= << aoarr owen ono. LAWYERS RAISE CONCERN OVER SALISBURY RECOGNITION _ BRUSSELS — The International Association of Democratic Lawyers has expressed concern over the U.S. intention of lifting Commercial and economic sanctions against the puppet government in Odesia. The lawyers’ group also condemned statements by the itcher government in Britain that it will recognize the puppet regime Of Muzorewa and called for international adherence to the UN- Sponsored boycott. UNCTAD TO EXTEND ASSISTANCE TO PLO MANILA — The United Nations Conference on Trade and De- Velopment (UNCTAD) meeting here has voted overwhelmingly to €xtend assistance to the Palestine Liberation Organization and other Tation movements. The resolution, opposed by the U.S. and Israel, Passed by 91-16. The ‘conference also defeated a U.S. motion to Pressure oil producing states to supply more oil to developed capitalist Countries. JAPAN AID TO POL POT RAISES CRITICISM _ TOYKO — Progressive circles in Japan have attacked the Japanese _ 80vernment’s continued aid to the,deposed Pol Pot dictatorship in puchea which was overthrown in January. Press reports indicate Japan is planning to expand aid to Pol Pot. NEW YORK —- Demonstrators protested outside the El Salvador con- Sulate here against the state of siege imposed in that Central American Country. More than 80 people have been killed by police recently during 88 demonstrations against the dictatorship. 6th Non-Aligned Summit to tackle major world problems ‘COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The draft agenda for the 6th Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries was released by the Coordinating Bureau here last week on the eve of the Bureau’s Ministerial meeting. The 6th Summit Conference, to be held in September in Hava- na, Cuba, will be attended by more than 60 states and national - liberation movements, all full members of the movement. The 15-point draft agenda in- cludes an analysis of the world political and economic situation, non-aligned strategy in interna- tional politics, strengthening of solidarity and cooperation among the non-aligned, the venue of the 7th Summit and other matters. The draft specifically analyzes the following key topics and areas: South. Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, the apartheid system and South Africa and Rhodesian aggression against front line states; FIDEL CASTRO The Western Sahara issue; The Indian Ocean as a zone of peace; Reinforcement of the process of detente and its extension to all regions; The Korean issue; The situation of tension in Southeast Asia; Disarmament and international security — especially the applica- tion of the decisions of the UN Special Assembly on Disarma- ment. Special attention at the 6th Summit will be given to the world economic picture and discussions under way in the United Nations on the achievement of a new The situation in the Middle imternational economic order. East; The issue of Palestine rights; Racial discrimination and ra- cism; The situation in Latin America; The Cyprus situation; Proposals by the UN for the 3rd Development Decade will be examined along with the impor- tance of disarmament for economic growth. Fifteen Cuban ministers, per- sonal envoys of Cuban Premier The Mediterraneanasazoneof Fidel Castro, began delivering in- peace and cooperation; ° vitations March 29. General strike grips Dominica DOMINICA — This Carib- - bean island is still closed down by an effective strike involving all major. unions demanding the res- ignation of the Patrick John government and UN-supervised elections. The strike movement has con- tinued following the May 29 shooting deaths of four persons and. wounding*of nine others by Defence Force troops. The attack took place against a mass de- monstration of between 12-20,000 in the capital, called to protest the passage of laws to ban strikes and impose press censorship. The strike was backed by the Carib-: bean Congress of Labor which has called for a boycott of goods in and out of the country. On May 30, more than 30,000 persons marched in the funeral of the murdered four. The strike, which includes the left and demo- cratic forces as well as the unions, places three major demands: Resignation of the John government; establishment of a provisional government pending UN-supervised elections; the re- turn to normal of the economy and compensation to the strikers. They are also demanding the removal of the anti-strike and press censorship bills passed by the government. On this issue, one government minister res- igned May 31. The Patrick John regime, in power since 1972, was attacked for signing an agreement in Feb- ruary which gave some 45 square miles of the island to a Texas- based company to be used as a free port. Following mass opposi- tion, the agreement was can- celled, but dissatisfaction. con- tinued leading to the anti-strike and censorship bills and the re- sulting events. The John government is also suspected of having close ties with South Africa which is using the island as a base for the arms trade and training