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“te from now, Vietnamese
still be suffering and even
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Saye p Onslaught by the U.S.
t - Dr. John Cox, chairman of
Campaign for Nuclear Dis-
ament.

. Writing in the CND’s paper

the Dr. Cox says: “Although
tide t™mmediate crime of geno-
serj In Vietnam is the more
Sus today, in time the charge
PR cide may prove to have
que 8reater long-term conse-
Nees for humanity.”
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Urge ban on

Mrs, Maggie Bizzell, Commu-

to ididate in the federal To-

Tiding of Spadina on Sept.
ral . Ontario Attorney Gen-

: alton Bales calling on him
ings Boon immeditate proceed-
oe the Criminal Code of
Guarq” against the Western

Oa Western Guard, a no-
ing S Pro-fascist group is call-
Colle Meeting on Sept. 13 at 491
the w Street in Toronto under
This oe ‘Keep Canada White.’
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dropped on crop lands.

At least five companies, each
with more ‘than thirty 30-ton
tractors and with “Rome-plow”
tree cutters, are. clearing about
1,000 acres a day of forests.

South Vietnam is pock-mark-
ed by over 25 million craters,
and irrigation systems have
been deliberately blasted, says
Dr. Cox.

This is coupled with rain-
making aimed at unleashing
monsoon floods to engulf un-
derground complexes of hospi-
tals, schools and factories.

Dr. Cox declares that the U.S.
war in Vietnam is clearly eco-
cidal, carried out in complete
disregard for the environmental

consequences.

racist meet

Criminal Code of Canada out-
lawing hate propaganda. As
Communist Party candidate in
Spadina constituency, I call on
you to launch proceedings at
once under this Section against
these criminals with a view to
preventing them . from - holding
this illegal meeting.”

Mrs. Bizzell also sent a tele-
gram to federal Minister of Jus-
tice, Otto Lang calling on him
to urgently corfsult with the
Ontario Attorney General with
a view to bringing these crim-
inals promptly to justice.

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Editorial Comment...

Winds of change

The results of the provincial election
in British Columbia, where the Social
Credit government was swept out and
the New Democratic Party obtained a
decisive majority, is a further indica-
tion of the political climate in Canada,
the great desire of our people for
change.

Every provincial election in the re-
cent period has meant an upset. Mani-
toba, Saskatchewan and now British
Columbia have elected NDP govern-
ments, in other words, it was a swing to
the left. The B.C. result is all the more
significant in that the election was in a
highly industrial province with a heavy
working-class vote.

The winds of change are blowing ever
harder, heralding storms to come. De-
sire for change, however, by itself is
not enough. It can bring a turn to the
Right, to the support of reactionary
demagogues. It can be wasted or worse.

The federal election campaign is be-
ing held at this time when the public
mood is one of dissatisfaction and de-
sire for change. The Tories are hoping
to cash in on the justified criticism of
the Liberal record and to push forward
a still more reactionary line-up of big
business servitors. The Social Crediters
are trying to take the people away from
the real issues and solutions by sending
them off on a political “LSD trip.” The
Liberals not only stand for “more of the
same” but have retreated to the Right.

In this situation the Communist
Party’s agitation for the election of a
large progressive bloc, including Com-
munists and NDPers, makes down-to-
earth sense.

NDP leader David Lewis has declar-
ed that he expects no party to obtain a
majority on Oct. 30. That may very well
be true and that could be the best out-
eome of the election — if there was a
large group of MP’s, mostly members
of the NDP but qualitatively so much
more potent if there are Communists
there also—that would prevent the turn
to the Right and with the help of the
people outside —the labor, farmer and
democratic movements—lead in the dir-
ection of democratic progress, herald-
ing the victory of an anti-monopoly
coalition government in the near future.

The winds of change are strong. Let
them move the ship of state in the direc-
tion required for the building of Canada
and the satisfaction of the Canadian
working people’s needs..

Madness of terrorism

The terrorist kidnapping and event-
ual killing of Israeli athletes at the
Munich Olympics, just as the horrible
slaughter some months back at the Tel
Aviv airport, cannot be excused. Such
actions not only claim the lives of inno-
cents, but they retard rather than ad-
vance the cause in whose behalf they
are undertaken. :

Have these terrorist acts In any way
helped to. secure justice for the
1,500,000 Palestinian Arabs that were
ousted from their homes when the state
of Israel was formed after World War
Two?

Have they helped the lot of the perse-

cuted people in Arab territories occu-

pied by the Israeli aggressors in 19677

Do they create the climate for an ehd
to the war on the basis of the United
Nations Security Council resolution,
ie., the withdrawal of Israeli troops
from occupied Arab territory, and the
establishment of peace and Arab-Israel
amity in the Middle East? :

The terrorism served the Israeli
militarists as an excuse to send war-
planes and rain death on peaceful vil-
lages in Lebanon and Syria.

The Zionist ultras, who are in com-
mand of Israel, used the terrorist action
of the Black September group to whi
up chauvinist frenzy against the Arab
people and to again muddy the inter-
national waters, with the U.S. using it
to block United Nations action against
Israeli air-raids. ;

Terrorism is not only futile, it serves
the cause of the enemies of peace and
freedom.

The horror of Hitlerism, the atomic
destruction of Hiroshima, the inhuman
U.S. genocide in Indochina, the pamper-
ing of Nazi war criminals and egging
on of Right-wing (and provocative left-
ist) ultras creates fertile ground for
this madness.

The scabby Star

The Toronto Daily Star is really out-
doing itself. The latest, in the Monda
issue, is a lurid spy scare story whic
is so smelly that even the Canadian gov-
ernment and the RCMP refused to
touch it when it was first touted some
months ago. But the Star has no
scruples, and there it is on the front
page with all the trimmings, such as
refusal to name the “spy” because “his
relatives would suffer” (as though a
state that sent a spy into Canada
wouldn’t know who he is). Truly the
Star is evidently aiming its “revela-
tions” at people it considers to be
morons.

That was preceded last Saturday by a
front-page story claiming that the lot of

the Soviet Jews is “worse than under:

Nazis” because the USSR is asking all
persons who received a higher educa-
tion at public expense. and now want to.
leave the country and use that school-
ing for the benefit of capitalists in
other countries, to pay back at least a
small part of the money spent on them
by the Soviet people.

In that same issue and in the weekend
Canadian Magazine, the Star demon-
strates that it can libel the workers at
home as much as it does in the socialist
countries. According to a phony poll
taken by the journal, most Canadia
including workers and trade union
members, are in favor of compulsory
arbitration, the banning of strikes in
the public service, the lockout of strik-
ers, free scabbery, no boycott of scab
goods...

It’s clear where the Star’s heart lies,
It is with the forces that would brin
back the Cold War at.its most frigid
and clamp tighter yet the monopoly
chains on Canadian labor. Of course,
the Star itself is a big monopoly, having
to all intents and purposes swallowed its
main competitor, the Telegram — to-
gether, it would seem, with the latter’s
anti-Soviet and anti-people crazies.

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