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hostings Se + B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. On, All other 4 South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. SOuntrtes, $7.00 one year Second class mail registration number 1560. weseteseseatgiaasnetatenetet® aceite LEE by the - the greatest harm No “Two Chinas” Prime Minister Trudeau did right when he announced that Canada would not play President Nixon’s “two Chi- nas” game in the United Nations. There is only one China, and that’s the Peo- -ple’s Republic of China. Taiwan, a province of China, is occupied by U.S. forces with the puppet Chiang Kai-shek regime there to mask this flagrant for- eign military occupation. People’s China should be seated in the United Nations and the UN Securi- ty Council from which it has been un- lawfully excluded for so long by U.S. pressure. Whatever “deals” Nixon may be trying to: cook up to maintain U.S. imperialist intervention in Asia, it is right and proper for Canada to refuse beforehand to be party to them. In this regard Tory leader Robert Stanfield’s “mission to China” (and his haste to report to U.S. presidential adviser Kis- singer on his return) was a shameful lackey’s performance, while Mr. Tru- deau’s support of Stanfield’s defence of the U.S. war in Korea demonstrates how contradictory and vacillating as yet are the government’s initial steps to steer away from complete satellite subservience to Washington. It is good that Canada is not going to play Nixon’s “two Chinas” game in the United Nations. It would be better still if Canada, not only as a member of the world community but specifically as a NATO partner of the US. which has been an accomplice in the latter’s imperialist aggressions, acted at once and decisively to compel Mr. Nixon to take up the proposals made in Paris for an end to the slaughter in Indo- china. Whatever the manoeuvres of the United States may be in regard to Tai- wan, and whatever the topic of the projected Nixon-Peking talks turns out to be, the “dirty war” of U.S. imperial- igm in Indochina is continuing and only the withdrawal of American forces from there will create the conditions for a stable peace and a democratic solution to the problems in that area by the peoples of Southeast Asia them- selves. Having recognized People’s China, ‘having signed the Protocol of Friend- ‘» with the Soviet Union (which has Sane been followed by measures of cooperation on several fronts), and now having refused to adopt a “two Chinas” Canada is duty-bound to continue oe this road of independent foreign policy-making, the key and most urgent step of which is to act to put a stop to U.S. aggression in Indochina. ‘s heartening to learn that a num- bar of Canadian MP’s—not only the members of the NDP, but two Conser- vatives’ as well — have signified their support of the petition to the U.S. Sen- ate to end the war this year. similar statement by the prime : iter would be a telling blow for eace. The Canadian people want and would welcome such a move, Mr. Tru- deau. A phoney theory Since the end of World War Two we have heard several versions of a theory that was invented as a cover-up for U.S. imperialist aggression by equat- ing it with the Soviet Union’s fight for peace, presenting this as a “power struggle” between “giant super-states.” Along with this we had chatter about a “third force,” about “unity of small nations” and so forth. Some sort of record for cynicism was reached several years ago when Canada was touted as “leader of the small nations in the United Nations” at the very time it was doing its thing as powder monkey for U.S. aggression in Vietnam. What sort of a theory is ‘this that lumps states together according to their size irrespective of whether they are imperialist or socialist, democratic or fascist, militarist or peaceful? Are Por- tugal and Poland, Israel and Jordan, Rhodesia and Kenya, Spain and Chile, to name but a few, all in the same boat? What childish nonsense! : What sort of a theory is this that lumps together as “super-powers” the U.S., which invades Vietnam, and the Soviet Union, which helps the people of Vietnam to defend themselves? The country of the most ruthless imperial- ism and the land where the people are building the most just society in his- tory? What criminal mendacity! No, the division in the world is be- tween the imperialist war-makers and oppressors of other peoples on the one hand, big and small, and the peace- makers and champions of national and social freedom on the other, both big and small. It is unfortunate that Peking’s anti- Sovietism, also expressed in terms of this “theory,” prevents it from playing the great role for peace and progress which it could and should play. The latest example of this was China’s re- jection of the Soviet proposal for a meeting of the nuclear powers to deal with nuclear disarmament by the dema- gogic excuse that this matter should be decided by all the states (“small na- tions”), and that what was wanted was a promise by each of the nuclear pow- ers shat it wouldn’t use such weapons first! The “theory” is phony and the prac- tice based on it does not help the cause of peace—and that’s putting it mildly. Danger signals We are witnessing a pattern of rising police brutality and arrogant behavior across the country. We see wanton beating up and mass arrests of strikers, young people, demonstrators from coast to coast. This is not accidental— it has been planned, the police have been given special training and wea- pons for action against the people. They call it “riot control” and in every case they bring the riot with them or the Burkeites or some other ultras will be pleased to supply it... Democratic Canadians cannot be complacent in face of this rising threat. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1971—PAGE 3