of mercenaries. It is also hostile to the new revolu- tionary government in near-by Grenada. A group of Dominicans de- monstrated at the UN in New York and are scheduled to meet with UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim this week. Super-corporations and competition Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World A friend in B.C. writes: ‘‘It might be a 800d thing if the big corporations swal- lowed each other up until only a few Ontrolled everything without competi- ton. We would really get soaked and it st might make people rebel. What do You think?” * a a R A short answer would be — not much. “or, its source is rooted in the notion : Prevalent in some quarters of ‘‘the worse better”. Furthermore, sober exami- Nation of this notion in the light of - Spitalist reality will disclose that change Just won’t happen that way. : poly, of which the giant corpora- oe are the highest expression, does not ’ away with competition. Rather, Monopoly exists side by side with com- - Petition. In fact competition is intensified it is waged between giants. It is SUt-throat in character with no holds bar- Ted and the devil take the hindmost. ‘ * * * ‘Notion that a few giant super- The “Otporations can eliminate competition fvades and obscures the profound con- Tadictions of monopoly both at home abroad in the international arena. | ateag what stimulates competition een the giants of finance capital are Prantic profits. And the. source of all Mofit is the surplus value created (value over and above of that required for wages, etc.) created by the collective labor of the working people, for that labor creates all material value. Who gets what share of the total surplus value created by the labor of the working people is the source of all the principal contradictions of the capitalist system, which is now in the highest and final stage of its development. The first contradiction is that between the - capitalist and the workers, closely re-_ lated to the contradiction between monopoly and the people as a whole. On a world scale this principal contradiction is expressed between imperialism and socialism, closely related to the con- tradiction between imperialism and all anti-imperialist forces. z * The second principal contradiction is that which exists between the capitalists themselves for an ever bigger share of the surplus value created by the working people. In our times that contradiction finds its chief expression in the rivalries between the top circles of finance capital ~ both domestically and on an inter- national scale. It is expressed also in the ‘ battle between the giant and smaller cor- porations and small independent firms as the latter fight for their very survival — against the cannibalistic appetities of the monopolists. ; _The fiercest rivalries exist in the inter- national arena as the various imperialist states, in the interests of their ‘‘own”’ imperialist bourgeoisie, manoeuvre, scheme, knock together various al- — liances for the purpose of engaging in trade wars and spheres of influence, etc., double deal, and engage in subversive and espionage activities to destabilize the economic and political situations in many areas across the world. For in- stance in Chile, the Middle East, South- em Africa, tc. And when considered necessary light the fires of war. In these predatory schemes the trojan horses of the more powerful imperialist states are the multi-national corporations. aad The concentration of capital, the means of production and marketing into - fewer and fewer hands not only intensi- fies monopolistic and imperialistic rival- ries (competition) but increases the de- gree of exploitation of the working people. Not only on the job but also ’ through cutbacks in public social ser- vices, inflation and taxation hikes, all of which lower living standards thus cheapening the cost (to the capitalists) of reproducing labor power and, con- sequently boosting profits. Taking all of the above into considera- tion and bearing in mind that monopdély and competition are laws of capitalist development, it becomes self-evident that the laws will only become inopera- tive when the capitalist system is ended and replaced by a new social system — socialism. There is no other way. oo * * Further, to advocate the notion of the “‘worse the better’ in order that workers and all working people will be con- strained to rebel is to promote apathy, undermine militancy, social, class and political consciousness amongst the very: forces one hopes will rebel. For, there is no guarantee that such a rebellion will happen. That is, in the real sense, i.e., resulting in the overthrow of monopoly power and its replacement by the dem- ocratic power of the people with the working class as its core. Forthermore, the course of class struggle has its own laws and develops its own momentum, which does not accommodate to blueprints. But rather responds to the contradictions within society which demand solution. More on this next week. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 15, 1979—Page 5