WORLD SCENE

NIXON HOME BATTLE PLAN

WASHINGTON — An ominous home-front battle plan was re-
vealed by President Nixon to Washington Star-News reporter G. D.
Horner two days before the election. It was published on Nov. 9.

Nixon said if re-elected he would cut military spending mini-
mally but cuts in program of direct benefit to people’s social needs
would be extensive.

His plan to reverse the “big government trend” begun in 1932
under Roosevelt, with “proper support” from Congress, would en-
able him to carry out “more significant reform than any adminis-
eas since Franklin Roosevelt’s in 1932; butjin a different direc-
t Sa

During the New Deal progressive legislation such as the Wagner
Act opened the way for mass trade union organization. Social secur-
ity, unemployment compensation and other major legislation was
won by the people in hard-fought battles against entrenched big
business interests.

Nixon promised to lead the U.S. out of the “spiritual crisis” of
the 1960s when ‘“‘so many Americans lost faith in their country, in
the American system, in their country’s foreign policy.”

PAKISTAN DUMPS SEATO
NEW DELHI — Official Indian circles greeted Pakistan’s with-
drawal from the U.S.-sponsored Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza-
tion as a further blow against war blocs. SEATO, set up in 1954 on
the NATO model, now has only one mainland Southeast Asian coun-
try, Thailand.

PRICES KEEP RISING IN ISRAEL

JERUSALEM — Israeli retail prices rose 23% in the 18 months
from mid-1970 through 1971. Average hourly wages went up by

17%.
In April, 1972, the Bank of Israel reported that over-all prices
rose 13.4% in 1971.

GENERAL MOTORS OUSTS TOYOTA

SEOUL — General Motors is building autos in South Korea in
a joint venture with the Shinjin Motor Company. The enterprise is
known as General Motors Korea. Shinjin is a leading South
Korean auto producer, with Japanese connections. It has been pro-
ducing Corona and Crown cars since 1966 under an arrangement
with Toyota. The GM-Shinjin deal was considered a coup for Gen-
eral Motots because it resulted in ousting Toyota from South Korea.

INDIANS WIN PROMISE OF TASK FORCE

WASHINGTON — Leonard Garment, a White House consultant,
said Nov. 9 that a 12-man task force would be appointed to study
Indian problems, which centre around countless broken treaties
dealing with territorial rights and the recent upsurge of police bru-
tality against Indians.

The announcement came as Indians from the 500-strong Caravan
ended their week-old occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The Caravan left on schedule despite government claims to have
negotiated them out.

Charles T. Trimble, an Ogwala Sioux and executive director of
the National Congress of American Indians, denounced the Admi-
nistration for exploiting the damage to windows, rugs, typewriters
and office furniture. The Administration, declared Trimble, is seek-
ing to divert attention from the “common cause of justice for all
“Indian people.” :

Trimble sharply dissociated the NCAI from “destruction of pro-
perty” but demanded that the NCAI be allowed to serve on any
committee to assess damages in view of the staggering sums stated
in broadcasts.

WORKERS FORM UNITED FRONT

LA PAZ — Bolivia’s eight biggest trade unions, including the
Industrial Workers’ Federation (25,000 members), announced Nov.
10 in La Paz the formation of a united front to reorganize the work-
ers’ movement and halt government interference in trade union
affairs.

The new Bolivian united workers’ front put forward as its mini-
mum program a demand that all workers’ wages immediately be
raised to meet the increased cost of living; that prices be frozen

and guarantees given against dismissals; that the right to strike

be respected, and all imprisoned trade unionists released.

Bolivia is a land-locked Andean republic of five million, which
has common borders with Peru, Chile, Brazil and Paraguay. In
August, 1971, a pro-U.S. military coup put Col. (now Pres.) Banzer
in power.

SYRIANS DOWN ISRAELI RAID PLANES

DAMASCUS — Israel, which never acknowledges its own air
losses in its continuing aggression against its neighbors, Lebanon
and Syria, on Nov. 9 lost four planes which had violated Syrian
airspace. Two fighter-bombers were shot down over Syrian-held
territory by MIG-21 interceptors and two other Israeli planes crash-
ed near the border.

