The recent visit of the Queen of Greece to England has stirred up a

storm in the Old Country. She was

greeted with demonstrations de-

manding release of political prisoners. Picture above shows the

Queen (left) as Princess Frederika

Louise of Hanover, dressed ina

Nazi uniform. With her are her two brothers also dressed in the uni-
form of the Nazi youth organization.

YOUTH

Cont'd. from pg. 7

What is needed is a dyna-
mic plan to develop our indus-
try and our economy in gen-
eral to put our young people
_ to work. We cannot accept the
concept that would in fact say
that Canada, wide and rich as
it is, is overpopulated with 18
million people.

There is much to be done in
Canada — mines to be dug,
power dams to be built and
many goods to be manufac-
tured. Young Canadians are
just the people who can do
such things.

But before these nation-
building projects can be car-
ried through, a_ decision is
needed — a decision which
will set -in motion the chain
of events that will begin to
unleash the potential that is
ours.

That decision implies that
we Canadians will develop
our country in the interests
of our people. It implies that

our tremendous power and re-
sources base be develorp:2d ful-
ly as the base for full propor-
tional industrial development
takes into account all parts of
our land.

It implies Canadian idepen-
dence in the full sense of the
word, an end to the Ameri-
can domination which has led
to. the present job-sacrificing

distortions and the one-sided -

development of our economy
as a raw material source for
the U.S.

Youth themselves are not
powerless in the face of the
threat to their future. This
generation has behind it the
traditions of struggle that has
always characterized young
Canadians.

But to fight for one’s future
one must first glimpse its pro-
mise. Herein lies the contribu-
tion of our progressive youth
movement. To inspire young
Canadians to show them what
our future can be, and to help
them grasp what is rightfully
theirs.

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NATIONAL COMMITTEE RESOLUTION

Communists chart path ahead,
review Federal election results

Following is the text of the resolu-
tion on policy adopted by the nation-
al committee of the Communist Par-
ty at its plenary meeting May 11 and
a2;

1. The national committee
reaffirms the électora: policy
of our party in the April 8
federal election, because it
corresponds with the needs of
our country:

(a) The rejection of U.S. in-
terference in the internal af-
fairs of Canada.

(bo) The rejection of nuclear
arms.

These were the real issues
of this extraordinary election
— and these reflected the
historical needs of Canada-—
peace and independence.

2. The highest interests of
our country demanded the re-
jection of the Liberal Party's
pro-American program, tlhe
election of a majority of MP’s
opposed to the Liberal pol-
icies and the election of a
group of New Democratic
Party MP’s who would be a
“balance of power’ in Par-
liament to compel the rejec-
tion of nuclear weapons whe-
ther the Liberals or Conser-
vatives headed the new gov-
ernment.

This was the Communist el-
ection policy—a correct corh-
bination of a realistic apprais-
al of the crisis in capitalist
politics and the possibilities
of using this crisis for the
people’s interests, with the
neeq for workingclass inter-
vention in this crisis mainly
through the medium of the
NDP.

3. The outcome of the elec-
tion showed: |

a) The failure of the Liberal
Party to achieve a majority
of Parliament.

(b) A majority (59 percent)
of those who voted rejected
the Liberal policy. :

(ec) A set-back for Social
Credit.

(d) The election of a slightly
smaller group of NDP MP’s
on an anti-weapons program.

In brief—the outcome was
a set-back to the Liberal stra-
tegy, the continuation of the
parliamentary crisis, the con-
tinuing fluidity of politics.

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The prospect in this situa-
tion, in the absence of a
steamrolier Liberal majority
in Parliament, that peace, nu-
clear armament, NATO, NO-
RAD, U.S. interference, econ-
omic and social questions,
sel! determination for French
Canada, the domination of in-

dustr. and markets by the
USA, ai! will continue to be
the centre of pubi.< discussion
and actjyity.

