DISARMAMENT

‘Make Canada nuclear-free’

The deal allowing the U.S. mili-
tary to test its ‘‘first-strike Cruise
missile in Canada should be scrap-
ped and replaced by a policy mak-
ing Canada nuclear weapons-free
zone’’ Canada’s Communists have
declared.

The nearly-concluded . agree-
ment giving the green light to flight
testing of the medium-range of-
fensive weapon will only heighten
the danger to this country’s secur-
ity, and will draw Canadians in-
creasingly into the U.S. adminis-
tration’s plans for world domina-
tion, said the Communist Party
in a recent statement.

It stated that Canada’s survival

‘instead depends on its growing
peace movement, which should
pressure the Trudeau government
into pushing for U.S.-Soviet de-
tente.

The Communist statement re-
jected the argument advanced by
U.S. foreign policy-makers that
arms buildups will force the USSR
to the negotiating table.

“The Soviet Union does not
have to be compelled to negotiate.
It has called for negotiation of arms
reductions time and time again, on
the basis of one principle — parity
and equality of security. This prin-
ciple, however, has been ignored by
the U.S. because its aim is not
equality of security but achieve-
ment of military supremacy and,
with it, world domination.”

In fact, the Cruise missile is not a
deterrent at all, but a first-strike

weapon that furthers the plans of
the most reactionary elements of
U.S. imperialism for a so-called
‘limited’? nuclear war, the state-
ment said.

Cruise-missile testing is only the
latest manifestation of Canada’s
involvement in the U.S. war ma-
chine, it said. Right now there are
three sites in Canada where Ameri-
can nuclear weapons are stockpiled
(one being the armed forces base at
Comox). The involvement reaches
into the corporate sphere also, with
federal subsidies granted to Litton
Industries, the company which
manufactures the Cruise guidance
system.

“This new danger for Canada
and her people is the direct result of
our country’s membership in
NATO and Norad,’’ the CP noted
in calling for Canadian withdrawal
from the military alliances.

The Communist Party laid the
blame for the escalating arms race
squarely on what it calls U.S. im-
perialism, “*the main enemy of hu-
mankind.”’ In furthering its global
strategy of world domination the
US. engages in provocations
against the Soviet Union and other
socialist countries, national libera-
tion movements and newly emerg-
ing nations. Even Canada has been
threatened with U.S. sanctions, it
said.
es And Virtually all nuclear arms in-
itiatives have come from the U.S.,
the CP argued, pointing to the neu-
tron bomb and the medium-range

Cruise and Pershing II missiles
which, from European bases, can
pinpoint Soviet targets with deadly
accuracy.

Additionally, U.S. militarism
can be seen in president Reagan’s
unilateral scrapping of the second
Strategic Arms Limitation Agree-
ment (SALT II), and such actions
as the convening of a NATO con-
ference during the United Nations
Special Session on Disarmament in
1978, the statement charged.

It emphasized that Canada’s
survival is in the hands of the grow-
ing peace movement, because ‘‘this
vital question cannot be left for
solution by the monopoly corpora-
tions, their political parties and
governments.

“Instead, it is action by the peo-
ple that is now decisive in the battle
for disarmament and against the
threat of nuclear war. Action, de-
monstrative action by all Canadi-
ans,”’ the CP declared.

The statement pointed favorably
to the growth of Canada’s peace
movement as evidenced by increas-
ing trade union involvement and
the mass circulation of numerous
peace petitions.

“At this dangerous moment in
world history, the Canadian people
need to unite their efforts to compel
parliament to speak and act now
for peace and disarmament —
through an independent Canadian
foreign policy in the interests of

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The Canadian government
should put deeds behind its words
and sever all military and
economic ties to South Africa to
force an end to that country’s il-
legal occupation of neighboring
Namibia and the bloody repres-
sion of its people.

That’s the message two Na-
mibian liberation fighters will be
bringing to Canadians as they
travel across B.C. and the rest of
Canada, according to Pashukeni
Shoombe of the South-West
Africa People’s Organization
(SWAPO).

‘“*We’d like Canadians to be in-
formed of our position, and to tell
their government to be serious
about negotiating independence
for Namibia,’’ Shoombe told the
Tribune. Together with fellow
Namibian Reverend Erastus
Haikale, an Anglican minister,
she has been visiting B.C. com-
_munities this week.

In B.C. the Namibians’ tour is
handled by the Southern African
Action Coalition. The two will
address a public meeting, Focus
on Southern. Africa, at
Templeton High School in Van-
couver Apr. 24, at 8 p.m.

During the tour Canadians will
be asked for ‘‘financial and
‘material support”’ to aid the Na-
mibian struggle. Supporters will
also step up efforts to organize a
boycott of all South African
products sold here.

Namibia, or South-West Af-
rica under its colonial name, was
in the news a few months ago
when South African forces invad-

ed neighboring Angola to attack
Namibian refugee camps. The
move, in clear violation of
Angola’s sovereignty, drew
worldwide condemnation.

South Africa, which has sta-
tioned over 100,000 troops and
mercenaries in Namibia despite
numerous United Nations reso-
lutions demanding withdrawal,
claimed its troops were pursuing
‘terrorist forces’” — the regime’s
term for SWAPO’s Peoples
Liberation.Army soldiers. In fact,
the camps contained mainly
women and children, according
to Shoombe.

“They massacred over 1,000 in
Kassinga (Angola) alone, and
over 400 of those were women,”’

Cut S. Africa tie,
SWAPO rep urges

PASHUKENI SHOOMBE -. .

on Canadian tour.

she said. “SWAPO guerrillas are
only fighting inside Namibia.”

But not all SWAPO fighters
are men — women too have taken
up arms ‘“‘to fight alongside their
menfolk,”’ said Soombe.

Namibian women are ‘‘doubly
oppressed, because we are
women and because we are
black’? — which is why Shoombe
as a SWAPO central committee
member and a leader of the
organization’s’ women’s com-
mission sees to the special training
for women in SWAPO camps.

Independence for Namibia has
been the subject of much debate
in the UN, ever since the in-
ternational forum invalidated an
old League of Nations mandate
granting South Africa the right to
administer the large territory.
Resolution 435 of the UN Securi-
ty Council calls for the
withdrawal of South African
troops and their replacement by a
peacekeeping force to oversee
free elections — an election
SWAPO feels sure it will win.

But this has been consistently
blocked by five major countries
which have appointed themselves
as a buffer between the South
African regime and SWAPO.
These countries — Britain,
France, West Germany, the
United States and Canada — are
home base for the transnational
corporations who reap huge pro-
fits exploiting Namibia’s mineral,
sea and ranching resources, said
Shoombe.

“‘That’s why we are asking the
Canadian people to pressure their
government into working
seriously for Namibia’s inde-
pendence,” she said.

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