Following an artillery duel on the ground, Israeli Defense Minis-
ter Moshe Dayan toured the Israeli settlements, built on Syrian
territory, and promised the settlers ‘‘military and financial aid” for
their losses. The two settlements were hit by an estimated 3,000
shells after Israeli forces commenced firing on Syrian positions.
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ings from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and other Soviet galleries are being exhibited in |
localities. In photo above, Natalia Mochoruk is explaining to the younger set at the Ukrainian a {|
Temple in Toronto I. Repin’s famous picture of Zaporozhian Cossacks writing a letter to

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Epic hattle

of the Clyde

By JOHN WILLIAMSON

LONDON — The epic strug-
gle of the workers of the Upper
Clyde Shipyards to prevent a
closedown is told in the newly
published paperback by Wm.
Thompson and Finlay Hart.

Its conclusion is that these ex-
periences “have driven home in
practice the important political
lesson that socialism, a society
without bosses, is not only feas-
ible but long overdue.”

Throughout 15 months the
Tory government tried every
known trick to divide the work-
ers, but the Shop Stewards
Committee, led by Communists
Jimmy Reid and James Airlie,
were always one step ahead of
them. Various Trotskyist groups
joined in denouncing the “work-
in” tactic as creating illusions
and alternately denouncing the
shop stewards leaders for ‘‘be-
trayal” of the workers.

Towards the end, after the
American oil rig Marathon Co.
of Texas had bought the Clyde-
bank yard, it threatened to
break the agreement entered
into with the trade unions and
shop stewards. Marathon presi-
dent. Wayne Harbin came thun-
dering into Scotland, denounc-
ing the “Reds” and Communist
Councillor Jimmy Reid in par-
ticular and threatening to with-
draw. It was at the same mo-
ment that the Boilermakers, in-
fluenced temporarily by Right-
wing union officials trying to
stir up separatist craft barriers,
wavered and withdrew for a
week from the united Shop
Stewards Committee.

But by calm and skilful tac-
tics, unity was soon restored
and Mr. Harbin soon changed his
tune, sat down with the “ter-
rible Reds” and final agreement
was reached.

Shop stewards’ leader Jimmy
Reid in recommending the agree-
ment to the men said the orig-
inal objectives of saving all four
yards and all jobs had been
achieved.

With a unanimous acceptance
of the agreement, there is no
dcubt that this UCS victory has
brought new qualities and mean-
ing to the determination of the
trade union and labor movement
to fight for “the right to work.”

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Palestinians protest
against persecution |

OTTAWA — A statement was
presented at the Embassy of
the Federal Republic of Germany
on Nov. 3 by representatives of
the Emergency Committee for
Palestinian Rights, which was
formed by Canadian citizens of
both Arab and non-Arab origins
to publicize the situation of the
Palestinian people.

The statement read, in part:

“We are concerned about re-
ports of violations of the civil
rights of Arab students and
workers, especially Palestinians,
who are residents of West Ger-
many.

Reports of persecution, of re-
fusal to admit students, of the
banning of organizations, and of
the arrest and deportation of
numerous Palestinians without
recourse to basic legal rights,
lead us to protest against these
incursions of fundamental hu-
man rights, and to ask for a full
explanation of West German
policy and practice.

“While recognizing the hum-
anity displayed in West Ger-
many’s release of the Palestinian
commandos, and impressed by
the remark of your Ambassador
in Israel—‘We are not in a state
of war, and my government
must act in accordance with the
constitution and _ international
law’ — we are still disturbed
because we do not think that it
is consistent with the reports of
the violence to human rights

NEW FACES OF ANTI-COMMUNISM

In the November issue of WORLD MARXIST REVIEW, G
Vieira of the CP of Colombia discusses the changed forms in W
imperialism continues to propagate anti-communism. “Impert
and its agents,” he writes, “are guided in their daily practices
the old maxim: ‘divide and rule.’ But in our time it has taken es ”
somewhat different, purely pragmatic formula: ‘divide to survive: le

He points out how hard it is for Right révisionists to s™ they
their “ideological wares” into the Communist parties.
often camouflage them in “Left” phrases. The end result is
ing of Right and “Left” opportunist ideology, with ultfa—
elements acting as the main vehicles of subversive, splitting ac of
ties within the revolutionary movement. He explains the 100
ultra-Leftism as arising from the radicalization of the middle §
and petty-bourgeois elements who join the anti-imperialist an ities
capitalist sruggle but who waver when they meet with di cu
and either go to extremes or give vent to their disappointment in

Other articles in the same issue of WMR: What is happening
Chile?—by Luis Corvalan; The Common Market—by John & ni
50th anniversary of the USSR; Asia and Africa—new state in isid-
tional-liberation movement; contradictions under socialism; ~~

of state-monopoly capitalism.

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