4. To increase the public ac-
tivity of the labor movement
from day to day especially on
peace and ‘resistance to U.S.
domination, and to strengthen
the work of the NDP group in
Parliament, the participation
of the working class in inde-
pendent political action is the
decisive factor.

5. Pearson is in office, and
pushing ahead with pro-Am-
erican policies which gravely
endanger the peace and inde- ~
pendence of our country. He

is trying to take advantage of :

the desire to avoid another
early clection as a means of
blackmailing parliament: into
acceptance of his program.

But the resistance which
will be aroused among the
Canadian people to such pol-
icies, together with the rela-
tionship of forces within Par-
liament, creates the basis for
compelling the government to
retreat or face defeat in the
House.

United public pressure on
Parliament is now the key to
progress — first and foremost
against nuclear arms, and the
ensnarement of Canada in
Kennedy's ‘‘Fortress Ameri-
ca’’, and every effort has to be
made, from day to day, to ex-
pose Liberal policy, to de-
mand of Parliament that it
insists on its supremacy and
the open discussion of all
questions and prevents order-
in-council government by the
Liberal cabinet.

Action on the people’s needs
—jobs, health, increased pen-

sions, housing — demands the
reduction of armaments ex-
penditures and the spending
of millions of dollars on ec-
onomic and social reforms.

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6. The Communist Party’s
election campaign was concen-
trated above all on the main
policy — the defeat of the
Liberals and the rejection of
nuclear arms. This must be
fully understood by our party
membership if we are to pro-
perly estimate our election
work.

The nomination of 12 Com-
munist candidates must be
seen in the light of our gen-
crai policy of supporf for the
NDP. The vote received by
our candidates in these 12 rid-

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ings undoubtedly was affected
by our general policy. This
does not mean that our gen-
eral policy was wrong — and
it would be one-sided to draw
that conclusion.

What our party has to learn,
in the actual struggle to apply
our policy, is to etfectively
combine united front activity
with our own independent
work for our own candidates,
not to counterpose one to an-
other. If we go off balance
here — and centre on one ut
the expense of the other, we
shall make serious mistakes
and do neither effectively.

Our own campaigns in the
12 ridings could have been
stronger, without weakening
our general work to elect
NDP candidates. This would
have been possible through
the better distribution of our
forces, better planning, and a
fuller political understanding
of the relationship between
our general policy and ihe
need to conduct strong parity
election campaigns in the rid-
ings we contested.

The nationa! committce -

calls on all party, members
and committees to discuss crit-
ically and actively the reporis
by NC members of our pres-
ent meeting, to discuss this
resolution, and to review
their own election work in the
light of these reports and res-
olutions. We should follow up
that election work by-contin-
uing discussion with new
friends we met in the election,
working to win them as mem-
bers of. our party.

Along with this we must
carry on our efforts to impie-
ment the decision of our Nov-
ember plenum with respect to
the work of our party as part

of the labor movement as a

whole.

7. The main thing now is to
continue the battle against the
pro-American policy of the
Liberal government, to pre-
vent the nuclear armament of
our country, to stop the fur-
ther betrayal of Canada to the
USA, and to take the party’s
message of unity, peace and
independence to the people
of our country in widely pub-
lished public statements, pub-
lic meetings and the extension
of the circulation of our press.

The prospect is not for stability
under the Liberal government,but
for instability, public movements
of protest against insecurity and
attacks on the people’s interests,
and a heightened political under-
standing by masses of people, to
which our party, as always, can
best contribute by taking our par-
tv's program to them, and joining
hands in the cause of peace and
independence.

Now with the Liberal minority
government driving hard to im-
pose nuclear weapons upon the
country in the next few weeks,
this national committee meeting
falls on all members of our party
in the critical days of decision to
fight with ali their strength to de-
velop the campaign against nuc-
lear arms into a mighty torrent of
protest which will force Pearson
to retreat. .This we must make
the focal point of all our work.

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